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baldfat commented on Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords   blog.redteam-pentesting.d... · Posted by u/RedTeamPT
mrguyorama · 2 years ago
>python script on GitHub that allows to decrypt passwords the browser stores locally in their %Appdata% directory.

Yes, otherwise known as "if you run code on your computer, it can run code on your computer".

If a random python program can "decrypt" the passwords, that's not encryption. And browser password management isn't about security, but convenience.

baldfat · 2 years ago
I tell myself and other people if you have it saved in your browser are you okay if bad people know that password. Also it makes it easy for people in authority to get to that password with a simple court order.
baldfat commented on In 2024, please switch to Firefox   roytanck.com/2023/12/23/i... · Posted by u/Vinnl
Zetobal · 2 years ago
Just let it die. We need something new or at least a CEO with a vision that is not steered by the tides of LinkedIn hype
baldfat · 2 years ago
These fear-mongers that make everyone hate needs to stop. Multi-millionaires that give their own agenda and anything else is anti-this or stupid needs to stop.

You also probably say you hate "Cancel Culture" while cancelling things including coke.

baldfat commented on Julia 1.10   docs.julialang.org/en/v1/... · Posted by u/CoreyFieldens
baldfat · 2 years ago
I like R and used it two ways. 1) Scheme-like functionalish 2) Tiddyverse and found Julia to be a lot of talk but seemed clunky to me.
baldfat commented on California pulls the plug on rooftop solar   pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/... · Posted by u/DocFeind
lokar · 3 years ago
California should never have bailed out PG&E. They should have been forced into liquidation and taken over by the state.
baldfat · 3 years ago
It's the financial piece. The poor again get screwed with higher prices because they will never have solar panels. So electric company was charging more to the poor to pay for this. Just like they do for food and for gas. Just like poor voluntarily pay the education tax for the rich.

Agreed that monopolies need to be regulated by the state. In PA my electricity went up over 300% in the first 6 years it was deregulated, and the company's profits were record quaters from 2008 - 2017.

baldfat commented on Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video]   energy.gov/livestream... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
d23 · 3 years ago
I'm baffled by the comments on this topic in particular. Do people just spout off in the comments now despite no background in the field? I don't really recall a time in the past where this was so prevalent on HN. I used to be able to trust that some industry expert would be in the comments section fact checking headlines and adding nuance, but now I see far too many contradictions, strange takes, and obvious red flags (see: "BIG CAVIET").
baldfat · 3 years ago
I was a research librarian in an academic setting. So, I can do research and have an informed opinion. Now if I was to dispute the information then sure I need to have a masters or PhD in the field to have reasons why the vast majority is wrong. I cannot find a single article from an academic background stating that current laser technology will work. Nor do I see anyone that doesn't say decades away.
baldfat commented on Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video]   energy.gov/livestream... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
baldfat · 3 years ago
It's a big deal but its decades away. To do this they need to repeatably do it every few seconds. Right now they can do it once per week.

BIG CAVIET: The energy to power the laser is greater than the return. The return in energy is just greater than the energy the laser put in. So net loss. We need more efficient lasers and be able to make this repeatable and reliable. We are not closer except theory is being proven.

baldfat commented on Long Covid: Hair loss and sexual dysfunction among wider symptoms, study finds   bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Wolfenstein98k · 3 years ago
The latter was already increasing, and the former is hard to measure and self-reported only.

I expect more and more "normal/ongoing things" will be attributed to covid as time goes on.

I imagine the massive lifestyle and economic disruption would add to these problems entirely independent of infection, for instance.

baldfat · 3 years ago
Everything you stated is based on emotional stances and conclusions. Medicine doesn't work that way. This was a pretty good study with a very large sample size.

The cohort included 486 149 people with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who were not admitted to hospital, matched with a control group of 1.9 million people with no recorded evidence of coronavirus infection.

baldfat commented on DaVinci Resolve for iPad   blackmagicdesign.com/medi... · Posted by u/dagmx
digitallyfree · 3 years ago
I've seen a lot of students serious about video editing switching from (typically pirated) Premiere Pro to Resolve as the free version got better and better. One student told me his high school filmmaking class was switching from FCP to Resolve so that everyone could easily work on their projects at home. It's pretty much the only freeware professional editing suite available - and if some of those students later work in the industry they'll prefer the system they're familar with.

When I used Resolve several years ago the system requirements were high but you could mitigate that by using a proxy workflow.

baldfat · 3 years ago
People have switched to Resolve due to it having a BETER workflow then FCP or Premier. Personally I jumped on the bandwagon due to Linux. The big difference maker for Resolve was when it became an editor. It was THE STANDARD for color correction for over a decade.
baldfat commented on Dwell House – 540 sq ft prefab home that you can add to your backyard   house.dwell.com/... · Posted by u/jbredeche
bitxbitxbitcoin · 3 years ago
How did you go about finding someone to handle the custom build if I may ask?
baldfat · 3 years ago
You contact a contractor
baldfat commented on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard   electronicmaterialsoffice... · Posted by u/aemerson_
layer8 · 3 years ago
Everyone is different, but personally I won’t buy a keyboard without separate Delete and Backspace keys, without Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Insert keys, and without a dedicated Menu key [0], for any kind of serious work.

I’d also imagine that one is prone to bump into the rotary knob if one is not fully conditioned to that keyboard.

I applaud the T-shaped cursor block and the full-sized function keys, although it would be useful to color the function keys differently in groups of four (cf. the standard PC layout).

I’d also rather do without an Fn key, as it messes up muscle memory from regular desktop keyboards.

I like the idea of using different key shapes for the number row and the cursor keys for tactile recognition, although I’d have to try it to see if those shapes are any good for actual typing. I feel that slightly concave keycaps will always be the best.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key

baldfat · 3 years ago
I use a 84 keyboard. It is basically a laptop keyboard layout and it works great for me. It has del, backspace, esc and 4 arrows. It shares the function keys with media keys but I have it using function keys as its default and works great as a layout. I don't know why it just isn't the most popular layout.

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