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Ekaros commented on I hacked Monster Energy bobdahacker.com/blog/mons... · Posted by u/speckx

Nah, fuck that noise. If the company reacts to a responsible disclosure notice that's nice but no one is under any obligation to help out mega corps to secure their shit. And the users aren't put at risk by the people finding the vulnerability but by the company not fixing it.

Fuck Responsible disclosure, companies should have to bid on 0 days like everyone else.

Ekaros · 7 hours ago

One probably should not release information from company they hacked.

On other side, if it is some piece of software immediate disclosure in public is only reasonable and prudent action. It allows every user to take necessary mitigation actions like taking their services and servers offline.

Ekaros commented on Why is this hard? programmersstone.blog/pos... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

ruslan_sure · a day ago

Yes. Programming isn't just writing code.

It would be better if these fundamentals were spread out alongside code writing.

Ekaros · 20 hours ago

Sometimes I think it would be good to have separate terms.

Programming is just writing code. It might or might not be complicated say you fine tune some assembly algorithm.

Developing would be next step up. As you need bigger view.

Software engineering is when you start to consider what would be good engineering and making decisions before just writing code.

Software architecturing is interdisciplinary with engineering and happens is larger systems.

I really think we have done lot of disservice, by grouping all of the things also under coding or programming.

Ekaros commented on From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/laurex

johnwheeler · a day ago

We need to stop paying doctors millions of dollars. That’s the only way it’s going to come down. Half a million, whatever they get paid is making it so people have to do without decent insurance. That’s the biggest variable I see in the US vs other countries (not to mention bogus drug pricing, but there are controls hopefully being implemented for that.

Ekaros · a day ago

Cut wages, subsidise schooling properly. Send them straight to med school. Why would a blue collar job need more education than is actually needed.

Ekaros commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie

dgrin91 · 2 days ago

I think what GP is saying is that if I was a homeowner for 30 years, paid HOA fees all those years, then last year sold to someone else, who gets the HOA reimbursement then? I paid thousands over years and would presumably get nothing, while some other guy who just moved in all of a sudden gets a big check? That seems unfair.

Ekaros · 2 days ago

Well any funds in HOA is part of the property. Could have reported it when selling and increase price correspondingly or at least some fraction.

Ekaros commented on Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated news.stanford.edu/stories... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

average_r_user · 2 days ago

In Italy, cigarette packs carry shocking pictures of diseased lungs, tumors, and other severe health effects, yet they fail to deter smokers. It’s essentially a cultural problem.

Ekaros · 2 days ago

I have been thinking why not take similar actions against alcohol as with tobacco. Add warning labels, increase taxes to huge number. Maybe ban anything but 94% pure stuff. No more any type of flavourings like they did with menthol.

Ekaros commented on It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) hsivonen.fi/string-length... · Posted by u/program

guappa · 2 days ago

That would be extremely wasteful, every single text file would be 4x larger and I'm sure eventually it would not be enough anyway.

Ekaros · 2 days ago

Maybe we should have just replaced ascii, horrible encoding were entire 25% of it is wasted. And maybe we could have gotten a bit more efficiency by saying instead of having both lower and uppercase letters just have one and then have a modifier before it. Saving lot of space as most text could just be lowercase.

Ekaros commented on It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) hsivonen.fi/string-length... · Posted by u/program

amake · 2 days ago

What does "no combinations" mean?

Ekaros · 2 days ago

Like say Ä it might be either Ä a single byte, or combination of ¨ and A. Both are now supported, but if you can have more than two such things going in one thing it makes a mess.

Ekaros commented on Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated news.stanford.edu/stories... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

PeterStuer · 2 days ago

Seeing the amount of sugar and sweeteners in the "mocktails" and alcohol free beers/wines, I'd say it most certainly does involve poisoning your body.

Ekaros · 2 days ago

Alcoholic wines also have massive range. Very dry ones do not have much, but once you get to medium and beyond they are in soft drink territory or even more...

I think normal cocktails can end up in similar place, especially if say juices are component.

Ekaros commented on 24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville thedrive.com/news/this-24... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

sjducb · 2 days ago

I’m unsure how the risk compares to an e-bike.

Assuming speeds are equal I think the consequences of a crash are better on a scooter. You don’t have a crossbar between your legs to trip you as you fall, and you start in a standing position, so you’re more likely to land on your feet. Also your head and shoulders are above the cars so you’re less likely to end up under the car.

Having said that I think scooter crashes are more likely given the tiny wheels and less stable frame. Try riding an e scooter without hands. It doesn’t self balance like a bike.

Ekaros · 2 days ago

E-bikes have relatively huge wheels. These interact with any bumbs, curbwalls, pot-holes, rocks in much more safe manner. This with stability makes them to me much safer.

Still does not do much difference when crashing to someone or something or someone crashing into you.

Ekaros commented on It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) hsivonen.fi/string-length... · Posted by u/program

spyrja · 2 days ago

I really hate to rant on about this. But the gymnastics required to parse UTF-8 correctly are truly insane. Besides that we now see issues such as invisible glyph injection attacks etc cropping up all over the place due to this crappy so-called "standard". Maybe we should just to go back to the simplicity of ASCII until we can come up with with something better?

Ekaros · 2 days ago

Should have just gone with 32 bit characters and no combinations. Utter simplicity.

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