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by _jal 4y ago
Pcaps or it didn't happen. People have been claiming this for years, and yet we have never seen actual evidence. I completely understand being creeped out by the surveillance shops, and I've seen coincidences that weirded me out.
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by _jal 4y ago
If you want to call Google's act "principled", you need to explain Project Dragonfly. It is and always has been the intersection of realpolitik and greed.
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by _jal 4y ago
Symantec plays this game now, and it looks like PE money likes it, too, so I expect more of this, and what results from it. (See also: SolarWinds)
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by _jal 4y ago
Don't put words in my mouth. I listen to everything he says, there's a lot to learn. And nowhere am I suggesting he martyr himself. Here's a hint, if you're having difficulty: I'm mostly just describing his plight.
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by _jal 4y ago
> if the US dropped charges Well, I guess he's just trapped by the practical problems created by his peculiar combination of personal morality and cowardice. If you claim whistle-blowing is justified by the exposed crimes and then r
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by _jal 4y ago
An early form of control-alt-delete.
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by _jal 4y ago
> There is a whole genre of « internet advice » that don’t include what’s best for the listener. That's just called "advice". The internet just makes bad advice globally addressable.
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by _jal 4y ago
> maybe get a bribe to help them Can you point to any bribery for common, "retail" interactions with local governments? Outside the south? I'm actually curious, I didn't think most of the country was that far gone yet
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by _jal 4y ago
I do hope it is a feint and they end up in AMD-land. I would not be the least bit sad if I never put another dime in Nvidia's pocket. They're not the ugliest scumbags out there, but definitely in the bottom 20%.
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by _jal 4y ago
I'm guessing you spent little to no time on Sand Hill Road last decade. The lunch spots could have been ads for Patagonia sweater-vests and Allbirds shoes.
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by _jal 4y ago
I think it is past time to make launchers publish their plan for lifecycle management, and perhaps post bonds against them, in case they go bankrupt. Making sovereigns pay for trashing the commons is tricky for obvious reasons. But we don&#
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by _jal 4y ago
I moved here in '93. I'm not a native, but I don't think I can be considered transient. I got an AC unit for the first time two years ago. Following tradition, it didn't arrive until I didn't need it, but I ran it l
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by _jal 4y ago
Now I have to rethink this. If d00dly agrees with the idea, it is likely half-baked and missing something obvious.
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by _jal 4y ago
That would just result in a new, slightly worse conferencing tool emerging. An executive's desire for a sea of carefully self-monitored faces will not be denied.
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by _jal 4y ago
Yep, happened multiple times. In fairness, there is a setting to turn Facetime off entirely, that didn't have to wait for this feature.
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by _jal 4y ago
> Who is the blue check verifying that they are This is exactly my issue with the whole phenomena. They're utterly useless as anything but a weird form of status symbol. Hell, Twitter may as well sell them, might help with the reven
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by _jal 4y ago
Unless I'm missing something, I think I plan to just run this all the time. I see very few downsides, personally. > web fonts might not be displayed Great, I almost always prefer system default fonts. > Incoming FaceTime calls ar
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by _jal 4y ago
I had the same thought. I made a T-shirt with the EURion constellation on it. It did work, kind of, but not as well as I liked - distance and angle mattered a lot. My original goal was to wear it for official documentation, but that went le
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by _jal 4y ago
If I ran a store with a 10 digit inventory of tools and advertised that, but refused to offer more than a tiny fraction of them because it was too hard to offer more, what do you call that?
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by _jal 4y ago
The problem with this reasoning is that it depends on mis-modeling the government. Doing so is intrinsic - the argument is that market effects caused by government action is different than that caused by other market actors. The usual reaso
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by _jal 4y ago
> C) an option C. In other words, "We need to do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do it."
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by _jal 4y ago
Putting aside what any specific intelligence outfit does, attribution is a massive problem in infosec. Google "security attribution problem" if you are unfamiliar with the topic, it is a big one.
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by _jal 4y ago
"Compliance is hard" is not an excuse accepted anywhere. But just in case you actually believe this should be convincing, consider how many tax jurisdictions Facebook does business in. Do you think they just ignore all those local
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by _jal 4y ago
First mention of using driverless vehicles as weapons I recall was Daemon by Daniel Suarez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)
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by _jal 4y ago
I ran in to the exact same thing. My solution was subscribing "legal+i_bet_you_will_fix_it_now@service.com" to the same list.
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by _jal 4y ago
I went to an expensive school with sometimes-tense "townie" relations. I tended to empathize more with the town folks, honestly, which was probably a class thing - I was on a "full-ride" scholarship, from a poor family,
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by _jal 4y ago
We use old-style public keys, but store them in LDAP. sshd has AuthorizedKeysCommand pointing to a script to retrieve for login. And we scan for things that look like keys.
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by _jal 4y ago
I dropped Amazon (again) a while back. I'd gone back to using them during the plague, and got lazy. What jolted me back was multiple delivery failures in a row followed by a shitty "give me my money back" experience. Right no
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by _jal 4y ago
No smoking gun. But beyond Snowden's allegations, (a) the NSA has a history of very similar shenanigans and (b) there are readily available alternatives, so why risk it?
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by _jal 4y ago
Interdependence does tend to promote peace, but only up to a point. Past that point it becomes a weapon, as anyone who has been anywhere near a messy divorce has seen. Imperialist Russians clearly knew this, but apparently only saw the offe

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