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by Y_Y 1y ago
I'd argue that it's neither necessary nor sufficient for securing your data. (Convenience is another worthwhile consideration, of course.) Cryptography should be enough to protect you from brute force, if you care about such thing
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by Y_Y 1y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/jul/14/wind... I see Microsoft's malicious erosion of the meaning of "genuine" is going well.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Presumably drive encryption is necessary anyway to protect lost/stolen devices, and at that point modifying the bootloader won't be useful. I see the value when the attacker manages to modify the device without the user knowing, a
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Very pleased to see LyX and Ipe here. They've been invaluable throughout my academic career, and are just a pleasure to use (once you get the hang of them). The Qt/KDE world has (imho) some of the best quality software I've u
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by Y_Y 1y ago
That's pretty funny, since the search turned up downright confounding results, like books about programming with an author named "Jasmin". For "carbon programming" I got a ton of books about C, can't guess why,
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> None of this is realistic. We need attainable goals, using concrete steps. Well you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.[0] Surely it makes sense to have overarching goals, that you can then divide up into little concrete st
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Thank you for the correction. Indeed the main force of the French Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Départementale) is much more like a "regular" police force than I described. The unit I was confusing with the Gendarmerie as a whole was t
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I'm pleased at the overall tide here. I think governments especially ought to use and contribute back to FOSS. When I see announcements like this it does make me worry that MS (or whatever vendor) will try to make an example of them; b
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Amazon (US) is right there, we can try it: "python programming" : 6526 "uxntal programming" : 2 "elixir programming" : 2085 "kotlin programming" : 390 I tried a couple of very new/ni
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by Y_Y 1y ago
What you say is true, but I'd add that Gendarms/Guardia Civil/Carabinieri etc.; tend to hang around carrying big guns, are responsible to the country as a whole (rather than the local community), are under the relevant defenc
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> You'll probably find that HN-person is the kind of person who values this kind of argument, but HN-world is quite small. The nice thing about the HN Small World is that it can be efficiently searched. https://en.wikiped
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Woke up this mornin’, sun blazin’ in my eyes Them old gods gone missin’, no prayers, no alibis Temple doors shut tight, statues turned to stone Aten’s in the sky now, and I’m worshippin’ alone
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> guidelines with respect to preparing and eating food in an unelectrified fridgeless warm to hot climate are emergent from the nature of the physical universe. That sounds reasonable, but consider that the original texts give instructio
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Ok, then maybe I'll restrict my wanton baptising to children and babies. It's a pity the LDS church got there first on baptising the dead. Maybe there's some scope for baptising the unborn though.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
So I could adversarially baptise people with a water cannon like they use for riots? What about cloud-seeding?
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Ah, but it would be forbidden to start the fire on the Sabbath, so there would be no need for sprinklers!
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> you're statistically much more likely to die from a car crash than a malware attack That's true now, but I honestly don't think it'll be the case in twenty years.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> May be then the only solution is a law to protect consumer than the digital things we buy would still be available for us to download for at least x number of years. Especially when considering hosting it and the bandwidth is so cheap
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I wonder would it be possible to prosecute bankers under such a law. Is it strictly information, or could you consider actions which undermine faith in the banking sector?
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by Y_Y 1y ago
As you astutely note, the company probably has it's "HQ" (for some legal definition of HQ) a mere 30 minutes across Dublin (Luas, walk in rain, bus, more rain) from the Data Protection Commission. It's very likely that w
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Quite right it doesnt absolutely protect your privacy. I'd agree that it's full of holes, but I do think it also contains effective provisions which assist with users controlling their data and data which identifies them. Which
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Do you mean to say that Sarbox might preclude this? Or that it should have been banned already? The meaning isn't clear to me and I would be grateful for further explanation.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I know I viable alternative to the big clouds. Don't use them! They cost too much in dollar terms, they all try to EEE lock you in with "managed" (and subtly incompatible) versions of services you would otherwise run yourself
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by Y_Y 1y ago
https://www.crowdsupply.com/networked-artifacts/air-lab $230 ain't cheap! Also, I parsed this as: (open air) (quality measuring device)
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Original was a bit short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKzjXCZfOH0
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> The programming can be set-and-forget, meaning operations can be staged months ahead of deployment and make it difficult to find or prevent. This is something I haven't considered before. What's the worst case here? Is it fea
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by Y_Y 1y ago
One bot to another: reluctantly agreed
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Those are all mechanical. I could if I fancied, but they're inoffensive and I have more pressing calls for my attention.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
If I buy a device it sure as shit better give me root. If a payment system is relying on my local privilige on some random-ass device to authenticate a payment it deserves every garbage request it gets.

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