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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
I make no claims of morality here, implicit or otherwise. I agree that everyone is potentially high cost, and that's the point. We have to decide who gets more, and who gets less. Some people are going to say that it is more moral to i
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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
As a parent of a public school kid, I am deeply frustrated by the overburdened mission scope of the school system. Schools must be a social welfare program, a babysitting service, and an educational system -- my impression from my own kids&
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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
To be clear, I was ultimately able to export. My complaint is that at the time I was doing this (July 2021), the web client, phone app and then-new Linux desktop app had no means of export, which is something 1Password support acknowledged
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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
I used to be a 1p fanboy, but the company has really deteriorated from my point of view. Once upon a time, my password data was stored entirely locally in a format that was well-documented and which I could access using tools like openssl.
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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
Users weren't running IE6 for years and years because they upgraded to something newer, and decided to go back. The solution to this problem didn't come from making upgrades a purely one-way process. Device makers have become quit
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I’d like to deal with it. My preferred way to deal with this complexity is to have an information diet that includes sincere attempts to capture this complexity, by reporting what is specifically happening with “ethnic tensions” in Ukraine,
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This is very sad. I understand WHY Mozilla is here. But this is an act of absolute degradation: "Every once in a while, something comes along that we can totally get behind." When Mozilla "gets behind" something, I tend
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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
In its heyday, Slashdot was often (but not always) really timely with tech news, and was reasonably well-curated. The comments were generally numerous, and had a lot of genuine insight since the site tended to be frequented by actual IT&#x2
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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
I did a degree in applied math. You’d think this would be “math you’ll use,” but the fact is that despite my program having a CS concentration, most of the stuff I did was not really applicable in practice. However, one thing that has been
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by helpfulclippy 5y ago
I'm always really disappointed every time I hear an account from security researchers about how difficult it is to deal with Apple. I realize that Apple cannot possibly be alone in this, but there's something especially frustratin
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Oh. Well, I did have advice, so I gave it. :)
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“Don’t roll your own crypto” is great sense for production software. It is not good advice for people who are interested in learning to write good crypto, which we will continue to need. For those people: roll as much as you can! Roll your
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As soon as she opened a socket, the NSA captured the whole thing.