domador

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by domador 2y ago
> This possibility exists even if your creds are something you know. It also exists if your creds are something you have, and you happen to have them on your person. I can hand over my credentials or secrets to a thief without injury to
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by domador 2y ago
I am a lifetime Windows user (30+ years) and generally a laggard when it comes to adopting new products. However, during the past year, I've given more than a passing thought to biting the bullet and enduring the pain of moving to ano
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by domador 2y ago
Yet in many cases it is. I've come across various systems where there is no "what you know" password only a "what you look like" password.
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by domador 2y ago
My own main objection is to biometric data being used as a password, since it is a publicly-viewable, likely-duplicatable password that can never be changed. My second objection is to the possibility of physical injury to me by someone tha
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by domador 2y ago
This is a widespread and recurring problem when a software tool that should be a product gets artificially turned into a service.
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by domador 2y ago
Speaking of infinite updates forever, I am frustrated that software publishers and users have come to expect that all software should either be free, subscription-based, or a one-time purchase with permanently free updates. Each of these m
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by domador 2y ago
Your link doesn't seem to work.
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by domador 2y ago
These kinds of articles never seem to provide a good explanation for why the workplace should go back to how things were before “quiet quitting” became widespread. Employers’ complaints seems particularly puzzling in the light of the idea
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by domador 2y ago
The corporate world could use some employee-oriented alternatives to the employer-biased term "quiet quitting". How about "workload rightsizing"? Or maybe "compensation matching"?
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by domador 2y ago
How about people who enter text into their phone by swiping across an on-screen keyboard to form words? Are we the new generation or the old generation? How prevalent are we among mobile phone users? I find it quaint to see thumb-typists
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by domador 2y ago
I'm listening to some Amapiano now... and loving it. Care to share some of the other genres you've tried before this one?
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by domador 3y ago
It's fascinating for me to try and guess what kind of questions or requests would have prompted certain answers on Heinlein's list. I wonder which ones would have prompted a reference to the "You're Not As Smart As You
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by domador 3y ago
Incidentally, why was Oppenheimer promoted as an IMAX movie? It was a letdown and a waste for me to have watched it on IMAX, as it was essentially a visually unexciting primarily conversational drama. Barbie would have been a better IMAX
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by domador 3y ago
Maybe the site of Worldcon is what should be "censored" (vetted and altered) by the organizers.
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by domador 3y ago
Is there any realistic way to keep big, influential corporations from imposing their bad UI choices on the rest of us? Can we at least get the word out to everyone else that this is not a fad worth copying and making into the new standard?
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by domador 3y ago
I wish I lived in an alternate timeline where a delightfully unpronounceable service called HgHub had won the day instead. But on a more open-minded note, would Github been just as successful if they had used something other than Git for t
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by domador 3y ago
Many years ago, when I was looking for a worthy DVCS successor to Subversion for my single-developer projects (just in case they became multiple-developer projects), I evaluated Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial. I don't really remember what
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by domador 3y ago
Thank you for your service!
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by domador 3y ago
I'm still hopeful that a good emergency communication protocol or set of protocols could make quick, but well-verified emergency communication possible. In my earlier comment I wanted to communicate that a speed tradeoff would be invo
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by domador 3y ago
A bunch of geniuses have wanted to replace email, but somehow that never seems to happen. Making email more secure may be very difficult, but still seems much easier than replacing it.
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by domador 3y ago
Not everyone has a B.S. detector and even sophisticated users can be vulnerable to sophisticated scams. Education can be helpful, but I'd prefer to rely primarily on structural solutions that could even protect the woefully uneducated
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by domador 3y ago
How did that user get to such a website in the first place? Through a link in an email message? The ability to receive such messages from random people should be locked down, if a user or their IT security guardian has so chosen. Through
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by domador 3y ago
"Identity theft" seems very much a cop out and what I would call a "nomenclature scam" (new term, courtesy of me) which places the onus of security on individual customers, instead of on the financial institutions that w
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by domador 3y ago
Under one possible protocol, you'd generate and give Spotify a special key that they'd need to send you along with any of their message to you. (Spotify would include a field in their account-creation process and existing-account
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by domador 3y ago
That is precisely why one or more emergency communication protocols are necessary. They need to be carefully designed to reduce the risk of infiltration by scammers. As with all forms of security, some level of convenience will need to be
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by domador 3y ago
So many of these scams start the same way: when the victim is contacted by a random person. Phones, email, social media, and postal mail tend to allow this by default (being contacted by a rando anywhere in the world). But maybe the defau
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by domador 3y ago
I have the same problem with GPL, specifically in that as far as I can tell it doesn't give one the freedom of making a living out of making software as a product. I'd love to be proven wrong and find out that there are practical
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by domador 3y ago
Society should require that the spirit and purpose of any law be included as a preamble to that law's text and be used in the interpretation, application, and future adaptation of that law. The spirit and purpose may be obvious at the
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by domador 3y ago
Still inexcusable. They're wasting power users' time by making them have to search for a way to change this unexpected and undesirable setting. I'm glad that the first time Edge hijacked my Outlook link I saw a popup messag
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by domador 3y ago
I think the reference was to foot traffic, not vehicle traffic.

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