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by dcow 1y ago
There’s weird math that says your password or generally a secret key is more secure if it’s existed for less time (generated fresh) because there hasn’t been as much time to brute force it. I don’t believe it but some hardcore types do.
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by dcow 1y ago
They still offer(ed) you a new phone after two years. The “payments” are(were) hidden costs. I thought that was what we agreed on. 15 years ago there were no other options unless you did pay-as-you-go. Recently, yes, there are plans that le
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by dcow 1y ago
Of course. Either way you’re getting what you pay for and there’s no way to select “I don’t want a free phone every two years take $15 off my monthly payment please”. It kinda is moving that way now, though. The monthly cost for new hardw
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by dcow 1y ago
It may be an unfortunate relic of the carrier upgrade economics. Most people, in the US at least, on a subscription phone plan get essentially a new phone for free every 2 years. Things are changing a little lately and now it’s not quite a
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by dcow 1y ago
I honestly don’t know what you are spewing off about. At one point you quote me saying “compromise” then proceed to argue as if I said “compensation”. I’m not going to respond to a mischaracterization. To your challenge: > In the United
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by dcow 1y ago
This isn’t really what’s being argued. We’re not talking about a knitting forum. We’re talking about content neutral hosting platforms. There is a distinction in the law. If you want to not be liable for the content posted to your platform
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by dcow 1y ago
It makes actively preventing repairs (including via software restriction, which happens today) illegal. It clarifies that it is the responsibility of the company providing the product to in good faith facilitate 3rd party repair of the prod
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by dcow 1y ago
We don’t need the government to throw money at “open source”. That’s silly. Youtube used to be a means to an end. I need to send my friend or a teacher a video but email has a 25mb attachment limit. Need to use youtube or image shack. These
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by dcow 1y ago
In the US you absolutely can challenge everything up and including the constitutionality of court orders. You may be swiftly dismissed if nobody thinks you have a valid case, but you can try.
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by dcow 1y ago
Tough luck then. The point of the law is to make it easier for people to repair the things they rightfully own. Not kill business by requiring all companies to indefinitely manufacture parts for anything they’ve ever sold.
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by dcow 1y ago
I didn't say desired. It would work. Do it and if nobody uses it then so be it. Don’t balk and say “well we could but the elite minds in charge have high quibbles with how it would affect the feel of the language in this one absurd edg
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by dcow 1y ago
Go’s philosophy is the problem: sometimes you need a few ways to do the same thing. And that’s okay. Sometimes the flow you’re trying to express in code just needs the error to go up and get handled at the top. Sometimes you want to act on
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by dcow 1y ago
This might be a valid point if Go wasn’t an atrociously ugly and verbose language with some of the worst design out there.
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by dcow 1y ago
Where there’s a will there’s a way. Swift is almost universally compatible with objective-c and they are two entirely different languages no less. If an objective-c function has a trailing *error parameter, you can, in swift, call that func
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by dcow 1y ago
(2) hasn’t been a problem for Swift or Rust, both of which have the ability to spawn tasks willy nilly. I don’t think we’re talking about adding exceptions to Go, we’re talking about nicer error handling syntax. (1) yes Go’s minimal languag
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by dcow 1y ago
Making specific categories of work obsolete is not evil by any existing moral code I know. On top of that, history shows that humans are no less employed over the generations as we’ve automated more things. You entire comment is rooted in f
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by dcow 1y ago
I used to be a NASA holdout but we’re at a point—we have been for a while now—where NASA is lagging the private sector on essentially every axis. We don’t need the government to kickstart space exploration anymore. Would the average person
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by dcow 1y ago
Am I a psychopath? What is evil about the current iteration of language models? It seems like some people take this as axiomatic lately. I’m truly trying to understand.
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by dcow 1y ago
This is the only answer.
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by dcow 1y ago
No, you won’t slow it down. Did you even read the essay, it’s here . If powering scams and “destabilizing labor” makes something evil then we should delete the internet. Seriously.
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by dcow 1y ago
So the problem is society’s lack of any coherent ethical framework that says building powerful disruptive technology shall be done like this . If you’re tired, then go fix that problem. Find the answer. Because I’m *exhausted* hearing ab
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by dcow 1y ago
What annoys me is that war is war. Of course there’s an aggressor and defender that’s how war works. A bunch of people die. War happens because there is no peaceful answer to, “who is right”. There is no global true narrative. Does it reall
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by dcow 1y ago
> Signing requests does give extra security points, but why do we collectively place higher security requirements on webhook requests than API requests? TFA is exploring the juxtaposition of signed web-hook requests vs bearer token api r
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by dcow 1y ago
If it’s a normal function then we sure go through a whole lot of effort to make sure a human and not a python script is buying tickets. If it’s normal, why doesn't the industry embrace it wholesale?
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by dcow 1y ago
This. I am struggling to see how this is anything other than posturing by politicians. It’s hard to imagine this is strategy devised by military leaders.
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by dcow 1y ago
Firefox was also extraordinary for the price. point being that Google has never been the only option, just the most popular because why not your gmail is already plugged in.
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by dcow 1y ago
I genuinely do not use a single service on your list and my life is absolutely indistinguishable from that of one who does. I’m digitally literate and normally functional. Do people really believe these services are irreplaceable let alone
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by dcow 1y ago
Further: I’ve never seen rust encourage anything of the sort. Module directory with a mod.rs and any number of files works just fine.
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by dcow 1y ago
It’s because the genesis of these convoluted license terms is rooted deeply in the archaic copyright law in the US. Until that is fixed, these legal hacks will be necessary. If you’re not pushing an agenda, you have the public domain or the
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by dcow 1y ago
I think modernity has complicated things. The proprietary vendor signing all the binary components to prevent tampering is different from the platform package manager and kernel requiring signed packages/pages. If you have the propriet

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