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by II2II 2y ago
I was going to say such advice does have its limits. Then I remembered something: even though my current credit card does have a chip, the design suggests that it is primarily intended as a record of a "user id" and "password
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by II2II 2y ago
Expiration dates on passwords is probably a good idea, except that it encourages bad habits from the end user. It encouraged bad habits since the expiration period was typically very short. For example: I don't have much of an issue wi
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by II2II 2y ago
> Mandatory password composition rules (excluding minimum length) and rotating passwords as well as all attempts at "replacing passwords" are inherintly dumb in my opinion. I suspect that rotating passwords was a good idea at
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by II2II 2y ago
How so? These are reference cards, so frequent use would be expected. I would also imagine that a great many of them would be carried around by their owners to review in their spare time. (I certainly did so in my younger days.) Their owner
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by II2II 2y ago
> ambient noise applet, inspired by Blanket When I said I wanted a desktop environment that could put me to sleep, I meant I liked boring software ... and not something that would literally put me to sleep! That said, I am looking forwar
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by II2II 2y ago
I don't buy into that theory, at lrast in this case. There are other ways to hand-off data when it is legally requested. On the other hand, such data would be valuable to foreign actors who do not have a legal means of accessing such d
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by II2II 2y ago
My first question is: why was the data being stored by a third party in the first place? Shouldn't data like this be stored completely independently of the Internet? Yes, I realize that does not guarantee it is secure since there has t
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by II2II 2y ago
When there are no laws regarding it, it is quite simple: you add the prominent end subscription button. When you are dealing with the laws of one jurisdiction, you (or your lawyer) review the law to ensure you meet the definition of promine
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by II2II 2y ago
> The fact that the parent comment is so upvoted is a reflection of what people dream of, not reality. I can see that being the case among software developers. On the other hand, the organization I work for is so far removed from that wo
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by II2II 2y ago
> To the people down-voting you: X is from a time when devices actually came with manuals. To a degree. At least from my experience, something like a monitor and video card manual would provide you with enough information to filter throu
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by II2II 2y ago
I am going to both agree and disagree. For the most part, I definitely don't want a subscription since I want to keep the product indefinitely, don't want to deal with recurring fees, and don't want to see stuff that I am int
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by II2II 2y ago
Same comment, different conclusion. Being international, it will be difficult to enforce those laws when the business and client are in different countries. Even if different countries implement similar laws, they will invariably be just th
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by II2II 2y ago
> What confuses me about the part of the article you quote is that wifi doesn't really stick out as one of the harder parts of installing Arch; having fine-grained control over how the system is set up and therefore configuring ever
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by II2II 2y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if there were 8-bit computers that could. On the other hand, I would find it surprising if there were 8-bit computers that could. At least for choosing 256 colours out of a larger palette. Keep in mind that 8-bi
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by II2II 2y ago
A different (Visual Studio Code) example that uses network access and runs executables from untrusted sources: embedded development. You have everything from tools like PlatformIO, that manages the toolchain for microcontrollers from multip
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by II2II 2y ago
I was thinking something similar, then I realize that some of the stones appeared to be 8x6 pixels. Perhaps 8x8 if you counted the highly distorted top and bottom edges. In other words, it the palette would include fewer than 256 colours. T
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by II2II 2y ago
> Getting basic WiFi connected with DHCP on vanilla Arch requires enabling multiple services and conf file edits - you rage against the machine thinking why is it so hard It's not trivial, but it's not difficult either. I have
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by II2II 2y ago
I work at a government facility that offers venue rentals. The rental contract states the facility name must not be used in order to avoid the scenario where someone tries to make a private event sound like it is endorsed by the government.
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by II2II 2y ago
Tangent: I find tremendous irony in the video used as an example. It is for the remake of a game that is about problem solving and story telling, yet the remake requires vastly more resources than the original. Yes, there are reasons for th
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by II2II 2y ago
Let's put it this way: the idea makes so little sense that it has never been done at scale. That is saying a lot since it is: - An obvious idea. People routinely benefit off of senior and student benefits from friends and family member
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by II2II 2y ago
I think it is better to summarize the article with: open and positive communication is at the core of collaborative open source software. While the message may seem trite, it is also a message that many open source developers need to hear.
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by II2II 2y ago
> Color on an e-ink screen is not an interesting feature to me, esp. not when it makes the device more expensive. I have both the Libra 2 and Libra Colour, the issue isn't so much cost (in my opinion) as contrast. They should have i
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by II2II 2y ago
It depends upon what you are starting with and what you are trying to accomplish. In times past, what you were doing the image editing on also mattered. Programs like CorelDraw and Inkscape treat anything you draw as an object. If you want
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by II2II 2y ago
Judging from the context, the user interface was fine in the days of limited resources (a 16 kiloword PDP-11 was cited) but then modern computers have the resources for better user interfaces. They clearly didn't realize that even more
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by II2II 2y ago
Challenging is better than impossible. That said, I am left wondering why more major software publishers don't have the option to sideload Android apps. (It was a while since I looked into it, since I mostly use open source apps these
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by II2II 2y ago
Sure, but the typical person is not going to have a clue how to avoid interacting with the nonsense. At this point, there are two ways around it: do the installation as intended, then create a second local only account; or sift through the
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by II2II 2y ago
> I understand Microsoft has built up good will through efforts like VS Code, but it's all undone because of things like this. Someone in Microsoft should look into who is making these decisions, why these decisions are are being ma
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by II2II 2y ago
> The same thing with IKEA: I always rely on the manual and just blindly follow the instructions, and gets very frustrated if the instructions miss one step. Following instructions is a good thing. Plenty of people damage stuff when putt
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by II2II 2y ago
At least in my city, devices were installed in many bike lanes in order to count the number of userd. They show that people do use them. As for traffic calming, curb extensions, etc.: the city only started adding those modifications after p
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by II2II 2y ago
4 MB was considered a large amount of memory until the release of Windows 95. There were people who had that much, but it tended to be the domain of the workplace or people who ran higher end applications. If I recall correctly, home comput

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