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by bawolff 10d ago
No security control is perfect. The point is to increase costs to the point its unfeasible. After all, if money is no object, you could just bribe every single apple employee involved in the project.
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by bawolff 11d ago
Umm, wouldn't this break if you moved a directory that is somewhere up the path? Seems like a security issue if you cache what policy applies but the policy could change by user action.
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by bawolff 11d ago
At some point, i feel like a tech article written to a tech audience has the right to assume certain technical knowledge. eBPF is not an obscure technology in the linux world, and its impossible to make your article target everyone while st
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by bawolff 11d ago
I'm doubtful that this is true. Lying in a privacy policy is a crime.
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by bawolff 12d ago
I'd disagree, i think a single pumping station can be fixed relatively quickly. The real problem is your second sentence - if Houthis just keep blowing it up every time the Saudis fix it.
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by bawolff 12d ago
The average person might be legit worried about dragnet (non targeted) evensdropping of non encrypted communication. This is rational given what Snowden said. So for the average person, WhatsApp (which is E2E encrypted) is probably quite se
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by bawolff 12d ago
Unless your adversary is divine this isn't true. In general people who believe this way make really bad trade-offs and as a result probably have worse security than most people.
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by bawolff 12d ago
I'd say that genere is a lot more than setting
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by bawolff 12d ago
Support was added a decade ago (chrome 59 (2017), firefox 3 (2008)), so you have to go back quite a while.
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by bawolff 12d ago
Its also a context that the reader is expected to know in order to interpret the book.
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by bawolff 12d ago
You get a fantasy novel? Living in the ruins of a great civilization that lived in the distant past and faced some sort of calamity (or decline of some sort) is one of the most common setups for a fantasy novel.
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by bawolff 12d ago
I think most scifi (that isn't just action adventure) tries to reframe the problems of today in a different context for the purposes of social commentary. Despite the future setting, it is fundamentally a genre about the present. If th
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by bawolff 12d ago
What percentage of the web is that 0.1% ? 0.01% ? I think its correct to say a use case that is very niche on the web isn't super important to the web. Especially when there already exists a bunch of lossless formats. After all, the va
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by bawolff 12d ago
> It won’t be know until it’s been tried We can reevaluate when and if improvements are made. The problem with statements like this, is its really easy to miss the showstoppers when imagining what something could be. All plans are amazin
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by bawolff 12d ago
Not to mention if you for some odd reason wanted to do gif-style animations, you can also do it with apng or webp. You shouldn't, real video format makes more sense, but even if you did there is still no reason to use gif.
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by bawolff 12d ago
Its fine if you are targeting rich people. It doesn't work if you are targeting (relatively) poor people. You can't have both scarsity and low prices, something has to give.
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by bawolff 12d ago
>then people can keep buying from Nike and will buy the next version. But in this scenario people can't because if they are worth $1000 but selling for $200 then they will instantly sell out. why does it hurt consumers more to not b
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by bawolff 12d ago
We picked democracy because it is very difficult for a citizen to move to a different country/start their own if they are unhappy. Democracy is a fix for that power imbalance. By contrast its relatively easy to quit and start a new com
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by bawolff 12d ago
I feel like the only way this makes sense is if "ideas" is a euphamism for drugs.
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by bawolff 12d ago
I don't say this lightly, but this sounds like someone going through a mental health crisis.
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by bawolff 12d ago
I'm not familiar with SimpleX, but keep in mind only some types of onion routing is secure against a global passive adversary. Famously Tor is not.
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by bawolff 12d ago
i think the "having taste" part is more an issue with the people who use AI and what they use it for, than AI itself.
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by bawolff 12d ago
Caesar cipher is probably something even an untrained person could decode. Probably something more complex like a vigenere cipher that is still trivial to decode if you are at all familiar crptanalysis, but would look impossible to someone
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by bawolff 12d ago
Viewing any security thing as a binary is the wrong way to look at it. Figure out your adversaries, how much power they have and what they are willing to spend. Make your decisions from there. I personally think signal is sufficient for the
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by bawolff 12d ago
Scale tends to be a bit of a chicken and the egg problem. regardless, i agree, we aren't totally killing fossil fuels anytime soon. on the other hand, we don't need to. A reduction in demand by 75% would be world changing, and loo
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by bawolff 12d ago
> The Saudi pipeline that was attacked had a capacity of 7M barrels per day. Gone for who knows how long. That 7MBPD that needs to come from somewhere. it probably depends on what exactly happened to the pipeline, but normally i'd e
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by bawolff 13d ago
..physical assault or shoving of one’s own children damn. I feel like ideally the police or CPS should be called. Forfeiting the game seems like a mild consequence.
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by bawolff 15d ago
Yeah, its a bit like a medical test that promises to detect cancer 100% of the time, but actually just says everyone has cancer. To be useful, information doesn't just have to have a good false negative rate, it also has to have a goo
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by bawolff 15d ago
Traditionally you cared alot about internet connectivity and latency to your customer base. I imagine Texas comes out a lot better on that front. That probably matters a lot less for AI.
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by bawolff 15d ago
Does it really matter? You really only need to run it once.

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