gotodengo

While I agree with you, that disagreement with the author (and not in a my side vs. your side talking point kinda way) is one of the things I liked. I don't think anyone other than geohot himself would agree with the full thing, but that's his point.

>I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person. There are no rough edges, it’s basically marketing copy. Reflected back and forth in their heads with this “society” mirror so many times that there’s no identity or coherence left, just a mush of diffuse monochrome light.

I rode the TAT through from Ripley, WV to Port Orford, OR last year over 10 weeks on a Kawasaki KLX 250 I can't speak enough to how awesome the experience was. A solid half the time I stopped for gas or to eat, I'd come out to my bike to someone sitting there waiting to chat about trips and adventures or just ask what I was doing. It was an eye opening experience to just how many awesome conversations I could have had, had I just stopped and waited when I saw some interesting car or bike at a gas station.

It was both incredibly physically demanding while being relatively safe. I know most probably do it on ADV bikes, but I felt my dual-sport was perfect.

Cheaper, sturdier, and more easily swappable than NVME while still being far faster than spinning discs. I use them basically as independent cartridges, this one's work, that one's a couple TB of raw video files plus the associated editor project, that one has games and movies. I can confidently travel with 3-4 unprotected in my bag.

There's probably a similar cost usb-c solution these days, and I use a usb adapter if I'm not at my desktop, but in general I like the format.

Phishers are working completely blind, thus any amount of info going back to the phishers is a benefit to them.

Just getting server logs from an opened link lets them know their messages aren't being quarantined and their server is reachable through the target's firewall.

The user agent and how the links are accessed give info about who is opening them (A few every couple minutes == all good, 10 links sent to 10 different employees all opened within seconds with a non-standard user agent == you're being investigated and should burn the domain)

It's been a few years since I've done phishing engagements so details may vary with how things are done today. But the goal is to limit any information going to the bad guys. Let them think their messages are being blocked until they go elsewhere.

*edit: That being said, phishing at least one person at a large company is not particularly hard. There's too many companies using domains indistinguishable from shady links for one thing. Limiting engagement is good, but companies also need to be prepared for the eventuality that somebody will get fooled.

I'm on year 10 of learning my second language and passed through a variety of teaching/learning methods. Intensive FSI courses, immersion including output as early as possible, self guided based heavily on reading and vocabulary, etc. While I get by mostly fine and now live in my second language, my listening is definitely my weakest skill.

Anki is probably my most beneficial single tool. Though if I were to do it over again I'd follow more or less the poster's strategy. Maybe 80% comprehensible input for listening and 20% Anki for vocab building. At least until I could watch native TV without much effort. I've played around a bit with LLMs, but still haven't found a really great use case for my study.

On the otherhand I think consistent practice (with growing difficulty) trumps technique. Whatever process keeps you motivated to practice month after month is most important.

Their site will break consistently in any case. Running a site in 2024 comes with a responsibility to update regularly for a good reason.

There are more than enough forgotten kebab shop restaurant pages that are now serving malware because they never updated WordPress that an out of date certificate warning is a very good "heads up, this site hasn't been maintained in 6 years"

If we're talking hosting even a static HTML file without using a site hosting company, that already requires so much technical knowledge (Domain purchasing, DNS, purchasing a static IP from your ISP, server software which again requires vuln updates) that said person will be able to update a TLS cert without any issue.

For various reasons I started to open a bank account with Mercury, before deciding to use another provider.

When I said I'd no longer be finishing the application and to please delete my passport info, first they ignored the second part. When I replied again asking them to delete my data they replied about KYC laws and assured me the data was securely stored of course.

At that point I gave up. Maybe they could delete the data if I fought, maybe their hands were tied, maybe me fighting would end up flagging my info as a money laundering risk. But I immediately imagined exactly this leak happening.

They're not the only vendor affected that had my data, nor is this breach the first, but that's the one that stings the most.

Anecdotally I'm being swarmed by text message spam for the first time in months. I have to assume people are running through new breach data to find live numbers.

I have to admit, I'm a bit concerned about Blender's future development.

I've been a Blender user for 15 years, I jumped on somewhere before the 2.4 redesign.

There have been some really awesome advances in Blender over the past two years. Things that really changed my typical workflow in an absolutely good way, Eevee and all of the node work for a couple amazing new additions.

They've also changed a lot of things, namely keybindings, UI, certain modifiers, that had been done in a certain way, and that I'd committed to muscle memory, for over a decade. Those changes also had the effect of breaking years worth of accumulated tutorials and bookmarks as the workflows they mentioned are not longer relevant.

It's intensely aggravating to spend 10 minutes figuring out how to do something that you used to know how to do with the flick of a wrist. Especially when you fall back to searching how to perform the action and only find 4 year old stackoverflow posts which state the old way to do it.

I've even recently taken a weekend reimplementing the old full color icons, which required a full custom compilation, due to the lack of contrast in the new uneditable monochrome replacements.

I fully admit this may just be my initial steps into the grumbly guy who doesn't like change in my software. But I can't help but compare Blender to Firefox.

Awesome tech and a great mission, sometimes aggravating UI and workflow changes, important relationships with would be rivals.

As someone who is also still on Firefox, my opinion is that loads of cash didn't necessarily turn out great for them either.

For me at least I consider my custom hacked up, modified keybindings as best they can be, Blender to be nearly feature complete for the work I do. It's awesome that it being opensource has allowed me to nudge it in the direction that works for me. Like I said though, as a long time user I am a bit concerned.

I was mostly treading water in my Portuguese practice for the past few years, before getting remotivated this year and making some decent progress.

I agree with many of TFA's points > To learn a lot from reading, you need to read a lot, and for that you have to understand at least the gist of what you are looking at.

Reading was huge for me. After "speaking" the language for 5 years I finally read a full novel. I immediately noticed improvements in my writing and understanding. A few weeks later I finished reading a second novel and am now on to the third.

(I really recommend The Martian by the way, it seems like it's been translated a ton, and it's written in a mostly first person diary style so the tenses are fairly simple while being more engaging than kid's books)

>"we're gonna turn it back on in four weeks"

This is my recurring issue when I see most "changes we're making for the election" posts. Sure this seems like a good step for this election.

Fake news and the destabilization it can bring isn't just an American phenomenon though. Are they going to apply these precautions to elections in Brazil, or Myanmar?