anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Any chance someone could upload the VX Heavens dataset of viruses to the Internet Archive?

https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Afaik it's a custom system with download-and-cache-on-demand.

Note that there's nothing forbidding you from writing a virtual git filesystem that fetches objects from some centralized repo as files are open()ed. Git on cloud steroids.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Yes but why not send a single email to the manufacturer before making it public? Does it really hurt so much?

From a "cyberpunk hacker" mentality this only gives you an opportunity to roast the manufacturer if they do nothing. Perhaps even bankrupt them, I don't care. Competition will take their places and hopefully be better.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

It's not about the companies. I do not care much about them.

It's about people that may be hacked between someone's 0day disclosure and manufacturer's response. And if the manufacturer doesn't care to fix the bug - roast them about that. It's their fault.

It's not moral because people (not companies) may suffer. Your actions have consequences.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

What bothers me is that they did not responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the manufacturers ahead of time. This is not moral, and I'm not sure what one gains by not doing that. I think that conference organizers should pressure presenters to do that before talks.

Either that or attendees should apply bottom up pressure and ask live questions like "what did you do to responsibly disclose this issue?". I think I'll do that on future security conferences I attend.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I'd be interested. The two still offending tools (spell and f77) sound super rarely used these days. I think it's fair to compare samples of commonly used tools in 1995 with samples of commonly used tools in 2018 even if those samples are widely different. This would be more related to the change in the probability that an average user sees a crash.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Not sure why you're being downvoted. There's research indicating links between gut bacteria and (among others) mental health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4662178/

And of course one's gut bacteria culture heavily depends on what one eats.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Yup, climate change is real - it's evident from computing average temperatures. No point in debating that.

I completely agree that smog is terrible and essentially kills people. My point was the really bad consequences of warming (mass migrations from deserted areas and subsequent refugee crises, wars over farmable land, exodus from flooded areas) can be avoided via aerosols.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

My point is that we can deploy more aerosols. See the first link

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

There are alternatives that can be deployed without reducing carbon emissions: https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aero...

We'd already be over 2*C if not the aerosols that humans released: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/img/figure/figure2_1.png

These took out much of the heat from greenhouse gasses. And in my opinion you either buy the climate change models (which are very aware of aerosols), or you don't. It doesn't make sense to believe that the planet will heat up more, that it is due to humans, but aerosols are not a part of the story.

We're not as screwed as many people think.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

It's firmware. Very little firmware is. In information theoretic sense it's much more surprising if some firmware is open source.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Heh I was thinking that > 1TiB of data in an sqlite db is a bad idea :).

How do you process that? The restrictions I had in my mind come from that it's infeasible to concurrently process a large dataset in mapreduce/bigquery style.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I wish more people would publish data as SQLite databases (if the size permits, of course; usually it does). It's so much more reliable than CSVs, which have at least a few dimensions of significant differences (quoted/unquoted, comma vs semicolon vs tab vs space, headers/no headers, comments). Not to mention that initial data exploration can be done right in an SQLite explorer/browser tool.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Yup, see no reason why not. This is answered in the post:

> Any application state that can be recorded in a pile-of-files can also be recorded in an SQLite database with a simple key/value schema like this:

CREATE TABLE files(filename TEXT PRIMARY KEY, content BLOB);
> If the content is compressed, then such an SQLite Archive database is the same size (±1%) as an equivalent ZIP archive, and it has the advantage of being able to update individual "files" without rewriting the entire document.

Also look at the related post which suggests doing precisely that - storing images inside SQLite blobs: https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I don't understand these naysayers. I'm not trying to be mean here, but is there anything more to that than an old guy complaining about how it was awesome in his time and age, and how we get everything wrong nowadays? I'm genuinely asking - are astronauts talking about space programs similar to actors and celebrities taking about moral or political issues? I.e. just famous but not so smart people?

Also, Elon's take on this three years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8UKBAOfGo

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

This is a good point, and I agree with you completely. Perhaps the Brave org will come up with a working solution. It's likely the largest problem with the Internet economy today.

Personally, for now, I'm paying monthly to those news sources that respect my attention and provide an honest representation of reality.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Off-topic, but you should want to pay for news. You should want to pay a lot.

Which kind of meal would you prefer?

1) Expensive, tasty and healthy.

2) Cheap and loaded with sugar (so you come back to get more) while ads flash all around your plate and on the tip of your fork.

Same goes with cars, cosmetics, education. For some reason paying more for those goods is universally accepted. Why wouldn't people want to pay to get high quality news? "No sir, just give me the lowest quality, most clickbait news you have. Yes, I strongly prefer that to paying $10 a month."

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

(this is based on chats with guides in Auschwitz)

Apparently survival inside the camp for this long was only possible if you knew how to climb the hierarchy, and Pilecki did it well. For example - on the day he (and a few of his friends) fled they were assigned to a job in a bakery. A job in a bakery is one of the best jobs you could possibly get there, as you can steal enough food to not die of starvation.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

At first nobody believed because there really was no concrete evidence. This was changed by Witold Pilecki:

> During World War II, Pilecki volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence and later escape. While in the camp, he organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities as early as 1941. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly 2½ years of imprisonment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

By 1944 the evidence was massive, yet Arthur Koestler still needed to write this piece.

anonymouzz

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Depends on the company. I had a friend who spent most of his time at work not doing any work, but for example browsing catalogs and fixing his new apartment (while financing that with his salary). Although after a year or two he started to hate it and quit, changed to something that actually requires his attention, as I think he was afraid he's losing skill this way.

I'd say anything between ~30% and ~70% "time-weighted attention" required within those 8 hours a day doesn't surprise me. And when I say "required" I mean if you put in less you'll be eventually fired.

Edit: this is not to say that working hard doesn't pay off, it certainly does if the company is set up properly (and many are). I'm taking about bare minimums here.

anonymouzz

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