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c22on OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

Mostly Comic Sans.

c22on DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world

Percolate?

c22on Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

Did we read the same source? The closest thing I saw in there to anything he said was:

> When discussing how he would distance himself from racist groups, Mr Schnatter said that Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, had never faced criticism for using the N-word, Forbes reported.

c22on Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

Kind of like how the vast majority of weight loss in animals happens via exhaling.

Weirder still is the realization that all the air is just trapped light.

c22on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

So? Anyone with a badge can wreck your life with zero consequences, even if they're a pipsqueak. Many of these individuals absolutely hate being looked at the wrong way.

c22on Rebuilding the Computer Room

Some time ago I realized it was actually helpful to set up multiple workstations so the place I go to write code isn't the same as the place I go to browse hn and watch youtube.

c22on Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]

Sometimes people bring me things that are broken 'cause I like to fix stuff. They always say "it was just working!"

c22on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

This is how it's always been. The law just produces another axis of strength that is easier to gatekeep.

c22on Kuru Toga Dive: $100 mechanical pencil

> Try an Cap-O-Matic Space Pen.

I prefer the Clutch, works better with my arthritis:

https://www.spacepen.com/shop-space-pens/style/all-pens/clut...

c22on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor

https://archive.org/details/TWTK_WIN

c22on Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)

Perhaps it's a consequence?

c22on Dopamine Fracking

Same for me, but I stopped counting my McDonald's visits after 25...

c22on Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)

I think it's possible to be a fast learner and not have ADHD.

c22on Samurai City

I guess if I am one of the landlords, or if rents are very reasonable and competitive I prefer the former. However, if it becomes the case that I am having all of my productivity extracted by rent seekers and I no longer have agency over my own life then the benefits of stability get downgraded and I'm much more willing to roll the dice.

c22on Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer

This could be great if the rest of the chassis was filled with batteries.

c22on Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

Huh, I've always been suspicious of folks claiming the opposite.

For the downvoters, have you ever tried to explicitly map your externalities?

c22on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

If you try to time the market and you sell at the exact peak you still have to time the market again and buy back at the correct bottom. If you miss either of these you're likely leaving long term performance on the table.

c22on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

In Linux changing the MAC address can be done simply on the command line, so I'd probably just write this functionality into a bash script that I'd call before ifup.

c22on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard

When my first-born was six I walked around with her to all of the neighbor's houses and we introduced ourselves. We informed them that my daughter would likely be moving around the neighborhood independently, perhaps on occasion with her younger brother. I gave them my phone number and told them to call any time.

In addition to having no problems with Karens or the CPS we were able to identify the other houses that had kids in them and a band of independent neighborhood kids playing with and looking out for eachother quickly became the norm in our community.

c22on Childhood Computing

> ...an unusually open minded computer teacher.

I've heard this story several times before and I, myself, had an unusually open minded computer teacher as a youth. I'm beginning to suspect this attribute is is not so unusual amongst computer teachers as has been assumed.

c22on The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

How do you perform automated enforcement of missing or fake tags?

c22on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

That's because I vouched for it.

c22on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

Fyi, you appear to be shadowbanned and it's not clear why. You might consider sending an email to admin to work that out?

c22on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

And unlike cigarette butts, they stick to the parking lot. Lovely!

c22on NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)

So who decides the threshold of public risk that is appropriate?

c22on A HN post with negative points – how?

I surf with showdead on and often find myself upvoting grey comments that don't seem factually incorrect or rude, perhaps just espousing an unpopular opinion. But man, a lot of grey comments are correctly moderated. I'd leave the most downvoted ones alone for sure.

c22on A HN post with negative points – how?

Are you able to downvote stories?

c22on Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Bento-Unuseless-Japanese-Inventio...

https://www.amazon.com/99-More-Unuseless-Japanese-Inventions...

c22on The One Dollar Counterfeiter

It's not illegal to own fake currency. It's only illegal to possess with intent to defraud: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/472

c22on The One Dollar Counterfeiter

Probably, but if you want to make a second one you'll have all the stuff right there still.