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by hlandau 10y ago
Apparently Samsung is 24% of South Korea's GDP. That can't be healthy.
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by hlandau 10y ago
RJ45 doesn't refer to Ethernet. In fact, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as RJ45. There's an RJ45S, but that's definitely nothing to do with Ethernet. Use of the term RJ45 is simply wrong, in any circumstance, as f
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by hlandau 10y ago
I'm the author of the article. After musing on the comments here I wrote a followup about improv HSMs. These aren't tamperproof and as such are suitable for use in secure datacentres only. https://www.devever.net/~
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by hlandau 10y ago
What I don't get is why they're all virtual machine based, though I think someone posted a brief explanation for that in response to me last time this came up. Moreover it doesn't help that I am violently allergic to Java. Bu
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by hlandau 10y ago
Yes, I know. I want those anti-tamper features, and I want to be able to take advantage of them to secure cryptographic policies designed and coded by myself or other people in the open source community. And of course I would be free to a
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by hlandau 10y ago
These are valid concerns, but they're not good reasons not to provide general-purpose compute HSMs. If you want an external company to have certified the software, the policy which goes on a general-purpose HSM, that may be entirely
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by hlandau 10y ago
>Many HSMs also add advanced authentication capabilities, such as M-of-N access control And this is exactly my point, it's all functionality which the manufacturers have decided some customer might need. I don't want that, I wa
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by hlandau 10y ago
As far as I am concerned the PBL is a tool to facilitate net neutrality violations, not by ISPs, but by e. mail service providers.* Another effort by anti-spam people to encourage network neutrality violations is the SUBMISSION port, port 5
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by hlandau 10y ago
I'm fond of Verdana, which is what this site is using. Also Trebuchet MS, which has a slightly quirky feel.
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by hlandau 10y ago
My design preferences seem to be diametrically opposed to whatever is the contemporary sensibility, then. I don't like the modern, padded, grey-rather-than-jet-black text style at all. High information density is a feature, not a bug.
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by hlandau 10y ago
It is unclear to me how issuing certificates you have no intention of using in any way constitutes "other changes to increase performance or security of your website." In fact it can only decrease security, as it increases the num
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by hlandau 10y ago
>And I also expect that substantial majority of people out there believe in this process / data flow as that’s how certificates have always been verified – for each new certificate, you either have to send an email from a given doma
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by hlandau 10y ago
Presumably single-letter TLDs will never be allocated. So you could allocate yourself one of those. Or maybe something with hyphens in not beginning with xn--.
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by hlandau 10y ago
Non-standards can lead to standards. AMD's Mantle graphics API, for example, was donated to the GLnext effort, which was then renamed Vulkan. If not for this kick start, GLnext would probably still be figuring out a decent API design.
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by hlandau 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification re: repairs. But I checked the (UK) Miele website just now and it seems like warranties there are 2 years by default, with extended warranties of 10 years available. So maybe this varies by region. Maybe German
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by hlandau 10y ago
I think this is a bad idea. Standards are nice, but companies shouldn't be coerced into using them because there can be legitimate reasons to not use a standard. It prevents innovation not envisioned by the standard. I really think the
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by hlandau 10y ago
It might be better to run a wash cycle with an empty detergent drawer. Repeating the same rinse cycle with inadequate water won't necessarily help. (Though it wouldn't surprise me if the standalone 'rinse' programme used
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by hlandau 10y ago
Probably the least worst option unless you want to buy (very expensive) commercial/industrial models. The main downside to Miele that I'm aware of is that unlike other manufacturers they monopolise repairs, i.e. only Miele repairm
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by hlandau 10y ago
This is a very nice move to see. Other people have discussed washing machines below, but there's even more to say on them. Washing machines used to have long warranty periods. Nowadays they tend to be sold with a 2 year warranty, which
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by hlandau 10y ago
>Google intentionally hobble their own websites (can't access search tools, for example) if you use Firefox Do you have more information on this?
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by hlandau 10y ago
>Letting users install and run unmaintained software is dangerous. Which is... exactly what Windows and Linux still do, rightly. >And they'll blame the browser for that, and rightfully so. Not at all rightfully so. Moreover the s
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by hlandau 10y ago
>Why is it reasonable? Does it bring more money to Lenovo shareholders? Dear god, am I supposed to care about the shareholders now? People don't buy products out of empathy for shareholders. I don't consider "higher suppor
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by hlandau 10y ago
Perhaps someone should port lynx or links2 to smartphones.
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by hlandau 10y ago
The more I look at parliament, the more it seems like a really crummy version of Git, at least with regard to how it proposes and amends legislation. Modern technology could make very large parliaments feasible, and make them more visible a
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by hlandau 10y ago
Another possibility is still to sell printers, but have the cartridges produced by a completely separate company. Have the cartridges also conform to an open, published specification which any company (printer maker or cartridge maker) is f
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by hlandau 10y ago
This is a misuse of the prefix "meta". "Meta" does not mean "reflection over X". It means "X about X". Saying "metaprogrammer" means "programming about programming". The convention
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by hlandau 10y ago
This post about the damage inflicted by 1201 reminded me of another 1201: Halon 1201, banned because it depletes the ozone layer. A serendipitous coincidence, with this post talking about 1201 like an ecological threat. More seriously, the
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by hlandau 10y ago
Okay, there's a lot that's dubious about this. Firstly, they've completely ignored the existing standards effort of ACME, which Let's Encrypt has cooperated with to develop, and created their own API. This detracts from
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by hlandau 10y ago
It was inevitable this would spread beyond Kazakhstan. I previously wrote about this: https://www.devever.net/~hl/policymitm
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by hlandau 10y ago
The industry of smartcards and similar devices has annoyed me for a long time, mainly due to its failure to provide a secure general purpose computing environment and get out of the way. I wrote about it some time ago: https://ww

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