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xfitm3 commented on SSH as a Sudo Replacement   whynothugo.nl/journal/202... · Posted by u/legobeet
xfitm3 · a year ago
Fixing things that aren't broken. Changing things just because they can be changed. Sometimes boring and stagnant is good.
xfitm3 commented on They make USB-C cables with displays now   ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/06/... · Posted by u/transpute
transpute · a year ago
For comparison, a "something else" cable without display: https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable

> The O.MG Cable is a hand made USB cable with an advanced implant hidden inside. It is designed to allow your Red Team to emulate attack scenarios of sophisticated adversaries. Until now, a cable like this would cost $20,000 (ex: COTTONMOUTH-I). These cables will allow you to test new detection opportunities for your defense teams. They are also extremely impactful tools for teaching and training. Thanks to continual firmware updates, the resulting power, flexibility, and ease of use have made the O.MG Cable a favorite.

xfitm3 · a year ago
This now has wifi in the elite version. I have one for research purposes.
xfitm3 commented on Gen Z Plumbers and Construction Workers Are Making BlueCollar Cool   wsj.com/lifestyle/careers... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
darth_avocado · a year ago
Believe it or not, outside of tech, white collar salaries are still not 100k+. Median white collar salaries hover around $80k. Blue collar jobs like construction and plumbing can fetch you those salaries, but without the debt that comes with getting a white collar job.
xfitm3 · a year ago
When you own your own business you can easily make 6 figures, it just takes years of sweat equity and rough times. A friend of mine has grown his business from 100k/y in sales (and 5-10k profit) to millions per year (~300k profit) installing TVs and stereos in 13 years. He worked his ass off for a long time.
xfitm3 commented on I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros   apps.apple.com/us/app/off... · Posted by u/winstonschen
muricula · 2 years ago
Does your mac support an external GPU? A mid to high end nvidia card may or may not outperform the M3 GPU at a lower or similar price. You can also stick it in a PC or resell it separately.
xfitm3 · 2 years ago
Do you recommend any specific external GPU? I had one from Black Magic, it was not that great performance wise.
xfitm3 commented on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s   cnbc.com/2024/01/06/boein... · Posted by u/ephesee
rootusrootus · 2 years ago
One troubling aspect of this is that it appears Alaska had reason to believe something was wrong with this plane but basically ignored it. They were getting pressurization warnings on prior flights, but the only action they took was restricting the plane from flying ETOPS routes.

They're the dominant carrier in my area, so these sorts of screwups make me nervous. I can't easily avoid using them without a fair amount of inconvenience.

xfitm3 · 2 years ago
Alaskan Airlines is notorious for taking maintenance shortcuts, this is likely not an inherent problem with the airframe but rather this operators SOP.

Alaskan Airline flight 261 is one example.

> The subsequent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that inadequate maintenance led to excessive wear and eventual failure of a critical flight control system during flight.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261

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xfitm3 commented on Ask HN: Brother printers sending ink data to Amazon?    · Posted by u/Ajay-p
xfitm3 · 2 years ago
I get an error on https://drs-web.amazon.com/settings – has it been taken down? I also have a Brother printer, which I bought from Amazon.
xfitm3 commented on YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies   searchengineland.com/yout... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
mardifoufs · 2 years ago
Where do I pay to remove sponsor segments?
xfitm3 · 2 years ago
SponsorBlock
xfitm3 commented on YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies   searchengineland.com/yout... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
freedomben · 2 years ago
I've been paying since Youtube Red, and I'm almost to the point where it's not worth it anymore. The price has gotten really high, and so much of the content I watch has ads baked into it by the creator, so I still mostly have to watch ads. Youtube's aggressive demonetization of viewpoints they don't like is really leading to a bad UX and is near the tipping point for me.
xfitm3 · 2 years ago
SponsorBlock is a wonderful tool. I use uBlock origin and have not seen an ad for a long time, perhaps years with one or two exceptions.
xfitm3 commented on MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says   reviewjournal.com/busines... · Posted by u/gmays
Veserv · 2 years ago
Ha, that is funny. I have literally never met a CISO who shares your confidence. Not a single one of the companies chomping at the bit can protect MGM against a multi-million dollar ransomware attack. Companies get hacked because commercial cybersecurity by the big names is useless against the modern, prevailing threat landscape of organized crime. The sum total of their ability is stopping unskilled children, and even then only sometimes.

Just ask any CISO if they would bet their job on surviving a $1M unrestricted red team exercise with a year-long timeframe. They would all be scared shitless by the thought. I bet if you asked the CISO of MGM three days before the attack: "How much would it cost to hack MGM and cripple operations?" they would answer like every other CISO I have heard answer that question and say something on the order of $100K. They know it does not work; they are there to be sacrificed and just hope it does not happen on their watch.

xfitm3 · 2 years ago
You're mistaking compliance with a competent security program.

u/xfitm3

KarmaCake day2255November 28, 2015View Original