crotchfire

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by crotchfire 3y ago
that the "driver" (libinput) should not send "simulated" events As long as they are marked as being synthetic, why not? If you mark them with a "this is a synthetic event" bit, the compositor/windowmanag
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Putting the effort on the shoulders of App developers instead of solving it at one place leads to so much wasted developer time, that could have been put into new features or solved issues. I was shocked about how nobody seemed to notice t
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Not without showing ID, you can't. And the ID tracking system is part of the prescription system, even though there's no doctor involved. It's why you can only buy pseudoephedrine from pharmacists.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Certain brands are designed without any consideration for repairability. Like a smartphone (on wheels). Or an "inverse Toyota". All the median-priced-cars from these brands, which are instantly totaled by anything other than cosm
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by crotchfire 3y ago
It's illegal in Mexico because the US put pressure on them. The US said "you need to stop selling this without a prescription system". So Mexico stopped selling it entirely .
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Nope. And the world has not imploded. There's a lot of chicken-little-ism around the prescription system
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by crotchfire 3y ago
This is what Mexico does, and it works fine. There are no prescriptions in Mexico. Medications which are scheduled controlled substances (amphetamines, codiene, morphine, etc) are sold directly by hospitals. There really aren't many o
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by crotchfire 3y ago
The book _Kingpin_ about LeRoux is a great read! Fun and geeky. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin Especially liked the part where he is asked "so why do you keep your piles of cash in Pelic
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by crotchfire 3y ago
things are still a bit messy with integer overflow No, they aren't messy, they're fully defined. Integer overflow in safe Rust works just like Java: the numbers wrap around. It's totally defined. You can, optionally, also
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by crotchfire 3y ago
What they are listing is not the undefined behaviors, but rather the C++ language constructs which might lead to them .
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by crotchfire 3y ago
https://www.seattleix.net/infrastructure-history Note the dates the Huawei CE12808 was put into and taken out of service. Less than one year.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
used by spammers Then why don't they just ask for ID if you want port 25 unblocked? Doesn't add up.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
It's mass-market, low margin, low risk consumer products None of those have anything to do with demanding that customers expose themselves to identity theft risk.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
There is a really nice specification for the authenticated encryption wrapper described above, as a standalone protocol element (i.e. usable independent of email/tor/etc): https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/475 It&
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by crotchfire 3y ago
> it seems like people don't talk as much about these ideas anymore The "modernized" Internet got addicted to low-latency interactive protocols. It's basically impossible to protect these from a global passive advers
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by crotchfire 3y ago
> No need to worry about expiration -- the DS record has none. > the DS record is signed by an RRSIG record that has an expiration You've just contradicted yourself. > No need to worry about expiration If that were true, which
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Title needs to be corrected by appending "on github". Sourcehut users unaffected.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Payment in advance. Bankruptcy courts don't claw back payments to vendors who are legitimately attempting to assist with an orderly wind-down. From the perspective of a bankruptcy judge that would just be them shooting themselves in t
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Of course they know. They also wisely refuse to accept responsibility for the reprecussions of being wrong. This is the whole point of title insurance. You aren't paying for the answer. You're paying somebody to accept massive
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by crotchfire 3y ago
No major ISP will give you an install commitment in writing. I wouldn't buy a house based on a mere estimate of the availability of something this critical. It's a gigantic clusterfuck. The realtors know they can't fix this
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by crotchfire 3y ago
On the contrary; it's the essence of ethics. Character is what you are in the dark.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
> Not really generalizing, not memorizing, maybe approximating ? The term you are searching for is confabulating .
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Nobody cares about that. If I want to be sure that an email came from a certain person, I ask for a PGP signature on it.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Also, the web ‘public suffix list’ should be a DNS property instead. Unfortunately the public suffix list has serious security implications, so it isn't safe to distribute it via unauthenticated DNS. It also has very serious availabi
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by crotchfire 3y ago
> I wish there was a better way but I can't think of one. There is: RFC7686: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7686
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by crotchfire 3y ago
> On a lot of these issues I feel we're all stuck on some rollercoaster ride that almost no one really likes, but also no one really has the courage to stop. As Will Emerson says in Margin Call : "Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you r
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by crotchfire 3y ago
> All that held from 1940-1980 ...right up until the Nixon Shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by crotchfire 3y ago
Weapons engineering is also engineering but I don't want to work for arms dealers like Anduril.
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by crotchfire 3y ago
This project has outstanding taste. So few people appreciate why Bittorrent (Mainline) and DNS have been world-conquering successes while everything else ( cough IPFS cough ) struggles. Be stateless, be sessionless -- send only packets,
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by crotchfire 3y ago
You do seem to be trolling pretty hard here, why is that?

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