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by eadmund 2y ago
> I think you can profitably split your application API (hypermedia) from your automation API (JSON) Why split them? Just support multiple representations: HTML and JSON (and perhaps other, saner representations than JSON …) and just le
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I’ve switched to buying everything on DVD or Blu-ray. It’s the only way to be sure I can watch, for example, Community Season 2 Episode 14 (one of the funniest episodes ever). If you don’t own the physical medium, you’re just renting a st
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by eadmund 2y ago
> "Everyone is born needing an elevator, and if they're lucky they die needing one too," says Stephen Smith I cannot understand what this could mean. > the U.S. would benefit from federal elevator standards What would t
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by eadmund 2y ago
Or you can use headscale (BSD) with the Tailscale client (BSD), which is still FOSS but also very very easy to use.
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Honestly, I just use a small k8s cluster, and convert the docker compose config to k8s config.
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Be aware that there is an effort to repurpose most of 127.0.0.0/8: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast... It’s well-intentioned, but I honestly believe that it would lead to a plethor
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by eadmund 2y ago
> the long-haired woman with a Southern lilt behind the counter who was the brainchild of it all, opening up the shop when she was just 24 years old Surely if she opened it up, the shop was her brainchild.
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> There are private prisons in the US that benefit from more prisoners. So do public prisons! Their employees — and those employee’s unions — want to make money just as much as anyone. I don’t think that public vs. private is material h
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by eadmund 2y ago
Even worse, the ones which (like this one) lack left and right modifiers such as Shift, Control, Alt and Super. For those who’ve never touch-typed, the right way to type a modified key (e.g. G) is to hold the modifier (e.g. Shift) in the o
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You would also get a better window manager, better compatibility with server operating systems, a bash updated this decade, XCompose (think the Option key, but way, way, way more powerful) and more freedom, but on the other hand you’d los
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by eadmund 2y ago
> How are you achieving this in MacOS? I don’t — I use Linux on my desktop. I stopped using macOS back when it was called System 8 or 9! I think any tiling window manager can be configured to do this, but in my case I use StumpWM.
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It strikes me as a little odd for the terminal rather than the desktop environment within which it runs to implement the hotkey (or, as you call it, ‘Quake mode’). I just have my tiling window manager configured with a keybinding to raise m
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Or Bill Ayers. Or Oscar Lopez Rivera.
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> health insurance to get proper treatment, support and medication Health insurance is mis-named: it is not a health care product meant to provide health care; it is a financial product , meant to smooth the cost of health care. It sho
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> The Constitution also says the courts interpret the law Which clause? If you read it, I think that you’ll be surprised to find that it doesn’t actually state anything about interpretation. It was in Marbury v. Madison that the Supreme
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A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union(smithsonianmag.com)
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> So I thought this would be a fun way to demo the extent to which different models hallucinate random things. I think that it’s really important to distinguish between hallucination (perceiving what is not there) and confabulation (pro
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> Passwords are phishable. Passwords auto-filled by a browser extension are not phishable.
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> And forget about trying to use a passkey to log into PayPal on Firefox. The payment site doesn't support that browser on any OS. I had no idea! That’s pretty awful. > Somehow, the mysterious entity responsible for this message
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Apple and Google discontinued attestation when they introduced passkeys. It's gone. It would be great if you’re correct, but these references sure seem to indicate that attestation is still a thing. Microsoft, November 2024: ht
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Leaving the EU didn't mean it got to sail away to a new place, it just meant no longer having a powerful seat at the table. Not necessarily: it could also mean that rather than being one voice among 28 in negotiations, they are no
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by eadmund 2y ago
> > before modern times that was mostly from eastern and southern Europe, not from other continent > Except for Turkey The mass immigration from Turkey started in the 1960s, well into the modern era. There are plenty of Germans
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By enabling relying parties to blacklist or whitelist the devices their users are allowed to use. It’s one more brick in the wall preventing general-purpose computing. Want to authenticate to Banana Computers? Well, you have to use one of
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Webauthn and Passkeys do not necessitate handing over control to "big tech". Attestation enables a relying party to deny users the right of using their own software or devices. That hands over control.
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> KeePassXC has support. Many people use Vaultwarden. And so on. It doesn’t matter if other authenticators could work if a relying party refuses to allow its users to use them. > Also, end users are already locked into Chrome and Safa
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by eadmund 2y ago
The very first sentence is: > Passwords are rubbish. Hard, hard disagree. They’re really not. Password reuse is rubbish. Passwords human beings can remember are rubbish. But a secure password — i.e., a random value with 128 bits
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by eadmund 2y ago
> This is the second pro smoking post I’ve seen of yours on this thread. A curious stance to take. I don’t particularly like cigarettes, but I love tobacco and I absolutely hate the moral panic over it. > Who is harmed by not allowing
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> Does she otherwise have to worry that every time she flies someone will stop her travel to recount the story yet again to a bunch of strangers? Sounds like it: >> Owing to account notifications, David from time to time surprises
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> Maybe the attitude towards "truth vs. face" is similar in Egyptian governmental institutions. My initial instinct when reading the prologue was to think about that, and be proud that we’re not like that. But then I reflected
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by eadmund 2y ago
Why is it surprising? There’s no danger from smoking on-board; banning it was never about safety.

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