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by fergbrain 8y ago
We need good news reporting in the US right now (I’m an expat) and losing easy access (I have a VPN to bypass) to sites like LA Times (#4 in the US by circulation) may not seem like a big deal, but I believe is a harbinger things to come. I
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by fergbrain 8y ago
Many sites in the US have now blocked the EU because of GDPR. For example: https://www.latimes.com Edit: corrected URL
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by fergbrain 8y ago
The law in the USA is vastly from Europe with regards to photography. Generally speaking, “When in public spaces where you are lawfully present you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view.” (Source: https://
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Time zones can have any granularity desired. Most are 1 hour, several are 30 minutes (including in India and Australia), and a few are 45 minutes (in New Zealand, for example). There’s no rule though about granularity though.
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Create a Root CA and sign your own certs.
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Pull quote: “Most people think water freezes at zero degrees Celsius but that is because you have crap in it,” said Nilsson.
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by fergbrain 9y ago
I would like my “thing I have” to be physically separate from the device that stores my “thing I know.” I also don’t always have access to a USB port (or NFC).
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by fergbrain 9y ago
YubiKey isn’t self contained. I was asking about a hardware-based device that has a built-in display (like SecurID does).
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Is there a good solution for a hardware-based TOTP, similar to RSA SecurID but for HMAC TOTP (RFC 4226) instead?
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Why would anyone pay someone who literally just violated their trust to keep quiet, and for what purpose? The publicity of it plays to Apples favor internally for a long time, and the external impacts are negligible at worst with a one-and-
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Are you serious? She brought her DSLR onto the campus and practically interviewed her dad. My guess is that he knew 100% what she was doing, thought that telling her “no” would have caused a bigger issue than “letting it be”...and was wrong
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by fergbrain 9y ago
If we assume for the sake of argument that the NDA explicitly states you will be fired for violations, Apple effectively has no choice: uphold their end of the agreement and fire the engineer or avoid potentially bad PR while also signaling
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Why not FastMail?
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by fergbrain 9y ago
The issue I have with this is that our legal system is adversarial (by design) and as such the police have no incentive to either help you or keep your best interests in mind. The government (as a whole) has also shown a disconcerting lack
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by fergbrain 9y ago
"Once again, airlines (or is it just United) making boneheaded decisions." This is a United problem. I've refused to fly them for several years now (and even paid more because of it). I'm not surprised this happened agai
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United Airlines takes seat away from child, forces him to sit on moms lap(m.sfgate.com)
44 points by fergbrain 9y ago|23 comments
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by fergbrain 9y ago
My understanding is that NSA considers classified data that has been encrypted using a suitable cipher/key to be unclassified and suitable for transmission on unsecure systems/networks.
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by fergbrain 9y ago
Per the stickied comment from Dave/EEVblog on YT: "The EEVdiscover channel is now back up! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkGvUEt8iQLmq3aJIMjT2qQ Still no idea why though it was taken down though"
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by fergbrain 10y ago
Until Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses
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by fergbrain 10y ago
And your /wp-contents/uploads/ folder...probably worth backing up everything in /wp-contents/ since some plugins create additional directories.
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by fergbrain 10y ago
Why keep a log for 30 day? That seems excessively long.
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by fergbrain 10y ago
Why...lack of research/tech or lack of adoption/agreement?
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by fergbrain 10y ago
It looks to be from a VHS tape. Also, a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)/Flight Data Recorder (FDR) would likely be setup to record in a loop. You can do that with magnetic tape, but not in the configure it appears to be in. I'll try
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by fergbrain 11y ago
This was District Court, not SCOTUS.
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by fergbrain 11y ago
The new YNAB is a $50/year subscription vs $60 to buy a copy of YNAB 4 (now called classic). YNAB 4 has been out for at least three years with no major updates. If find it hard to fathom how they can charge that much. $20/year I c