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treadful , 3 hours ago

Engineers are often the most territorial bastards I've met.

It's noticeably nice when working in a team of well adjusted folks that can work together.

treadful OP , 3 days ago

Kind of seems that way lately.

treadful OP , 3 days ago

They've done that already. I've actually gotten banned twice because their AI tool thought I was harassing a streamer. Both reversed almost immediately after an appeal. Guess those appeals may no longer have people responding to them...

treadful , 6 days ago

Two days are worth the years you're gonna spend living with that system.

treadful , 10 days ago

Basically a Ship of Theseus argument though. The current iteration of the company is selling their retro games and hardware again at least.

treadful , 17 days ago

Frustratingly vague for a Slashdot write-up.

“These brothers allegedly committed a first-of-its-kind manipulation of the Ethereum blockchain by fraudulently gaining access to pending transactions, altering the movement of the electronic currency, and ultimately stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency from their victims,” said Special Agent in Charge Thomas Fattorusso of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) New York Field Office.

Good to know the prosecutors have an understanding of what they're prosecuting... Not even a single mention of MEV in the DoJ press release.

treadful , 16 days ago

Because it's not the public mempool. It's a private MEV mempool that people pay to add their transactions to for special priority or conditional inclusion. For instance, asshole profiteers can use it to sandwich attack traders to siphon off "market inefficiencies" or some people just want immediate front of the line inclusion in the next block.

Presumably they exploited something in this MEV system (completely unrelated to the Ethereum protocol) that allowed them to see the pool and they shouldn't have. Wish I knew more but everything I read was incredibly vague and misleading.

treadful , 16 days ago

I'm sure, yes. If you submit to a public mempool, you have no guarantees that your two transactions will land on either side of the target transaction in the same block (They likely won't). You need to leverage conditional transactions with MEV so you guarantee the miner will select and position your transactions where you need them. In this case, before and after the target transaction.

Check out the Ethereum Foundation's page on MEV for more info.

treadful , 17 days ago

Streamable is decent and has no cruft.

treadful , 19 days ago

Damn, wonder why ULA is up for sale. Boeing and Lockheed don't want to play together anymore?

treadful , 20 days ago

Your laziness isn’t a good reason to be upset with a company taking steps to reduce their security overhead significantly

Your laziness isn't a good reason to add an unnecessary barrier of entry for your users.

treadful , 22 days ago

!standupcomedy

treadful , 23 days ago

Might be a valid argument if China didn't play currency games.

Also, the protectionist in me wants American heavy industry to continue to exist.

treadful , 24 days ago

On Mobile Firefox, tap the little page icon in the address bar.

treadful , 27 days ago

If buying things from pieces of shit means we should get fucked by them, then all we would do is get fucked by pieces of shit.

treadful , 26 days ago

Not sure I agree that it's dystopian. Imagine how much less waste there would be. People with less crowded storage/garages/houses with less junk they use rarely. Like, I have this scroll saw I've used for like one project. Why the fuck do I own this thing?

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

treadful , 27 days ago

That one (assuming it's the same as your memory) was basically just a concave dome and you wore like socks. This seems pretty different.

treadful , 28 days ago

https://media.tenor.com/tabuI4OfQHsAAAAM/the-office-pam-beesly.gif

treadful , 1 month ago

This isn't a moonshot at all. Checkout these eVinci microcreactors by Westinghouse. They're currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US. They're modular too so you just add more to scale. Pretty wild.

treadful , 1 month ago

I first learned about it with this project in Butte, Montana, which is in development. They also have a page describing a deployment in Saskatchewan. I don't know if this was completed yet but it's been in progress for years. There's also a lot of other planned deployments I'm finding.

I thought I saw some active deployment on the east coast last time I looked into this but haven't been able to immediately find an example. Either way, it's at least in progress, has regulatory backing, and is not just imaginary.

treadful , 1 month ago

I’d say it’s imaginary if they don’t exist. Your claim that, “They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.” isn’t really accurate, is it?

I'd consider signed agreements as part of the "being deployed" process but yeah, I haven't been able to find evidence of any currently active deployments. I wouldn't call it a "moonshot" though when there's so many in the works is all.

Not really sure how NuScale is relevant as that's (or at least the project in the article is) utility-level power and not really the same thing.

treadful , 1 month ago

Their first privacy iteration was that they people looking at your naked body would be hiding in some back room and would indicate to the gate agents there was something to look for. I still kind of assume that's the case (article doesn't go into it). Seems like it would be more accurate than software.

treadful , 1 month ago

It's the music industry. Probably 50% lawyers.

treadful , 1 month ago

The public that wants TikTok will get TikTok, and the public is going to stop pestering politicians about it.

