cyberax

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by cyberax 7mo ago
It's purely a matter of _potential_ issues. The research on lattice-based crypto is still young compared to EC/RSA. Side channels, hardware bugs, unexpected research breakthroughs all can happen. And there are no downsides to addi
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by cyberax 7mo ago
At one point, I worked on an app that periodically appeared in the top 10 of Windows Store sales. Its income? Around $500 a month.
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by cyberax 7mo ago
"Hyperinflation caused Hitler" is one of the common narratives that "everyone knows". But German economy was actually growing during the hyperinflation era and by the time of Hitler's ascension, the hyperinflation h
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Not really. They are merging it with Android. Or in other words, they're making Android into a full-blown desktop OS.
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Yeah, especially funny since they had the early lead with their iPaq PDAs and Windows CE. Which they completely squandered by ignoring them. Then they acquired Nokia that already had an almost-ready ecosystem of apps, with good snappy UI. A
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Not really. Ironically, WPF designers wanted to make things better by offloading the rendering onto the GPU. They also added DirectWrite that was supposed to provide high-quality text rendering with all the bells and whistles like layout fo
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Calling that "the GPU acceleration" on Mac OS X was a bit overstating the things. It supported rotations, compositing, and some other bulk operations, but text and precise 2D graphics was rendered on the CPU. It _still_ is not tri
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> Ok, bear with me for a moment - what if the US would use actual physical gold coins instead of dollars? You'll get a bear economy, leading to the eventual deflation and collapse. Fun fact: it was not hyperinflation in Weimar Germa
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> I've not had that in a decade, and only for really shitty devices. I've also had crappy PoE devices stop working, ports blow. Every ESP32-based WiFi device _will_ at some point get stuck in the disconnected state. It's a
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Same here. For years, I resisted even using an external monitor, preferring to work on my laptop's monitor instead. I finally switched to using a monitor when poor posture started getting uncomfortable. I almost always have just one wi
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Another point: do NOT use the "~" or "^" versions for automatic updates. Just lock everything tight in your package files. Then have an alert on the lockfile changes.
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> The H1B i140 petition thing requires you to advertise the job before submitting the petition. You're confusing things. I-140 is a green card application, not H1B. H1B petition requires the I-129 form and an LCA from the DoL. No ad
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Iraq is pretty flat on the routes between the US-allied countries and the major strongholds (Basra, Baghdad). You can't easily conceal rocket launchers there. Tehran is protected by mountain ranges that can provide plenty of cover. And
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by cyberax 7mo ago
It's no different compared to regular SSH private keys. You need to protect it from compromise. However, it provides you an additional layer of protection, because it does not need to be on the critical path for every SSH connection. M
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by cyberax 7mo ago
On the other hand, _all_ the WiFi devices that I had at some point fell off the network, at least once. Including doorbells and cameras. While PoE devices just work. Another point is that mains power in my area can go down periodically. My
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by cyberax 7mo ago
It depends on what you want to do. CA certs are easy to manage, you just put the CA key instead of the SSH public key in authorized_keys. They also provide a way to get hardware-backed security without messing with SSH agent forwarding and
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> With SSH certificates you have to go back to the "keys to the kingdom" antipattern and just hope for the best. Whut? This is literally the opposite. With CA certs you can create short-lived certificates, so you can easily gra
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Of course, putting the metadata service into its own separate system is better. That's how Amazon does it with the modern AWS. A separate Nitro card handles all the networking and management. But if you're within the classic hyper
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Hosting IMDS on the host side is pretty much the only reasonable way to provide stability guarantees. It should still work even if the network is having issues. That being said, IMDS on AWS is a dead simple key-value storage. A competent de
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> Why don't you want every device to have a public IP? Suddenly, your smart lightbulb is accessible by everyone. Not a great idea. > With IPv6, if you want a peer-to-peer connection between firewalled peers, you do a quick UDP ho
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by cyberax 7mo ago
It's fine, it's a nice palindromic number!
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Because Debian is not used by people in Asian countries in any appreciable numbers?
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by cyberax 7mo ago
To be fair, if I had $999 million, it'd be bugging me all the time until I got to $1B.
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by cyberax 7mo ago
Arrange a stream of asteroids to transfer momentum from one of the outer planets. Or just terraform Mars.
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> Is it a serious problem that you can run whatever software you want on your computer? Unfortunately. I talked about this a bit on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/1063741/ The problem is very, very real. I don&#
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by cyberax 7mo ago
The ability to strike itself assumes easy interstellar travel. After all, if you can _destroy_ whole planets and stars, why not just send colonists immediately? Or maybe pre-emptively sterilize everything to make sure your eventual expansio
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by cyberax 7mo ago
It's a catch 22. If you want to preserve the Earth's biosphere or even biological humans, then you would need to move at least a ship the size of a small planetoid. That will support life for millenia that will be required for int
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by cyberax 7mo ago
The dark forest hypothesis assumes that it's easy to travel between stars, so interstellar conquests are possible. But it doesn't seem to be the case. There are no material goods that can justify the material and energetic expense
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> Nobody knowing anything about Russia would make such a gross mistake like you've just made. I'm Russian with parts of my family in Russia. > It is like you'd be discussing physics problems while not knowing Newton&#x2
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by cyberax 7mo ago
> for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzaoHPWfkbE That was electoral event with mandatory presence. This is nothing like Stalin's rallies where people themselves organized and attended, e.g.: https:/&#

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