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  • What a joke of an article.

    Keep using fuck book, just change some settings and maybe block some things in your browser. They even advise "turn off location access for meta apps" and "disable your phone's advertising ID", like those make any difference (apps can still infer location from IP address and nearby wifi and Bluetooth devices). Never mind how the back ends can associate all sorts of other data to determine your location.

    I've never had a Facebook account, I've never even been on the website, yet Zucktard has a profile on me. And I've blocked scripts in my browsers since 2005.

    The suggestions in this article won't do anything, and give a false sense of making a difference.

  • (Alleged) Photo of the Flight 6 payload bay during reentry
  • I don't think the shuttle is a good example at all.

    The reusability was just marketing shtick so a large enough vehicle could be built to launch multiple Hubble-chassis Keyhole satellites for the NSA. (It's probably more accurate to say the Hubble is built on a Keyhole satellite chassis).

  • Mine: the first antisocial network—thought this might be a very interesting way to keep a journal
  • Haha, nice.

    I was going to downvote such a nonsensical idea (social app with you no people!) but clicked on the link out of curiosity.

    So a note taking app. OK. Local storage only - hey, good on the dev. Ability to export and import, OK, now you're really making sense! More apps need to follow this approach.

    Would've been a killer app 10 years ago (and I'm not being critical, I still think it's a great idea for some use-cases).

  • FBI Deletes PlugX Malware from Thousands of Computers - Schneier on Security
  • In a way, the FBI did, but your point about click bait is still valid.

    By compromising the Command-and-Control server of the malware, they were able to have it direct clients to uninstall.

    This does make me think about meanings of such things in today's deeply-interconnected world. For example, when a corporate admin tells their software management system to install/uninstall apps from machines, isn't that the same thing? (A bit rhetorical, more of something to think about, since I don't have a good answer to this).

  • Career tip #345
  • Yea, I don't know anyone, anywhere I've ever worked that wore a beanie.

    Except when I did construction, or mechanic, or maintenance... You know, where we were outside in the cold.

  • CS noob here: any advice?
  • You'd be surprised what you can do with an associates.

    Just remember, you're getting technical training, but your business social training is what you'll learn in any job.

    It's a common saying in the business world that we can teach most anyone the technical stuff, it's the social stuff that's hard. Negotiation, leadership, team building, partnership, risk analysis, etc.

    Since you really don't know what you want to do, just go do something, anything, in the field. You'll get exposure to how it really works (vs what school teaches), so you'll have a better idea what direction to go.

    Your career is anything but a straight line. It's more a river, where you'll cut some corners, and other corners you'll hit granite and flow around it. You really never know what you're going to run into.

  • Suppressor Maximum Decibel Reduction

    Totally off the wall question, which I realize probably isn't very meaningful, but I was watching a movie where a character was using a suppressed rifle. Looked like an AR/.223 (I assume).

    Well it got me thinking - how much can a given gun be suppressed (decibel reduction) before performance is significantly reduced (I assume it must impact performance, even if just a little since it's attenuating sound waves, which are energy, but what do I know?).

    I'm sure it varies by round/load, barrel length, etc, so let's assume a subsonic .223 round in a 14" barrel (is that a common lenth?). Or if you know a specific case that's fine too.

    Surely there are reasons why a given suppressor is chosen for a specific use case, and I don't know enough to see that (diminishing returns for length/weight?)

    I tried asking chatgpt, but it just returned generic suppressor info.

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