Mindless2112

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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Good to know! Hopefully this kills off unnecessary use of attestation.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Sure, but passkeys are meant to replace passwords, not SSO (although I won't complain if they do replace SSO). Most services probably would not restrict you to just one model of authenticator, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
> If you don't like Google or Apple, use your favorite password manager. Unless the service you are trying to use requires that you use a particular model of authenticator, which the service provider can enforce via attestation.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1U4SAgy60c&t=181s (for some definition of "detailed explanation")
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
That is less effort that I was envisioning. But personally I prefer to take the stance of not inviting power vampires into my house.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Might be worth finding out whether you're wasting your time. As measured on a Kill-a-Watt, my 2013 LG TV consumes 0.0 watts when on standby.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Not every operation. It's manual but easily automated. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
"NTFS really isn't that bad" -- https://web.archive.org/web/https://lca2020.linux.org.au/sch...
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
> try running Console.WriteLine((object)new uint[42] is int[]);, and you’ll find it prints out True I knew .NET's array variance rules were kinda bad, but that's really surprising.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Looks to be a continuation of Mozilla TTS[1]. I'm kinda surprised there's no mention unless you go back in the git history[2]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/TTS [2] https://github.com/coqui-
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
> Only seven of the 59 countries allow elective abortions after 20 weeks, the group found: Canada, China, Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Apparently you can unsubscribe: https://www.valpak.com/coupons/show/mailinglistsuppression
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Per the form: > The person who prepares this form states that he or she is the person, executor, guardian, authorized officer, or agent of the person for whom mail would be forwarded under this order. Anyone submitting false or inaccura
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
I'm not saying that CO₂ and wind turbines have a comparable effect on the climate. I'm saying that "it's small so it couldn't matter" is the same flawed thinking. > Human CO2 emissions matter precisely bec
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
"It's so vast that small human actions couldn't possibly have an impact" is literally the same wrong-headed reasoning that leads people to believe that human CO₂ emissions don't matter. There seems to have been a lo
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Not to mention the icon for the extension is "あ⇆a".
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
It should have been two types (UtcDateTime and LocalDateTime), and Unspecified should never have been a thing.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
I suspect anyone who thinks landfills will ever be mined in the future has never been to a landfill. If you want to recover metals from garbage, it's much easier if you burn it rather than bury it.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
> It literally does not function on a modern Android device because of the permissions. It literally does. I'm using it on Android 12. Far from "not functioning", it has the most reliable IMAP IDLE support of any And
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
No, each registration generates a new key pair; but maybe: > The signature counter is a strictly monotonic counter and the intent is that a relying party can record the values and so notice if a private key has been duplicated, as the s
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
At the end of that article: > Update: It looks like Amazon is converting the uploaded EPUB to KF8 (AZW3). So, it looks like they might not support EPUB natively. So I'm not holding my breath. Which is not to say Amazon couldn&#x
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Use HackerWeb. Top-level comments are highlighted, and it automatically collapses threads to show only top-level comments when there are a lot of comments. https://hackerweb.app/#/item/31181595
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
Seems like the Android table is outdated. I just confirmed that I can register and log in to webauthn.io on Firefox 99 via NFC.
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
There's an easy fix for that though -- generate k deterministically using the procedure in RFC6979 [1]. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6979#section-3.2
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by Mindless2112 4y ago
How do you incentivize people to provide missing info if it will increase their tax bill? The US system is intentionally designed so that you don't know what the IRS does or does not know. If you leave something off of your taxes that
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by Mindless2112 5y ago
Some people come to HN for the articles. Some just to read the comments. And some just to write the comments.
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by Mindless2112 5y ago
It isn't even fair to say that some of these products are dead. For example, you can still use Microsoft Streets & Trips today, as it's from an era when you bought (rather than rented) software. It's just not getting an
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by Mindless2112 5y ago
Syscalls are not the only consumer of wall clock time, which is what was measured. > To read in binary, you open with 'rb' and not just 'r'. No. "The default translation mode is 'b'." [1] And e
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by Mindless2112 5y ago
This is a pretty worthless comparison. * The C# version invokes EndOfStream up to 4096 times for every 1 call to feof in PHP version. * The C# version opens the file in text mode (and thus does UTF-8 decoding) whereas the PHP version opens
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by Mindless2112 5y ago
For some definition of "we". I wasn't alive in the 1970s; half of people living today weren't.

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