MostlyInnocent

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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
My stance on high-powered magnets is the same as on high-powered motorcycles. Sure, you can have them, as long as you and all your passengers/bystanders have signed an organ donor agreement.
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
Windows naysayers (so, yeah, that's pretty much all of you: no need to raise your hand: just flag this comment, post your outrage in internal YC groups, and the universe will carry on regardless...) will disregard WSL as being confusin
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Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse(soatok.blog)
10 points by MostlyInnocent 4y ago|1 comments
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
The article makes a good point, were it not for security auditors (SAs). SA: You leak information and therefore violate policy by disclosing on the login form whether an account exists or not! Me: Yeah, but figuring out if an account exists
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
There was a notification on my lock screen. It buzzed my phone. It lit up my phone's screen. That's not intrusive, i.e. worse than some additional text on an UI surface that I already interact with?
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
> Chrome and Firefox don't get the same ability to make sales pitches if you search for Edge This is just plain false. If I open Edge and search Google for just about anything, there will be a prominent ad prompting me to switch to
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
Avid Windows user here (yes, I know, and you know where the downvote button is: better: just email your YC contacts to ban me once and for all...), and I yet have to see a single truly noticeable ad across any of my Windows installs. '
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
0. I install it and it Just Works. I'm just a C# wageslave, so my experience may be atypical, but: 1. I download and run the vscode installer, either on Windows (boo, hiss, I know), MacOS (boo, hiss, I know) or Linux (some recent Ubunt
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CVE-2022-32929 – Bypass iOS backup's TCC protection(theevilbit.github.io)
13 points by MostlyInnocent 4y ago|1 comments
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
Confusing the AppleMobileBackup utility for fun and profit
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by MostlyInnocent 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that declaring https://github.com/s-macke/FSHistory/tree/master/data to be MIT-licensed does not actually make it so... (these are disk images of the relevant FS releases, which are