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SirFatty

828 karma · joined August 3, 2015

Cause he's a mean motor scooter and a bad go-getter.
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SirFatty··on Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been
I'm just glad I don't live in New York.
SirFatty··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
cybersecurity has taken over my life as a IT Manager. Security was always important, and always something I worked on, but now it's all I work on and it's exhausting.

Managing patch management)software and firmware. Users who cannot help but enter credentials via phishing regardless of training.

Chasing the next best practice (SSL VPN out, IPsec is back, etc).

SirFatty··on Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders
yeah, and look how great France, Germany and the UK are doing!
SirFatty··on Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
I'm sure you have thought the same thing about CRISPR and cloud labs in the past. But this is real and will probably doom us all.
SirFatty··on Taylor Farms Cyclospora outbreak triples in size
Why is this flagged?
SirFatty··on Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices
I never thought I'd see a Gemini apologist.
SirFatty··on Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers
That's a few people, not most people.
SirFatty··on Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
What a waste of time.
SirFatty··on Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers
"Tucker Carlson, Kevin O’Leary"

A real meeting of the minds.

SirFatty··on Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers
"but most people think it's ok."

How would you know what "most people" think? Broad generalizations and opinion stated as fact.

SirFatty··on [dead]
If the point was to kill them all, it would have happened already.
SirFatty··on Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years
"the name Kermit is used by permission of Henson Associates, Inc."

that certainly would never happen nowadays.

SirFatty··on SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
Whatever you say, chief. I worked in that environment for quite a while, and maybe on a technicality you're right, the effect outcome is that you will do it if not for all your customers that will require it.
SirFatty··on 30 years of CPUs at Tom's Hardware – looking back on three decades of processors
XDA is a great example of this...
SirFatty··on Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability
ITAR
SirFatty··on Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals
What a strange reply.
SirFatty··on Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3
a distinction without a difference
SirFatty··on Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar
"Most people in the US don't know that things like this even exist,"

Exactly how would you know that?

SirFatty··on The growing threat of Docusign phishing attacks (2024)
DKIM is... not foolproof. It does not stop attackers from faking the visible "From" address. Which still works as phishing vector.
SirFatty··on Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
I guess it's ok then.
SirFatty··on Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
5. Paste the entire command on HN so the aspiring script kiddies have a launching point. 6. ? 7. Profit!
SirFatty··on Canceling "Hey"
I guess that could be a type of art.
SirFatty··on AI companies are shredding rare books
I see.. so the various AI companies are in the right on this?
SirFatty··on Shay Locomotives
That site is borderline unreadable. You'd think there would be some basic info on the landing page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_locomotive

SirFatty··on LLMs Are Still Toxic, Stuck in the Past, and Bad at Math
And the fanbois can't admit that AI is flawed.
SirFatty··on Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
I wanted one, but unlike the C64 I could not afford it.. but I wanted that and a Video Toaster.
SirFatty··on John C. Dvorak has died
He was the creator of Cranky Geeks. One of the first podcasts I listened to.
SirFatty··on ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
I'm sure they did, and a lot more besides. So what? What is anyone going to do about it? Congress certainly doesn't give a fig.
SirFatty··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
I have Duo in our environment. Authenticator not required.
SirFatty··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
That's if you're using Authenticator.
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