aftbit

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by aftbit 3y ago
Let me just provide a counter-point. As an early crypto advocate, and someone who has lost thousands of USD to hackers and scammers, I did not ever expect the government to bail me out. As you said, the whole point of crypto was to free our
902.
by aftbit 3y ago
Really? Can you give an example? I don't see why performance or battery life would need to be impacted for users of the default services. In other words, if you want to keep using Apple-only stuff, you would get the same outcome as tod
903.
by aftbit 3y ago
Well you can always drill holes in the platter, or hit them with a strong magnet, or just separate them and toss them in the trash. Unless you're fighting the NSA, you can probably get away with enough physical destruction to make reco
904.
by aftbit 3y ago
Why do many car insurance companies offer free replacements for a cracked windshield but nobody is willing to pay for replacing my brakes?
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by aftbit 3y ago
It still bothers me that my Slack domain is https://workplace.slack.com instead of https://slack.workplace.com . The enplatformification of the internet has affected the corporates as well as universities.
906.
by aftbit 3y ago
Just leaving this relevant SMBC here: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2867#comic
907.
by aftbit 3y ago
Neat! I knew about the existence of all of these individual things, but I appreciate the article laying out the photos and use cases for each. By the way, I recommend against "RJ45 Join Adapters" and instead towards "RJ45 Key
908.
by aftbit 3y ago
When do you plan to release technical details on the attack? Surely the long tail of door locks will not be replaced for a decade or more.
909.
by aftbit 3y ago
How does this deal with non-determinism from the outside world? For example, let's say one of my tests is flaky because it asks an external service to give it some data, and that external service is flaky in what it returns? Or what if
910.
by aftbit 3y ago
Wait, in non-multiline mode, it only matches _one_ trailing newline? And not any other whitespace, including \r or \r\n? That is indeed surprising behavior. Why? Why not just make it end of string like the author expected? >>&gt
911.
by aftbit 3y ago
Yeah for a decent period of time, the accessibility of Dropbox's desktop app was entirely dependent on one passionate blind forum user who called us out (politely!) every time we messed something up. It was a great, productive relation
912.
by aftbit 3y ago
Rick and Morty did it. Keep Summer safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYvrziE4feI&t=70s
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by aftbit 3y ago
The main engineering lesson of Jurassic Park is to consider whether fail safe is actually deadly. It depends, are you more afraid of a fire or rampaging "velociraptors"?
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by aftbit 3y ago
I knew that both forms were common because I was lucky enough to have a Latin teacher who assigned as extra credit "write this number in Roman numerals" and also accepted additive notation for this reason. He even argued that IIII
915.
by aftbit 3y ago
I dunno, I think it's pretty cool to be either a millionaire or a billionaire. That's probably why I'm not either.
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by aftbit 3y ago
Yes, at the time I responded, the headline was much worse. The updated version actually provides some non-obvious information. The original merely said that prostate cancer isn't one disease.
917.
by aftbit 3y ago
One of the cases where code-is-law is actually better. The bitcoin community knew immediately that this wasn't Satoshi, because he didn't sign anything with the genesis block keys. Done and done.
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by aftbit 3y ago
Not to be rude or anything, but .... no duh? This is why looking for a "cure for cancer" is a bit nonsensical. There are many different ways for cell division to go wrong. Prostate cancer is just a cancer that affects the prostate
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by aftbit 3y ago
What's HIDTA? Is that the "high intensity drug trafficking area"? What does that have to do with cop-watching? Maybe they're trying to plant some cocaine on this guy and get him sent away? Also wtf kind of email is Intel
920.
by aftbit 3y ago
Yeah I generally have a pretty negative take about tech regulations, especially security ones. They are often written by people who don't understand either the technology or the threats, and are often implemented by people who don&#x27
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by aftbit 3y ago
Feature flags are one of those beautiful systems that are just expressive enough to be shoehorned into doing everything. Beta rollouts? Role-based auth? Billing entitelments? One-off customer requests? Yes. They can all be feature flags. Th
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by aftbit 3y ago
Ah but if you _do_ want to win a dispute with the state, you must not give up when you hit a logical contradiction. The only way out is through.
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by aftbit 3y ago
Thereby proving that checkbox security is pointless. What threat models does AWS server-side at-rest encryption protect against? Someone breaking into an S3 data center and walking off with a box of hard drives? AWS reselling obsolete hardw
924.
by aftbit 3y ago
I wonder if there was some kind of security issue, and they decided to move EoL up to beat a disclosure deadline.
925.
by aftbit 3y ago
Read more of computer.rip. It's all in this style.
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by aftbit 3y ago
IMO literally nothing, as long as the analog hole exists. The best they can do is make it more expensive. Requiring an account is one way to do that. Another option is to take the RIAA route and sue everyone involved. Of course they will li
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by aftbit 3y ago
I wish you would benchmark more common point-to-point VPNs as well. I see the comment explaining why you don't, but I think it would be useful. I'm comparing Tailscale, Nebula, etc against Wireguard with out-of-band static route m
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by aftbit 3y ago
I did read the article. I still don't get it. The way I read the parent post's law snippet, prohibiting Firefox or Chrome from shipping a browser based on their own rendering engine (as opposed to the Safari skins that they curren
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by aftbit 3y ago
Yea I just don't read twitter content anymore. Same thing I did to facebook. There's some really good stuff on there that I miss, but it simply isn't worth it to me. Easy enough.
930.
by aftbit 3y ago
I still do not understand. What part of this prohibits them from allowing PWAs? Shouldn't this actually prohibit them from preventing 3rd party browsers instead? Like Firefox with Gecko should be allowed now right?

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