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by jjav 1y ago
> In what sense? Email is an open interoperable standard, owned by nobody. You can run your own email infrastructure just fine (I do, many do). So it is fundamentally different from all the proprietary walled gardens which have a single
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by jjav 1y ago
> famously minuscule metadata Famously minuscule? They demand a phone number, which blows up any possible anonymity story.
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> almost no one uses desktop for critical stuff like payment or finance What? This makes no sense. For something where security matters, using the desktop is the only rational choice. I never, ever, allow any sensitive information throug
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by jjav 1y ago
> and lost a couple og long-distance friends in the process This is sad, but also a reminder that nothing that matters should be tied to proprietary walled gardens. All of those are ephemeral. Anyone I care to stay in contact with, I com
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by jjav 1y ago
> The only requirement for password rotation in PCI DSS v4.0 is if the password is the only form of authentication (i.e. no MFA). Use MFA (which you should be anyways) and you don't need to enforce password rotation. We just compl
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by jjav 1y ago
> If FSD kills a person, many executives, including the top dog, need to go to jail. Remember that Musk (through "doge") just illegally dismantled the agencies that might've been able to hold Tesla accountable for safety v
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by jjav 1y ago
> I have over $100k in Tesla puts. I also have Tesla puts but that is brave! While extremely overvalued by any metric, Musk has also been somehow able to keep the stock flying high for years and years on the force of hyperbolic lies (ful
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by jjav 1y ago
> If I could go back, I’d tell my younger self not to stick around under bad leadership or in an unhealthy environment. The one thing I'd add is, be aware of the politics of the organization. Is this new manager seen by his bosses t
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by jjav 1y ago
This is the link https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/trumps-faa-pick-has...
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Yes, we redirect to Open JDK
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> the policy isn't a requirement for e.g. SOC2 or whatever It is a PCI requirement and probably from other sources. Of course it is brain dead and we even have authoritative documentation from NIST explaining why it is stupid, but n
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by jjav 1y ago
> Historically, the jump from 2 kids to 3 kids requires purchasing a new car. The cost of daycare and education is so immensely larger than the cost of a car, that I don't think cost of a car is a factor. The important consideration
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by jjav 1y ago
> North America has stuck to minimum of 1 staff at all times. No staff = closed. Not true at all at least in California. I regularly fill at unattended stations late at night past midnight. The credit card operated pumps are operable 24&
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by jjav 1y ago
> It's been one for at least the last twenty years. Ubiquitous smartphones have racheted this up to a level before unimaginable. Imagine saying in 1990 that in 2025 everyone will be carrying a locator device which tracks their where
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by jjav 1y ago
> Yes but speed cameras quickly turn into a revenue source for greedy councils. This has been widely documented for red light cameras. Red light cameras are politically much easier because approximately nobody thinks blatantly running re
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by jjav 1y ago
The best way to think of it is the software must serve me, the owner of the computer, and nobody else. Years ago when spyware was not the norm, there would be outrage if anyone caught some software sending as much as a single packet of data
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by jjav 1y ago
> seniors and disabled people can't just live somewhere cheaper? > I think they should be pushed out by the wealthy. This pretty well summarizes why there is so much opposition.. Seriously? Dump the elderly and disabled on the st
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by jjav 1y ago
> Dark mode. The idea of "Dark mode" as a "feature" annoys me more than it probably should. Because it highlights how proper separation of content and presentation has been ruined by the so-called modern web, by moder
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by jjav 1y ago
I am also a Radio Shack Color Computer alumni, owe my career to it. I started using OS-9 as soon as I could afford to upgrade to 64K RAM, to which I thank feeling right at home with SunOS after I got access to that in the university. To any
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by jjav 1y ago
When you need to debug across the entire system and into the kernel, I'd use dtrace which has had java stack frame support since... I don't remember anymore, but closing in on 20 years.
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by jjav 1y ago
> My other issues with the JVM is how much of a black box it is from a platform perspective, which makes debugging a PITA You state how you don't really use java, but the above confirms it. Java debugging and diagnostic tooling is s
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by jjav 1y ago
> stacktraces where you need 3 vertical monitors stacked together If you wrote code with such deep stacktraces, it's all on you. There's a performance cost to all that excessive stack depth too, often.
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by jjav 1y ago
> If Tesla sales are down, the Cybertruck is an unmitigated failure and now they are losing money on insurance, then why on earth is the Tesla stock not going down? Great question. Tesla's latest quartely report was very negative ac
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by jjav 1y ago
"Strawman" means it is a fabricated argument. Whereas this is an account of what literally happened. Basically the exact opposite of strawman.
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by jjav 1y ago
While I sbsolutely agree there needs to be laws preventing account bans for any website larger than some threshold, this is also a reminder why it is so incredibly vital to support open standards that are not owned by anyone. Like email, IR
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by jjav 1y ago
> An excellent option is to use federalism as it was intended. If you want funding for certain medical research, have your state issue grants. This can work, but only in an alternate universe where the federal government doesn't get
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by jjav 1y ago
The arrogance of power is very difficult (perhaps nearly impossibly difficult) for humans to overcome. Apple is worth more than many countries, so employees are going to feel immune to everything. And for the most part, that is true. Big mo
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by jjav 2y ago
> Nobody races steeet legal cars. Most people don't but that's an overly broad generalization. I raced Spec Miata in its early days (2000-2010) and it was possible (and I did) to keep a moderately competitive Spec Miata still s
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by jjav 2y ago
> The reality is that vendors cannot and will not offer "in perpetuity" commitments to run the cloud portion of their gear. Right. That is precisely why nothing that is meant to last should have any kind of dependency on "
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by jjav 2y ago
If you want my feedback.. a web app where I'd enter financial information is a complete non-starter. I'm not sharing my financial information with an unknown third party (no offense, just unknown). Software like this must be an ap

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