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by acdha 5mo ago
That’s a pretty different scenario than we’re taking here, but it still doesn’t salvage your previous comment. Those people could still use one of the password managers which support this, which again would be easier than what this guy did.
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by acdha 5mo ago
> Lets take a concrete example, suppose you have AWS root account credentials. Are you going to assign them to one individual identity or as a company you would keep them accessible to a group of admins. You’d use AWS Organizations so ea
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by acdha 5mo ago
None of this is true at the federal level, or at least wasn’t before the current administration. There are standards for all of this, and if you haven’t read them most are quite reasonable — I keep the NIST 800-63 reference handy anytime so
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by acdha 5mo ago
I think you’re being unfairly down-voted. While a lot of people here seek out more news, what I see normal people exposed to on TV is basically that – stocks, and if gas prices are high, that and quarterly jobs reports discussed in relation
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by acdha 5mo ago
There are groups on Facebook Marketplace selling fakes. They used to have those Texas dealer plates but I believe the Texas authorities finally stopped procrastinating on doing something about that. It used to be easy to search for terms li
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by acdha 5mo ago
We have considerably more than 4, some of which are custom works of companies which have been selling under their terms since the 80s. No, I don’t think it’s a huge problem but if you have a lawyer who doesn’t at least want to check, you ne
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by acdha 5mo ago
Consider that there might be a difference between knowing which licensed libraries you used and verifying that your usage of them fully complied with the current license terms when releasing the source code. For example, licensing a library
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by acdha 5mo ago
Do this comparison both ways and factor in what you pay in addition for American high-stress/low-quality healthcare, college, retirement, etc. If you’re on the higher-end of the SV tech salaries, you’ll probably still come out ahead bu
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by acdha 5mo ago
No, because the average employee has both a lot more in common with their peers and because the gains are lower for people whose stock shares are orders of magnitude lower. Joe from accounting isn’t laying off a department so he can sell sh
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by acdha 5mo ago
First, it’s rare to have protected periods where the entire grid has no wind, solar, hydro, etc. That can happen regionally, but it’s not a secret and grid operators prepare for it just as they do the impact of heatwaves shutting down nucle
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by acdha 5mo ago
Around the turn of the century that was a stronger argument–it’s one of the reasons why I backed nuclear then–but now we have cheaper renewables which can be online decades sooner so the choice isn’t nuclear vs. coal but vs. solar & win
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by acdha 5mo ago
Yes, it was a concern. You can say that some people made their peace with it but if you’d been there at the time, it was absolutely mentioned.
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by acdha 5mo ago
Perhaps, but not accepting money from criminals is always a good idea and it would cause problems for those guys as their competitors push them off-line. Just because they wouldn’t go away doesn’t justify helping them.
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by acdha 5mo ago
Don’t offer service to DDoS rings?
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by acdha 5mo ago
Why don’t I need them? I can’t make every third-party package do exact version pins and it’d be miserable if I could because then I couldn’t patch a transitive dependency faster than the upstream even if there’s a drop-in patch release whic
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by acdha 5mo ago
That to me is a pretty clear reason to question the accuracy of those two claims. Insiders are saying that even people who were performing well in very profitable groups are being cut, which is hard to square with the stated motivations.
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by acdha 5mo ago
What do you prefer for lockfiles in the Java world? I’ve been trying to drag a couple of Maven teams into the 2010s after finding that they weren’t.
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by acdha 5mo ago
Yes, support does not have to be financial. If you read the entire article you posted note the experts quoted made the same point: opportunity cost is real. Career impact is real. The shift to getting educated and established in a career is
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by acdha 5mo ago
Also, scraping was a problem for publishers: if your site was popular, copy-cats would show up republishing your work with minimal credit. That said, this seems quaint in the modern era where trillion-dollar tech companies are doing that to
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by acdha 5mo ago
No country provides a lot of support. Some countries provide more but inevitably if you poll people they’ll mention that they mention significant financial deterrents, not to mention things like climate change, all of which are valid. Peopl
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by acdha 5mo ago
Archivists and librarians have to think in terms of practicality: if many tools exist to read something and it’s a mainstream software product, the odds are good that they’ll be unable to use those files 50 years from now. Not certain, but
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by acdha 5mo ago
Think about how you’d have felt if a scientist you respected had joined the RJ Reynolds tobacco research institute. Would their prior achievements overshadow a gross ethical failure? This administration is worse, both because of the wholesa
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by acdha 5mo ago
Where’s the legal declaration of war, precisely?
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by acdha 5mo ago
There’s always a tension in democratic societies, however, where civilian oversight is important. Claiming the war is going really well until asking for $200,000,000,0000 because it isn’t has little military benefit compared to the politica
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by acdha 5mo ago
It’s MSNBC after Comcast spun NBC Universal out and then NBC Universal decided to spin their cable channels out into Versant. The name changed last year so they wouldn’t use the NBC name & logo of a company they were no longer part of.
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by acdha 5mo ago
MSNBC is marginally center-left and they’re broadly considered to follow mainstream journalistic standards. Whether or not you personally dislike them, it’s highly unlikely that they ran a story citing sources who don’t exist and the text m
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by acdha 5mo ago
I think that’s right, with the ire coming from the perception of being cheated somehow. There’s a fair group of people who think anything other than changing the price or the product name is deceptive, and they’ll keep talking about it that
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by acdha 5mo ago
That comparison really makes the contrast clear: losing TLS would’ve put millions of people either into full downtime or immediately at significant risk (you can’t uncapture data). Losing DNSSEC, however, placed no one at risk and improved
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by acdha 6mo ago
We should have a one-time buyout for flood zones: pay someone enough to buy a median home somewhere similar and turn the land into a nature preserve (let mangroves return to protect Florida coast, etc.). Put a cap on it so we’re not buying
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by acdha 6mo ago
> The modern trend of believing that “history” is made up of one or two things that everyone saw on the news is actually really entertaining. It would be useful if you could provide a more detailed version of your argument. I don’t think

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