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ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Cybersecurity training programs don't prevent phishing scams
I already disable images, but sign me up for text only email!
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Cybersecurity training programs don't prevent phishing scams
Most companies would have a much easier time with phishing if they quit sending official correspondence that mimics phishing. Sure, phishing is always evolving to look legitimate, but C͟l͟i͟c͟k͟ h͟e͟r͟e͟!͟ in literally every official email when whatever it is you need to do _should_ be reachable via known links. All the "click here" 's and "please see attached" tricks would quit working if it wasn't normal.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash
Too late to edit, but serious question if anyone actually knows.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash
How does defining `IFS` here make the second statement more efficient than the first?

```

# Inefficient while read -r line; do echo "$line" done < file.txt

# Efficient while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$line" done < file.txt

```

https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-shell-scripting-techniq...

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
My whole qualm with this AI integration into search engines: it's a search engine, not a question engine. I go to google to search the internet for something, not ask it a question. IMO, asking AI for something is a different task than searching the internet.

It's sorta the same problem as if I go into a store and ask an employee where something is, and they reply with "well what are you trying to do?"

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Google: Turn off VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling: severe Exynos modem vulnerabilities
That is only for CVE-2023-24033 thought, right? Not the other three that haven't been assigned CVE ID's?

> The four most severe of these eighteen vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-24033 and three other vulnerabilities that have yet to be assigned CVE-IDs) allowed for Internet-to-baseband remote code execution.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?
So I think this may be true for most, but as someone with awful workplace anxiety from shitty workplaces in the past it helps me tremendously to have touchpoints to hear that I'm doing ok and that my manager doesn't have any critiques/etc. This probably isn't the norm, so I think a middle ground of giving people the option to 1v1 makes sense.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study
Crazy concept: instead of banning cars, forcing electric cars, mandating specific efficiency, etc... we _could_ work towards a world less dependent on personally owned vehicles. And yet, huge companies will continue to just get a pass for forcing people to commute to jobs to sit on a computer all day.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on The new Ford Mustang has a drift stick
you... drive your car to a sanctioned drift event and use it.(?)
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
> It is well established in medicine that improved/early detection does not equal improved patient outcomes and can actually result in patient harm.

Is there a specific time of detection that is well established as improving patient outcomes?

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
> Once I got one for work I swore to never ever spend a dime on a Mac

+9999999.

I wish they'd just sell hardware and keep the OS.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on People hated shopping carts when they first came out
Not a fan of shopping carts in general. But what I really can't stand is when I go to a store and they have more large carts than could ever possibly fit in the store at once, yet very few of the small carts, and usually no baskets. I imagine this is to entice you to use a large cart -> buy more shit.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords
> My apartment started requiring an app to enter the premises and use another app so wash and dry your cloth and then required an app to enter the place you wash your cloth.

This shit has got to stop. I ran into similar doing a mortgage... They "only accepted the escrow payment through ${RANDOM_APP}." Yea right, y'all can take a check, and they did.

I'm quite sure _all_ the app does is process the payment.:rolleyes: /s No way they collect/sell any info I send through it. Oh, and I'm sure they'll be super upfront whenever their database that my info sits in for eternity with 'admin:admin' protecting it gets popped.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Americans are drowning in spam
We are still drowning in paper spam. This is yet another area that is ripe for *reducing emissions and impact on our environment* that can only help everyone involved _except_ for companies that spam(scam in many cases), yet it is allowed to just continue.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
I don't understand why we continue to legislate all these rules around cars, but yet companies that are perfectly capable of employing a remote workforce are allowed to mandate that people drive to the office to sit on a computer.

I guess it's more fun banning shit than it is building a world where we don't _need_ to drive _ANY_ car to an office. Or, a world where I can simply get on a trolley/etc to go where I need to.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH
Yep. Can start by not making people drive to offices to sit on computers...
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH
Yea think it was because of the 276hp limit.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Ask HN: Recent computer hacking convictions and employability?
pre-apologize if you are looking to move beyond your past and I completely understand/please disregard my suggestion if that is the case... but tbh you sound like an ideal candidate to market _you_ as a brand. I'd keep doing bb and contact the platforms you are working on with your story. bb seems to be all about telling the story of how they can help people move out of doing things illegally and still make great money.

There are also a lot of podcasts/etc that would be happy to have you tell your story. Huge upside to that IMO with reach and sharing to help keep future people out of trouble.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising?
Comment I read on here a year or so ago stuck with me. "time in the market beats timing the market"
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on I have a brain injury [video]
> I just wish it were easier to find doctors interested in helping you be the best you can instead of simply not broken.

I wish there was a searchable index of Dr's that fall into this category. I have no idea how you'd reasonably determine this though... Plenty of Dr's I've tried based on reviews are no different than the others. Maybe friendlier, but that's about it.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s
This must be where the idea for Halo came from.
ttGpN5Nde3pK··on High blood pressure cases double in 30 years
Sodium is just one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte#Physiological_impo...

The average intake for people in the US for magnesium, potassium, and calcium is well below DRI.

https://www.nature.com/articles/1001955

More support/info:

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Potassium-HealthProfession...

Track your food (myfitnesspal/cronometer/etc) with a cheap gram scale and ensure you are meeting the daily recommended requirements for vitamins and minerals. Plain potatoes are a great source of magnesium and potassium, and are pretty low calorie/healthy if you don't put junk on them, but there are plenty of other foods as well.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address
+1.

And orgs (gov and private) will continue to just ask for completely unnecessary information because, why not? Throw it in some database with root:root as the pw and shrug when it gets breached. It really needs to stop. The only person that loses is the person that now has to potentially deal with identity theft or getting doxxed for the rest of their life...

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Google may cut pay of staff who work from home
Yep. .* and co will do anything to fight climate change, except let people that drive to an office to sit on a computer all day work from home.

The world had a real shot at making a huge impact on emissions. Really sad to see it slip away because people can't let go of their LinkedIn fantasies of collaborating in an office around the water cooler.

ttGpN5Nde3pK··on Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It
I can see this.

One half-cocked idea I can think of is downvotes require a comment explaining why. Conversationally, "I agree" or "that's correct" requires no follow on conversation. However, "I disagree" or "that's wrong" requires some sort of counter-argument or reason why you disagree. IMO, it does some good in making people explain their position, at least copy/paste another position, or shitpost and then they can deal with their own downvotes.