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by decasia 8y ago
I don't know if I would build something from scratch that was based on XMPP or even on the idea of messaging. I keep thinking that the Twitter/FB/chat models of socializing is a very limited form of online sociability and tha
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by decasia 8y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I don't think it's likely that government-provided social software would work all that well in the contemporary USA (unless they built it with better security and privacy than they have
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by decasia 8y ago
Federated communities would be neat and basically are how the "real world" already interconnects, socially speaking. I don't think that's exclusive of what I had in mind. But you have to actually have the communities bef
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by decasia 8y ago
My thought about the article is that basically the author has gotten too negative. He is so distracted with attacking the ad-supported social software we have that he gave up thinking about the software we need.
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by decasia 8y ago
The thing I keep thinking is that I want to have social software built on a co-operative model (like a food co-op): you all pay some nominal membership fee (could you fund servers and developers on $5/year/user?), and the software
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by decasia 8y ago
I would add though: A written agreement is only as good as the people who sign it.
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by decasia 8y ago
Neat article, but I think we should distinguish basically two things here that the article blurs together: 1) Reducing website bandwidth and computational usage (static sites, small images, reducing extra resource requests). Super common to
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by decasia 8y ago
Soverin sounds like a good project. What do you make of the fact that the warrant canary hasn't been updated since May, though? https://soverin.net/warrant-canary
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by decasia 8y ago
"You have no proof that the accident wouldn't have occurred anyway without the update." Well, the NTSB preliminary report doesn't make any statements about what the software update did, per se. But it does indicate tha
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by decasia 8y ago
I liked this comparison quite a bit. Has anyone also written a comparison of different environments as they affect our ability to think/write/type? For example, I love the general experience of working in coffeeshops: the backgrou
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by decasia 8y ago
Ha, I independently wrote almost the identical thing (minus bells and whistles) on Friday in a fit of procrastination. So if anyone wants a dark mode for their hacked together javascript timer: https://decasia.org/tools&#x2F
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by decasia 8y ago
It's hard to regulate the users' ignorance or to prevent the use of awful dark patterns like "public by default." But it would be a more ethical world if every site with public-facing social features had to create someth
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by decasia 8y ago
One would think that Apple would be a prime candidate for contributing to Homebrew security funding, since in practice it is a project with security implications for so very many OSX developer workstations.
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by decasia 8y ago
Once I went to a sexual/workplace harassment training at a little college while I was doing my postdoc. The guy doing it was very experienced and down to earth (which helps). And one thing he said really stuck with me: "This train
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by decasia 8y ago
Your information might be outdated -- In the latest version of Zotero, when you add a PDF to Zotero, it automatically retrieves the metadata via DOI lookup. (I don't think it would work with papers too old to have DOIs but haven't
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by decasia 8y ago
That's interesting, thanks. I always thought the 2FA threat model was "Someone acquired my password" or else "someone has access to my email account and may try to do password resets by email."
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by decasia 8y ago
OK thanks, this clarifies the part that says "it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes," which I found super confusing.
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by decasia 8y ago
I guess this is a dumb question, but is it still "multi factor authentication" if you only use a single physical device to complete the login process? The way the article is written, it makes it sound like the physical key is a re
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by decasia 8y ago
I have no particular opinion about the facts of the specific case in question. But there is something weird about the way customer service is set up these days: 1) Company: Doesn't like dealing with problem users/clients. 2) Compa
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by decasia 8y ago
It seems like a terrible security model to "trust whatever cell site is in range." Are there any alternatives to this state of affairs? For example, can your carrier supply you with a whitelist of their towers and then ignore ever
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by decasia 8y ago
On your substantive point, I have no quarrel whatsoever with mixing old and new tech. I think we all do that, in practice. But what we're talking about is not just whether we mix old and new tech but where we go from here given that G
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by decasia 8y ago
Just a quick note on the email point — the specific thing I was responding to was this from TFA: "Many people, especially younger devs, have never seen a real mail client like mutt. In their minds they may picture an overflowing GMail
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by decasia 8y ago
Sure, I wasn't trying to say there are no current projects that use mailing list workflows. My point was just about the specific logic of this article. I think it is self-contradictory to say "It's better to do X but I person
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by decasia 8y ago
This is a beautifully detailed but self-refuting argument. The self-refutation comes midway through, when the author admits: "To be honest I can’t say that I’ve contributed to non-Github projects either." OK — so maybe the possibl
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by decasia 8y ago
Yeah on your second point; I used to do a bit of TV broadcast stuff and it was a marvelous technical world/system of its own. And it seems obvious that the BBC's proposal here is in some sense much more lo-fi than that. I think th
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by decasia 8y ago
relevant TLDR: "Professional, live, multi-camera coverage isn’t practical for all events or venues at a large festival. For our research at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015, we experimented with placing three unmanned, static, ultra high
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by decasia 8y ago
One of the sibling articles explains that part of the project involves trying to cut labor costs on covering massively multi-sited events: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/nearly-live-production The idea is expli
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by decasia 8y ago
Yes, I'm in South Africa right now and this issue is very frequent. It helps some to use the two-prong plug on the charger instead of the three-prong plug. (If anyone can explain why that works, I'd love to know.)
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by decasia 8y ago
I agree in the abstract that the story is pretty predictable, but some of the details are a bit unexpected and worth learning, and you don't really know that this kind of security stuff is real until you see it for yourself. Specific
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by decasia 9y ago
As a point of anecdata, my dad, an American, lived in Wales the last ten years of his life. His arthritis got too bad for him to work, and the NHS took excellent care of him for years. Then he had cardiac issues and although his NHS doctor

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