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by fmajid 2y ago
Many sites stupidly only allow you one passkey or FIDO U2F key.
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by fmajid 2y ago
That's why Apple forces you to register two FIDO U2F keys if you use that option for iCloud.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The German firm HSM makes a line of hard drive shredders: https://www.hsm-shredder.com/collections/digital-media-shred... I’ve never tried one of these but I have one of their paper shredders and they are far better bu
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by fmajid 2y ago
And World War I was lost by Germany because its army was stabbed in the back. And Communism never failed because true communism was never implemented anywhere including the USSR, only state capitalism. And Oceania has always been at war wit
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by fmajid 2y ago
The weak economy existed before Brexit. The UK under Thatcher replaced industry with financial services chicanery, and never recovered from the 2008 crisis. Now it's even lost its business in money-laundering to Dubai and has to rebuil
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by fmajid 2y ago
Except much of the media in question are not the UK's media, being owned by a US citizen, Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch had to renounce his Australian citizenship as the US doesn't allow foreigners to own media like Fox there, but the U
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by fmajid 2y ago
Boris picked Brexit as a vehicle to unseat his buddy Cameron, and couldn't care about the consequences for ordinary Brits. It was a hugely cynical choice, but entirely rational. Sunak, on the other hand, was a true believer. Yes, he ma
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by fmajid 2y ago
> Labour's idea of "nationalising" the UK railways Has already been implemented by the Tories, as all the private rail operators essentially went insolvent, Covid being the coup de grâce . That would be allowed under EU r
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by fmajid 2y ago
In networking, these are known as Patricia trees, a special case of the Radix tree/trie.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The Post Office’s culpability is manifest, but this is first and foremost a massive miscarriage of justice that discredits the British judiciary and its chumminess with fellow Establishment members.
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by fmajid 2y ago
I wish Riddiford made a Bluetooth keyboard instead of tying it to the Planet pocket computer.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Malicious compliance may work as a strategy in Common Law jurisdictions like the US, but not in the EU where Civil (Roman) Law means exactly what it says and judges apply it, as opposed to inventing excuses for not doing so like Robert Bork
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by fmajid 2y ago
And then you have the rebar-free Roman lime-pozzolan concrete used in the Pantheon, still standing after 2000 years.
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by fmajid 2y ago
And this is why Netflix is in such a bitter fight with Roku over AV1 support.
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by fmajid 2y ago
SSO is not the silver bullet they seem to think it is. You are delegating your security to an org that may not be as secure as they claim, e.g. Okta: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/no-o
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by fmajid 2y ago
Cixin Liu is a despicable human being for his advocacy of repression and worse of the Uyghurs in Cinjiang, and the comparison to Riefenstahl is more apposite than you seem to think.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Better knows as “I, Robot” and its sequels.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Isn't their moat primarily software (CUDA) rather than supply-chain strength?
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by fmajid 2y ago
Clearly they are building their own Apple Silicon powered servers for their Private Computing Cloud, even if it is not sold to outsiders like the XServe used to be.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It's a common enough problem that I put a dedupe (based on titles) feature in my own RSS reader Temboz (www.temboz.com).
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by fmajid 2y ago
Try Kiwix. It's an offline reader, you can download the entire English-language Wikipedia, complete with media, in about 100GB. They also have a bunch of other collections like Project Gutenberg. There are also less heavy subsets. htt
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by fmajid 2y ago
It will bite you when you try to sell your company and they do due diligence. CitusDB was also AGPL-licensed at one point, not sure if they still are. Still, AGPL is a proper open-source license, unlike the sleazy fake ones adopted by Redis
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by fmajid 2y ago
Perhaps they prefer docile to senior.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Trying to resolve it before the sleep deadline is what turns the argument into a quarrel...
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by fmajid 2y ago
Perhaps the fact the wall is to a first approximation an unmovable object, the oncoming car isn't.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It's a plot device in Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days , thus before the date line was established in 1885.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Here in the UK, it's considered incredibly bad news because it destroys the foundations of houses, and is well-nigh impossible to eradicate.
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by fmajid 2y ago
You have a very restrictive and limiting view of what constitutes social interactions.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Except Debian is notorious for breaking OpenSSL's security by "helpfully" removing code that provided entropy for keys without understanding why it was there (Chesterton's Fence): https://lists.debian.org&#x2F
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by fmajid 2y ago
Lockdown (the TOTP app, not the VPN/firewall app) has both, but it is essentially abandonware now. I wrote my own exporter for it: https://blog.majid.info/lockdown-export/

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