gunapologist99

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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
MacOS is neutered for any advanced or even power user compared to practically any Linux desktop experience. Trying to just resize or remove a window should convince you of that instantly.
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
Yes :)
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
Seems like they'd have to find another 5 year old Thinkpad.
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
Remove the batteries. Datacenters have redundant power and UPS.
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
"We've extracted what we can today." "This was a marathon session. I will congratulate myself endlessly on being so smart. We're in a good place to pick up again tomorrow." "I'm not proceeding on feat
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
Texas
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
In the United States at least, a bank who is offering a subprime loan is taking the bulk of that risk. Student loans are guaranteed by the federal government. That is not the same thing at all.
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
People investing in companies do so knowing that it might be a poor investment. But if a company borrowed the money and never had the intention to make enough to pay it back or return on investment, we have a different word for that. That w
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by gunapologist99 6mo ago
Anyone tried out Userify? It creates/removes ssh pubkeys locally so (like a CA) no authn server needs to be online. But unlike certs, active sessions and processes are terminated when the user access is revoked.
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by gunapologist99 7mo ago
As well as Islam (the Kaaba).
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by gunapologist99 7mo ago
> centuries-long FUD campaigns That dastardly Ben Franklin with his bifocals..
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by gunapologist99 7mo ago
Please provide examples.
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by gunapologist99 7mo ago
> the U.S. Supreme Court (on March 2, 2026) declined to hear an appeal regarding copyrights for AI-generated material. By letting lower court rulings stand, the Court effectively solidified a “Human Authorship” requirement. Not quite. A
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Prosecuting political opponents is convenient and very effective, especially if friendly parties control most of the media as well.
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
You’re ofc technically correct about preimage resistance in the abstract, but that’s not the relevant threat model: MD5 preimage over a uniform 128-bit space is infeasible. Emails are not uniform 128-bit values. They’re low-entropy, struc
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
md5 is trivial to brute force.
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Like most security regimes, it's both overly prescriptive and woefully insufficient. In short, dumb. :(
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Yes, it's a huge difference. However , you can install the very latest Google Camera app through the Aurora app (or Play Market), and it works perfectly except you don't get photo preview within that app ; to fix that minor is
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Generally Lineage is the latest. Unfortunately, there are other issues (such as the blobs that Lineage needs drifting out of date, and it's usually suggested that you'll should backup and then wipe to upgrade to the next major
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
TOTP not accepted? (When will people learn that biometrics are not another factor: they're entirely public and irrevocable. It's not just security theater, but Apple & Google know that this forces you into their ecosystem, whi
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Transparency always loses. Shutting down the only working database is the proof point that perfect is the enemy of good. Of course, this gives cover to the "well, we're working on something better" and "AI companies are
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
How would that do any good? And what good exactly would it do? I like my feed being personalized to who I am. I am unique. I'm not like anyone else.
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
"Share data" !=== "spy on the user" Oauth, for example.
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Why do governments think they are experts in user interfaces or UX?
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Fair point, but such regulatory ambiguity in the U.S. would likely be unconstitutionally vague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagueness_doctrine#Unconstitut... The article reads as if the EC chose one or a few apps tha
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Swiping is addictive, but touching a button for the next page is not. One is arbitrarily banned by unelected bureaucrats. The other is fine. We blame social companies for failing to raise our children the way we think they should.
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
> For an open-source project to achieve long-term reliability and growth, it must be backed by a sustainable commercial engine You mean like Linux, Python, PostgreSQL, Apache HTTP Server, Node.js, MariaDB, GNU Bash, GNU Coreutils, SQLite
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
Garage installation is easy. 1. Download or build the single binary into your system (install like `/usr/local/sbin/garage`) 2. Create a file `/etc/garage.toml`: metadata_dir = "/data/garage&
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
All of the "reputable" sources appear to be relying on "highly placed" anonymous sources, and many of the articles conflict with each other. Could have been little green men! But what exactly happened is probably (or s
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
'saner govt official because moron firing giant lasers into the air' - lasers just go everywhere at once and hit everything in the air, into the stratosphere? it's a big sky and gets bigger the higher you go.

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