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faster_harder | 2 years ago | on: Orcas that hunted alongside humans might be extinct

Perhaps the book was "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari? It is a great read!

faster_harder | 2 years ago | on: The midwit home

> (BTW, manufacturers, if you want to use touch sensors and you don’t want to lose the massive midwit market, make things that automatically turn on when first connected to power, without waiting for a touch.)

...and if you ever lose power to the house, suddenly all devices turn on.

faster_harder | 2 years ago | on: How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl

Curl has had their share of issues with CVEs, I assume they want to show that they are taking actual security issues very seriously. See e.g. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve...

faster_harder | 2 years ago | on: The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer

It reminds me of the glass vs plastic phone backside arguments. Glass is more fragile than plastic and will not absorb shocks. It is also heavier and harder to replace (most plastic backsides can be removed with a guitar pick).

But glass is considered premium.

faster_harder | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

I'm hoping for a return of smaller communities and forums that were (more) common before facebook and reddit.

faster_harder | 3 years ago | on: Pre-Auth RCE with CodeQL in Under 20 Minutes

Quite interesting that the actual exploit wasn't patched, unless os.path.exists returns false for unc shares.

faster_harder | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your home networking setup?

Piggybacking on to this... I've currently split my home network into multiple VLAN, so that the IOT stuff can't access the "trusted" devices (or internet, depending on device). However I realized it would be interesting to MITM the traffic and emulate the services these devices try to connect to, to see what data they are leaking. Does anyone know if there are any readymade software packages, or even tutorials, for this?

faster_harder | 4 years ago | on: I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

This is awesome! I will prefer all my technical documentation in children's book format from now on.

faster_harder | 4 years ago | on: How Finland rebranded itself as a literary country (2018)

Most Fennoswedic families moved ~400 years ago from Sweden to Finland. According to that logic, Americans would actually be native Britons? Sounds wrong to me.