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by jefftk 3y ago
> I don't understand how adding homomorphic encryption makes a cloud virus scanner for physical pathogens a better idea The reason to use a cloud service is that you can check whether someone is trying to synthesize something haza
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by jefftk 3y ago
>> minimal control, i.e. checking DNA / RNA / protein sequences > They were already doing this 15 years ago. I work in this area. Some synthesis providers check, others don't. And the checking isn't great.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> That's like 0.1% of the price of a new car These were very low end cars, much closer to $10k (1%) than $100k (0.1%).
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by jefftk 3y ago
They are still legally owned by a non-profit. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...
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by jefftk 3y ago
It sounds like you're under the impression that the data that was leaked for half the customer base was people's full genotype? Because the kind of matching that you're talking about here isn't possible on the coarse dat
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by jefftk 3y ago
> if someone steals credentials from a subset of users and can use that to gain access to nearly half your customer base If someone gets access to my facebook account they can read anything my "friends" have marked as "f
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by jefftk 3y ago
Sorry;you're right! I should have given the caveat that the login needs to be accompanied by a checkbox like that.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> No such thing as Sclavic people, never was. Sounds like there was to the Greeks: Slav (n.) "one of the people who inhabit most of Eastern Europe," late 14c., Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclavus (c. 800), from Byzantine Gre
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by jefftk 3y ago
slave (n.) c. 1300, sclave, esclave, "person who is the chattel or property of another," from Old French esclave (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" (source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, S
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I Want XMP but I Know Why I Can't Have It(jefftk.com)
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by jefftk 3y ago
That such incidents don't happen more often in commercial aviation may give us some comfort, but in reality, there have been many attempts by passengers to open an emergency exit door in flight. (Fortunately, it's almost impossib
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by jefftk 3y ago
> It's the same thing with the raspberry pi, sure you can get some cheap clone... It's a little different: from when the rPI first came out the price was a big driver of it's popularity. It started with the Model B at $
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by jefftk 3y ago
I also don't understand why they're doing it. On my long-running full history duplicates cost me a factor of 2 in space, and presumably the same in search time (but still perceptually instant).
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by jefftk 3y ago
I do a lot of analyses as a series of shell commands. Sometimes the command is complex, other times it isn't but the specific arguments I'm using matter a lot. When I need to revisit an old analysis being able to see the commands
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by jefftk 3y ago
That solution makes your passwords potentially accessible to the developers of the in-app browser. I trust Mozilla and Google not to steal my identity; I don't trust some random app that decides to use an in-app browser.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Not impossible: you could get the application specific password and then start using it on other sites. That would be foolish, but users do all sorts of foolish things.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> Tesla for some reason requires the window to automatically retract an inch when opening the door Tesla uses frameless doors, which are normally associated with high-end cars. To get a good seal without a window frame they use the st
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by jefftk 3y ago
At the machines I've used in the US the way they deal with this is having you move your items off the scale into a bagging area (which is actually also a scale internally, though not one that needs to be officially calibrated).
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by jefftk 3y ago
Dedup off, since I use my history to reconstruct things I've done and for that I want the full sequence of commands. Checking now it's 104,545 unique commands. It goes back to April 2012. Note that this is just my laptop; things
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by jefftk 3y ago
North of 55 has ice, but isn't all ice sheets. The most extreme example is probably the warm water port of Murmansk at 68° 58'.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> Any sailor would tell you, you don’t go above and below 55 degrees. Elaborate? There are major ports north of 55° and the US, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the UK etc.
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by jefftk 3y ago
I looked a bit more: it's documented at https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/12426260232977-Play... as an 'essential cookie' "which is part of Cloudflare's Bot Management service
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by jefftk 3y ago
> The opinion document as far as I'm aware has no legal force. Agreed! But without this guidance we're just stuck guessing what "strictly necessary" means.
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by jefftk 3y ago
The duration is part of the functionality. In interpreting the e-Privacy directive a general principle is that durations should not be longer than required to implement the required functionality. If you read through https://ec
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by jefftk 3y ago
I really don't see how a duration of one year and Same-Site=Lax on the sentry-sc cookie passed legal review, but perhaps your legal team is comfortable with a more aggressive approach than I'm used to.
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by jefftk 3y ago
In that case the cookie can at least be scoped to the login form with a Path attribute and limited to the current session, which these aren't. The cookies on https://sentry.io/auth/login/ set without user in
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by jefftk 3y ago
> A lot of these cookies are used to prevent CSRF Maybe I'm being dense, but I don't see CSRF risks with a login form? > once you go to a login page I'm pretty sure you will log in That seems very reasonable to me,
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by jefftk 3y ago
Possibly! But then they need to choose: take full control of their stack to where they can ensure it doesn't set unnecessary cookies, or use cookie banners.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Important! My history file on my laptop is up to 200,342.
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by jefftk 3y ago
promptFunc() { echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S) $(hostname) $PWD $(history 1)" \ >> ~/.full_history } PROMPT_COMMAND=promptFunc Or, in zsh: precmd() { echo "$(date

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