hyperman1

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by hyperman1 3mo ago
You're proposing encrypting the only thing that merits recovery?
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
There is a midterm comming up in the USA. If you're living there and you're now not going to vote,I'm sorry but you're complicit. They might make it inconvenient, but you all still got some power left over there. Afaik
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
This is not the correct model. For a typical user, they can bring the laptop to someone knowledgeable, who will pop out the drive for them. The main question is: What is the biggest risk: theft or data corruption. In my experience, corrupt
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
Basically, the whole protestant faction. A sibling comment mentions Lutheran (German) and Mennonites (Dutch). There is of course catholicism from the Irish, but the Anglicans are suspiciously small.
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
I've always thought of the USA as the east Roman Empire of the British Empire. The seat of the throne moved to the white house, but the USA is still culturally close to the UK. Except for the religion, which seems to come from The Neth
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
Around here, I've never seen an ebike without speedometer, and everyone on the street should respect street signs and red lights. I see no reason to ignore red lights or stop signs just because you're powering yourself.
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
Belgian view here. Flanders is slowly getting the Dutch cycling culture. E-bikes are forbidden from assisting above 25 km/h. You can go faster, but you will be providing the power yourself. Something changed on the biking paths when
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
There is this feeling where it's futile to do anything, the world is big and miserable and you're small and insignificant. I'm slowly getting convinced that some political players are spreading this view on purpose. It is an
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
I would not describe it as incompetence, more as 1) current encryption not available in the 1990's. These are the age of DES and weapon-grade vs commercial encryption. There was a legal cost blocking strong encryption. 2) Manufacture
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
Right now, software is protected by the attacker not having enough competence. If that's over, the logical next step is using real encryption. E.g. a synth has a public key embedded. To change settings, you upload them to the vendor,
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
As an older generation man, I've tried to understand the touchiness here. This is dangerous territory, so I hope you try to read my intent here, even if the packaging is not as strong as I want it to be. The best analogy I can come up
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
Re Onedrive, as someone who left windows ages ago: Why not just create folders outside your user home? Create some junctions from the inside. Then onedrive gets to sync only your desktop wallpaper and any random stuf apps drop in there, a
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
And still more than half of the USA voters believed him better than any other candidate. In fact, a decent chunk responded to his call for an insurgence when his previous presidency ended. They can't be all total idiots. So what are t
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
I know a few smart people from Europe who went to the USA. Several of the smartest went to Canada in Trump 1. More have followed now. They still prefer Canada above returning to the EU, even if it is legally harder.
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
That discussion contains: TE have perfected milking hipsters to perfection As someone considering buying a pocket operator for his son: How true is this? What are decent alternatives for PO?
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
I really like datagrip when working with SQL. It works on most common databases, and allows for inline query results, giving a workflow comparable to jupyter notebooks. All Jetbrains IDEs using the same keybindings for e.g. multi line edi
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by hyperman1 4mo ago
I remember them releasing it on an 1st of april l, we were all: Great joke. Then it turns out they were serious. That was some smart marketing.
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
That's an impressively thorough answer to a vague wonder. Thanks
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
I've been vaguely wondering lately: The climate crisis is solar energy getting trapped on the planet instead of radiating into space. Solar panels convert light to electricity to ultimately mostly heat, instead of reflecting it to spac
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
I see a lot of coherence in the ages used in the western world. Laws use age 16-18-21 to say almost adult - adult - need to be sure adult.
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
Strict is probably good. My company started to enable bitlocker this year on win11, and a non trivial amount of initial encryptions seem to be failing, destroying the user data and requiring a full reformat.
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
I last saw a psychology thing on TV about people reserving theur strong reaction to the second severe transgression. Bad guys get 1 abuse for free, modulo some stern looks and grumbling. Second time, the big hit comes. The number of trans
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
I don't think Ukraine lost. They surely did a lot better than anyone expected. Right now, I'd say it can go both ways, with Ukranian deaths vs Russian economic crash and hurt for their rich class seeming the main determinaters.
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
I think the main EU fear is ex-soviet countries fearing they are next if Ukraine falls. So Ukraine should not necessary win, it should mainly bleed Russia and not loose. An eternal standstill is probably best, realpolitik-wise (To be clea
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
Before Trump, there was Bush Jr. The world's view on him was also dim, but 9/11/2001 made the world cut the USA a lot of slack. It turns out he was the new normal, instead of a temporary savage spot. Trump is not the only U
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
Somerhing is finally happening. A consultant came talking about software choices. We asked for non US possibilities and he gave a few. While talking about ut, he mentioned the question came up a lot now, typically from governements and bi
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
It is indeed cool tech. But be aware that e.g. building weapons is also playing with cool tech. The main problem I see: Who is the attacker and who is the defender. The presented scenario has the machine owner (renter?) as defender, so no
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
I had a 386 with 40Mhz (which does not exist, so in hindsight it must have been a clone chip) and 4MB Ram. I could run all Doom 2 levels with reasonable speed, except the last one, where 4mb just wasn't enough.
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by hyperman1 5mo ago
One thing I liked about Gothic 1 was how you could fight people and not kill them ( Kill was an extra action after you won).The NPCs reacted differently to winning vs killing, pushing you to let others live. In a brutal penal colony, this m
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by hyperman1 6mo ago
Picture of me, outdoors. According to this, I lost 10 years and gain €10k salary. I also moved to the Netherlands, started smoking, don't like computer games and am racist. I might be interested in pottery and painting, also in unh

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