thejefflarson

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Comment · 1 year ago

Every Blender tutorial starts with "hit a, hit x to delete the default objects." I don't think this is a valid point.

Comment · 1 year ago

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

Comment · 2 years ago

Michiko Kakutani didn't work for the Book Review. She was the chief book critic of the arts section. The Book Review is a separate organization within the NYT, with an entirely separate editing staff. Sure sometimes critics like Kakutani and A.O. Scott would review things there, but it was always an assignment, not representative of the NYTBR. Generally, editors in the NYTBR strive to pick folks who are "interesting" to review the book rather than not, which leads to spicy reviews because they want to sell the Sunday section.

This article is confused from the get go.

Comment · 2 years ago

See page two of the document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

Seems pretty clear that they could decrypt the traffic they were interested in, they also talk about 5 years of retention of all traffic that they can decrypt at anytime. Sound familiar?

Looks like they used a squid feature: https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslBump

Comment · 2 years ago

And that turned out really well. I’m unclear what your point is.

Comment · 3 years ago

Sure my point here was it quickly? Or routine?

Comment · 3 years ago

I live right by where these birds takeoff, we heard them, and I can tell you this is a normal day of the week. Not sure "scrambled" is correct here.

Comment · 5 years ago

So as a married man, I use partner: it fits with my understanding of marriage, we’re partners, we both have a hand in managing a household. It feels good to say.

Comment · 6 years ago

I’m almost finished with a RISCV core in verilog targeting FPGAs:

https://github.com/thejefflarson/little-cpu

I’m four instructions away from implementing the compressed extensions, and probably next week I’ll tackle the control and status registers. It uses an open source tool chain and is formally verified using riscv-formal. My hope is to eventually be able to compile some rust and get an fpga to blink an led :)

Comment · 8 years ago

I wrote a small program do exactly this on OSX and Linux (Gnome):

https://github.com/thejefflarson/getpasswd

It accesses the OS keychain to get the right password. I don't use offlineimap -- I use mbsync instead which has a PassCmd option where you can pass in a shell command (e.g. getpasswd <imap-server> <imap-user>). And another tool to add passwords to the GNOME Keychain:

https://github.com/thejefflarson/setpasswd

Adding passwords to the OSX keychain is easy enough, but I found it fiddly in Gnome's GUI. YMMV.

Comment · 10 years ago

Thanks for posting this. I encourage this crowd to to take a look at the methodology too: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...

Comment · 10 years ago

Information sharing greatly increased post 9/11. See my reply to the sibling comment.

Comment · 10 years ago

I don't think it is in anyway limited:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/facilitating-an-enhanced-...

As to the point about selectors, if a selector has an even remotely domestic terrorism related component, and is authorized by the FISA court, the FBI can and does see that information.

Edit: added qualifier about terrorism

Comment · 10 years ago

The FBI most definitely has access to intelligence databases and information:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/us/25stellarwi...

A key part of the FBI's mission is "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats" after all:

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs