henfredemars

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[–] henfredemars 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Violent rhetoric definitely influences the mentally ill.

[–] henfredemars 10 points 1 week ago

That’s how you know who is the main character.

[–] henfredemars 5 points 1 week ago

I thought the bottom formation was teeth coming up to swallow the oddly drawn tree.

[–] henfredemars 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I strongly prefer recursive descent for parsers for a different reason: clarity. They are easy to read and they are easy to generate helpful error messages for the user because right there in the code of your parser you can provide great, contextually-relevant error messages.

I’ve tried parser generators a few times, but after running with the code for a while, it just doesn’t offer me the level of error reporting flexibility that I can achieve using a simple descent.

[–] henfredemars 8 points 1 week ago

Article title from the original source was changed by the author because it doesn’t actually make the case that the title claim is going to occur.

“When circumvention is more popular than compliance” is the new title.

[–] henfredemars 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In what sense? It’s certainly a gathering place.

[–] henfredemars 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem to be a shitpost. This seems pretty cool.

[–] henfredemars 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Consider the discrepancies in jobs requiring similar education and responsibility, or similar skills, but divided by gender. The median earnings of information technology managers (mostly men) are 27 percent higher than human resources managers (mostly women), according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

I don’t think its article did itself a service by making this their first example of similar jobs with similar responsibilities.

A new study from researchers at Cornell University found that the difference between the occupations and industries in which men and women work has recently become the single largest cause of the gender pay gap, accounting for more than half of it. In fact, another study shows, when women enter fields in greater numbers, pay declines — for the very same jobs that more men were doing before.

I think the article has a habit of muddying its point. The second study is extremely interesting, but it belabors the first one.

While the pay gap has been closing, it remains wide. Over all, in fields where men are the majority, the median pay is $962 a week — 21 percent higher than in occupations with a majority of women, according to another new study, published Friday by Third Way, a research group that aims to advance centrist policy ideas.

Editing is bizarre. It seems like we were about to make an argument but then forgot to do so. It has the feel of someone who wrote an essay trying to meet a word count. We know why we’re here and reading. A simple report on the second study would have been plenty.

Finally, the article was posted back in 2016.

[–] henfredemars 11 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, those are the approved ones.

[–] henfredemars 10 points 1 week ago

The billionaires are doing billionaire stuff again!

[–] henfredemars 5 points 1 week ago

Sometimes it’s OK to just be you.

[–] henfredemars 9 points 1 week ago

My wife likes raising caterpillars and has taken to calling them sniggly wigglers.

 

This article goes into more detail about how these new measures will actually work compared to the blog post earlier this year from Google. Namely:

  1. Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will no longer prevent FRP from activating.
  2. Bypassing the setup wizard will no longer deactivate FRP. FRP restrictions will apply until you verify ownership of the device by signing in.
  3. Adding a new Google account is blocked.
  4. Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked.
  5. Installing new apps is blocked.
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[OC] Caterpillars (infosec.pub)
 
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Adding 16 KB Page Size to Android (android-developers.googleblog.com)
 

In this post, we’ve discussed the technical details of how we are restructuring memory in Android to get faster, more performant devices. Android 15 and AOSP work with 16 KB pages, and devices can now implement 16 KB pages as a development option.

 

Save a few words. Make life easier. How can this possibly go wrong?

 

I have a large DVD collection containing lots of niche titles that don’t appear to be on any public tracker. I would like to share my love of these films with the world.

I have access to a server that’s online 24/7 with a symmetric link and no data cap. My plan is to use a docker container with a web transmission instance to seed all of my material through a VPN provider (for my own safety). My server was last rebooted 200 days ago; I intend to rack lots of uptime seeding with my server. I have technical skills and I can ensure I’ll have an open port to accept connections.

Questions: what steps should I take to protect myself in seeding these DVDs? Is there a guide or some recommendations you can provide to get the best quality out of the many hours I’m going to spend ripping? Is it possible to trace the DVD reader that made the rip? Are the cool kids still uploading torrents or is there a better technology I should be using?

Overall, I have plenty of content to share, but I don’t want to put myself at risk when I do.

 

Article refrains from drawing conclusions, instead presenting the data. Android is doing better at moving users to newer versions, but the overwhelming majority of users don't have the current Android OS version nor the previous version, combined.

 

Bullet points stolen from the linked article:

  • Code suggests the satellite connectivity feature on Pixel devices could be called “Pixel Satellite SOS.”
  • We’ve also found a clue suggesting that the feature will be offered for free for two years, which would match Apple’s current offer on the iPhone 14 and 15 series.
 

I want to share this post because I was disappointed to see this popular smartphone cracking tool works very well across Android versions and devices while iPhone enjoys relative security.

The graphic also shows premium devices specifically are vulnerable to their tools, so one cannot argue that the problem is funding or cheap devices getting owned because of dumb changes by the vendor -- premium devices fare not much better. Even Google controlling the hardware and the software of their Pixel line remains vulnerable to data extraction while the latest iPhone versions aren’t.

To me, this sounds like the state of Android physical security might be inferior. Why? What can be done to fix this? Perhaps is it because Android is more popular globally so they get more work targeting Android?

It could also be coincidental that at the time the documents leaked, the iPhone stuff was being finished up and there is actually not that much difference if you have an attacker who has lots of time and money.

EDIT: Removed wrong information. EDIT: Added more material for discussion.

 

So much pony on the canvas! Where are all you guys and gals coming from? MLP has always seemed fairly quiet on the fediverse, but the proof is in the pudding, apparently!

It warms my old, nerdy heart.

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