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It is, but if your organization completely forbids any non-HID USB devices, users are less likely to try their found USB stick on a company PC, since they don't expect it to work anyway.
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This is true for someone manually searching for your info, but sufficient to fool spam lists and most data brokers. This really depends on your threat scenario.
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Depends. It won't help against exploitative firmware or shocker devices, but most USB exploits don't come with zero-day firmware exploits or even require user interaction, which this policy will prevent. Additionaly, even when att
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2y ago
> that I could easily burn in my car, tractor (with PTO generator), or whatever. Or in a generator, for use in your EV :-) Whereas it will be hard to run your diesel car or tractor on solar power.
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2y ago
Not to mention that EVs outmileage every other type of engine in a traffic jam. Also, power is much easier to get compared to fuel (with maybe the exception of fuel for old diesels that will run on everything - but this depends on circumsta
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2y ago
On the other hand, people looking to switch jobs or having sufficient options might take the easy cash despite not disagreeing (or not caring about the feud).
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2y ago
The professional lawyer telling the client to do so doesn't mean the client will. See the case of SBF for the most in-your-face example.
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> Unless Mullenweg is really that desperate to get rid of anyone who doesn't agree with his hissy fit. Given his quite emotional outbursts, this does not seem that unlikely.
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The thing that the parent implicitly pointed out is that a typo would be a different category of error and the comparison doesn't make much sense [0]. A more correct phrasing in the grandparent would have been "this is not a mino
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> but for me, living in a bog standard apartment and working remote to support kids isn't exactly blog-worthy content. I think there are easier and far less restricting ways to have something to blog about. > 3) a van that you ca
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> and pays rent for the kids? The way I read it it's implied that they split up [0], so the (former) wife would need to pay rent either way. [0] He also mentions getting custody as a target in an earlier post.
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2y ago
> Because this lifestyle has nothing to do with freedom, but with fear. What do you presume the author is afraid of/running away from? Genuinely curious, I have a hard time imagining the mindset you see these people in.
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2y ago
I actually know this. I personally know a few people who do accept major financial restraint in exchange for pursuing their passion. To be fair, I'm from Europe, so I can't personally verify whether this still works in the US or i
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2y ago
> They pulled the plug on one user who happened to be hostile, and who was abusing their free resources by issuing hundreds of thousands of requests a day. Well, I'm not really seeing the evidence for abuse, to be honest. They were
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> I have a very high income and I still can’t afford a home This is only true if you limit your choices of homes to popular areas. Homes out in the country are usually easy to come by, especially with the salary of someone working in tec
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2y ago
> You're not obligated to provide free services to people you don't have a contract with, and who are openly hostile to negotiation. This could've easily been avoid by either not mooching off free resources, or by just pla
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> Wait until you discover that researchers aren't compensated by publishing corporations for their papers. Yes, but most researchers are compensated by either the state, universities or companies hoping to profit of their research.
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It looks like Matt is using the WordPress non-profit to attack a competitor. Additionally, he cut off services to that competitor with the clear intent of disrupting their service and customers and talks about trademark infringement, despit
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> Meta's company-size based licensing (as seen in Llama) is a step in the right direction. We have been bitten by that hard in the past. As a small company (a few students, hardly 5 figure revenue) we've sold our product to a k
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I work in a similar setup, but we only have 2 office days a month. I still like this very much; you get to meet and socialize with all your colleagues, but you have basically all the advantages of home office and traveling for two days a mo
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> I find it completely disproportionate that the police go out with such a number of devices and personnel to a registered company registered as a GmbH and not first Google the name and company in order to presumably find my YouTube (and
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2y ago
Of course an email is easy to fake, but you really have to put things in perspective: We, as internet regulars, hear of swatting quite often, but for your average police officer, this is probably an once-in-a-career type of event and theref
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> since you can express cycles with hard links You can't if you only allow hard links to files.
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> As much as I can respect the idealism about privacy and liberty etc..., I could not ignore the fact that any "really!!!" bad actor could use the same infrastructure to avoid investigation/prosecution, therefore I did not
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The big thing about immutable infrastructure is that it is reproducible. I've seen both worlds and I do appreciate the simplicity and quickness of the upgrade solution presented in the post. The problem with this manual approach is tha
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> I’ve seen highly skilled and intelligent engineers fall for the trap of calling Obsidian open source because they can inspect the code of the Electon app; forgetting that doesn’t actually grant them a license to do anything with the co
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2y ago
So you argue that you should both enjoy exploring new things together in common. No one is arguing that you should spend every minute with your partner, but if you want to spend time together, you should have an activity that you both enjoy
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I think a lot of your points play a role, but a major one is that when the employee is handing in his resignation, it's likely they have mentally already closed that chapter in their life and won't remain happy or productive. At b
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> Twitter is a platform and social media is a technology. It's a cheap form of influence and is being used as a backdoor into our value systems and the narratives we use to understand our world. No disagreement there. > You'
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> what don't you understand about this situation being unique in history? Because this exact argument is brought every single time someone supports censorship. Free speech is easy to support when you agree with what is being said,
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