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by eridius 8y ago
Why does Keybase allow a single remote identity to link to multiple Keybase accounts, but does not allow one Keybase account to link to multiple remote identities (on the same service)? If I run multiple Twitter accounts, I don't see w
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by eridius 8y ago
I remember that one. It came in just under the deadline and it would have been pretty bad if that got into 1.0. The resolution of this not only had a notable effect on how Rust thought about memory safety (in particular, that leaking memory
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by eridius 8y ago
The fundamental point of the argument that software wasn't to blame was that the problem wasn't with the way the software was implemented, but with the way it was specced, and that it was performing to spec, and therefore blaming
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by eridius 8y ago
By the time the government can find and report it, surely other people will have found it already.
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by eridius 8y ago
The IRS could develop a system where they list what information they've received already, and you can then validate that this represents the complete set of expected information and request that they go ahead and process taxes now with
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by eridius 8y ago
Why does the proposed EU legislation have a 1-hour deadline? No matter what you think of the action it's trying to take, a 1-hour deadline is preposterous for anyone and seems expressly designed to force people to set up an automated p
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by eridius 8y ago
If Nate Silver took the predictions for "if the event were to happen today" and pretended it was a prediction for the future event, he'd be wrong, but that's how most people interpret his predictions anyway so that makes
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by eridius 8y ago
That seems like a pretty big difference to gloss over. Why are they publishing probabilities for if the event were to happen today? The event isn't happening today!
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by eridius 8y ago
We have liberty. You have the liberty to use a platform that tries to protect your security at the cost of adding some restrictions. You have the liberty of choosing a different platform (using the same hardware even!) that has no restricti
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by eridius 8y ago
That's a false equivalence. An iPad is not a Mac, it has a different security model and a different way of using it. The iPad is more locked-down than the Mac and always will be. Allowing people to disable protections on the Mac has no
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by eridius 8y ago
I interpret the "by default" as meaning the exact same thing as "Developer ID is required by default for Mac apps" today. Or in other words, I would assume that getting around a non-notarized app in the future would have
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by eridius 8y ago
It does, actually, AIUI the home button was the #1 driver of AppleCare incidents for non-accidental damage. It had the highest failure rate of any component on the phone.
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by eridius 8y ago
That only works on the 2 or 3 buttons that are hard-coded to support it and doesn't work in the general case (it can't work in the general case because it's literally just a long press, which already does other things). Per
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by eridius 8y ago
AIUI the home button was by far the least reliable component left on the phone and the biggest driver of AppleCare support for non-accidental damage. The problem was so bad that it became an Asian cultural thing to turn on the accessibility
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by eridius 8y ago
> Sure. Ublock Origin already does this today at the request level, so you don't even need to worry about pages re-adding the attributes. But we could just as easily use this argument to get rid of every privacy-protecting decision
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by eridius 8y ago
If you're willing to block JS, you can also trivially run an extension that strips all `ping` attributes from the page. And without JS you don't have to worry about the attributes being added back after the stripping. > Develo
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by eridius 8y ago
You're saying Apple's making the money from the ecosystem, but that's not what the parent is asking. The parent is asking how Apple is making a money on each individual iPhone, which they absolutely are. Even if you never buy
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by eridius 8y ago
Can you run `nc -l localhost 1234`?
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by eridius 8y ago
A mild inconvenience doesn't normally cause one to take a rage-walk.
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by eridius 8y ago
Is nobody aware that you can pop the web inspector out into its own window?
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by eridius 8y ago
Nothing's stopping those scripts today from converting all links to bouncing through a redirect domain for tracking, and yet scripts aren't doing that.
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by eridius 8y ago
> Deception. They were researching a tactic already used in the wild that involves deception, yes. But the end goal of the experiment wasn't to deceive voters, which is what you claimed. The goal was to learn about how this tactic
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by eridius 8y ago
If the experiment was designed to be small enough to not affect the outcome of the election, then they're not experimenting with affecting the outcome, they're investigating and learning about tactics that, on a larger scale ,
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by eridius 8y ago
Water damage indicators are known to not be perfect. That's unfortunate but true. It doesn't mean Apple is deliberately making them be bad in order to avoid warranty replacements though.
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by eridius 8y ago
> New Knowledge's objective was to deceive voters. From reading the article, the group's¹ objective wasn't to deceive voters, it was to research how these tactics worked. Are you suggesting that a single $100k research p
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by eridius 8y ago
Apple is literally famous for doing free warranty replacements for people who don't actually qualify. There's thousands and thousands of stories of this sort of thing over many years. Forgive me for not believing you when you say
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by eridius 8y ago
I hadn't heard of this before, so I just dug up the original NYT story. At least one person from New Knowledge was involved in a small experiment designed to explore how the sorts of tactics used by the Russians worked, which attempted
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by eridius 8y ago
Every one of the requests that 43920 listed in a request in service of you, the user. The first is to detect captive portals, which is something you'll find very important if you're behind a captive portal. The second is for OCSP
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by eridius 8y ago
I thought this was a remarkably bizarre sentence: > "Unlike the wires we know from everyday life, where electric current runs directly through the wire, the current runs in a circular fashion as it proceeds through these molecules.
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by eridius 8y ago
Or just skip the trait and require there to be nothing live on the stack that conforms to Drop after a `become`. In fact, the main reason to have a keyword like `become` is to signal to the compiler to do this kind of analysis, because it&#

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