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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
I like using short-lived SSH certificates, and avoiding long-lived keypairs entirely. Vendor post but it summarises the operational and security problems well. https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
And even then, it wasn’t really about justice but more for the prosecutor, Carmen Ortiz’s career advancement. The case ultimately did not help her in her run for governor of MA.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
In Australia at least, the Director of Public Prosecutions has the power to take over the matter, and they often do. They can then do one of two things. They can either continue running it if it’s in the interests of justice to do so (publi
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Americans. The U.S. has a lot of people who are unaccustomed to 24 hour time.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Hey, Asia’s not that big. If you’re in Bangladesh, you can simply walk to the electronics store in Japan.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Australian electricians (as with most skilled trades) undergo 4 year apprenticeships where they split their time between learning on the job and attending a trade school. There’s nothing wrong with this model, it produces tradespeople with
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
> But except for drive-thru, the staff control the timer. If you delete the order off the screen, the computer that does all the metrics thinks you've served it. That was probably true at some point, but it isn’t now. My teenager wo
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Splitter, not isolator.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Data diode hardware isn’t terribly expensive, but the software runs into the hundreds of thousands precisely because these are niche products. To DIY it you need three NICs (or an optical isolator, which is honestly more work than it’s wort
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Things that don’t have a compelling need to be connected to the internet should never be connected to the internet. When there is a need, connectivity should be restricted to the bare minimum required for the task.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Nobody is waiting on an RFC to make configuration changes to those devices to disable old cipher suites.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
I don’t think a non-crap general purpose Bluetooth stack exists. The “specification” is garbage and the implementations tend to be garbage also.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
AI won’t be replacing first year apprentices crawling through ceilings for $11 an hour while either you or I are still alive. It’s not that we can’t do it today, it’s because like orbital data centres, it is nowhere close to being economica
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Neither of these are challenges at all for semi-modern card systems.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Perhaps, rather than AI, Reddit’s growing hostility to its own users might be the main driver of users away from Reddit.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
I had lane keeping “assist” in a Subaru Forrester rental car almost kill me and my family by trying to push us into the path of a very large truck last year.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
> The ban does not need to be absolute, as I already mentioned in the above reply. To work, it doesn't need to be, to enforce absolutely would be a freaking nightmare, though vested social media interests would like the public to be
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Mine is paying for my masters right now. It’s not unusual.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
> I think the average person here in Aussie land would have to agree it's having a positive effect - it's working. My eldest daughter, and my various teenage nieces (all of whom are under 16) have mostly forgotten that this ban
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
It absolutely would not have received a positive reception at an event like DEF CON. They’ve always had a strict photo policy.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
> And when I see videos of how tall and wide the flames are, I have no idea how wide they should be... Up to 40km, depending on the wind. Embers can travel a long way.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Even in places where you can’t be compelled to hand over a password, attempting to deceive the cops will get you thrown in prison just as reliably as destroying evidence.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Saving the environment with Microsoft Excel.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
That’s a number I would been disappointed with 25 years ago, running Perl CGI on a 700MHz Pentium III.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Depends on the visa. A-1 and A-2 for example require almost nothing beyond a photograph, and a letter saying you’re travelling on behalf of your government.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
> People care about UNIX clones because they are lazy, UNIX has the source code available, and an existing ecosystem that they don't want to replicate, so it always ends up being yet another clone, thus throwing away all the possibl
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
I learned recently that it can also mean "the spacecraft exploded on the launchpad in an enormous fireball." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/blue-origin-rocket-ex...
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
And sometimes it’s just impossible to get a CVE number in a reasonable amount of time, or indeed at all.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
> It's an odd business that is huge and just trucks along without remarkable growth. This isn’t odd at all. It’s a feature common to most businesses that have been around 100 years or more.

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