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freedude··on [dead]
"Deserialization (aka unmarshaling) refers to the process of reconstructing a data structure or an object from a byte stream. But when it's performed without validating its source or sanitizing its contents, it can lead to unexpected consequences such as code execution or denial-of-service (DoS)."
freedude··on Cuba Ransomware: Targets Critical Infrastructure and IT Integrator
Full Title:"Cuba Ransomware Deploys New Tools: Targets Critical Infrastructure Sector in the U.S. and IT Integrator in Latin America"
freedude··on [dead]
Full title: "Biden Regime 'Welds Open Floodgates' at Arizona Border to Allow Illegal Aliens to Pour Into U.S."
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"In a recently obtained letter (pdf) sent in November 2021 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), top epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and seven colleagues informed the agency it was promoting flawed data and excluding data that did not reinforce their narrative."
freedude··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
Your immediate need will be water, food, and security from it getting stolen. It is pretty much all three at once.

The cities will be awful places with death, destruction, and lawlessness.

freedude··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
Whenever I buy a car, tractor, cattle, pump repair, implements, out-buildings, solar system installation, fuel storage, etc...

Because I pay cash and keep the bankers out of the transaction it costs me less and it costs the seller less. I negotiate this ahead of time. Most people in business would rather have cash in hand than wait on the bank and pay their fees.

freedude··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
"60% of the times, it's money laundering every time."

Please provide your reference.

freedude··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
I challenge you to analyze them over the long term. I believe you will find they are poor reasons that don't hold up to long term thinking.
freedude··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
I have found when I use cash I don't overspend as often. So I looked it up and this is a known expectation of the banking industry. So I converted to cash as much as I can and my finances are much better.

The internal argument is that it is not convenient for me to need to work only with cash. That is true it is less convenient but when I sacrifice due diligence for convenience then it turns out long term cash is more convenient.

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"odhi Linux 7.0 ships with Thunar’s archive plugin pre-installed by default, a web browser manager tool inspired by the Zorin OS Browser Manager tool to make it easier for users to install their favorite web browsers, support for notification actions, and support for application instances in the iBar module."
freedude··on Sonic Runners (2015) Decompilation
"This is a largely faithful decompilation of the final release of Sonic Runners (version 2.0.3). It was initially sourced from the Android version, but will build to any platform that Unity supports."
freedude··on BEV Era Could Produce Potholes Aplenty
"Using data and technical assistance from the University of Leeds, the Telegraph reports that the average electric car puts 2.24 times more stress on roads than its gasoline ICE equivalent, and 1.95 times more than diesel. Larger BEVs weighing over 2,000 kg (4,409 lbs.) cause the most damage, with 2.32 times more wear applied to roads."
freedude··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
One of the problems with promoting standards is that standards are made by imperfect committees. And they can solve a different problem than exists in the real world.
freedude··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
"A growing uneasy feeling about Google’s approach to user privacy, Manifest v3, Googles’s WebDRM plans, their rejection of JPEG XL and the omnipresence of Chromium-based browsers nowadays – Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and some others are basically the same programs in different clothes."

He hits the nail on the head. Why support the fascist empire when you can support those making it better. That said, if you really wanted a privacy focused browser then the Bromine, Waterfox, Opera, DuckDuckGo and Tempest browsers should all be investigated.

freedude··on Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6
It looks to me like it is a collaborative development environment. It seems like this method of building a release notes file will highlight all of the available options and give visibility to what the developers are using for that change. This could be a valuable clue to tracking down a bug.
freedude··on Ransomware on the Move: Exploitation Techniques and the Pursuit of Zero-Days
"The ransomware threat landscape is seeing a concerning shift in attack techniques with the rampant abuse of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities in the past six months, which led to a 143% increase in victims from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023"

The question for any Internet connected computer user aught to be what zero-day attacks am I subjected to today? Or just run disconnected much of the time. But wait you might say where is the middle ground? Only the Sith speak in absolutes(which in of itself is an absolute, but...)

