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mike_hock commented on CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies (2019)   sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs... · Posted by u/wofo
slt2021 · 10 months ago
The article tries to label something objectively good as something bad:

>>One practical outcome is that government agencies find it harder to identify criminals behind particular IPv4 addresses.

lol, lmao even.

>>As a result, the agency says, investigations often involve examining and tapping the connections of many more people than really necessary.

just incompetence abound, the police should suffer if they don't know how to do their job more effectively

mike_hock · 10 months ago
One practical outcome is that IPv4 provides the privacy IPv6 was designed to sabotage.

I'll be boycotting IPv6 for as long as it's possible.

mike_hock commented on Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you're screwed unless you take action   ghuntley.com/screwed/... · Posted by u/arrowsmith
wibbily · 10 months ago
How about this - if you're a student, focus on learning how computers work. You are not going to school to be a programmer. You are going to be a computer scientist. The latter begets the former. If your only thought as a cs student is "code output" you have already fucked up, and even if chatgpt can write it for you, it's not gonna understand it for you.

LLMs might replace the bootcamp boys and dilettantes but there will always be room for people who know shit. If that isn't you, make it you.

mike_hock · 10 months ago
To maintain any kind of project, you need a set of inputs that a human can understand and manipulate to produce desired results, and a build chain that reproducibly produces output from the inputs.

The inputs were traditionally source code, but sure, we could in principle use prompts for an LLM as the primary inputs, which then produces source code that gets fed to the rest of the build chain.

But editing the source code produced by the LLM is a non-starter because then you're editing build artifacts.

mike_hock commented on The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era   nytimes.com/2025/03/05/te... · Posted by u/frankacter
DustinBrett · 10 months ago
We need it, Reddit has become terrible.
mike_hock · 10 months ago
A Reddit exodus to Digg would truly be ironic.
mike_hock commented on The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era   nytimes.com/2025/03/05/te... · Posted by u/frankacter
RobotToaster · 10 months ago
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Anyone else remember?

mike_hock · 10 months ago
CSS?
mike_hock commented on Address Sanitizer Internals   blog.gistre.epita.fr/post... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
shric · 2 years ago
"For this article, you’ll need the following knowledge:

Basic C understanding (Memory, Stack, Heap, Syscall)."

Obviously, since C doesn't prescribe any kind of heap, stack or syscall behavior (or if they even exist), I assume the author meant something like "Basic understanding of how C is often implemented on certain operating systems and hardware".

mike_hock · 2 years ago
Yes, because asan only makes sense in the context of specific (kinds of) implementations.
mike_hock commented on Simple sabotage for software (2023)   erikbern.com/2023/12/13/s... · Posted by u/adammiribyan
desio · 2 years ago
Clever framing of the authors own biases. I'd argue that for at least some of these, the opposite behaviour would be the true sabotage.
mike_hock · 2 years ago
In fact, a sabotage manual should include the opposite action for each point. These are not the methods of sabotage, they're the methods of shrouding your sabotage in plausibility. It wouldn't provide you plausible deniability if doing the things on the list was never reasonable.
mike_hock commented on Posix.1-2024 is published   ieeexplore.ieee.org/docum... · Posted by u/phoebos
mike_hock · 2 years ago
So, what's new?
mike_hock commented on Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle   news.artnet.com/art-world... · Posted by u/RobertJaTomsons
mike_hock · 2 years ago
Sounds like something that would happen in Broken Sword.
mike_hock commented on OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior   undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/zdw
chuckadams · 2 years ago
I'd love to penalize any attempt at password auth. Not the IP addresses, just if you're dumb enough to try sending a password to my ssh server, you're going to wait a good long time for the failure response.

Actually I might even want to let them into a "shell" that really screws with them, but that's far outside of ssh's scope.

mike_hock · 2 years ago
I certainly don't want to expose any more surface area than necessary to potential exploits by an attacker who hasn't authenticated successfully.
mike_hock commented on Yes, you can play Duck Hunt without a television (but I can't)   nicole.express/2024/no-sc... · Posted by u/zdw
curtisf · 2 years ago
> Plus, being from the 1970s, no attempt was made to make this look like a toy.

This probably isn't just a '70s thing, but a Japan thing.

Even today, toy guns in Japan don't have the tell-tale orange tips or plastic-y appearance; they try to look as real as they (cheaply) can.

While walking up some stairs in a public park, I once stepped over a toy gun left on the edge of the steps. Being an American, the sight of a pistol just left lying in the open a step in front of me gave me quite a momentary shock, before I remembered what country I was in.

My understanding is that this is because real guns are so uncommon in Japan, people generally wouldn't make the assumption that they're not toys.

Supposedly it has the added safety benefit of dissuading would-be-robbers from using firearms in robberies, because even confronted with a real firearm, the victims would assume it's a toy rather than the real thing, and so it wouldn't be as effective of a threat.

mike_hock · 2 years ago
A little demonstration would take care of that.

u/mike_hock

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