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acdha
1y ago
The attacker did have a great domain name choice, didn’t overuse it to the point where it got on spam block lists, and got them at a moment of distraction, so it worked. It’s really easy to look at something in a training exercise and say “
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1y ago
I also use WebAuthn where possible but wouldn’t be so cocky. The most likely reason why we haven’t been phished because we haven’t been targeted by a sophisticated attacker. One side note: most systems make it hard to completely rely on Web
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1y ago
> So pick one that does? That's like its top 2 feature Still doesn’t work 100% of the time, because half of the companies on earth demote their developer time to breaking 1995-level forms. That’s why every popular password manager h
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1y ago
Because you’re one person with a job which isn’t security, and the world is full of legitimate warnings from companies telling you that you must do something by an arbitrary deadline? They screwed up, but we have thousands of years of evide
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1y ago
It’s all of the above. One thing Apple excels at is actually using their hardware and software together whereas the PC world has a long history of one of the companies like Intel, Microsoft, or the actual manufacturer trying to make things
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1y ago
It varies but there are a lot of tools built around the idea of rapid updates so things like APIs can change quickly throughout a far more fragmented ecosystem. I suspect that we’re going to see a lot of places back off of that a bit to hav
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1y ago
So are companies (Itanium, Windows Mobile, etc.) but what governments do well is funding the competitive baseline needed for big advances. We live in an age of wonders invented based on American research investment in the mid-20th century,
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1y ago
I think they agreed with you and were commenting that the roads aren’t tolled to pay for construction or maintenance.
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1y ago
Maybe they’re less busy there but everywhere I went in California it was faster to park and walk inside if there was anyone in line ahead of you, which was almost always the case. The problem is that you’re limited by the slowest order ahea
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1y ago
They’re usually a lot slower than going inside and people have been cracking jokes about the quality of the speakers since the 80s.
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1y ago
> the foreign-born population has grown from a low of 4.7% in 1970 to 15.6% in 2024--higher than it ever was in the 20th century. This is going to be exaggerated by the decline in the domestic birth rate over that same period. It’s widel
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1y ago
> Politicians have been baiting and switching the public on immigration since 1965. This is the symptom of the underlying desire certain industries have for cheap workers who can’t complain about working conditions. Those politicians are
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1y ago
It’s definitely a combination of both but I think oil wealth is inherently destabilizing because it tends to be concentrated in areas which were not previously rich and densely populated (most of the world by area) and because the way the m
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1y ago
This works at two levels, too: it explains the presence of wildly different creatures created for gameplay reasons, and as a world-building exercise it’s more probable that when the evil empire shows up it’s not the first time they’re tryin
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1y ago
That one unfortunately got caught up in publisher politics as they had a very successful kickstarter but then broke promises to backers because Epic offered them a lot of money for an exclusive. I think the game would’ve been more popular i
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1y ago
This thread is a bit muddled since it’s mixing talk of citizen (not required to carry ID) and non-citizen (required, but cannot be stopped without reasonable suspicion outside of border areas and has the right to remain silent: i.e. ICE can
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1y ago
> I engaged with the article in another comment No, you tried to quibble over terminology. Both of these comments were shallow dismissals which tried to distract from the point by focusing on surface issues. > LWN is focusing on "
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1y ago
Why are you trying to distract from the content of the article? I don’t know why her hair color is so triggering for you but she has a couple decades working in open source, multiple relevant degrees, is on the CNCF Contributor Strategy TAG
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1y ago
Their statements make it clear it’s about projecting the image of strength – c.f. Hegseth talking about winning wars – but I would say it’s more honest. The last time our ability to defend the mainland was really in question was the civil w
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1y ago
That only applies to non-citizens. You were talking about citizens, who are not required to carry ID under U.S. law. They are also not allowed to just stop random people asking about citizenship without cause, although they are appealing co
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1y ago
Yeah, I’ll take a look after I upgrade but I haven’t had to spend time on Podman in years so there’s an upper bound for how much it can improve my life.
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1y ago
> In other countries even citizens have to carry identification at all times. We spent the entire Cold War criticizing “papers, please” culture so at the very least seems like we should recognize this as a major change and do something o
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1y ago
From what I’ve read, there was a lot of thought about them having fallen from their ancestors. Some of the eugenics types wrote about this as a cautionary tale about mixing with other races or letting them share power. The reasoning only ma
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1y ago
I switched for local development work a couple of years back and can count on no fingers the number of times I thought about switching back. It let me stop thinking about the Docker Mac high CPU issue which was open for years with no progre
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1y ago
We certainly did when I was a kid towards the end of the Cold War, but it was moderated by the major players serving broad audiences so they tended not to knowingly repeat falsehoods and the biases were more subtle such as selecting which s
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1y ago
“White” didn’t exist at that time and the people of the Mediterranean certainly didn’t think of themselves as one homogeneous group. The various peoples had prejudices about each other which only consolidated into a hierarchy when the trans
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1y ago
Not just a niche but something requiring domain experience. If your resume says “will React for food”, you are competing with a million other people. If your resume also says you understand a particular industry, user community, etc. you st
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acdha
1y ago
That could be, I was definitely thinking of management hierarchy since that difference has been so striking with AI. A lot of my awareness started in the academic HPC world which was a bit ahead in needing high capacity of generic resources
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acdha
1y ago
Bandwidth cost more then, so the early search engines had an inventive not to massively increase their own costs if nothing else.
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1y ago
> Take cloud for example - where did the innovation come from? It was from the top. Definitely not. That came years later but in the late 2000s to mid-2010s it was often engineers pushing for cloud services over the executives’ preferred
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