If you are not aware of the dangers of sharks and jellyfish while surfing the Internet you will never avoid them.

freedude··on Ransomware on the Move: Exploitation Techniques and the Pursuit of Zero-Days
"Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days"
freedude··on Everything you need to know about Covid’s “Eris” Variant
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We know everything we need to know about the symptoms – they are “generally mild” and “flu-like”, because Covid is nothing but re-branded endemic respiratory diseases.

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freedude··on Excess Deaths in Peru: Trends, Confounders and Correlations
It is an ionophore which facilitates the absorption of zinc which destroys coronavirus's.

It is a known antiviral.

It is an anti-inflammatory.

These properties are all important in defeating coronavirus and the resulting Covid-19 cytokine storm.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/

freedude··on Microsoft’s Azure Kinect Developer Kit Technology Transfers to Partner Ecosystem
From the comments:

"Would love more detailed information and clarifications as to who will own and maintain the SDK, what happens to body tracking and investments into improving it, and other details."

freedude··on Research finds ChatGPT is bias is worldwide: Lula in Brazil, Labour in the UK
"The study’s authors suggested that there might be at least two potential sources of the bias, including the training data as well as the algorithm itself.

“The most likely scenario is that both sources of bias influence ChatGPT’s output to some degree, and disentangling these two components (training data versus algorithm), although not trivial, surely is a relevant topic for future research,” the researchers concluded. "

freedude··on CMOC 0.1.84
New version of CMOC 0.1.84. It was released on 2023-08-17

CMOC is a 6809-generating cross-compiler for a large subset of the C language. It generates assembly language code for the Motorola 6809 processor and targets the Tandy Color Computer, the Dragon computer, the Vectrex video game console, the Thomson MO and TO computers, and the OS-9 and FLEX operating systems. It runs under GNU/Linux and other Unix-like environments like Darwin and Cygwin. It requires the LWTOOLS assembler (lwasm) and linker, by William Astle.

Last years' Comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30598318

freedude··on Enum.TryParse Unexpected Behavior
Reference:

A better enumeration - Type safe from start to end

https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/74c47c63-ebf0-44d9-85af-d...

freedude··on Enum.TryParse Unexpected Behavior
"Enum.TryParse does the following:

    Converts the string representation of the name or numeric value of one or more enumerated constants to an equivalent enumerated object. The return value indicates whether the conversion succeeded. "
freedude··on OPNsense 23.7 “Restless Roadrunner” Released
"This version enables API support for a broad spectrum of features, achieved through the diligent work on the MVC framework. Legacy migrated features include:

    Interface diagnostics (Ping / Traceroute and Portprobe)
    LAGG interfaces
    System Services (Diagnostics)
    DHCP Leases, both IPV4 and IPV6
    Advanced Unbound DNS capabilities
Additionally, floating rules and groups benefit from improved visibility, thus simplifying network management. A newly redesigned, user-friendly, and fully API enabled OpenVPN Instances module is also included in this release, providing developers and integrators with greater control and flexibility in VPN configurations."
freedude··on Devuan Daedalus 5.0 stable release
Release notes:

"xserver-xorg-core now uses libseat1 to control rootless startx and access to input and video devices. This has several advantages, the most significant being that it removes the dbus dependency from xserver-xorg-core."

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_daedalus/Release_notes.txt

freedude··on TrueNAS SCALE 23.10-BETA.1 has been released
"Drive count optimizations: SCALE 23.10 allows up to 1255 disks, or more than 25PB, under management on a single system."
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Zinc ionophores... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01620...
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“FDA is clearly acknowledging that doctors have the authority to prescribe human ivermectin to treat COVID. So they are not interfering with the authority of doctors to prescribe drugs or to practice medicine,” Ashley Cheung Honold, lawyer representing the FDA said this month
freedude··on China Asks Some Funds to Avoid Net Equity Sales as Markets Sink
Here is the dejavu moment... from 2022, but the article does point out this is not unusual. Perhaps someone with more time than me can plot out the frequency.

China Asking Funds to Limit Stock Sales Before Congress, Sources Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/china-is-...

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