Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
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Outlier profiles don’t get discarded. They get run through another statistical filtering step to smooth them out by eliminating the weird data points so that they’re less than a couple of standard deviations away from the core aggregate.
They can, and they do. That kind of filtering is a grad school homework project.
I used to work for a company that did the kind of data analysis AdNauseam is meant to foil. It doesn’t. If anything, it was kind of a joke around the office because the kind of junk that it throws out is easy to remove with a little statistical filtering. Just one more step in the processing pipeline.
Stick to just entering fake data when you have to enter data.
I use the same card (Intensity Pro 4k) to digitize videos. Worth every penny.
What’s the difference anymore?
They genuinely do not care anymore. We lost, just like the cypherpunks lost.
The last three or four companies I’ve worked for did. Usually a month or so in HR would want to know why I didn’t tell them about my birbsite account. They also usually asked why I didn’t update my LinkedIn page to say I was working there now.
You mean, there are places that don’t monitor their employees’ social media accounts to compare against?
'till all are one. o7
They said straight up, “I googled you and couldn’t find a Twitter or Facebook account. What are you hiding?” I had to teach them who Armand Jean du Plessis was.
Opting out of social media these days is considered inherently suspicious. It definitely came up the last time I had to undergo a background check for work.
There are two models I’ve used for this over the years, the Linksys EA8300 and the WRT 1900AC. Here’s how I did it both times (though I only got around to writing up my notes the second time.
Just defining the threat model of hardware addressing, as it stands.
I don’t agree with them sending more than the first half either.
Not that the local DHCP servers falling over has anything to do with it…
A MAC address isn’t really unique. Each has six octets, of which three refer to the manufacturer. The other three octets have at most 16,777,216 possible values. That seems like a lot but it really isn’t; a MAC is supposed to be unique on a LAN, not globally. Rollovers during manufacturing happen, and collisions are rare but happen once in a while.
What do you mean, custom firmware? Are you trying to boot a different distro of Linux?
When you have the USB drive plugged in, how are you booting up? What’s the process you’re using?
The first three octets of a MAC specify the manufacturer of a NIC chipset. That could come in handy for driver debugging.
Manufacturers and firmware versions of storage devices? You can make the argument; perhaps it would have helped figure out the SSD firmware bugs years ago.
But stuff like whether or not you have video capture card or your current system temperature stats? Nah… that’s getting into “identifiable information as toxic waste” territory.
I’ve been doing the same in pull-backups for years. It works nicely.