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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I'm on the "outside" of this argument - never owned a gun yet and not in the US, but the right to life (not to be shot) can be exercised by protecting oneself from guns, with a gun. Here we're discussing how attacks agai
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Why is TLS 1.3 interesting here, in relation to censorship circumvention? Why is version 1.3 banned and not 1.2?
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
That was my point, although I might've written it poorly. You can't go and learn everything. We're surrounded and bombarded by so much information, so many different things every day. Even very intelligent and curious people
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Years ago I once wasted 2 hours arriving at 07:00 instead of 19:00. The AM/PM stuff is ridiculous, especially when people don't specify it. It was the time we were going to leave for a trip, so 07:00 or 19:00 were all acceptable t
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
We also see thousands of other things everyday. You can't be curious about everything. Analog clocks, roman numerals and Morse code are unnecessary in modern living for 99%+ people, just like it's unnecessary for them to know why
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
But with a LAN port, wouldn't you agree that reinstallation could take 1-2 human minutes of work, even if the whole process takes an hour? Take the laptop, plug it in, press a key, wait however much, then take it out and give it back t
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Because the stereo doesn't spy on us (hopefully). If it did, I wouldn't buy one, as it's not a necessity, either. The zipper also doesn't spy on us... yet? When smart zippers become the norm and you can't find jeans
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Those aren't real problems for most people, though. I've never damaged a piece of clothing and I only use a few programs. It's obvious what you can put in the dishwasher. And expiry dates don't mean anything. Food is usu
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Why would people even buy something like a smart TV if they know it's highly likely that it's created to spy on them? It's not a necessity, so maybe just don't get a smart TV in the first place? Otherwise, how sure you a
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I found this quite interesting, but I don't understand how the articles claims we can see flesh. And the author's Substack has 2 videos of Trump kissing and patting Bill Clinton's groin area (through pants). They are likely A
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Years ago when paying with PayPal, there were 2 choices - for them to convert currencies or to rely on my bank to convert them. There was a warning that if I chose the second option, it could cost a lot. Turns out, with my bank the conversi
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
How else would you make the private key unexportable and the passkey uncopyable?
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
The problem with this is requiring everyone to own a device with a secure enclave or similar hardware capabilities because some people are prone to being phished. Let me choose the level of risk I find acceptable.
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
In the EU there is Strong customer authentication [0], part of the PSD2 (Revised Directive on Payment Services). I read as much about it from the official sources as I could about a year ago, so I might be wrong here. From what I remember e
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
> Now, in the current government up to the challenge of doing this, and not fucking it up? Yeeesh, probably not. You got me there. But one can dream… The question should be about whether any future government would be up to the challen
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
That can be easily automated, and has been in a variety of ways. Just plug a USB or an Ethernet port, press 1-2 keys and done. The sysadmins won't have to go through a normal install wizard.
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I don't think Chromebooks are good computers for kids to learn on. They may learn how to use a browser and a relatively-closed ecosystem of dumbed down apps, but they won't learn working with a real OS, much less tinkering or expe
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
> and pay for postage either online or via an app No cash?
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
How does it compare to rutracker, especially for electrnic music? I've never used what.CD and rutracker seems to have lots of high quality music.
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Do you think the S3 bucket with the firmware will be available for the foreseeable future? If not could someone archive it somewhere? Maybe make a torrent out if it? My network is very slow and I estimated it's about 990 GiB of data (b
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I read non-fiction all the time. HN and reddit comments, news articles, Wikipedia articles, books, research papers. My ADHD doesn't help, but doesn't prevent me from finishing 300-page books that are actually interesting. I have y
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Yes! Art that's taught in school and that is "required" to know if you want to appear intelligent or fancy is just what GP posted. But art is also: * electronic music (if you're not aware, it's not just repetitive d
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
> it can feel as good to give a kindness as to receive one True - I love giving gifts and helping people more than receiving them or getting help. But it's still awkward/uncomfortable to receive help. > her mom was embarrass
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
The number would be most of the people who use the keyboard shortcuts && who use 2 or more layouts && who don't want to change languages to search for something. It's just muscle memory for me. CTRL+T -> x <s
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
> doesn't offer any programs that soak for a noticable length of time Again, wouldn't it be great if we could program the washing machine? A display and a couple of buttons would be enough. Something like: Menu -> New progra
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Thanks! I forgot about the unbalancing. I wish the open source washing machine projects actually took off. From what I remember they were created mostly to help poorer nations, which is a good goal. I've had to hand wash in the past an
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Why separate laundry? I've tried it in the past, but don't do it anymore. Same result. The stains that can be cleaned get cleaned. The stains that would persist, persist. The only difference is the temperature setting. As for sepa
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I'd make sure the scripts work with edge cases like unexpected characters in file names (new lines and so on), especially if you don't control the names yourself. Maybe prompt the AI to do some tests if that's possible? And k
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I use this a lot, but the problem with this, that still hasn't been fixed after all these years, is if you have 2 or more keyboard layouts, you can't make more than one bookmark pointing to the same URL with different search prefi
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I should've used "archaic" instead of "outdated". As in, "incomprehensible to someone speaking proper modern $language". Without a dictionary, a normal student couldn't understand what was being said

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