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dbuder··on Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion
Why would i spend my time explaining this to you when i could spend that time consulting and then use that money to buy mosquito nets for people in Africa?
dbuder··on Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?
In a vm so you don't have that spyware scanning your computer
dbuder··on Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
Would you like to upgrade to windows 11? You said no so I'll offer it again on the very next screen and give no way to turn off the nag

Would you like to login to your own computer with an online microsoft account - again no way to turn off the nag

Want to exit Teams or Onedrive? nag

And both m$ an google (via chrome) are scanning your computer for executables - for your safety of course!

dbuder··on Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
now Keysight, Agilent is medical equip.
dbuder··on How the Jesuits Charted the World
Not Braveheart and Forrest Gump?
dbuder··on NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
They are currently trying to force me to add my mobile number to gmail. If I get logged out they are going to lock me out until I do.
dbuder··on Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube
r/youtube basically a dead sub
dbuder··on An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLs_NRwu1Y4&list=PLEeZWGE3Pw...
dbuder··on Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
Kowtow, which is borrowed from kau tau in Cantonese, is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. In Sinospheric culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence. -wiki
dbuder··on Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
Unproven claim
dbuder··on Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing (2018)
https://loetlabor-jena.de/doku.php?id=projekte:dvdlsm:start

https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=652

dbuder··on Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate
Semi strong laws but impossible to force a bad landlord/agent to follow them. Fair Trading are useless idiots.
dbuder··on Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
They did it to others? They knew ownership and control was paramount and acted accordingly.
dbuder··on Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
Can't find it, however you might be interested in this article from HN earlier in the year. Written/done by an intern.

https://research.nccgroup.com/2020/10/15/theres-a-hole-in-yo...

dbuder··on Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
Yes and after a while it isn't luck. Reportedly state actors and bigcorp even go so far as to decap chips, laser off security features/caps/whatever and do stuff like inspect the memory with a microscope. There is another youtube channel that is even more impressive but Liveoverflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FktI4qSjzaE has some videos defeating AES with device that makes it much easier.
dbuder··on Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy
Maybe try Making Embedded Systems by Elecia White, more of a software eng into firmware dev but it won't be C++ but maybe teach your LED to blink before you teach a robot to pathfind.
dbuder··on Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
Many rates were based on LIBOR, but LIBOR itself was used for nothing other than betting, no one was lending or borrowing at it.
dbuder··on Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
It was a fake rate anyway and they only moved it around a little, what Jedi Blue did was far more criminal and egregious. The ad networks act with impunity, for example, they know when a user has installed an app with no connection to them and then they serve that user ads for the app and then attribute the install to themselves! out and out fraud but they'll just claim the algo is really complex and our ML/AI doesn't have intent.
dbuder··on World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO
Storage.
dbuder··on What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos
"How is it that Hungary produced so many geniuses in the early 20th century?" Wigner said. "I don't understand the question. There was only one genius: John von Neumann."
dbuder··on Revolt of the Delivery Workers
"For years, bike activists and workers pushed for legalization, though the apps that benefited from them were largely silent. It was only when another group of tech companies — hoping to make scooter-sharing legal — joined the fight that a bill moved forward in Albany."
dbuder··on Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M
ProtonVPN is a white labelled version of NordVPN, source, HN yesterday.
dbuder··on Linux-Router
imo it is rude to ask for schematics, the experience in open source hardware is that the only people who use it are the vendors who copy it verbatim and then compete on price, while adding nothing. Even the bootloader is a big ask.
dbuder··on Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence
You are wrong. Every broken window is seen to.
dbuder··on I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart
Impossible since it came from the new world.
dbuder··on Whistleblower thought he would get a big payout, but got nothing and went broke
Against their investors or on their investors behalf? And either way, it is the investors who could (supposedly) bring an end to it.
dbuder··on Software maker Altium rejects $3.9B takeover bid from Autodesk
Altium is a strategically important entity, the board isn't making a decision here.
dbuder··on The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a 1000 years apart
I read on HN that they found islands over the horizon by looking at patterns in the waves and navigated by memorizing the position of stars. Yes to the harvesting of rain water.
dbuder··on DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses
Your gigabit network switch runs Linux. Even the securities exchanges' gigabit switches run Linux (on a FPGA).
dbuder··on MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
You will do as your MUM says. Mum knows best. Yyou will eat the bugs and you will like it.
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