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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> What we need is the full-on Mark of the Beast nightmare of having a federal Department of Identity. Why stop at federal when you can go global? The question is, will Apple's digital driver's license / state ID support[0]
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Presumably it's to trick whitehats into tipping off the hackers that their code was being analysed and had been successfully deobfuscated, so the hackers knew they needed to move to a different attack. It's actually quite devious,
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The most relevant section is perhaps this: > That community [at the IETF] is all about enterprise use cases and if you look at their other efforts like OpenID Connect (which too was a super simple proposal turned into almost a dozen comp
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> 1 - high absolute carbon emissions when compared to France and other countries who did not discard nuclear High absolute carbon emissions per capita ? Which other countries? Here are the figures[0] for various EU countries using nuc
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Couldn't the browser remember your home instance as an autocomplete "url" value[0]? So you would click the "Add this person as a friend on my home instance" button on the third party page, and it would bring up a li
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For extra context, there is currently work ongoing in the OIDC standards community to support Verifiable Credential Issuance[0] as well. Even better, this verifiable credentials work is intended to integrate well with self-issued identities
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Are you defining intermittency in a way that isn't captured by capacity factor (where offshore wind looks as good as gas)? Also, what do you mean by "indispensable"? Surely when coal was the source for most of Germany's
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Saying that electricity generation from natural gas has tripled is misleading because it is starting from a small base. It's more meaningful to compare the absolute amounts of generation added and subtracted from the various sources.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
(Previously discussed a little here[0] nine days ago). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295974
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Fact checking creates a history of this which should feature into algorithms. At first glance, it looks like you've just re-defined the problem from "platforms should decide which posts are true" to " fact checkers
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
What are you proposing exactly? I'm trying to steelman your position, but the best I can come up with is "Only the rich should be able to spread their opinions (which are obviously correct, since they are successful)" and &q
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think that's some reasonable context, thank you, even though it would require quite a leap to make the claim that it was the "pretty grim" actions in the Empire that enabled the peaceful transfer of power in the metropole
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the US is fairly unique in history for pioneering peaceful transfer of power without violence . The US inherited much of its political culture from that of England (not to say that the US didn't innovate heavily and positively on
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think there's an interesting general optimisation problem here of balancing the accuracy/performance of a software/hardware system, against the goal of making that system easier to iterate on and develop. Presumably this is
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If Microsoft didn't mandate TPMs for hardware running Windows 11 (or kept Windows 10 supported in parallel indefinitely), then governments wouldn't be able to pass such a law without potentially bricking the computers of millions
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm not quite sure what the threat model is that you're suggesting. Are you imagining that a government will demand that browsers drop support for unencrypted HTTP? It would be simpler for that government to just demand that ISP
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> How exactly could a TPM be required for Linux? "The laws of Australia will trump the laws of mathematics: Turnbull" https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-laws-of-australia-will-tru...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Personally, I don't really care either way. Perhaps you need to consider the possibility that the battle between systemd vs sysv init is not unrelated to the desire of Microsoft (and others) to lock down general purpose computers.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If we're dreaming big here, how about a slider that users can adjust for how much free speech they want to be exposed to? Or perhaps separate toggles for if they want to opt-in to seeing election misinformation, antivax conspiracies,
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Fortunately I've never had to try procuring legally-verifiable paperwork from a doctor to prove that a loved one is too sick to tell me their password, but I have to admit that such a process probably does exist, and someone could navi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Not sure how to make it feel less morbid than it is That requires some extra "UX design", but I think it's possible. It's like that classic piece of advice "you're not designing a computer system, you&#x2
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> have the attorney deliver a piece of paper with the password to that file if you're incapacitated . I think this is the difficult step. How does an attorney know whether you are incapacitated? Do they video-call you every day,
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It may not be good for the person in the malicious jurisdiction, but the idea is that the team members in the other jurisdictions can route around them if they start acting suspiciously. What that means in practice differs from project to p
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You could periodically create encrypted backups of the necessary data on a USB stick (stored in a known place in your home), so that the data locker only needs to disclose a relatively short password to her (and it could even broadcast it i
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Having team members in different (mutually distrusting) jurisdictions is a good way to allow organisations/projects to avoid legal coercion, so you're thinking along the right lines. You seem to be suggesting, though, that the fi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It can only be accessed over IPv5.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I'd love to see portable identity in Matrix come to life. Well, fortunately Matrix is working on adding OpenID Connect support[0], so I guess the answer will soon be "Matrix identities are as portable as OIDC identities"
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But they're kinda sus.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> it was reported earlier in the year that [the government] was preparing to formally reject the proposals [for online balloting for unions / industrial actions] citing concerns about security. So the Tories think that online voting
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Tory leadership: How secure is the online vote?(bbc.co.uk)
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