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by conradev 5y ago
Apple published a threat model review recently, with an explicit response to the threat from governments: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model... Specifically, it looks like they will be re
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by conradev 5y ago
While we’re calling out the literal evil the US prison system, this company in particular is terrible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securus_Technologies The first paragraph: “The company has been criticized for deve
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by conradev 5y ago
I like how Wikipedia put it: "Where on this continuum English-influenced Scots becomes Scots-influenced English is difficult to determine." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language#Decline_in_stat...
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by conradev 5y ago
I thought you could use Obsidian to construct an explosion-proof farm, but my information might be out of date
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by conradev 5y ago
I was actually looking for something like this. I have one computer that I want to back up to both local hard drives and to the cloud. A NAS is great, because you can back up to it and have the backup stored on local hard drives, but it als
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by conradev 5y ago
Isn't it also incompatible with the distribution model? Because personalizing video for every customer is hard to scale for companies that rely on reducing cloud costs
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by conradev 5y ago
Pretty much everything uses AES-XTS: BitLocker and FileVault do as well
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by conradev 5y ago
While Fuschsia's microkernel architecture has a lot of security benefits, the microkernel (Zircon) is still written in C++
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by conradev 5y ago
You’d be surprised how difficult it is to estimate the frequency that someone sees a bug. The only way to have a “feel for it” is to base it on… other data. Say there is a bug that happens in the photo taking flow – you’d need to know how o
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by conradev 5y ago
The blurry line you are referencing is actually quite clear legally: is the accommodation short-term or not? (defined by the regulatory environment) Wherein Airbnb stays are usually short-term and renting out an ADU is usually longer term
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by conradev 5y ago
If tourism is the basis of the entire economy for a given region, then that region usually has plenty of legal short-term accommodation options. Not to mention that these options are usually cheaper than Airbnb!
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by conradev 5y ago
This caused me to search and see if there are tools to leverage ASTs when resolving merge conflicts, and it looks like there are! https://www.semanticmerge.com/ Would be cool if diffsitter added support for facilitating thr
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by conradev 5y ago
You can use a keyboard and mouse on a PS5 and a PS5 controller on PC, depending on game support. I believe the same is true for Xbox.
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by conradev 5y ago
Ethereum actually pushed the sharding portion of ETH2 back to end of 2022, not proof-of-stake: > Originally, the plan was to work on shard chains before the merge – to address scalability. However, with the boom of layer 2 scaling soluti
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by conradev 5y ago
As someone who also tries to form a balanced view of crypto, the detractors are right about one thing: Bitcoin uses an awful lot of energy. It’s also pretty fundamental to Bitcoin, to the point that I think it is at odds with the world’s go
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by conradev 5y ago
If you want to see Lachlan in action, here are some good videos from his past efforts: Dirty Kanza 2019 (200mi gravel race in Kansas): https://youtu.be/kPODHtTdO24 GBDuro 2019 (crossing all of England): https://y
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by conradev 5y ago
My understanding is that Apple never replaced the batteries, they just swapped the AirPods with new ones
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by conradev 5y ago
I've also see Kubernetes being used this way, with one cluster per data center for company-wide utilization with segmentation being at the _namespace_ layer. The priority class system is heavily utilized to make sure production workloa
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by conradev 5y ago
You can download ARM builds with the click of a button if you have an MSDN subscription. If you don't have one (I don't), there is a great website to download Windows update images directly from Microsoft (and turn them into ISOs)
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by conradev 5y ago
Does Wise (fka TransferWise) send money to those countries?
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by conradev 5y ago
I recently directly connected my 2020 MacBook Air to my iMac G4 in target disk mode… and it worked. I had to use a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, a Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire 6-pin adapter and then FireWire 6-pin to FireWire 9-pin a
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by conradev 5y ago
The Noise Protocol is a specific project, that, funnily enough, doesn’t include generating noise. I believe the name is intended to mean that the messages look like noise. Here are some protocols that use noise (specifically differentially
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by conradev 5y ago
One thing I realized with this is that there are multiple levels of metadata privacy: 1. Messaging provider cannot see which accounts message each other 2. ISP cannot see which IP addresses message each other Using Tor here gets you both 1
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by conradev 5y ago
I do want to point out that it is possible to use a central server while keeping metadata private if you use noise
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by conradev 5y ago
Anything a JIT can circumvent an interpreter can circumvent just fine (albeit slower)
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by conradev 5y ago
I bet the input latency on this will be better than any other computer on the market
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by conradev 5y ago
Even for something as subtle as following a nature account – chances are that when you see it, you'll be in bed or on the toilet or at work and not in nature. You could still feel like you're missing out :(
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by conradev 5y ago
Is that actually the case? Couldn't a new player with the money to spend become a stakeholder overnight by purchasing large amounts of ETH on the open market and staking it? Versus taking that money and taking months to invest it into
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by conradev 5y ago
I see! I misread
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by conradev 5y ago
[EDIT: I misread] > Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple. That last bit is not true. From Apple’s security PDF: > When Messages in iClo

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