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hlieberman
5y ago
The author explicitly notes that he is testing M-Discs; in fact, for heat, he only tests M-Discs.
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hlieberman
5y ago
We /can/ do better than those refrigerants, though. R-1234yf has a tiny global warming potential compared to even some of the green choices out there like propane or isobutane. There's also the old solutions like CO2, or ev
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hlieberman
5y ago
> The founder, Zhang Yue, is an Edison-like inventor and has been recognized by the UN as a "CHAMPION OF THE EARTH" Uhhh... when that's the sort of thing that's on your website, I immediately discard everything else o
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hlieberman
5y ago
It is required by Debian Policy §6.2 ( https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscript... ) that package maintainer scripts be idempotent. A maintainer could, theoretically, figure out whether its an up
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hlieberman
5y ago
This post reminds me very much of the climate scientist on Newsroom. "We're all going to die; nothing is going to help." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI
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hlieberman
5y ago
This is a terrible description of what the law actually does. Let's shine some light on the FUD. The law, H.R. 3684 (as enrolled), defines an "advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology" as a system which can
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hlieberman
5y ago
I took a low-five-figure paycut when I joined the United States Digital Service[1], but that's pretty expected. It's not the sort of job you do for money. It was incredibly worth it in terms of personal fulfillment, sense of purp
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hlieberman
5y ago
This is published by a predatory publisher ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Controversial_articles ). According to homozygoat ( https://www.twitch.tv/homozygoat ), it doesn't use real virus (rath
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hlieberman
5y ago
I think it's a reference to bilirubin[1], a compound used in the liver for breaking down red blood cells. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilirubin
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hlieberman
5y ago
You already don't have to, no buttcoin needed. https://blendle.com/i/the-economist/h-2-s-hope-and-hype/bnl-... -- $0.49 for this article.
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hlieberman
5y ago
At least one of the points in this article isn't true. The article states "RISC-V is not affected by the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities... [because it does] not perform any speculative memory accesses" -- but that'
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hlieberman
5y ago
The indictment itself specifies that nothing Michael Sussmann said was false, merely that he misrepresented on who's behalf he was sending it. No amount of spin will turn this into "Russia didn't interfere with the US electi
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hlieberman
5y ago
Cited from the study: "20 days after randomization we failed to detect any significant difference in the primary outcome between the study arms" (p4). The fact that it has no difference in primary outcome (removal of respiratory
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hlieberman
5y ago
A retracted, un-peer-reviewed article published by an economist and a medical doctor, neither of whom have any experience in public health. Might as well be written by Andrew Wakefield.
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hlieberman
5y ago
Keep in mind, it's a federal crime to melt any 5-cent or 1-cent US coins for the purposes of selling the underlying metal, punishable by a $10,000 fine and 5 years in prison. c.f. 31 CFR § 82.1 ( https://www.law.cornell.edu&
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hlieberman
5y ago
Low effort trolling with a new account.
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hlieberman
5y ago
You can't sue Comcast; you signed away your right to do so, individually and as a class, when you signed up for their service[1]. Most ISPs have class action waivers and binding arbitration, these days. In fact, you explicitly agreed
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hlieberman
5y ago
Though they redacted the domain name at issue, they failed to redact the IP address that it resolves to. As a result, I can say that the domain at issue is www.canna.to. Further confirmation of this is that the banner of the forum associa
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hlieberman
5y ago
The author of this piece is a non-scientist who wrote a book[1] arguing that the reason that the West took over was because of "superior genes" from Europeans over Asians or Africans. He is, at best, a xenophobe trying to make a
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hlieberman
6y ago
Generally speaking, they're both: 1) higher performance, and 2) held to a much higher standard in terms of certifications they need. For example, a normal YubiKey is unrated, a YubiKey FIPS is level 2 rated, and a Thales HSM is level 3
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hlieberman
6y ago
Why not use GNU Taler, if you insist on integrating a irrelevant payment mechanism?
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hlieberman
6y ago
The main thing this is used for in the Linux world is as part of a trusted boot pathway. It allows you to use the TPM to perform measurements on the boot chain and refuse to decrypt the data on the encrypted filesystem if it fails those ch
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hlieberman
6y ago
Asinine victim-blaming. "If you were good at C, it wouldn't have memory safety problems." OpenSSH, a program written by one of the most security conscious groups of developers out there (OpenBSD), used widely by pretty much
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hlieberman
6y ago
Good God, the Texas power grid is so fucked by speculation.
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6y ago
I think the biggest value of this vs httpie is that it doesn't use the system TLS libraries (openssl/gnutls/whatever) but instead uses rustls. Less attack surface, though admittedly if someone has a compromise that works on
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hlieberman
6y ago
This is not true. The NSF/ANSI standard 53 specifies that filters must remove PFOS/PFAS[1], and both reverse-osmosis (RO) units /and/ granulated activated carbon filters are certified under that standard. Granulated ac
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hlieberman
6y ago
My good friend fiendish has The Answer for which Debian ISO you want: https://fiendish.github.io/The-Debian-Gotham-Needs
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hlieberman
6y ago
Hello! I formerly maintained this PPA before turning it over to some of the Ubuntu people. It's my understanding that certbot is going to be migrated out of universe soon and into the main Ubuntu archive. That will cause it to gain f
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hlieberman
6y ago
The certbot-dns packages are certainly the most fragile part of the process -- however, I don't have any bug reports showing that the version in stable is currently broken for any of the dns plugins. If you're experiencing that, p
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hlieberman
6y ago
As the maintainer of certbot for Debian, I promise you that there's no intention of deprecating the certbot packages that exist in the archive. The EFF fully supports this decision and has promised to continue to assist. Their recomm
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