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by api 11y ago
"Secondly, he's citing 'information technology' as being the death of 'capitalism'. An industry, arguably the most aggressively capitalistic." That would be historically ironic, wouldn't it? So much s
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by api 11y ago
What he's saying is to have boundaries -- exercise discretion about what you let in.
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by api 11y ago
"If it bleeds it leads" -> "if it trolls it rolls?"
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by api 11y ago
Nope. You can go beyond that in a variety of ways. :)
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by api 11y ago
We had a similar problem in 1999. They called it 'portalitis' back then. Go find some shots of the old Yahoo homepage for an example. Then Google came out with one blank and 'search' and we finally exited that ugly cruft
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by api 11y ago
NAT is for stretching IPv4. That's it. As far as security goes, firewalls don't require it. Not only that, but I share the admittedly minority opinion that firewalls are a crutch for bad system security and that we should be worki
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by api 11y ago
Look into browser fingerprinting, among other things. This is a losing battle. I am deeply pessimistic about the potential for tracker-blind browsing without extraordinary measures. A simple plugin or cookie rules simply do not and cannot c
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by api 11y ago
It's easy to gather local IP addresses. WebRTC is just one of dozens of methods of doing this. Others include various DNS tricks, reverse TCP traceroute, <img> tag tricks, JavaScript/XMLHttpRequest tricks, etc. Private IP ad
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by api 11y ago
It's fairly likely that rumors of the NSA's ability to 'decrypt SSL' refers to RC4 vulnerabilities.
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by api 11y ago
"Looking at various examples of security advice we find that the advice is complex and growing, but the benefit is largely speculative or moot. For example, much of the advice concerning passwords is outdated and does little to address
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by api 11y ago
I've never been or witnessed anyone get promoted except by job transfer, and have thought for quite some time that "the promotion is dead." I've only seen very small raises, usually cost of living adjustment type things,
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by api 11y ago
Don't you do experiments to test hypotheses? An infinite number of experiments are possible, so you have to pick one. A novel prediction made by a theory is a good place to start.
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by api 11y ago
"In 2013, I presented the paper "Empirical Evidence Suggest A Need For A Different Gravitational Theory," at the American Physical Society's April conference held in Denver, CO. There I met some young physicists and aske
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by api 11y ago
This isn't just an Apple thing. iCloud was designed for mobile, and one thing I've observed about mobile OSes is that (so far) they treat user data with an indifference that is approaching contempt. Mobile devices/OSes are fo
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by api 11y ago
American here. Sounds like they are just like our leaders. :)
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by api 11y ago
Interesting. I had a strong feeling this whole 'censorship' controversy was bullshit manufactured by trolls, especially given the very trolly nature of the banned subs.
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by api 11y ago
Unless you are rich, this applies to most "alpha world cities" to varying degrees.
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by api 11y ago
It would also require crypto systems to be licensed and regulated, effectively limiting their deployment to huge vendors. Look into what FIPS compliance entails. These kinds of things always have a regulatory capture / monopolistic lan
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by api 11y ago
Thanks, those look interesting. Will give them a read when I have time. My naive reaction though is: a lawful universe does not necessarily imply well-behaved fitness landscapes. Many lawful and even very simple processes give rise to chaot
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by api 11y ago
I wasn't referring to anyone's expertise in the field, but to humanity's understanding of a five billion year old intelligent system. What we've done so far is impressive, but we've really only scratched the surface
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by api 11y ago
"And when this one test gives them some nice data, they say: "Hey, our stuff is better than everything all of nature has ever done!"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
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by api 11y ago
I think a strong argument for 'no' comes from the No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem The NFL theorems have been misused by advocates of 'intelligent design&
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by api 11y ago
Nothing surprising here. People don't buy Teslas because they want the same thing as those who buy an expensive gas-powered luxury car. They buy them because they want to be early adopters of cool new stuff. If I bought one I would not
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by api 11y ago
A lot of these SSL vulnerabilities show that complexity is an inherently bad thing for security. In general, bugs in a system are exponentially not linearly proportional to system complexity. With security that means that the addition of a
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by api 11y ago
... and why would we invest the money to do that when there is not enough (software-driven) demand for that performance. The average person uses PCs and mobile devices to browse the web, write documents, order an Uber, and maybe play games.
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by api 11y ago
I have, with absolutely zero problems. I recommend them often. Not sure I'd trust them with PCI compliance requirements or something that heavy but I'd certainly use them for commodity VPSes over many others. They seem to offer a
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The Finger’s on the Self-Destruct Button: The Ugly Truth about Music Streaming(medium.com)
4 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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by api 11y ago
This also probably works on other cloud providers if they support a virtualization layer that OpenBSD will work with. I've heard of successes here too: https://vultr.com/ Just be sure you use miniroot58.fs -- OpenBSD 5
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by api 11y ago
I don't think that's what I was talking about.
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by api 11y ago
Nokia and RIM... they sort of loosely remind me of Commodore and Atari from the early-mid PC era. Mobile today is sort of like the late PC era -- we have Apple and IBM in the form of roughly iOS and Google/Android. Interesting how hist

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