jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Because the vast majority of their users don't want (or need, really) to bother with setting up GPG, making a key, adding their key to their account, etc. Also, if users don't know the very basics of how Git works, they probably s
902.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
They... do? Do you see the Verified note anywhere? It's not their fault if people don't understand how the tool they're using works at an extremely basic level...
903.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
In what world is "our large, enterprise customers who are extremely risk-averse and probably under NDA could acquire source code" equivalent to "source code so easily acquired"?
904.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
What? Git absolutely makes it trivial to impersonate commits. All you have to do is change some Git config settings. Or, export your commit into a patch/email file (git format-patch), modify it, and then import it (git am). Or, set som
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
DMCA takedowns do not need to be from the copyright holder themselves. They can be from ANY authorized agent of the copyright holder, like a lawyer, or ... the rights-enforcement association to which the copyright holder belongs. ETA: And
906.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
1) It is extremely unlikely that this was actually pushed to the github/dmca repo. Github has a bug where you can make commits to forked/"networked" repo's appear as if they're in the original repo. 2) They mos
907.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
How many landlords who accept it do you think there are? I would guess somewhere below 1%.
908.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
He got nicked because he was pseudonymous, not anonymous. It's a lot easier to track one guy named DPR than hundreds of guys named random things.
909.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
I have as well, but not many. Certainly not enough to call it a "hard currency" (of which the entire point is that it's widely, almost universally, accepted).
910.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
Is that the same as a mixer? If so: sure, they work just fine, except that you've introduced a SPOF who can tell everyone who you are/where it came from/where it went, etc. It's also tough to call something that arose lo
911.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
I'll take that as a no. So how is it "hard currency" if you can't buy the things you want with it?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Pseudonymity is almost never sufficient, as Ross Ulbricht proves. Yes, there are a few cryptocurrencies for whom untraceability is a design goal. Obviously this does not include Bitcoin (which is the subject of this thread), and in general
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I wonder how difficult it would be to extract the key from the device. Probably not very. I also like how they say "no trust", but in reality, you have to trust them (and their entire supply chain). Edit: from their FAQ: "Can
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
What can you buy with your Bitcoins? Can you pay your rent with them? Can you pay your electric bill, or internet? Can you buy gas? Can you buy groceries?
915.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
> Cryptocurrency is designed specifically, by virtue of its decentralized and trustless nature, to facilitate money laundering. It was a design goal. ... with the intent to conceal the source of funds That is simply false. Virtually ever
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
US be like: "you're not allowed to see the live position of aircraft" US also be like: "let's make it super easy for anyone to tell where every aircraft is"
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Also useful for operating one process which might provide access to certain files, to other processes. You can further restrict it using the fact that you can easily verify the PID/UID/GID on the other end of the UNIX socket. ( ht
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I'm aware. However, Hanlon's razor suggests it's not intentional. Moreover, I think Occam's razor suggests the same: it's a lot simpler if we assume they just primarily test in their own browser (just like I'm
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Oops. I misunderstood. I was really confused by this whole thread until I went back and looked at the page source and realized the person I replied to meant that with JS turned off, the page is blank.
920.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
Honestly... I don't know if that's intentional; Drive 'files' get really laggy really quick in Chrome too.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I believe that GNU find used to (in some cases?) show a warning if the directory was omitted. Could be wrong.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I wasn't dismissing the idea that it was common practice, I was dismissing the idea that the common practice applied in my case. I did not have an IT department setting anything on my system when I experienced this. Thank you for the i
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I'm afraid that doesn't fit with the "be as explicit as you can regardless of logic" espoused in the article.
924.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
The difference is that on Android you can get a different store , and the only thing you have to do is turn on dev mode and then download/run the apk. There seems to be a lot more friction to sideloading a Chrome extension: download,
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
When I did support for a newly-launched MMO back in 2014, the policy for a chargeback was to permanently disable any using the card, and ban any cards used on those accounts.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
That's how a business gets forced to do something: money.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Wh- why is that a bad thing? What about it would be made better by JS?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
How many users do you think will bother? No, they'll just complain at some point in the future, probably long after Google has completely turned down the API and migrations are no longer possible.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
And at some point users will no longer be able to help with it. According to the image on the page, they seem to expect that might be as soon as Q3'21.
930.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
This is a VERY quick deprecation period... wow. And I wonder how many people have developed something during Covid, in anticipation of Google turning back on "new paid items", and now can never use that effort. Moreover, it sounds

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