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by alphager 1y ago
Matt cut off wpengine and could cut off any other commercial hoster tomorrow if he wished to do so. Why would you risk that?
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by alphager 1y ago
You don't remember the controversies with XP and XPAntiSpy?
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by alphager 1y ago
Judges are not legislators.
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by alphager 1y ago
According to UK law, it is.
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by alphager 1y ago
I just use an enclosure that emulates a dvd-drive. Put a cheap SATA ssd in there and you can stop worrying about incompatibilities.
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by alphager 1y ago
If the regulation is legally binding by an act of Congress, it falls under the legal umbrella. Same thing in AUS: If there's a AUS law, they have to follow it.
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by alphager 1y ago
This is the same thing as suing a NY newspaper in Florida because their website is accessible from Florida.
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by alphager 1y ago
My healthcare, pension and workers protection proves you wrong.
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by alphager 1y ago
Even if Moore's law was still in effect and the computer resources required stayed the same and compute stayed as efficient per watt (neither is true), it would just halve compute costs every 18 months. You're able to read about p
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by alphager 1y ago
Germany has been doing it since 1949. It leads to stronger regional centers and dishes the capital effect. Germany has many larger cities all over the country. France has been doing the opposite, leading to a concentration in and around Par
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by alphager 1y ago
We're halfway into 2025 and you're cutting a goal they should have reached by 2024. Did they reach that goal?
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by alphager 1y ago
Seeing that telegram is clear text by default, you should consider alternatives that offer end to end encryption by default.
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by alphager 1y ago
Cheaper, much easier to get, socially acceptable everywhere, ... You won't get judged for eating alone at home, but start drinking alone at home...
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by alphager 2y ago
The legal threats against WPEngine and their customers, the lawsuits between WP/Automatic/WPF and WPEngine, the banning of several contributors, the takeover of WP Plugins on WP.org, the shenanigans with several check boxes on the
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by alphager 2y ago
Your government has threatened military invasion of Denmark.
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by alphager 2y ago
We have credit scoring in Germany (with the biggest scoring agency being Schufa).
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by alphager 2y ago
We autistic people have feelings and empathy. We have trouble expressing feelings and reading feelings of others, but we know that we and other people have feelings. Musk may or may not be an autist, but his deranged treatment of people is
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by alphager 2y ago
The US is a major food exporter with a supply around 125%. Shutting down a few farms in the desert seems worthwhile.
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by alphager 2y ago
Optimization problems like placing trains on a network become computationally viable. We're currently using unoptimal solutions because calculating an optional solution would require way too much time.
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by alphager 2y ago
AES can only encrypt up to 64TB; after that you need to re-key. So you need a mechanism for rekeying anyway. Definitely a good idea to use a battle-tested tool like wireguard instead of rolling your own.
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by alphager 2y ago
In Germany, the process to evict may start after three months of unpaid rent. The eviction process itself takes about two years.
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by alphager 2y ago
I can fully recommend this book by one of the TLS 1.3 contributors; it doesn't require a cryptographer background and serves as an extremely good starting point: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptograph
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by alphager 2y ago
It has an incredibly high surface tension and "sticks". It's actually quite hard to apply. I see no risk of leaking.
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by alphager 2y ago
Yup, that was the older generation. The newer generation used NIST to propagate a backdoored RNG and to weaken several ECC-curves.
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by alphager 2y ago
It really reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin imitates his dad and says "Calvin, go do something you hate. Being miserable builds character!".
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by alphager 2y ago
"Your ATC comment seems to continue your theme that everyone should run a private PKI instead." Not the OP you replied to, but I want to add some nuance: there's a vast solution space between using the WebPKI and rolling your
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by alphager 2y ago
On their own TV at home: probably not. In airports, bars, waiting rooms: absolutely.
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by alphager 2y ago
Both anecdotes and data disprove your statement. They don't work in all cases and we currently don't know if that is because depression is actually a symptom of multiple diseases and antidepressants just work on some of them or if
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by alphager 2y ago
No, absolutely not. Libertarians are way way more extreme than the liberals here.
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by alphager 2y ago
No, mining is proceeding according to the plan to end in 2035. You might confuse it with the protests surrounding Lützerat, where the existing mining activities encroached (as planned) the village. Germany kept 4 coal plants online in 2022

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