Has their user base mobilized at all? Maybe it's just because I don't use TikTok but I haven't really heard much from their users about the ban. Which has been kind of unexpected.

treadful , 1 month ago

Isn't Pulumi moving to native API stuff instead of the tf provider?

treadful , 1 month ago

I mean, they have AWS Native (in preview) and Azure Native. So it's a little more substantial than a wish.

treadful , 1 month ago

If you're migrating from tf, OpenTofu might be a better option. I mostly like Pulimi for the language options.

treadful , 1 month ago

There's no planet Earth, B.

treadful , 1 month ago

I would rather wade with bots than exist on a fully doxxed Internet.

treadful , 1 month ago

Some of the protesting workers have said the company has a double standard when it comes to which employees it disciplines. Other Google workers have posted the names and photos of pro-Palestinian workers online, “doxing” them and opening them up to harassment from people on social media, the workers have said.

Seems like it's not an entirely unpopular action with the staff.

treadful , 1 month ago

They weren't just making a random protest. It was intended to show leadership their dissatisfaction. When your company is the size of tens of thousands of employees, your only real way to get within earshot is something like a protest.

Rightly or wrongly freedom of speech, assembly, etc protects you from the Government, not your boss.

Tired of this. The 1st amendment protects you from the government, but the idea of "freedom of speech" is much broader than that. We are allowed to be dissatisfied with how speech is suppressed even if a government is not involved.

treadful , 1 month ago

Guess I need to break the bad news to a coworker.

treadful , 1 month ago

I just wish you could setup logic for this. Pulling out your phone to hold the power button for 3 seconds and then tapping the lockdown button is slow, very obvious, and likely to be prevented by an attacker.

Would be great if I could set it up to lockdown on a specific finger, or a specific number of presses on an analog button. Or even like if I leave a WiFi network or some other arbitrary condition.

treadful , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Will check it out, thanks for the tip.

EDIT: It's closed source, $4/license with a 7-day free trial.

treadful , 1 month ago

I wish there were a nice quick way to do lockdown on an Android phone. Right now you have to hold down the power button and tap the lockdown button on screen. Which requires you to pull out your phone and is completely obvious.

Shoot, even a time based lockdown, so like if you don't use biometrics in the last hour or whatever, then you must use your passphrase. Or any other number of logic conditions like location, wifi connect, finger used...

treadful , 1 month ago

While I do hate Ticketmaster with a passion, I have to admit that about 6 years ago I went to local venue that had been gobbled up by LiveNation and I was amazed at the transformations they had performed. Bathrooms had actual attendants, people whose job it was to keep the line moving. They would watch stalls and urinals and then tell the next person in line when one was free. Pavilion seating had wait service, so you didn’t actually have to get out of your seat to get an overpriced beer or food. The place was clean, fresh paint was on everything. I was at a concert at this venue last year and it still looked nice and these services hadn’t gone away.

Yeah, that's how it works. The monopoly strangle the dependent company to force them to sell to you. "Vertical integration" they call it. Perhaps if the original owners had a reasonable cut of the money before , they could've provided better amenities.

treadful , 1 month ago

Socket 7! I'm amazed any of those are still floating around. Industrial?

treadful , 1 month ago

Fun project! Godpseed

treadful , 1 month ago

Creating the “Big Yellow Taxi” rule was possible because the U.S. State Department purchased a Microsoft 365 Government G5 license that comes with enhanced logging through the premium tier of Microsoft’s Purview Audit service.

Barf

treadful , 1 month ago

y'all are min-maxing life a bit hard there.

treadful , 1 month ago

The April 2024 security update for Pixel phones fixes 24 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29740, a critical severity elevation of privilege flaw.

Too bad it doesn't expose which updates were made and which CVEs were patched. I guess it came in the "April 5" security update my phone has now...

treadful , 2 months ago

Okay, but are you still going to audit 200 individual dependencies even once?

treadful , 2 months ago

Because everything is labeled safe and unsafe, right?

treadful OP , 2 months ago

That's fair. I'm hoping for the best outcome.

treadful OP , 2 months ago

You're not supposed to be anything. It's a pretty cool feat by one person though.

treadful , 2 months ago

Almost always it makes more sense to ban the action, not the tool. Especially for tools with such generalized use cases.

treadful , 2 months ago

If you think streamer stalkers and swatting are a problem now, just you wait.