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by Reelin 6y ago
No. It's evidence that something was lost, but not a measure of the actual damages you suffered. Whose to say if you lost $100 or $100k? In the absence of the lost material there's most likely no way to demonstrate anything. In
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by Reelin 6y ago
> or when things like adobe do sketchy stuff If a company does something sketchy and you cancel or reverse the charges, you generally lose everything on the account - not just the thing you're disputing. Adobe is similar to Steam
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by Reelin 6y ago
... and then maintain it all yourself. Depending on what your patches do you might need to be a skilled systems level polyglot programmer. And make sure not to fall behind tracking mainline because there's new zero days all the time! R
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by Reelin 6y ago
My question is then: where's the hackabale power user browser implemented in something like Common Lisp with a REPL, hot swap debugging, and built in disassembly tools?
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by Reelin 6y ago
> You heavily overestimate the degree of scrutiny that users applied to extensions. I apply scrutiny in the form of very carefully vetting the author's identity and reputation. At the end of the day that seems to be a fairly common
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Who in their right mind would ever want to embed a full blown scripting language if your usecase is... Open a file and input data? Because embedding a mature, well written dependency that fully satisfies all your requirements might wel
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by Reelin 6y ago
Contrarian dynamic in action: I'm not sure the first part you wrote about "reacting from cache" and "triggered" capture the entire phenomenon. From personal experience, an empty comments section only leaves the arti
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by Reelin 6y ago
> To me this isn't a question of liberty or not. A restriction of your freedoms, whether protected or not, is a restriction of your liberties. Some liberties are constitutionally protected. Some are protected by state law. Some aren
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by Reelin 6y ago
From the Wikipedia entry: > there was no constitutional violation because air passengers could still travel without identification if they instead underwent the more stringent "secondary screening" search I wasn't aware th
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by Reelin 6y ago
Which is odd to say the least, because the documentation for a US passport (as of a couple years ago) was less stringent than that required by the REAL ID act.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Yes, but there's no evidence to suggest this will be the case. Agreed, at least to the extent that I don't see a way to meaningfully predict that sort of outcome one way or the other. > And yet OP thinks China will promptl
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by Reelin 6y ago
> my point is that the absolute worst-case scenario for the original commenter is still miles better So we shouldn't worry about something bad because worse has happened before? > The worst-case scenario in OP's book is that
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by Reelin 6y ago
> conflation of criticism of the CCP with racism Which is particularly ironic since it appears to have been pointing out the racism that currently exists within China that started all this.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> he thinks the prospect of there being a single non-white country not being crushingly poor "makes his hair stand on end" As I previously pointed out, that is absolutely not what was said. Please stop making things up. Concern
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by Reelin 6y ago
> agitating for World War III I read the original comment as being against it but wondering if it's an inevitable outcome. That's a very reasonable thing to want to discuss - many of the respondents here (including myself) appe
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by Reelin 6y ago
> if you sink to the 90th percentile of privilege from the 99th, you'll become a "second class human" That isn't what the person you're responding to said at all. They were observing the discrimination against th
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by Reelin 6y ago
> will only be questioned if the misinformation has caused a significant financial or social impact Oh good, so I'm free to speak my own opinion as long as I don't actually try to accomplish anything!
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by Reelin 6y ago
It comes down to an attempt to centralize and make mandatory which translates to excessive control and easy abuse. If there were some pressing real world need for it then perhaps it would be acceptable. There isn't though, so I can onl
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by Reelin 6y ago
That's an abusive attempt at a workaround by the Fed to make it mandatory. Thankfully, it appears my state will continue to offer the same IDs it always has in addition to the "enhanced" ones. I suppose I'll have to star
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't use them very often but they still serve a purpose. You don't have to know the payment details for the receiving party, just their name. You don't need an electronic device or an internet connection. Of course you hav
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Our security sucks in general. Don't forget to account for physical enforcement.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> there is absolutely no verification or security in this system Regarding 1, 2, & 4: You aren't taking the physical angle into account. In all of these cases it sounds to me like one US institution dealing with another. Wire fr
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by Reelin 6y ago
Substack and Patreon both facilitate exactly this in theory. In practice, you still have to find the individual authors or content producers that fit your desired criteria.
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't think the idea is full headless automation but rather some way of coordinating which set of new documents should be retrieved by each volunteer (until either their free limit or willingness to donate time runs out). Maximizing
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by Reelin 6y ago
> that the Congress is empowered to do something doesn't mean using that power isn't a violation of general principles of the law "Lack of elegance" or "violation of social norms" or similar would (IMO) be a
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by Reelin 6y ago
> what happens if in a few more years, SHA-2 isn’t considered secure any more and some future security audit demands it be changed again Then change it again? If you use the most recent available NIST standard it should hopefully be a v
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Is the implication of violence/aggression in said speech is a justified consequence? I'm not quite sure what you're asking here, but note that I was speaking to definitions (ie I wasn't debating the merits of any pa
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by Reelin 6y ago
Ahh poop, looks like I was out of date. Apparently a practical demonstration of an attack with complexity ~2^60 was recently demonstrated against legacy GPG (the v1.4 defaults) for less than $50k USD. [1] That being said, it looks like it s
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by Reelin 6y ago
I feel the need to disclaim that I have no actual experience using SEV. Also it looks like the attestation protocol may have been broken by attacking the PSP firmware? I have no idea what the current state of affairs is, particularly regard
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by Reelin 6y ago
> you only need to trust the vendor to initially do as they say and not outright lie to you (e.g. by making the checkbox a no-op) The cloud provider can't lie to you (assuming you know how to check, anyway). There are instructions a

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