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Comment · 9 months ago
Right? I feel like rainbow tables for NTLM have been around for decades, though at-cost. This seems incredibly low effort on Google's part.
Comment · 10 months ago
Is there a reason you chose to roll your own software instead of just using Anki? Custom algorithm you think is better than FSRS? UI preferences?
Comment · 2 years ago
"Employee surveillance" sounds a lot more nefarious than the reality of these systems for most organizations.

Your network admin has had access to the proxy, and by extension, all your browsing history since forever. Now, your UEBA does that, but mainly just sits there and flags things like a user normally hitting a single host to suddenly hitting 300 hosts on the network, or a user having an average data upload of 500MB/week to 200GB in a single session.

Very few people care if you're using the corporate network to listen to YouTube Music (or even looking for other jobs), most just want to be notified of data exfiltration, compromised accounts, or malicious network activity.

Comment · 2 years ago
Probably for usage with [the now sold off] HP Records Manager.
Comment · 2 years ago
I work in a heavily regulated industry, and 'yes' is the answer for us, even going as far as mobile-first IM platforms. There's a very small number of vendors who pull in lots of money making UI hooks for things like WeChat and WhatsApp just so we can store the messages for the people in Risk and Compliance.
Comment · 2 years ago
I stopped buying anything Samsung for essentially the same reason. I was overseas and my S7 switched off and wouldn't turn back on. I walked into the flagship store and was immediately turned away because I didn't purchase it in that country.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
DDR5 comes with on-die ECC. My understanding is this only checks errors occuring within the RAM itself, not errors that occur during transmission to and from RAM.

My question is, how common are transmission errors over errors happening within RAM?

Comment · 2 years ago
I've been a happy MailInABox user for many years, but this looks great.
Comment · 2 years ago
Essentially you hook up all your log sources to a User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) platform, it comes up with a model of "normal" behaviour, and flags users for investigation when they start acting outside of those norms (or things you want to explicitly flag on).

No data egress for 6 months, then 20GBs of outbound traffic? Someone's getting notified to take a look and see what that was and where you sent it. You only authenticate against one host on the network, and suddenly you're hitting thousands of hosts? Someone's getting notified to investigate, &c.

Comment · 3 years ago
Any narration for the stories? That's the killer feature of Satori Reader for me. I'm fairly sure they hire voice actors, but from what I understand, Japanese text-to-speech is fairly robust.
Comment · 3 years ago
Tangentially related, I had GPT-4 plan the sightseeing on my latest holiday.

It both picked out the interesting places of note, and then I asked it to plan them in such a way that made sense walking-wise (so I wasn't backtracking) and it did so without a hiccup.

Comment · 3 years ago
Good to know, thank you!
Comment · 3 years ago
Blood test results? I couldn't find anywhere to input the data manually. I track everything else there, like blood pressure, but serum iron, ferritin? Transferrin? Albumin? Etc. Nothing. Am I blind?

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