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swsieber commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments   neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
JKCalhoun · 2 days ago
Not necessarily a PDF attachment?

Someone who made some progress on one Base64 attachment got some XMP metadata that suggested a photo from an iPhone. Now I don't know if that photo was itself embedded in a PDF, but perhaps getting at least the first few hundred bytes decoded (even if it had to be done manually) would hint at the file-type of the attachment. Then you could run your tests for file fidelity.

swsieber · 2 days ago
I'd say 99% of the time, the first 10 bytes would be enough to know the file type.
swsieber commented on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study   keck.usc.edu/news/adoptio... · Posted by u/hhs
chupasaurus · 15 days ago
The study is about NOx levels which have nothing to do with tires or brakes.
swsieber · 15 days ago
I mean, it kind of is. But I'd say the framing is about general air pollution, and they happen to use NOx levels as proxy indicator. So from that perspective, I think it is important to note that there are other types of pollution that go up with electric cars.
swsieber commented on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels   e360.yale.edu/digest/euro... · Posted by u/speckx
simion314 · 17 days ago
>Yes, and people should be annoyed by this

So you do not use busses,taxi or road travel? do you fly all the time? Do you have stuff delivered by truck/cars or only by air? What about shopping? do you think the items you buy or the things needed to make those items use roads ? In a perfect extremist capitalist word there would be a road tax included in the products and services so you would still pay the text for the roads.

swsieber · 17 days ago
No, in a perfect world, there would be a use tax, and those doing the delivery would pay the cost, and then pass that cost on to you. You might have meant it that way, but it sounded more like a gov. imposed tax based on the price of goods or something.
swsieber commented on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid   werd.io/elite-the-palanti... · Posted by u/sdoering
innagadadavida · 24 days ago
I think a more comprehensive and simpler explanation is that the people protesting just hate this administration. They don't go about making lists like this and then think they need to go protest. They just see a guy they despise and start protesting. Hate is really powerful.
swsieber · 24 days ago
Hate is powerful, and I think that's part of what drives protests into riot. And some people to protests honestly. But I think the root of it is anger at the situation, not just the leader. And it doesn't negate the reasonableness of the concerns and worries people have.

I know one of the lead protest organizers where I live. They have a long list of things. Things they feel are bad and want reversed. And having known them for a long time, I can say they are internally consistent, and would be out there protesting if it was a Democratic president doing this, or more likeable person doing this. It's less about the hate, and more about concern for the direction things are going, and blatant disregard for the law.

swsieber commented on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid   werd.io/elite-the-palanti... · Posted by u/sdoering
swsieber · 24 days ago
> the idea of deporting people who have no legal status in this country is immediately branded Nazi

It's not just that idea though. Plenty of presidents have done that without pushback. It's that idea combined with:

* Rhetoric dehumanizing the immigrants

* Raiding churches, courts, jobs, etc

* Revoking legal status of immigrants

* Reducing training time for new hires

* Detaining U.S. citizens and threatening them

* Saying it'll help the U.S. citizens, when data shows it doesn't

swsieber commented on Verizon outages reported across U.S.   firstcoastnews.com/articl... · Posted by u/Scubabear68
neb_b · 25 days ago
downdetector is showing a lot of down mobile networks & services
swsieber · 25 days ago
The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me. ~60-160k vs ~1.5-1.8k
swsieber commented on Verizon outages reported across U.S.   firstcoastnews.com/articl... · Posted by u/Scubabear68
eob · 25 days ago
Some outlets reporting T-Mobile and ATT as well.

I assume state on state cyber attacks are commonplace but get minimized to avoid public fear.. perhaps this will be the first notable one.

swsieber · 25 days ago
The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me.

https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ ~ 1,600

https://downdetector.com/status/att/ ~ 1,500

https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/ ~ peaked at ~169k, dropped to 67k

swsieber commented on Servo 2025 Stats   blogs.igalia.com/mrego/se... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
swsieber · 25 days ago
Exciting times.

Are we at the point yet where someone can use something other than a major headless browser (firefox, chrome) for converting html to PDFs without huge css gotchas?

Is there any comparison/ are we x yet reviewing alternative browser engines being developed? It seems like there's quite a few in active development at this point.

swsieber commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes   reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
mothballed · a month ago
The US may have no use for Venezuelan oil, but Venezuela nationalized US investments in 1976, stealing Exxon and Gulf Oil's assets then paying them back a pittance.

Venezuela owes those companies several billion in 1976 dollars, money they have not repaid. The US will now likely use their oil as collateral to force them to pay. No I am not dumb enough to think they will stop only there or do this in a justifiable way, but I would assert, when someone steals something from you, you have the right to use force to get it back, even if the method just used is not the right one.

swsieber · a month ago
Where do you draw the line in the list of "not the right [method]"? I would assert that this is not justified, (in addition to not being the right method).

Can we send troops down there and just starting kill people until they pay us? Torture them maybe? Start spraying agent orange?

If someone steals something from me, I'm justified in beating them up, threatening their family, maybe even burning their house down until I get what I want, 50 years later?

Where do you draw the line between justified and unjustified when it comes to "not the right [method]"?

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