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by fmajid 2y ago
The market for cybersecurity insurance is collapsing: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/companies-are-ditchi... but the OP's arguments also apply to insurance, yet businesses buy insurance every day. The dif
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by fmajid 2y ago
FIDO2 (U2F security keys like the Yubikey or Passkeys) authenticates the server.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The EU Data Protection Board ruled that Meta's similar proposal is illegal under GDPR. Forced consent is not consent. https://noyb.eu/en/statement-edpb-pay-or-okay-opinion
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by fmajid 2y ago
I live in London. My local council (Camden) equipped every other lamp-post with a Siemens Ubitricity (now owned by Shell) EV charger 2 years ago. Problem solved.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Yes, it’s like misleadingly advertising WiFi routers by adding up the peak theoretical bandwidth of all bands.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Brazil is on record opposing antisatellite missiles: https://docs-library.unoda.org/Open-Ended_Working_Group_on_R... The judge can certainly issue an Interpol Red Notice for Musk, which would cramp his jet-setting lifestyle
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by fmajid 2y ago
Not just leftists, but also journalists critical of him: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-journalist-ban-elon-mus... His so-called free-speech absolutism is a sham and he does not deserve the benefit of doubt on th
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by fmajid 2y ago
Judge Moraes has had his share of run-ins with Lula, and can hardly be described as a stooge for the Left. What he has been doing is go after Brazil's version of the Jan 6th insurrectionists, whom Musk is congenial to along with other
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by fmajid 2y ago
You will find Musk's pretend "free-speech absolutism" is highly selective, and only applies to far-right voices. He's repeatedly censored his critics and journalists on his platform.
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by fmajid 2y ago
There is still an OS. Calling it a “minimal kernel” in the diagram is just semantic word games.
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by fmajid 2y ago
You really should be using Content-Security-Policy to block untrusted scripts. And anything you do not host yourself should be untrusted, no matter how much your marketing department whines they want to include Google Tag Manager.
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by fmajid 2y ago
This is not new. In the UK, premium grocery cooperative Waitrose had a bar made with sugar from the pulp: https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-whole-fruit-choco...
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by fmajid 2y ago
It’s generally better to have your queues be explicit in a system like NATS, NSQ or RabbitMQ that provides observability and monitoring than implicit in the bowels of your application software where you are blindsided when something breaks.
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by fmajid 2y ago
My banking apps work just fine on GrapheneOS.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Jerry Pournelle was a Sci-Fi writer, but he also consulter for the US Department of Defense and was a longtime columnist for Byte Magazine.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications%2C_Inc.%2C_... .
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by fmajid 2y ago
The U.K. does not have a proper written constitution, nor a real bill of rights. It does have the European Convention on Human Rights, but that was passed by an Act of Parliament and can be withdrawn by another Act of Parliament, and in fac
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by fmajid 2y ago
I bought my HP-15C in 1987. It only recently got its third set of batteries.
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by fmajid 2y ago
That’s because the Voyager series like my HP-15C used silicon-on-sapphire technology originally developed for the space industry, which is why it will run a decade on a single change of batteries. The SwissMicros are nowhere near the same c
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by fmajid 2y ago
The term “curation” is overused, but that is definitely an aspect of their success, just like Trader Joe’s.
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by fmajid 2y ago
On my system the full qrencode binary is 85K, and it supports a lot more output formats than needed in this application. http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.html.en That said, with iPhone cameras supporting li
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by fmajid 2y ago
Or at least include a URL to a web page explaining the error and what you can do about it
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by fmajid 2y ago
Greg Brockman later became the president of OpenAI
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by fmajid 2y ago
I found Tarkin in Rogue One well done, after all Peter Cushing was really that gaunt and cadaveric in his later years. Leia, on the other hand, was a complete mess.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Their hardware business is flatlining and they are relying on “services” for growth. Guess what “services” is? Primarily the 30% tax on transactions, but also their fast-growing advertising business. As for data collection, iOS is only marg
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by fmajid 2y ago
Israeli tech salaries are higher than in the UK or Europe, Big Tech goes there for the brains, not for cost savings. Intel has design labs in India as well.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Or Israel's inability to match the US and EU for fab subsidies.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Then again, it was Intel's tiny Israeli team that saved them fron oblivion at the hands of AMD due to the dead-end that was Netburst (Pentium IV), by taking the Pentium-M architecture and turning it into Core.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Regarding Maps, Google long ago forfeited the benefit of doubt: https://www.slashgear.com/google-blames-rogue-contractors-fo...
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by fmajid 2y ago
The answer to that is "structural separation". Remove even the possibility of conflict of interest by forcing divestiture.

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