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by dvdkon 5y ago
Looks like Microsoft's decision to go with increasingly elaborate challenge-response schemes instead of properly encrypting the whole connection (like SSL/SSH) will be haunting us for a while yet. I don't understand why RDP&#
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by dvdkon 5y ago
My point is: Why should phones be any different to desktops with regards to OS availability/ease of installation? If we accept that a significant number of users do use that ability on desktops, why wouldn't they use it on phones?
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Which card are you talking about? I recently ran a ~15 year old card for basic video output and all worked fine.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Sure, but that's not the case for PCs. Almost every family I know has at least one guy who can update/reinstall Windows, and those who don't will know to take an old/broken PC to a repair shop. That mentality isn't
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Right now, there's just not enough people to keep up with all the phones, but with a standard bootloader interface (let's call it EUFI :P), a lot of that work could be made easier and we could have universal images like on the PC.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I'd rather let users install their own OS with minimal roadblocks (one click verification, no loss in functionality, standard low-level interface), seems to me like a more feasible and general option than forcing support of whatever ad
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I think you're using a definition of end-to-end encryption that's too narrow, same with privacy. E2E schemes try to ensure that your messages can only be read by their intended recipient. That's undeniably a privacy feature,
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Trademarks. Also, manufacturers might get money from parts makers (the big three mostly) for marketing using their trademarks, which means they need to meet the parts maker's conditions to get "free money".
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Yes, it's about the frequency and filtering. Some screens use ridiculously low switching frequencies that mean the resulting signal can't be filtered out with anything that would fit in a thin laptop.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Cost of traffic for a hardware monitoring/config utility? Not everything needs to be a service, and this is also a perfect example of why some things shouldn't be services, just plain old downloadable software.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Agreed, for most services anyway. I like my country's ID card and electronic ID system and use it happily for state-adjacent services or where regulation requires IDs. I am however very much against using it for things like online sh
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by dvdkon 5y ago
IMAP is basically a file access protocol (think FTP), but the "files" are emails. You don't have to just pull from an INBOX and save emails in Sent (that's done over IMAP, not SMTP), you can read/create/modif
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by dvdkon 5y ago
The cryptocurrencies I consider viable for this kind of thing (mostly Monero) are actually better for low-value transactions than conventional card payments, since they have a low, fixed transaction cost (well under 0.1USD, try that with VI
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by dvdkon 5y ago
The properties of certain cryptocurrencies that make them good for illegal transactions also make them good for pornography and other "not illegal but touchy" areas.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
> "This is good for adoption! Next up, Onlyfans." Sadly it doesn't seem to be working out as the crypto-enthusiast author might have wanted.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
That's interesting, maybe we adopted contactless payments faster in part because in our gas stations you'd usually pay inside the shop. I have to think that was only one of many reasons, though.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Maybe carriers will finally start taking identity verification seriously. When everyone's name, address and SSN (or equivalent) is leaked, somebody might finally get the idea that they're rubbish secrets. My name and address is ac
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I don't think a novelty résumé needs to be so conventional, people will mostly, in my opinion, either dislike it for not following layout/organisation conventions or look past all that altogether.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Well, it's a Linux VM/container, so while you could do that, I don't see why you would, I think all a dev would want to do in a dev container would be command-line in nature.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
On Konica-Minolta printers the password is almost always the same. My school IT admin explained that they're pretty much always rented or "bought" with a mandatory support contract and the contractors get really annoyed when
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by dvdkon 5y ago
A CDN? If you load JavaScript from it, then it has about the same "power" as a server hosting the HTML of a static site. So yes, there's some potential for misuse, but unless you're implying that hosting your own website
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by dvdkon 5y ago
In my case, the iPhone users around me bump into barriers that wouldn't be there if iOS didn't keep all data in inaccessible silos, but they don't see them as such. For example, someone wanted to back up all their iMessage co
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Re limited upload: This is true with technologies that have a shared medium for many users (*DSL, DOCSIS), but many ISPs use technologies that are full duplex and/or point-to-point and at that point limiting upload becomes arbitrary. I
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by dvdkon 5y ago
First off, there's hardly anyone other than europeans in East European countries. And I don't see why Gitlab engineers wouldn't be involved in the protests. They're probably well-educated and therefore statistically mor
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Yeah, file storage/syncing is probably the best example of successful self-hosting for moderately "techy" people, with commercial NASes usually offering much better and cheaper services than cloud storage for home/office
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Many vendors of internal tools don't have cloud offerings and even if they did, I wouldn't trust it considering their current security record. It would be a good CYA strategy, but that's about it.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I've also tried to rewrite some of my challenging queries [0] in my hypothetical syntax and while I think your observation about pipeline length is correct, the result still came out much better than SQL. Frankly, even in F#, most of m
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by dvdkon 5y ago
It's not quite that arg-tuples can contain multiple values under the same name, but rather ":a 1, :a 2" is actually an arg-tuple containing two nested arg-tuples as unnamed values. I agree that basing all of syntax on a singl
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. I'm happy that others are also tackling the problem of a better query language. My approach isn't actually a full-on Lisp with parentheses and all, rather it's based on a single compound data structure (
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Looks interesting. I've been thinking about trying this myself and one of my goals has been to create a language that's easily introspectible. I think it's much more important for a query language as opposed to an application

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