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lultimouomo | 1 year ago | on: Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World

> Who is your enemy and why do they want to hurt you

It seems like the perfect occasion to quote Mickens' immortal words:

> Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@ virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

lultimouomo | 1 year ago | on: Passive damping – Bathroom scales

This happens on mine if I don't let the scale calibrate before the first measure. The scale turns on if you step on it, so it's tempting to just put both feet on in quick succession while the scale it's still off. That will give you a wrong reading. If you step off, the scale calibrates, and the next reading will be right.

You should get two equal readings if for the first one you push on the scale with one feet, take it off, wait a few seconds, then weigh yourself.

lultimouomo | 1 year ago | on: Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3

> People aren’t ASCII or UTF-8 machines; “e” and “E” are the same character

They are the same character to you, a native speaker of a Western language written in a latin script. They are the same to you because you are, in fact, an ASCII machine. Many many people in the world are not.

lultimouomo | 1 year ago | on: Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3

Case insensitive matching is a surprisingly complicated, locale-dependent affair. Should I.txt and i.txt match? (Note that the first file is not named I.txt).

Case insensitive filesystems make about as much sense as ASCII-only filenames.

lultimouomo | 2 years ago | on: U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing

The problem is real though. It stands to reason that the people that know how planes can be built safely are the one building planes; otherwise you could get in a situation where "those who know, build planes; those who don't, tell them how to do it".

There is a similar problem with financial regulation; my understanding is that the knowledge transfer between industry and regulation there is solved by the equally problematic "revolving doors", where people alternate between regulating and advising companies (and thus as regulators they don't want to make too many enemies).

lultimouomo | 2 years ago | on: Lead Toxicity from Ayurvedic Medicines

> Unregulated and forced into the shadows, manufacturers lack accountability, and contaminants get into the supply chain.

I mean, "unregulated" is the whole point of alternative medicine, isn't it? If you take an extract from some plant, do a double blind stuy and prove it cures something, then sell it following government safety regulation, that's just called "medicine".

lultimouomo | 2 years ago | on: An Alerting Vista of macOS Sonoma

I want to point out also how unhelpful the release notes are. When I see ATS mentioned in Apple docs, I think of Apple Transport Security, not (I guess?) Apple Type Services, a font API dating back to Mac OS 8.5.

lultimouomo | 2 years ago | on: When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets

SS came out in 2008, HLS in 2009.

Separate manifests and non aligned segments have a real impact on the ability of the client to switch qualities in responsabilità to bandwith change, and this to avoid stalling.

BTW, when I say "HLS is pretty backwards" I mean designed unergonomically and without clear requirements in mind, not a step back from what existed before. I would guess this is because the original specification was something like "whatever Major League Baseball can easily stream from their existing setup" (see the various Pantos drafts that ultimately became RFC8216)

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