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Breaking Wind News - Traceable toots
ScratchCat replied to Muffin_man17's topic in General Discussion
iFart - I would pay money to watch Apple introduce this. -
How many tabs do you have open?
ScratchCat replied to LukeLinusFanFic's topic in Programs, Apps and Websites
After 30 tabs I start forgetting what I have open and just start opening new ones rather than use the old ones. -
Utah is testing a self-driving bus in closed campus areas
ScratchCat replied to Lanrick's topic in Tech News
AI learns from it's surroundings...so this one is going to learn to be constantly late? -
The $50 GAMING pc is nearing completion, all th…
ScratchCat replied to ThatBlockishWay's status update
Replace the 460 with a 480. You then won't need to do any manual wood burning, it'll just catch fire. -
@OnyxArmos Tell that to the scrambling engineers who had to develop X299 to compete with Threadripper.
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I would place my bet on IKE, the key exchange of IPsec. There were suggestions from various leaks that the NSA could break a large proportion of VPN connections and with IPsec being used frequently in an enterprise environment it could make it the exploited target. In 2015 the Logjam attack was made public which would explain how the NSA could be decrypting VPNs on a large scale. It is based around the fact that part of the algorithm used to crack the Diffie-Hellman key exchange is based off a constant value which is the same for all implementations of the same key size so an adversary could precompute (and the NSA has a lot of money to spend on equipment) the part of the solution for this constant value and use it later to quickly crack a key exchange later. https://blog.cloudflare.com/logjam-the-latest-tls-vulnerability-explained/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/19/nsa_crypto_breaking_theory/ There were counter arguments to the paper but even if it wasn't feasible then remember - the NSA have had 4 more years and can store any interesting traffic it wants for later decryption. I would also argue that AES has not been broken - the NSA still recommend AES, although they did up the recommended key length for certain materials to 256-bits a while ago.
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Chinese VPN user fined for accessing overseas websites
ScratchCat replied to BananaInSandals's topic in Tech News
That's a brave thing to say in a forum where every second pfp is a waifu... Except that action is common place in most other countries, heck with Wireguard there will be a VPN built directly into the Linux kernel on mainline. As a comparison, would you check in a foreign country if it is legal to burn an ISO?- 22 replies
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Official Indigenous Cryptocurrency Project Cancelled
ScratchCat replied to Princess Luna's topic in Tech News
Oh no! How will we survive without yet another follow-the-hype-but-dead-in-a-year cryptocurrency? -
Am I correct to assume that the app developers used the Facebook SDK which automatically enables logging when used unless the developer explicitly disables it? This strengthens my conviction to keep all my devices connected to a VPN to pipe all requests through something like a Pi-Hole just to try and block these built in trackers.
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Politicians already give up a huge chunk of their privacy just like any other public figure. If you say something like a rude joke and someone overhears you will suffer minimal consequences while a politician, internet personality and/or celebrity doing the same would cause a media ****storm and ruin their career. Requiring them to give up their privacy would (apart from probably violating human rights, ruining their family life, giving trolls extra ammunition) place their career on a knife's edge just because their career *may* go far. If this had only been politicians and only contained data collected by institutions it could be assumed that this could have all come from one source, however the report indicates everything from the letters of Merkel to the holiday photos of a TV presenter (not from a state station) was released.
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We are sure on the upper bound for the RTG's lifespan based on the decay rate and can estimate the lower bound using information on how the thermocouples in the Voyager probes degraded. After that it's just keep shutting down the next least essential piece of equipment to fit the power constraint until the probe no longer can communicate with us.
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The reason they are asking for the keys is because they can't crack the encryption, otherwise why let everyone know that you are snooping around? The issue I have with this is not how ridiculously dangerous passing on these keys is but how easily it is circumvented. Bob the Gangster only needs to use PGP and this plan falls into the water, dragging the privacy of ordinary citizens with it.
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Amazon robot sprays workers with bear mace, 24 sent to hospital
ScratchCat replied to Syntaxvgm's topic in Tech News
Use it then, can't wait for someone to reference "Amazon robot attacks workers" and that image comes up. 0 It would shuffle along slowly until someone gave it a hard shove, spilled water on it, put spray pain over it's cameras or anything similar. A robot on wheels could do serious harm - walking currently is simply hard. -
Amazon robot sprays workers with bear mace, 24 sent to hospital
ScratchCat replied to Syntaxvgm's topic in Tech News
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Do not read into this. Which run was this? 1st? 5th? 30th? The difference between a cold or hot start test can be >20%, enough to get it into the ballpark of the other phones. This is only a single benchmark. The previous Exynos was 25000 points below the SD845 in Antutu yet performed noticeably worse in real life, writing and/or burst tests due to the frequency scaling. We don't know if this is real. (Tying into the second point) Antutu isn't the real world. If benchmarks were exact representations of real world performance there would be no "X vs Y SPEED TEST" and no comment on the performance in the real world in phone reviews.
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Ask questions about what you are can do to pass the time
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Not only could this run Crysis, this NAS could run two instances at once. If Ford sue QNAP then the US Military (P-51 Mustang) could sue Ford and any horse breeder could sue both. It's a strange decision to go with two smaller CPUs rather than a single larger one or even just an 8th Gen with twice the cores, I feel like balancing utilization of memory and storage will be tricky.
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Valve VR Headset Confirmed! In other news:Half Life (VR)
ScratchCat replied to Speakerator's topic in Tech News
Still better than Battlefield: 1942 2 2142 1943 BC2 3 4 1 V (apparently conventional notation isn't cool in 2018) -
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If all they did was bump up clock speed they would have had to also bump up the voltage which in turn would have increased the power consumption at a greater than linear rate. Instead AMD kept the voltage approximately the same but used the node change to bump up the clocks with only a (close to) linear increase in power. If the node scales downwards as well as up AMD might be able to offer some more competitive mobile cards (however not enough to compete with Pascal let alone Turing).