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by jackjeff 10mo ago
So the right process is to request for a K1 fiancé visa which takes over a year?! I can see why people were tempted to cut corners, especially given past tolerance…
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by jackjeff 11mo ago
The UK (same as the US) has lots of extra territorial laws. Enforcing them is another matter. It’s easy to make Apple budge because they have money ties to the Uk. This works less well for unsavory websites not complying with UK law. See h
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by jackjeff 11mo ago
The UK has no problem asking their ISPs to block the Pirate Bay. Why can’t OFCOM do this? I don’t understand the attempt to pursue this in a foreign country. It’s fairly obvious that what they’re doing are not considered crimes in the US an
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by jackjeff 11mo ago
The problem is that these private companies have taken a disproportionate place in public discourse. You are absolutely right that freedom of speech does not guarantee the right to post anything on YouTube (someone else's website). In
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by jackjeff 11mo ago
The article has a very long list of alleged Israeli violations of international law and human rights. Here's a quick summary. Genocide in Gaza. It is described as a "genocidal campaign" implying systematic targeting of a nati
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by jackjeff 11mo ago
The irony is that JD Vance lectured the Europeans about their lack of freedom of speech in Europe while invited in Germany.
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by jackjeff 1y ago
I’d be curious to know how the UK going to enforce its extra territorial law against a company with no ties to the UK?
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by jackjeff 1y ago
No doubt it’ll be an open source app you’ll be able to recompile for your non Android/iOS computers. Otherwise I really hope to government gifts me an ID computer.
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by jackjeff 1y ago
Don’t cars and ropes and drills occasionally kill people too? Society seems to have accepted that fact long ago. Somehow we expect the digital world to be devoid of risks. Cryptography that only the good guys can crack is another example of
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by jackjeff 1y ago
I remember doing that for some custom installer I wrote. It felt like a good idea for 5mins until it got flagged by a bunch of anti virus software… had to sign the installer in the end and spent a lot of time reporting false positives.
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by jackjeff 1y ago
I’m surprised it’s that big to be honest. I was expecting it to be smaller or half the size to be taken by some app icon. I remember writing this kind of stuff back in the days and it was smaller. Is it due to MinGw maybe?
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by jackjeff 1y ago
I did not realize that worked so well. I gave up on Safari a while ago. Will give it another shot with AdBlock Pro then. Is it with the free tier? I just use ublock Origin with Firefox on Mac/Pc and Orion on iOS. The annoyance list tak
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by jackjeff 1y ago
Oh thanks. I missed that. I guess that works pretty well too!
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by jackjeff 1y ago
> The video stream is encoded as one single JPEG2000 picture per frame. Each frame is encrypted with the same static AES key. Is this not a problem? It’s not a good idea to reuse the same key to encrypt very similar files. Similar to ECB
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by jackjeff 1y ago
Checking for errors after every line (like in Go) is the worst. Used to do that in c/c++ calling win32 APIs. Know what happened when sloppy developers come along? They don’t bother checking and you have really bizarre impossible to deb
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by jackjeff 2y ago
That’s not necessarily true. RIPA notices do indeed assume you’re in possession of the keys of anything encrypted and you must disclose when asked nicely. You just need an airtight provable way of showing you have a way to destroy that key
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by jackjeff 2y ago
Could not agree more! I have 20+ years experience and use Cursor/Sonnet daily. It saves huge amounts of time. But I can’t imagine this tool in the hands of someone who does not have a solid understanding of programming. You need to und
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by jackjeff 2y ago
As a person living in the UK, I really hope the rest of the world gives the middle finger to this pathetic extra territorial law by totally ignoring it. They can ask ISPs to do the censorship if they really want to keep us “safe”.
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by jackjeff 2y ago
I think it’s unprecedented for every FBI agent to fill up a questionnaire to admit whether they worked on a case where the president himself was an active participant.
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by jackjeff 2y ago
That’s a good point. Wouldn’t OpenR1 suffer from the same problem? Or does being open somehow shield them from legal repercussions?
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by jackjeff 2y ago
As long as this is the only place the fascist upraising happens… better than being forced out of your job, making all other political parties illegal, being beaten by mobs patrolling the streets while the police looks the other way, cancel
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by jackjeff 2y ago
If only I ever watched ads on live TV I would have noticed…
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by jackjeff 2y ago
I use ublock Origin on the Orion browser on iOS.
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by jackjeff 2y ago
Ab yeah. In that case it makes perfect sense. But honestly I’d stay away from PBDKF2 at this stage. If you look at OWASP they recommend 600k rounds. That number is getting bigger and bigger all the time (10k rounds used to be enough over a
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by jackjeff 2y ago
I'm not defending this choice, and I think you're right in general. In this case, the only thing encrypted with TripleDES is the password itself, so the practicality of a crib or other known plaintext attacks is debatable in my op
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by jackjeff 2y ago
It uses both AES and TripleDES If you glance at the code there's a single "key encryption key" in the whole SQLITE file (in the 'metadata' table). That key is decrypted using AES with the PBKDF2 derived secret. Then
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by jackjeff 2y ago
There are many ways in which ISO files are useful. You have native support in Linux and Windows (you can mount). You usually also have support in virtualization or emulation software like VMWare Parallels, VirtualBox, HyperV… So I get it Et
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by jackjeff 2y ago
Comments go out of date because of bad developers. The same people who do the bare minimum for tests not to explode. But won’t add a new test case for the new branches they just introduced. The same people who will mangle the code base intr
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by jackjeff 2y ago
If you get have privileged escalation vulnerability there are worse things you can do. Just making the system unbootable by destroying the boot sector/EFI partition and overwriting system files. No more rebooting in safe mode and no mo
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by jackjeff 2y ago
I don’t know. As a shareholder it sounds like the dumbest move ever. In what universe would it make sense to have a fab so close to an appartment building and vent toxic gas. It’s a PR disaster waiting to happen. Whatever savings you make b

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