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by elric 8mo ago
Every time some security related protocol relies on DNS for its magic (looking at you, ACME), I lament the state of DNS providers. They all have different APIs, with different levels of security. Most at least offer some kind of REST API wi
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by elric 8mo ago
> It is also a big place where credit cards just aren't a thing for most people Nonsense. It's hard to find actual statistics on the number of credit cards, but it's obvious that the Netherlands are an outlier, with a palt
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by elric 8mo ago
I've never used a banking app on my phone, and I have no desire to. It's the least secure device I own (in spite of running Graphene). It's the most likely device to get lost or stolen. I currently have accounts with 3 differ
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by elric 8mo ago
> In Europe? Debit cards. Hardly anyone uses a credit card in a supermarket. Such sweeping statements are impossible for "Europe". It's a big place. Plenty of people use credit cards in supermarkets. But it's orthogon
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by elric 8mo ago
Magritte is another such case, with a litigious Magritte Foundation. I guess he would have been somewhat amused at the absurdity of it all.
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by elric 8mo ago
Incredible to see some promising results in stem cell research. Hopefully a safe and successful application can give a boost to some other areas where stem cells might prove useful (like maybe one day we can regrow damaged heart tissue like
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by elric 8mo ago
If you thought the Butlerian Jihad was silly, you may have missed a few important nuances in Dune. I mean I suspect the concept was originally a convenient way to explain why tech in Dune hadn't advanced all that much in 20k years, but
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by elric 8mo ago
I love osmand. But every new update seems slower. Navigation speed is mostly ok, I use it for walking and cycling which means routes tend to be short. But panning and zooming the map is just annoyingly slow. It sort of works when I disable
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by elric 8mo ago
Defeatist bullshit becomes self-fulfilling at some point. "Oh we're all gonna die anyway so we might as well milk this thing for profit. Après moi la déluge."
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by elric 8mo ago
From the email: > For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. That is an utterly insane price hike. Is production being scaled up, and will that take years? Or are producers happy charging 5x the
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by elric 8mo ago
When Trump came into power a second time, and the ICE-nazification became apparent, I reached out to my government and asked them what they were doing to make it harder for "Trumpism" to happen here. No reply. Just crickets. Hoove
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by elric 8mo ago
I feel like you're glossing over a lot of uncomfortable but important implementation details here. None of this works without effectively banning personal computing and tying the whole system to secure attestation (which in practice me
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by elric 8mo ago
This attitude is so self-defeating. If no one hosts their own email anymore, no one will be able to host their own email anymore in the future. Having said that, I host some of my mail with Hetzner, and even at their scale they sometimes ha
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by elric 8mo ago
One of the many victims of ubiquitous cameras. Along with communal showers.
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by elric 8mo ago
This is a problem that I've been thinking on for years now. It used to be common to just buy a newspaper without handing out any kind of personal information. Walk up to a newsagent/kiosk, hand over a small amount of money, and vo
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by elric 8mo ago
There are apparently cases of psyllium leading to weird allergic reactions. IIRC this is frequently reported in caretakers who prepare psyllium for eldery patients, presumably because they end up inhaling some of the stuff?
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by elric 8mo ago
If anyone here is up for disrupting the medical field: please come up with a colonoscopy-equivalent with a less awful prep experience.
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by elric 8mo ago
Could be a lot of things. Lots of long distance runners consume a lot of sugary gels to keep going. Not sure what the typical composition is, but likely lots of glucose and no fibre. The marathon runners I know also seem to eat tons of junk
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by elric 8mo ago
To elaborate on the other comment about the Foreign Function & Memory API: JNI is effectively dead/deprecated, and has been replaced by the aforementioned API. It is orders of magnitude more developer friendly to use. It handles me
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by elric 8mo ago
There are obviously other CDNs (or whatever Cloudflare considers itself to be these days) and other certificate authorities. They are all interchangeable thanks to open protocols (HTTP, TLS/ACME in this case). Contrasted to Signal: the
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by elric 8mo ago
It's how you would pronounce it if it were Latin. In which case it would mean "feet". Maybe that's not what inspired the name.
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by elric 8mo ago
> Actually, most chemists are profoundly annoyed at the Americans' inability to spell aluminium properly... That's just patently false. Anyone who's had any sort of education in chemistry/physics is aware of the histo
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by elric 8mo ago
Over in my neck of the woods, these cameras are illegal when they point at the street. They should also be accompanied by a clearly visible sign indicating the presence of a security camera. Of course no one gives a fuck, and they're s
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by elric 8mo ago
SVGs are such an amazing attack vector. Nearly every webapp I've seen that allows image or SVG uploads is vulnerable to XSS. If the Roundcube implementation allows for remote image fetching, it's probably worth checking it for XSS
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by elric 8mo ago
Instead of money flowing to lower income countries (by virtue of their cheaper labour), which helped those countries grow, money is now flowing to the already richest economy on earth. That's a big difference.
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by elric 8mo ago
That is very cool. Over here we can barely keep the odd makerspace or hacker space afloat, nevermind anything related to biology or chemistry.
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by elric 8mo ago
That's a weird comparison, hadn't heard that one yet. I'm very much in favour of regulating (and heavily taxing) AI. But I very much dislike silly warning labels that miss the point. Owning wooden furniture is not carcinogeni
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by elric 8mo ago
It's just Wolfram explaining how he likes stuying things that can be describe by simple rules and how complexity can emerge in spite of (or because of?) the seeming simplicity of those rules. He came up with a word for it, and while I
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by elric 8mo ago
I miss the time when rollerblades seemed like the ideal mode of transport. My ankles don't.
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by elric 8mo ago
I bought a piece of wooden furniture some time ago. It came with a label saying that the state of California knows it to be a carcinogen. I live in Belgium. It was weird.

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