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maskull commented on High-Severity Vulnerability in Notepad++   csa.gov.sg/alerts-and-adv... · Posted by u/onlinenotepad
notepad0x90 · 2 months ago
I wanted to say the installer has no business running things as SYSTEM but I suppose there is no way around that for registering COM DLLs. I would think Attackers would need to chain this with a Uac bypass (or be fortunate enough to find Uac disabled). If Uac is setup right, administrative operations like regsvr32 should require going through consent.exe's prompt. Uac bypasses are plenty but systems can be configured to mitigate them (at least the ones I know of). Social engineering is also another good way to bypass Uac.
maskull · 2 months ago
This is something that wouldn't be covered by registration free COM?
maskull commented on Garmin's –$40B Pivot   readtrung.com/p/garmins-4... · Posted by u/thibautg
maskull · 7 months ago
I'm amazed apple has got by with a 3/4 day charge for 10 generations while garmin has had products with a 7+ day charge for years.
maskull commented on U.S. Air Force Evaluating Pivotal's Blackfly Ultralight EVTOL Aircraft   futureflight.aero/news-ar... · Posted by u/rbanffy
jcgrillo · a year ago
Yikes that's scary. In a Cessna or similar once you get into your reserve (figure ~45min running time) it becomes very urgent to get on the ground asap. And this thing looks like it glides about as well as a brick.

EDIT: worth quoting:

> it can fly at a cruise speed of 55 knots to a range of about 20 miles (32 kilometers) with 20 percent battery reserves left

That's four minutes of "reserve power" lmao. Absolutely not, no thanks.

EDIT: to put this into perspective, if you're flying at 7500ft and you hit your 4min reserve, you would need to fly straight down at over 20mph, and then aggressively slow your descent during the last few seconds in order to not die.

maskull · a year ago
Neither the Cessna nor many helicopters (autorotation) need power to land. I wouldn't want to get into one of these e-bricks!
maskull commented on Inside Windows Product Activation (2001)   licenturion.com/xp/fully-... · Posted by u/Tomte
maskull · 2 years ago
Windows 11 has a fun feature where it will potentially deactivate if you update your bios.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23958751/microsoft-windo...

maskull commented on Falls are a leading cause of bone breaks, brain injuries for U.S. seniors   washingtonpost.com/wellne... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
lm28469 · 2 years ago
Make them lift weights and stretch, probably the simplest, cheapest, easiest, best bang for your buck investment you can do in your entire lifetime. It's doesn't even take much, even stagnation is better than rotting away

The day you can't tie your shoes alone it's game over

maskull commented on Everything Is a Practice   luxagraf.net/essay/everyt... · Posted by u/gtzi
Starwatcher2001 · 2 years ago
I'm doing something similar. I've decided at 62 to learn to play the keyboard and be able to read music. It's late in the day but I'm slowly getting there 30 minutes a day.
maskull · 2 years ago
My library has a Great Courses piano course available through hoopla/kanopy. It's really well done!
maskull commented on Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US   semafor.com/article/01/12... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
gtk40 · 3 years ago
I'm curious how Costco is weathering the storm better than others. Typically Aldi is the cheapest place for me to buy eggs, but they're almost $5 a dozen for basic eggs. I've seen even more at other grocery stores (Publix was several dollars more a dozen). The cage free eggs were $7/2 dozen ($3.50/dozen) earlier this week at Costco.

I'm in the Southeastern US in a suburb of a major city.

maskull · 3 years ago
Yea, I noticed this same thing a couple weeks ago in a relatively small Michigan college town. Used to buy eggs at Aldis for 65 cents not that long ago.
maskull commented on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?    · Posted by u/th33ngineer
maskull · 3 years ago
That Hideous Strength
maskull commented on Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?    · Posted by u/birdstheword5
maskull · 3 years ago
One of my main concerns is how easily and quickly can issues be debugged? Can you attach a debugger in production if necessary? I've seen people experiment with serverless and it seems like they were back to print statements for debugging.
maskull commented on Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?    · Posted by u/CodeSgt
maskull · 3 years ago
I'm a C++ programmer that's not done anything directly in C. I stumbled by this book Fluent C By Christopher Preschern just published this month and I thought the organization looked rather interesting. It covers many programming concerns and details several patterns for dealing with them. One thing that's neat is it often refers to open source projects where the pattern is applied so one could go take a more detailed look.

u/maskull

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