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eddyfromtheblok··on Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass
no, ssh INTO a running alpine container. who runs sshd in a container when you can just attach a terminal?
eddyfromtheblok··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
the corruption or that other countries are able to surface the corruption faster than we can?
eddyfromtheblok··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
corporations don't care about you
eddyfromtheblok··on Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
you just have to find and want products from these suppliers that aren't sold on amazon. easy
eddyfromtheblok··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
we don't use the word WAR anymore. it's uncouth. it's CONFLICT now. they'll call this the era of the Great International Technology Conflict or Technology Hostilities.
eddyfromtheblok··on Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets
agree. more HN stories here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864887
eddyfromtheblok··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
flagrant
eddyfromtheblok··on Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs
I don't see this. According to their docs, logs are no longer written: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-directory
eddyfromtheblok··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
ok, but we, as engineers, can do better. rather than leaning on lawyers as a crutch to eschew liability.
eddyfromtheblok··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
people quickly have forgotten: when copilot was announced, there were warnings not to use it for company code because of the license attribution problem. so what's changed? that anthropic is willing to defend and indemnify?
eddyfromtheblok··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Ronan Farrow, one of the journalists who worked on this article, talked to Katie Couric on her YouTube channel about this. They worked on this across ~18 months. I thought this interview was illuminating.
eddyfromtheblok··on Verizon outages reported across U.S.
feelin bitch-at, frfr
eddyfromtheblok··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
Yes, and on top of this, having MCP servers that can reference AWS docs and terraform provider docs has been a godsend
eddyfromtheblok··on Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
Probably referring to particulate matter. The AirGradient measures PM2.5. I happen to have an air purifier near my W/D and it catches a lot of lint in the prefilter.
eddyfromtheblok··on Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford
probably java, i doubt decision makers want a rewrite unless they want to bring in hungry young developers and accept some hiccoughs
eddyfromtheblok··on Potatoes in the Mail
whoa whoa whoa. you can't post multimillion startup ideas on here FOR FREE! somebody's probably registered pota.to already!
eddyfromtheblok··on Russia Is Using Bitcoin and Crypto for Its Oil Trades with China and India
The author's surname is "Bitcoin". Sounds like a ringing endorsement
eddyfromtheblok··on The Anti-Social Century
since this article is US focused, 66% of households own pets. People would rather hang out with their pets. People bring their dogs to shop and people used to bring them to bars in the late 2010s.
eddyfromtheblok··on A man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive
Nice to see, but this is a recurring motif specific to pinball and maybe other vintage tech, where a seasoned operator has years of experience that isn't written down. Memory fades, knowledge decays, even if you have an apprentice or someone from the next generation willing to buy your business, certainly some knowledge about some vintage of technology could be lost forever. You can pull parts out of the pinball junkyard but there are some electronic components for the early solid state era that just aren't made anymore, the proprietor of Great Plains Electronics could find updated parts from Mouser, for example, that match or exceeded the original spec, but he has retired. It's a challenging environment to keep a business like that going.
eddyfromtheblok··on Test
Pronounced ass-fass-fass-tan. Their inhabitants are called asfasfastanians.
eddyfromtheblok··on The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
Right. Google already has a solution https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/ Everyone insists on training theirs to look human generated so the horses have left the stable on this
eddyfromtheblok··on NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
yes, this applies anywhere the land has changed hands. who knows what a farmer or rancher used the land for before they sold it to a housing developer? or did a previous homeowner use pesticides or herbicides that have since been banned?
eddyfromtheblok··on Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Announced for 2025
I played the first two on an Apple IIc clone. It came with map templates to encourage you to map dungeons and towns out with pencil and paper. Feels more immersive, in retrospect, to have to organize your own satchel of maps when you needed to revisit an area
eddyfromtheblok··on Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
I used to use mutt and bind a keyboard shortcut to pipe HTML messages to w3m.
eddyfromtheblok··on Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
Wasn’t the G+ push a response to Facebook’s popularity, that they feared losing out on ad revenue?
eddyfromtheblok··on Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk
Sounds like a fiasco. Have to wonder why parts and subcontractors aren't getting paid
eddyfromtheblok··on Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
Crowdsource it with a browser extension
eddyfromtheblok··on Game Informer shutting down after 33 years
30 years ago, there was usenet and the rec.games.* newsgroups. Some FAQ writers from that time are still highly regarded within the current scenes in those games
eddyfromtheblok··on Telegram zero-day allowed sending malicious Android APKs as videos
This actually is not that uncommon, as there has always has been a subset of tech savvy users who want to run APKs not approved in the android market. I forwarded this to a few of them based on your comment, so thank you..
eddyfromtheblok··on FedEx's Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build a Car Surveillance Network
https://archive.ph/kAqss
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