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by 1attice 4y ago
Good point.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Calling this 'end-to-end encryption' really bothers me, as we already get that from HTTPS. What this ought to be called is 'encrypted-at-rest' (EAR). Words are important; there's an obvious downgrade attack where
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by 1attice 4y ago
Precisely this. I ring every alarm I can about this, since leaving. The other side of the one-way mirror (digging through telemetry, part of the DRI responsibility which comes with work on Azure) leaves little doubt about the dizzying scope
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by 1attice 4y ago
Fun fact: I was investigated by literal Pinkertons before I got hired at MSFT. I forget what they're calling themselves these days -- some corporate mouthful or another -- but I was able to trace ownership back. It was the name-brand b
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by 1attice 4y ago
Also, while I'm going off, this is a great example of how the clickbait-reduction policy at HN ends up selecting for titles which obfuscate or mislead. Here, the descriptive, sensible word 'mushroom' is replaced with 'pr
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by 1attice 4y ago
The HN headline edit obscures the point of the article, which amounts to an argument that prototaxites were basically fungus. It's like taking an article that says "dinosaurs are related to birds" and changing it to read &quo
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by 1attice 4y ago
re-shoring semiconductor industry - what was aimed for vs - how it's going
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by 1attice 4y ago
One thing which is not talked about nearly enough is how the cannabis is ingested. Those 510 vape cartridges get you blasted , but they do so in an interesting way. Whereas smoking the leaf contains a weaker concentration of THC, it also
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by 1attice 4y ago
OpenBSD. Everything I learned about OpenBSD in the 00s is just as relevant today. The muscle memory all still works. Whereas on Linux I've gone from `ipchains` to `iptables` to `nftables`, etc. OpenBSD still uses the same pf.conf and i
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is easily googled. Look what just happened in Missouri. Florida is next. And then there's the fact that dozens of red states have banned health care for trans youth. We will die by the dozen. By our own hand; by gunshot. 'Dea
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by 1attice 4y ago
She needs to move. The psychological pressure we trans people are under in red states is breathtaking. Many of us are losing our health care. This is not a minor thing for us -- speaking personally, I'd rather die. Even if it hasn&#x27
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by 1attice 4y ago
> There will always be an aspect of our culture that ai cannot take away Sure, but who cares? All it needs to do is take away the good bit . Also, the example of radio is telling. Radio destroyed musicianship as a career. Before the g
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by 1attice 4y ago
We only need it to be 'good enough'. Not good. And yeah, it's good enough. I cleaned my apartment to it. Works as intended.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Right ok so now we come to the crux of it. With song copyright, for example, the gold standard has been 'is the melody the same'. How do you define a voice specifically enough to copyright? What if some dude just happens to sound
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by 1attice 4y ago
'The Entertainment' from IJ is approximately as powerful as one FB-installed smartphone. We've been past that for more than a decade. And yes, absolutely, I know people who would cut off parts of themselves (or others) to get
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by 1attice 4y ago
I agree with everything you said. But this is 2023. The laws, when not actively hostile to human wellbeing, are at the very least unconcerned with it. 'The cheapening human experience' is not a court case. I wish to high heaven an
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by 1attice 4y ago
If your rosy scenario is that we all become bored, entrapped housecats.... that's still depressingly better than the other scenarios.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Maybe don't clear the rainforests? Just a thought.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Between the housing crisis and the overdose crisis, it's not like we need any help up here :P
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by 1attice 4y ago
It's literally because people who have paid for business class want to board first . Think it through. You've just been charged an extra $500 to sit in a chair for four hours, and you're waiting in line behind a mother with
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by 1attice 4y ago
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by 1attice 4y ago
I think that the answer is, "you can't, actually." (I worked at a MAAMA for 3 years). The problem, as I kept pointing out to anyone who would listen at my BigCorp, was that about 80% of what was necessary to know was what one
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by 1attice 4y ago
What makes me uncomfortable is that this shit is the lubricant for the plates, right? And I live on top of the subduction zone? This is pretty straightforward. Ever had a car that leaked a lot of oil?
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Missouri restricts adults from seeking gender-affirming care(businessinsider.com)
22 points by 1attice 4y ago|18 comments
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by 1attice 4y ago
When they came for my rights, where were you? When they come for yours, where will we be?
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by 1attice 4y ago
I do hope that someone notices how violent and dangerous these "tech professionals" are who have moved into our formerly peaceful neighbourhoods.
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is going to sound a little weird, but can we plug those holes ? I'm really not sure I want tectonic plate lubricant leaking out of the crust.
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by 1attice 4y ago
A straw man. There's no doom, just a worsening of present patterns.
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by 1attice 4y ago
'juvenile' is a juvenile way of describing a ~200-year-old intellectual tradition that you disagree with. Go call Piketty. And yes, frankly, the emergence of generative AI does vastly accelerate the normal power concentration inhe
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by 1attice 4y ago
[roko's basilisk tousels your hair affectionately]

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