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by cge 7mo ago
I found one parking lot in the EU where there were only signs, and the signs not only pointed to an Android+iOS only, attestation-protected app, rather than a website, but an app that, at least on Android, was region-locked to only allow in
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by cge 7mo ago
An added point about Tammany Hall is that for much of time it was a relevant political power, the US did not have secret ballots. Arguably, it was the lack of anonymity/secrecy in voting that allowed for the types of election fraud t
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by cge 8mo ago
Yes, comparing to Porkbun for .com and .net, it looks like you'd need at least around 10 domains before it became cost effective (the .org price there says it is time limited and I think does not reflect recent .org price increases). T
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by cge 8mo ago
As a counterexample: I use Matrix along with ~30-50 people, on a federated server, and every room is encrypted. After sufficiently stressing to people that they need to save their secure backup key, we've had few problems with encrypt
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by cge 8mo ago
I'm not sure if it ended up being used this way, but if I recall correctly, when that was being initially implemented, federation was actually a core feature: different agencies / municipalities / etc could have their own ser
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by cge 8mo ago
> People will re-flash their printers with an open-source firmware that won't do the checks? The text of the bill suggests that it would make printers capable of being reflashed with an open source firmware illegal to sell, as the l
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by cge 8mo ago
The traditional arrangement is not a ‘lateral queue’, however, but, as the article points out, everyone standing and letting the bartender choose the order. And as someone who is read as queer and undesirable in Ireland (as far as I can tel
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by cge 9mo ago
> But as they can't easily (i.e., without expense) A/B test their strategy There also isn't really any detriment. At worst, the sniper is making the same bid they would have made otherwise. If the opposing bidders are not
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by cge 9mo ago
In my experience, most purely online auctions, other than eBay, do work that way. Numerous auction houses, for example, including essentially all the major ones, have their auctions online now: when they are hybrid, that involves online liv
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by cge 9mo ago
If it is like my usual experience with European academia, it may be intended to more heavily push use of Microsoft 365 services, which tend to somewhat assume phone availability. I think that usually universities cannot force the use of per
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by cge 9mo ago
>Excepting slide photos. No real adjustment once taken (a more difficult medium than negative film which you can adjust a little when printing) One might argue that there, many of the processing choices are being made by the film manufac
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by cge 9mo ago
Yes. Writing a post like this, but for film, would be illustrative of that similarity, but significantly more challenging to represent, especially for color film. I actually don't know the whole process in enough detail to write one,
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by cge 9mo ago
Even in emergency situations, the idea that the best outcome for passengers is achieved when they leave everything behind does involve placing trust in the crew and the authorities around the situation. If you're in a situation where
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by cge 9mo ago
It appears that by default, gpg doesn't output the signed text at all when verifying a cleartext signature. It does not appear to check for or warn about extra content before or after the cleartext text and signature. It strictly i
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by cge 9mo ago
The argument here seems to be that when GnuPG's implementation, or the original standard, has flaws, those flaws should be seen as inherent limitations of the use-case, rather than flaws in the implementation and standard. And with Gn
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by cge 10mo ago
That device is bafflingly LTE cat20 with 2Gbps downlink, and then has LAN connectivity only through a single 1Gbps ethernet port. Actually, it seems one of the advantages of the new Ubiquiti devices over Teltonika/Mikrotik/Gl.iNet
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by cge 11mo ago
While I never fly on Ryan, the question here would be whether, as the article suggests but isn't completely clear, digital boarding passes are actually app-only, or whether, like most airlines, you can get an image boarding pass from t
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by cge 11mo ago
>I think the bigger question is why they were using microsoft products in the first place. Public institutions in Europe, in my experience, often have a confusing insistence on using Microsoft cloud products. Universities heavily push O
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by cge 1y ago
>However, there is significant popular opposition to that, people seem to massively prefer notes. One of the most important features for cash is that it actually be accepted widely, and if I recall, that is a significant problem for $1 c
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by cge 1y ago
This feature is specific to relatively recent, Github-flavored Markdown. Pandoc, for example, uses different syntax ( https://pandoc.org/demo/example33/8.18-divs-and-spans.html#d... ).
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by cge 1y ago
>(12a) In the light of the more limited risk of their use for the purpose of child sexual abuse and the need to preserve confidential information, including classified information, information covered by professional secrecy and trade se
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by cge 1y ago
Something I have never been able to find an explanation for with B612: why is the final sigma character (ς) vertically offset downward from every other Greek character? It makes for very jarring text, and there doesn't seem to be any
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by cge 1y ago
It's confusing and certainly non-standard, but rather than using a variant for this, the slashed zero is U+E007, in a private use area. There seems to be an unofficial variant here that might be more useful for coding: https:/&#x
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by cge 1y ago
For academia, I've found that Dell seems to seek and get sole-supplier contracts with universities, so research groups are forced to use their grant money to buy from Dell, often at inflated costs.
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by cge 1y ago
It’s possible that Apple really did a disservice to soldered RAM by making it a key profit-increasing option for them, exploiting the inability of buyers to buy RAM elsewhere or upgrade later, but in turn making soldered RAM seem like a sca
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by cge 1y ago
To agree with you: I've worked with several really brilliant undergrads doing and publishing great research. But all of them were rightfully undergrads. Even if they were actually capable of doing great research, they benefited from th
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by cge 1y ago
The point here seems to have been to obtain degrees as quickly as possible, without concern for actually learning. I'd also note that depending on where you're located and how far you're willing to go, there are often many o
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by cge 1y ago
I was going to respond with my usual point that money paid to the Mozilla Foundation cannot legally be used to support Firefox, but it turns out you're right: MDN and several other products are actually part of the Mozilla Corporation.
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by cge 1y ago
>Also the proprietary license on multiboard is absolutely insane. Licensing in the 3D printing community tends to be a mess, with licenses that are often absurd, and selectively and sometimes dramatically enforced and unenforced. Multibo
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by cge 1y ago
>Fairphones consistently doesn't support a quarter of what graphene os requires I expect it's not just a matter of feature support: Fairphone in general seems rather horrible on security, doing things like using test keys for p

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