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by fmajid 2y ago
You may have heard of under the LoJack name, basically an anti-theft measure for laptops.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Git has supported SSH-based signatures for a while now, including those backed by FIDO hardware keys.
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by fmajid 2y ago
https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/
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by fmajid 2y ago
Not wishful thinking, a deliberate greenwashing scam. Aluminum is actually recycled, and should replace PET for all drinks packaging.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It’s not as if stealth is foolproof even to radar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
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by fmajid 2y ago
Specially when half the Israeli population hates your guts (probably a higher proportion among secular Israelis who are likely over-represented among aircraft maintenance personnel) and could accidentally on purpose forget a spanner in the
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by fmajid 2y ago
Putin went to Mongolia, which is a signatory to the Rome statute establishing the ICC, without being arrested. President Orbán of Hungary also extended an open invitation to Netanyahu despite the ICC arrest warrant, but he isnt' exactl
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by fmajid 2y ago
Netanyahu and Gallant will no longer be able to travel to Europe, and likely will not want to fly over Europe either (thus not to the US either).
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by fmajid 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1987/ https://xkcd.com/927/
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by fmajid 2y ago
Unnecessarily high speeds to show up the Continental duffers raised costs exponentially, then every Tory rural constituency claiming the line would disfigure their pristine arcadia had to be appeased with hugely expensive tunnels. But HS2 L
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by fmajid 2y ago
That’s essentially what RDMA is, except it is usually run over Infiniband although hyperscalers are wary of Nvidia’s control over the technology and looking for cheaper Ethernet-based alternatives. https://blogs.nvidia.com/b
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by fmajid 2y ago
That's because "soft touch" finishes are usually basically incompletely polymerized plastic painted on the body instead of more premium materials like rubber or silicone, and yes, they will break down over time. You can fix i
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by fmajid 2y ago
If so, the South would have been more economically developed than the North.
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by fmajid 2y ago
England was not as overwhelming over Scotland demographically in the past as it is today, and the Scots were eager participants in the colonial venture. In fact, the Act of Union was motivated by the failed Darien Scheme: https:/&#x2F
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by fmajid 2y ago
> The insistence on explaining every successes of the UK/Europe with its colonies is politically orientated, not factual. And where do you think the capital to fund all the investment came from? Colonization mostly benefited the eli
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by fmajid 2y ago
At the onset of WW2, the UK was still a technology superpower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizard_Mission The war proved ruinous to the UK in a way WW1 wasn’t because of the destruction visited by the Luftwaffe, and
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by fmajid 2y ago
NSO’s ForcedEntry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORCEDENTRY ) showed how anything scriptable creates potential security vulnerabilities.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Well, yes, given Intel's 13th and 14th generation processors self-destruct if you look at them funny, it's not surprising. I am waiting for the Zen5 Threadripper to replace my Xeon.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The Yubikeys also support NFC, which is necessary for U2F authentication on Lightning iPhones.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Hmmm. Not excusing Yubico if the report is accurate, but I ordered 4x 5C NFC to replace my old keys, and they shipped with firmware 5.7.1 which does not have that vulnerability. Perhaps because they got the FIPS version, which is actually l
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by fmajid 2y ago
During the Second Congo War, 42,000 people died every month . To resounding silence from Western media. It's true, they had committed the unforgivable sin of being born black.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The World Bank is an international organization, accountable to its shareholder governments, themselves accountable to their respective people, as all but China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are democracies.
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by fmajid 2y ago
There’s almost no correlation between cholesterol ingested as food and your own blood serum cholesterol. It’s almost as if we have a digestive system to break down nutrients into their constituents rather than release them unmodified into t
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by fmajid 2y ago
Also, what became the US has been around for half a millennium, that’s plenty of time to develop its own culture.
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by fmajid 2y ago
And censored to appease the Chinese Communist Party.
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by fmajid 2y ago
I’d pay for Apple Peace and Quiet®, where they promise to stop trying to shove trials for useless Apple services down our throats.
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by fmajid 2y ago
They are going to license them to Amazon Prime, which will charge an additional-on subscription like they do for Paramount+. Needless to say, that will eat further into Apple’s already nonexistent margins.
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by fmajid 2y ago
I knew most Smart TVs do these shenanigans, but computer monitors?
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by fmajid 2y ago
You have an incomplete threat model. What passkeys bring that is new to the table is phishing resistance, when the user is the one that is breached.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It isn’t but really should be. Apple requires you to register a minimum of two U2F keys if you use that as 2FA for iCloud.

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