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by Zak 11mo ago
Threat modeling is important of course. The UK government does have tools with which to punish people who don't turn over the cleartext of targeted documents once it's directly investigating them, but that's not scalable. The
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by Zak 1y ago
There seems to be real evidence[0] for the idea that focusing on nearby objects like computer screens for hours on end can contribute to the development of myopia. Breaks might help. I don't see any reason to believe that making the sc
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by Zak 1y ago
If you're going to press ctrl+f and post a critique, I recommend including a synonym or two in your search terms.
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by Zak 1y ago
This site isn't necessarily meant to have a big sociological impact; it provides enough information that someone with sufficient motivation, but a lack of resources and expertise can take concrete steps to reduce their risk. That seems
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by Zak 1y ago
> You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. I bet a majority of people who can ride a bicycle don't know how they steer, and would describe the physical movements they use to initiate and term
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by Zak 1y ago
> As the business running the servers of smart vacuums, if I saw an atypical device reporting in, without context, I too would kill that device. If you want to block a device from accessing your servers because it's behaving in an
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by Zak 1y ago
Apple is also forced to allow alternate payment options in the USA as a result of the Epic lawsuit. The original ruling was fairly permissive about letting Apple set terms and collect fees, but the terms Apple set were so onerous and the fe
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by Zak 1y ago
Games in 1995 were targeting DOS and Windows 95, not Windows NT. They were doing so because that's what was on the majority of consumer PCs, and their objective was to sell games. People selecting a server-side OS and dev tools didn&#x
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by Zak 1y ago
Maybe first rate hackers aren't a large market for games. Maybe long-term binary compatibility has created difficulties for game studios. Maybe Windows isn't as unusable as it was in 1995.
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by Zak 1y ago
If the statute of limitations was long passed and I had fuck you money, why not?
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by Zak 1y ago
> photos don't require highest speed cards I photograph birds in flight at 25 or 50 FPS. Even if I didn't do something that demands fast cards and fills them up quickly, I don't see much reason to keep photos on SD cards
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by Zak 1y ago
I'm reminded of Paul Graham writing > the CTO couldn't be a first rate hacker, because to become an eminent [Windows] NT developer he would have had to use NT voluntarily, multiple times, and I couldn't imagine a great ha
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by Zak 1y ago
Someone should invent a purely analog port for wired earbuds that's immune to that kind of attack.
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by Zak 1y ago
This is enough of an issue that someone made https://dontfuckwithscroll.com/
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by Zak 1y ago
There could be any number of weird constraints that would lead a developer who knows better to do such a thing in a specific situation, but someone designed (or failed to intentionally design) the system in question. That person should sit
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by Zak 1y ago
> like a hyperlink that navigates you through the web app You mean an <a> tag?
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by Zak 1y ago
I've seen an increase in people doing this sort of thing over the past few years. I imagine it has something to do with frameworks and ignorance or apathy, but the old fashioned way almost always provides the best UX. To anyone reading
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by Zak 1y ago
I agree having to go to the command line is too much friction. Just clicking `overdue-invoice.doc.pif` is too little. About right is somewhere between a prompt and setting the file executable in the GUI.
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by Zak 1y ago
On the other hand, it used to be very common for malware on Windows to email itself to all your contacts using your real email client. It's probably reasonable for an OS to add a little friction to the process in the modern era, though
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by Zak 1y ago
> it seems like a pretty obvious solution is to just have a pop up that has a install at your own risk warning whenever you install something outside of the official app store That's close enough to how Android already works. Goog
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by Zak 1y ago
It's also unreasonable to describe the actions of the goose in the game as "destroying lives". They range from friendly interactions to harmless pranks to very mild revenge on people who are mean to the player character.
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by Zak 1y ago
Not really hard: nuclear power generation uses radiation and radioactive material, but tries very hard not to release it. Coal power generation burns a substance that contains a small amount of radioactive material, and makes no effort no
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by Zak 1y ago
The rate of change in computer technology has been orders of magnitudes faster than most other technologies. Consider transport. Millennia ago, before the domestication of the horse, the fastest a human could travel was by running. That&#x2
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by Zak 1y ago
The underlying question is how are people supposed to know about this before they have a big problem ?
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by Zak 1y ago
Sure you can. Just use KDE Connect.
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by Zak 1y ago
It's sovereignty that limits the UK courts from enforcing a fine against an organization without a physical, legal, or financial presence in the UK. They could ask US courts to enforce a UK judgment, but the First Amendment does bind U
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by Zak 1y ago
Language strongly influences how people perceive things. For example, people shown videos of a car crash estimated higher speeds and falsely remembered seeing broken glass if the crash was described as "smashed" or "collided&
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by Zak 1y ago
There is such a world, and we live in it. Banks might reduce fraud by repeatedly performing credit checks on customers, for example, but that's usually illegal. Remote attestation doesn't check that there isn't malware; it ch
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by Zak 1y ago
Most of the time, it's the bank that's on the hook for fraud, which is why they're motivated not to trust that the user's device is sufficiently secure.
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by Zak 1y ago
This leads to a massive transfer of power from end users to corporations and governments. User-owned computers and the open web limit the ability of such institutions to place demands on users. Is that worth a slight reduction in the rate o

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