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Godel_unicode··on Aggressive Attack on PyPI Attempting to Deliver Rust Executable
It’s like tor though; everyone that’s malicious doesn’t do this but the ratio is much higher so be much more suspicious. Security isn’t about silver bullets, it’s about a compilation of tricks that make malicious things more obvious.
Godel_unicode··on LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night
I’ve spent protracted periods of time with pretty consistent lighting all day and never had trouble sleeping. LEDs seem to have no effect on me, and I’ve slept till noon outside with bright Caribbean sun shining on my face. I know a lot of people like that.

My theory is that being obsessed with sleeping makes it hard to come by. Good luck applying that though.

Godel_unicode··on LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night
I saw a study which said you can get the same effect by using clear glass and telling people it absorbs the important wavelengths. Also that blue light deprivation leads to depression in animal models. These kinds of things are hard to double blind for obvious reasons, but ruling out psychosomatic causes is really difficult.
Godel_unicode··on GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts
There are chains which end in espionage, but the volume pales compared to ransomware, identity theft, and carding. Too much money to be made.
Godel_unicode··on GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts
Sony was hacked by the North Koreans according to the FBI.

Edit: to be clear, this is in no way far-fetched. Sony had terrible security and North Korea has a credible hacking capability. They mostly use it for ransomware to make cash so they can avoid sanctions, which is right in line with the activity there.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/update-on-sony-inves...

Godel_unicode··on Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
What if I told you that the best way to make a quick buck with chatgpt is to write a bunch of crappy articles about how to make money with chatgpt, then stick ads on them.

It’s a gold rush, sell shovels.

Godel_unicode··on I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you
I just wish you’d read the docs before deciding they’re bad. But feel free to creatively misinterpret responses as you see fit.

Doc updates aren’t free, let’s not waste effort fixing a problem that doesn’t exist when there are much better uses for that effort. Moving the words around isn’t going to effect their ability to be understood by those who refuse to actually put eyes on them.

Godel_unicode··on I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you
People who read the docs aren’t calling these things footguns though. If you look through the comments section here it’s full of people saying the same thing I’m saying.

Just take the L and do the reading.

Godel_unicode··on I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you
They have an absurd amount of detail, you just have to bother to actually read. Linked directly from the overview, after explaining why it’s not on the platform-independent explain, is exactly what you asked for.

Tl;dr - If you need to add rules which load before Docker’s rules, add them to the DOCKER-USER chain.

https://docs.docker.com/network/iptables/

Godel_unicode··on Self hosting in 2023
Disagree, I hear people use the term self-hosting all the time referring to this same thing. I hear your scenario called de-googling (or whichever your big co of choice is).
Godel_unicode··on Self hosting in 2023
Those are not solutions to “I don’t know how to host”, those are solutions to “I don’t know or want to know anything about how websites work below the GUI layer”. The hosting (in terms of dns and serving the bits) is almost incidental to their business model of designing and managing.
Godel_unicode··on I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you
By default, as the docs very clearly state, ‘docker run’ doesn’t make network changes.

The blog post was written by someone who has a compose file which changes this default behavior, which is extremely unsurprising as that is the entire purpose of compose files. If you change the default behavior, then the default behavior no longer applies and you should read the docs pertaining to how you changed the behavior.

Godel_unicode··on Females more likely than males to be elected in US scientific societies
> I didn't really change much of substance

That’s an interesting perspective.

Godel_unicode··on I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you
Who is marketing it that way? That’s insane.
Godel_unicode··on I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you
It doesn’t say that it doesn’t do that, it says that it doesn’t do that by default. If you explicitly tell it to expose a port, how can you possibly be surprised when it does so?

If you don’t read the docs you don’t get to complain when you don’t understand the behavior.

Edit: the second paragraph on the first search result for “docker networking” says that because it’s trying to present things in a platform independent way the overview won’t cover iptables specifics and then links to the detailed docs of how it uses iptables. If you can’t read two paragraphs maybe don’t try to be an engineer.

Godel_unicode··on Females more likely than males to be elected in US scientific societies
That’s not what’s happening though. It’s a highly imbalanced class, just “the right way”.

You’re also quite incorrect about when DEI programs started, they’re just actually called that now. Women have outnumbered men in universities since around 1980 because of attempts to get more women into college.

Edit: hard to keep up with the ninja edits, the point in the last paragraph is significantly changed.

Godel_unicode··on Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
Of course they wouldn’t, blades are blades and enclosures are enclosures. It’s really not that difficult of a concept.

The entire point of blades is that they’re modular and a chassis can be filled with many different kinds of blades. Calling an enclosure a blade would be like calling a tire a car.

Source: I’ve specd out and ordered literally thousands of blade servers and hundreds of enclosures from every major vendor.

Edit: an even better simile would have been people who call a whole desktop computer a cpu.

Godel_unicode··on Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
I mean, it’s a free country you can do whatever you want, but you should be aware that you are not using that term the way anyone else uses it.

Rack Us absolutely refer to a form factor not just a z-height. It would make no sense to refer to something in # of Us unless you either want to then mount it in a rack, or be deliberately annoying.

Godel_unicode··on Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
> virtually every blade server I've ever seen was 2U :)

Huh?

Godel_unicode··on Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
Blade enclosures are different than blade servers. Small servers like that are also very unlikely to be loaded up with high-watt GPUs for inference or training workloads.
Godel_unicode··on Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
There’s no such thing as a 2u blade, blade servers are a different thing than #u “pizza boxes”. Generally speaking they’re chassis mounted servers with shared power and I/O through mezzanine cards/backplanes(yes there are blades without shared power and/or I/O, but they’re the exception).

https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ss...

Godel_unicode··on I was banned because of a security flaw in Facebook’s password recovery system
Sending it from your own domain isn’t hard, it’s self-hosting that domain which is hard. If you pay Microsoft or Google using your own domain works well.
Godel_unicode··on Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
It also makes no sense to me, if you want an offering with a different name, just add it to the UI and call the same backend to provision the resources. I bet the majority of customers will never know or care that the other one is the same thing with a different name.
Godel_unicode··on The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?
These are the ending lyrics to “Time” from the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon.
Godel_unicode··on Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says
Oh I dunno, “you’re a mouth breather who makes everything around them worse” is pretty interesting.
Godel_unicode··on Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More
That’s an interesting theory, how do you reconcile it with the fact that several companies which have had layoffs have also given out large stock refreshes to some of the employees who weren’t laid off?
Godel_unicode··on I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one
The stolen ones, sure. The legitimate ones are trivially easy to resell.
Godel_unicode··on I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one
You should have, it was easily the best device Google ever made. Shame about the comically short update period or I’d still be using it.
Godel_unicode··on NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
There are published guidelines within the agency, your recruiting human capital person or hiring manager could tell you more.

There’s no negotiation though, either the billet is part of the program (CISA calls their CTMS) or it’s not, and either you check the box (usually with a certification) or you don’t.

Edit: found this on their site.

https://dhscs.usajobs.gov/assets/pdf/Career_Level_Guide.pdf

Godel_unicode··on NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
That’s only base salary. There are quite a few performance and skill based bonus programs in the federal government which end up in the mid-200s.
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