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VistaBrokeMyPCon U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources

I picked up on that too. I guess that means SolarWinds is a good target for nation-state level hacking

Ghidra itself is still what they use, they released it so that potential hires don't have to be retrained from IDA Pro. What they don't release, however, is Ghidra plug-ins. I'm sure they have a vast trove of plug-ins for specific reverse engineering they do, and probably some that check for known holes they can exploit.

VistaBrokeMyPCon DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors

I use an app called cellular z. Never caught a stingray in the wild, but it's easy to see if a tower "moves" with it.

VistaBrokeMyPCon I won’t buy ebooks anymore

My account isn't ready to transfer to yt music yet, but I'm already dreading it. Yt music streams at a lower bitrate, and you cannot download the highest quality (but you can stream it??)

Also, the thumbs up/thumbs down buttons are switched in the yt music ui vs GPM. Bad ux across different products... Par for Google, I guess.

VistaBrokeMyPCon Poll: How many hours do you spend in front of your computer?

I think you forgot to switch accounts.

VistaBrokeMyPCon TI removes access to assembly programs on the TI-83 Premium CE

If you group the programs then archive the group, clearing ram doesn't delete it. Once proctor walks away, unarchive!

VistaBrokeMyPCon Do not Draw a Penis

In a post-singularity world, this sentence would be frightening.

VistaBrokeMyPCon Do not Draw a Penis

https://imgur.com/gallery/wisVCsc

I'm ashamed to admit I've spent an hour on this site...

VistaBrokeMyPCon Do not Draw a Penis

I'm sorry, I drew about 50 faces with phallic noses. It probably learned from me.

VistaBrokeMyPCon Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently

Qubes is great but be careful... I tried giving a specific usb port to a windows vm to play games with a joystick and accidentally gave all of my USB inputs to it, effectively locking myself out of dom0. Oops.

VistaBrokeMyPCon The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a router from their ISP

This is literally what made me cut the cord and realize I didn't need cable and the 300 channels of garbage to begin with. The basic package I had included ESPN which I don't watch, but did not include BBC World or cspan. CSPAN!!!!

I use an OTA antenna hooked up to my plex server for dvr and just pay for internet now. Much better experience.

VistaBrokeMyPCon Dangerzone: Working with Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked

Qubes on a solid state usb is my go-to, but this brings the functionality of trustedpdf from qubes to anything that can run a docker container. It appeals to a much wider audience, as disposable Linux boot drives have a significant barrier of entry to the not-so-technical folk.

My only concern here is vm escape and Libre office are two VERY big targets for nation state actors. (libreoffice had an exploit exposed in the vault7 leaks) It's a tradeoff for being able to safely open "totallynotphishingexe.pdf" on windows or osx.

VistaBrokeMyPCon Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

This may be of interest to you. https://getsharex.com/

VistaBrokeMyPCon Office noise generator

Coworker with model-m who hunts and pecks: spacebar goes KERTHUNK

VistaBrokeMyPCon Turkmenistan Bans the Word “Coronavirus”

Aladeen, or Aladeen!?

VistaBrokeMyPCon Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data

Man, I spent so many hours drawing in line rider... Shame I couldn't save the runs properly.

VistaBrokeMyPCon T-Mobile reveals data breach, customer account info accessed

I've actually had good encounters with Fi support. Funny enough, I think it's the only Google service that I've been able to get a human to talk to for an issue.

VistaBrokeMyPCon The Let It Crash Philosophy Outside Erlang

Time to plug my favorite Javascript video!

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

VistaBrokeMyPCon Not everyone has an internal monologue

While discussing lucid dreaming with my partner, we both learned that she has aphantasia. I think it blew my mind more than it did hers. Things like, "I pictured that character so much different when I read the book" after watching a movie-- she always thought people were just saying that because they had different ideas of the characters mannerisms, or the text conveyed something different to them... Not that they could actually play out a scene in their head.

It got me thinking about a lot of ways we go about teaching. Math for example - my partner struggled with calculus in uni when presented an equation she hadn't seen something similar to before. It never occurred to me that people couldn't attempt to "graph" something in their head.

VistaBrokeMyPCon Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware

Dolphin! Man, I haven't heard someone talk about that browser in YEARS.

I used that ten years ago back when the play store was called Android Market because it had addons and I thought it was the bee's knees. I still rotate through chrome, chrome canary, Firefox, Firefox focus, opera, and sometimes nightly builds of Firefox just to see what's getting tinkered with lately. Firefox still my daily driver though.

VistaBrokeMyPCon The corporate poo patrol is coming after your precious toilet time

What if you sit backwards? I do that at home sometimes so I don't let my legs fall asleep by leaning my elbows on them to hold a book.

VistaBrokeMyPCon The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019

I'm actually on wellbutrin, double that dose though, and have done dxm a few times. It's... Different. Very similar in dissociation, but ketamine dissociation for me I can actually go in with planned introspection in mind while I lose all sense of self and become one with whatever music I'm listening to, but dxm just makes me 'out of it', if that makes any sense.

VistaBrokeMyPCon The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019

I have, but I don't think I have the right mindset for tripping. Acid is totally out of the question for reasons related to an lsd abusing family member, but shrooms is still on the table

VistaBrokeMyPCon The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019

IMO there's a decent probability that's the reason... The treatments cost an arm, a leg, and one kidney.

VistaBrokeMyPCon The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019

I did six infusions at 1.25mg/kg (because I have a high tolerance to.. Everything it seems?) and it lasted a few weeks~a month and a half. I did another batch of sessions 3 months later and the results were the same. I now take it as an intranasal spray at a much lower dose every other day. It makes me mentally exhausted for a few hours afterwards, but at least it provides me some ease on the mental burden I have. I've been in psychotherapy twice a week for nearly ten years, tried literally every drug aside from classic MAOIs and ECT. I've debated TMS/rTMS, but I'm concerned about the memory loss that I've read about and heard first hand accounts of from friends in similar situations.

Obviously everyone is different and YMMV, but for me- ketamine has been the only thing that made a real impact, bonus was the lack of nasty antidepressant side effects (I'm still taking an SSRI, SNRI, and a mood stabilizer and I hate them).

I'm hopeful that some of the new ketamine+___ compounds being created to extend the duration of the 'depression slightly lifted' feeling are successful and come to trial soon.

VistaBrokeMyPCon ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan

Thank you, and well said. It bothers me when I get called a racist and a xenophobe for saying that border security is necessary, but the current admin has taken it too far. It's not black and white! We can't let everyone in. That just doesn't work - some security is necessary. Turning people away for vague reasons or race/country of origin when they otherwise would be let in is a whole other can of worms though.

VistaBrokeMyPCon In Serbia, School Shooter with AK47 Got Beaten Up by PE Teacher

I hope after he beat him up, he made the shooter do push-ups until the police arrived.

VistaBrokeMyPCon Farewell, Cortana

As irritating as clippy was, I actually miss the little guy. Always so enthusiastic about formatting my essays into letters!

VistaBrokeMyPCon Farewell, Cortana

That site has the most GDPR compliant, transparent, easy to configure cookie settings I've ever seen.

I've got my eyes on that dev kit for sure. Having an offline voice assistant is something I've wanted for a while, privacy is much more important to me than the hardware support that echo and Google home have. Thanks for dropping that link!

VistaBrokeMyPCon The 80/24 Rule

Satellite setup! (side monitors are solar panels?)