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by byuu 10y ago
> the Amazon/Google sysadmins are sharp, they apply all patches, and they have procedures in place to make sure they don't do anything incredibly stupid. I shared that viewpoint when I was hosting my forum on InMotion Hosting.
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by byuu 10y ago
> So? So maybe people that will be dead in five years shouldn't be deciding social issues for the next sixty. The silent generation had their lifetime "where men were MEN, women stayed in the kitchen, and gays didn't exist
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by byuu 10y ago
That's fine. My position isn't based on making sure my party wins. It obviously has a liberal slant just due to old people being more conservative for obvious reasons, but the real goal is fairness in "your vote is proportion
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by byuu 10y ago
I said it wouldn't be a popular sentiment. But as they say, democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding on what to have for dinner. Some rise above it, but human nature is inherently selfish. These 70 year olds have grandchildren to
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by byuu 10y ago
All headed by 70 year old rich men and politicians who won't be around to suffer the long-term environmental consequences. And look at the age demographics where most of their votes come from. Yet everyone acts like it's a monstro
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by byuu 10y ago
> Typical bluster from Trump. The problem is, it won't be up to him. He's not going to nominate socially liberal justices. Especially not with Pence by his side and congress stacked with social conservatives. Once he replaces G
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by byuu 10y ago
I mean programming was just an example for us here. I think some will go for programming, but certainly not all. They're going to be competing for every job they can get. There's going to be increased pressure on every job openi
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by byuu 10y ago
Indeed. And when all those truckers lose their jobs, that's not just going to affect their lives. They're going to be retraining and competing for your jobs next. And they don't have to be nearly as skilled as you, if they&
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by byuu 10y ago
Trump didn't go on Fox News and promise to stack the Supreme Court with conservative justices specifically to overturn the ruling that allowed straight people to get married, because, like long golf putters, he doesn't think they
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by byuu 10y ago
> That may be because your paycheque affords you a comfortable enough life on that front that you don't have to stress over it. I won't deny I currently make a fairly decent amount of money. I'm not rich, but am somewhere
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by byuu 10y ago
> Democrats? They remain obsessed with cultural issues. I fully understand why transgender bathrooms are important, but I also understand why progressives’ obsession with prioritizing cultural issues infuriates many Americans whose chief
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by byuu 10y ago
> with a possibility of the Supreme Court majority ... possibility? They already have it. He gets to pick Scalia's replacement and that's 5-4. If Ginsburg or Breyer can't make it 4-8 more years (and Ginsburg is 84), then i
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by byuu 10y ago
The media wanted a razor-tight race because it was great for their ratings, so they gave Trump billions in free advertising on the 24-hour news cycle. And they got their wish: 48% to 48% of the popular vote.
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by byuu 10y ago
> They probably want to use it, make money off it, and give nothing back to anyone. They do the same shit with the GPLv3 as well. Piko Interactive recently backed out of a licensing agreement with me, and just released my GPLv3 emulator
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by byuu 10y ago
When I moved my message board to HTTPS, we had mixed content warnings on avatars. After adding a Content-Security-Policy header to upgrade insecure requests, we found that most sites without HTTPS failed quickly. But five or six people had
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by byuu 10y ago
> Firefox has a similar feature for HTTP-only sites using password fields Man, people really don't think these things through, do they? The end result of making that enabled by default would be that sites start using plaintext for
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by byuu 10y ago
This can also be dangerous. If Globalsign starts sending bad OCSP data again, or your browser vendor blacklists your CA due to bad behavior from the CA (no fault of your own), you'll end up with a site that now can't be accessed a
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by byuu 10y ago
They would just start obfuscating the data (with ciphers, word replacements, encoding, minification, etc.) They'd then claim it was for your security/privacy/protection. You know, like how Microsoft encrypts your Windows 10 u
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by byuu 10y ago
We need a crypto library that is easy to use in other applications that want security. This trainwreck of an API is the opposite of what we want: https://gnutls.org/reference/gnutls-gnutls.html It would probably be fas
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by byuu 10y ago
You kind of have to support SHA-1 still. Even with the browsers moving to deprecate it, many of the root certificates valid for another 10-20 years are still using it. (since the root certs ship with the browser, the security risk is lessen
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by byuu 10y ago
I haven't benchmarked TweetNaCl's performance yet, but I think that goes way too far into making the code completely unreadable. The 80%/10% number I gave is against the ref10 implementation. Compare theirs: https:/&#x2
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by byuu 10y ago
This thinking is why Heartbleed was such a disaster. Everyone left it to someone else, and the end result was OpenSSL being the only serious choice. Yet even the 'experts' got it wrong -- way wrong. I'm not advocating everyon
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by byuu 10y ago
> Therefore I feel like it is almost morally mandatory to continue to use GNU/Linux, otherwise in the long run we will all lose our freedom to choose. Yeah, like the freedom to choose our own init systems! ...... oh wait. Software s
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Because there are alternatives. You can grab foo.(net,org,io,country-code,etc) if foo.com is already taken.
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by byuu 10y ago
I suspect if there was a flat gTLD with no suffixes, everyone would have domain names that looked more like AOL screen names (lots of numbers after the names.) I'm okay with a few TLDs, but the original distinction is kind of vague. Th
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by byuu 10y ago
> Unfortunately however, there are a lot of grey areas... Certainly. Ideally, I'd have left it as .com, .net, .org. > the Brazilians claim it should instead be related to the rainforest. How many TLDs does a rainforest need, anyw
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by byuu 10y ago
> Competition drives innovation and improves consumer choice through ensuring: (i) market-based pricing; (ii) a widely available variety of unrestricted TLDs; (iii) improved quality of service (e.g. highly available and reliable systems)
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by byuu 10y ago
We're starting to feel the pain a bit with the online unbundled alternatives, sure. Right now, I have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime (mostly for the shipping but it also has some shows I like), Crunchyroll. And I'm still missing thin
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by byuu 10y ago
> Yep, if you have a cable or satellite subscription, whether you watch ESPN or not, you're paying ESPN over $80 a year. And that right there is one of the main reasons why I don't have a cable or satellite subscription anymore
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by byuu 10y ago
At least on Chrome, bbc.com is hijacking middle-clicks and opening them in the same window. Who there thought that was a good idea?! That's the first time I've seen that one. If you're a web designer, please do not do that.

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