noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: BGP on Windows Desktop
First paragraph of TFA says Windows Server supports BGP. But hey, I guess you don’t let facts get in the way of some anti-Windows snarky shitposting.
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noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]
>2008 happened because clearly the banks do have that incentive. The only thing that stops them are the regulations.
It’s truly absurd to argue that banks have no incentive to limit lending to make sure they get paid back. The 2008 crisis proves no such thing. Banks simply made a lot of bad bets.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts
>Now a German tech forum it's easy to identify with one country
Sounds like you’d be disrespecting Austrians, and Austrian and German diaspora all over the world by u/michpoch’s logic.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]
Money creation by fractional reserve banking has been Econ 101 for longer than anyone currently alive.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: We found a cracked version of our software on the web, now what?
This pro-piracy nonsense is a point of faith for many nerds. They will twist themselves into pretzels to avoid the conclusion that piracy is costly and that enforcement of the law can be good.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Zeno’s paradox
Calculus doesn’t solve this. Creating a way to solve sums of infinite series does not itself prove anything about the mechanism of the physical world. Yes, obviously motion is possible. And 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 … = 1. But that doesn’t tell you how the motion can actually go through all those steps in finite time. It might very well be that the only reason the universe works is because it’s discrete, not continuous.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Windows OS Security
UAC offers almost no additional security for single user systems. You’re trying to protect your data and passwords and stuff, not the ability to install device drivers.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Windows OS Security
>I am not going to make the trojan writers job easier.
The Trojan writer now targets systems with UAC, since it’s the default and the vast majority of systems, so you’re not gaining anything. And he never needed an elevated token in the first place.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
Take them outside and shoot them.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Windows OS Security
Almost all the bad things you’re worried about don’t require an elevated token. I’m much more worried about someone stealing my data, installing a trojan, etc. (none of which require elevation) than installing a device driver (which does).
This obsession with not running as root/using UAC is just cargo cult security for single user systems.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Windows OS Security
>Compromising an user account is a necessary step to get there, often enough.
But whether you have an elevated token or not won’t make a difference in almost all cases.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Windows OS Security
First, a bit of pedantry: UAC is not a security feature. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94... . It just works to encourage developers to make their software work without an elevated token. The security feature is Windows administrator accounts running apps with non-elevated tokens by default.
Protecting local administrator tokens is also kind of a useless security feature these days. What are you worried about? Data theft? Ransomware? Trojans? Credentials theft? All of those can be done just fine with only standard user permissions, without an administrator token. OTOH, you need an elevated token to install device drivers or whatever.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: I measured the pollution from my gas stove
>Both my Range Rovers are converted to run on propane
What is the downside to this? Obviously availability and ease of filling is part of it, but any other downsides?
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: The organ as a wind instrument
I bet half the organists at Catholic churches are gay.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: Microsoft's response to liberating the ending to Minecraft
No need to worry about statute of limitations. He sold them a license to use it in the game, in exchange for $20,000.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: C Posix-compliant argument parsing in 42 LoC, inspired by Duff's device
Please name one platform where this is the case.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: C Posix-compliant argument parsing in 42 LoC, inspired by Duff's device
I'm skeptical there's a single C compiler out there that makes the first two behave as expected but not the third. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the real oversight is that the standard meant to say all three, or that the authors thought it implied.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: U.S. moves to seize $460M Robinhood stake linked to Sam Bankman-Fried
The Fourth Amendment only prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. And it does not require warrants in all cases. There have always been exceptions to the requirement.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: U.S. moves to seize $460M Robinhood stake linked to Sam Bankman-Fried
>civil asset forfeiture and absolutely no protection against unlawful seizure.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Even putting the specifics here aside, that's not how civil asset forfeiture works. If the government seizes your assets, you can force them to go to court, where they have to establish to a preponderance of the evidence that the seized property was the proceeds of illegal activity. That's the same standard that anyone seeking to sue you and take your money has to meet.
noyoudumbdolt | 3 years ago | on: U.S. moves to seize $460M Robinhood stake linked to Sam Bankman-Fried
Poor legal reporting by CNN, but it sounds like DOJ was worried that these shares might fall under a bankruptcy exception somehow and end up in SBF's hands, clear of the bankruptcy court's jurisdiction. If so, this move makes sure the victims, not SBF, get this money.
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