jofla_net

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by jofla_net 9mo ago
>> TLS certs should be treated much more akin to SSH host keys in the known hosts file. Browsers should record the cert the first time they see it and then warn me if it changes before it's expiration date, or some time near the
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
Rule by the few, us little people don't matter. Thing is, NOTHING, is stopping anyone from already getting short lived certs and being 'proactive' and rotating through. What it is saying is, well, we own the process so we&#x2
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
jofla.net Thanks
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
i call this slipstreaming, it can even occur during the signup yeah, once the bouncing around to many domains / uploading photos is psychologically normalized havoc can ensue. this is the greater evil.
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
Exactly, if the masses cease to have "computers" any more (deterministic boxes solely under the user's control), then it matters little how bulletproof signal's ratchet protocol is, sadly.
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
this is great thanks, was just wondering, could something else remove the dir in between the if and then, before trap? Just wondering about the atomicity.
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
Exactly, detecting and correcting at break-neck efficiency.
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
>they have a better understanding of the world and their position in it. Try not to use better/worse when advocating so vociferously. As described by the parent they are short-term pragmatic, that is all. This discussion can open up
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by jofla_net 9mo ago
lets ask SEARS
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
tough crowd
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
Spouting inevitability is small-minded. There are plenty "technology" things which have come to pass, most notably weapons, which have been developed which are not allowed to be used by someone to thier fullest due to laws, and so
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
I don't feel the tradeoff for trying to to fix the idea of a rogue CA misissuing is addressed by the shorter life either though, the tradeoff isn't worth it. The best assessment of the whole CA problem can be summed up the best b
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
Yeah the best/worst part of this is that nobody was stopping the 'enlightened' CA/Browser Forum from issuing shorter certificates for THIER fleets, but no we couldn't be allowed to make our own decisions about how w
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
FF on linux worked great.
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
https://grahamcluley.com/shouldnt-gmail-zip-files-password-i... Its been a while so i had trouble finding it (but Grok obliged) Moreover its always the edge cases that people are 'OK' with, but again if they can d
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
> I trust Google... Yup, yeah, sure. The company that attempts to open your password-protected zip files. Let us not give it a free pass either. There is no good incumbent.
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by jofla_net 10mo ago
Its not. I know some ex bay area devs who are the same mind, and i'm not too far off. I think its definitely stronger in MS as my friend on the inside tells me, than most places. There are alot of elements to it, one being profits at a
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by jofla_net 11mo ago
Cept its not made Linux (in the absence of it). At any point prior to the final output it can garner huge starting point bias from ingested reference material. This can be up to and including whole solutions to the original prompt minus som
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by jofla_net 1y ago
> "just use a second phone" cannot be the answer Not That i want to kick the can down the road, but the ultimate solution (barring actually fighting for our privileges over the systems we buy) is to have that second phone, and
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by jofla_net 1y ago
or you could, you know, wing-it, like they do overseas, and I tell you, the world does not end.
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by jofla_net 1y ago
Its most simply summed up as what I call the tradesman's protection racket. On one side of the coin you have any moron, calling himself a repair man which can and does end in disastrous jobs which can be unsafe. This though has much lo
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by jofla_net 1y ago
Yeah but that sweet sweet ABI, we just gotta have that stable ABI, bum ba dum. Remember that ABI when you're pulling out your hair over whatever MS's latest snafu is. The PC isn't about personal computing, no ,no, its about d
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by jofla_net 1y ago
Join the club. They 'stole' three Minecraft accounts from me. I tried their migration tool separately and all they were able to tell me was that old chestnut, "something happened".
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by jofla_net 1y ago
>Those on the left also quite often suffer from letting perfect be the enemy of good. Exactly, its because they are idealist. Its also not hard to follow this observation over to Europe, pretty much the epicenter of idealism on earth, an
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by jofla_net 1y ago
The new menus are really fun in 11, where it starts out new, and then when you want more info pretty much everything changes back (font/kerning/color) to the point of feeling you need to do a doubletake. Its something that if it h
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by jofla_net 1y ago
Until it isn't. Look at the lifecycle of most companies. The original staff and ideas die out. When that happens strange things take afoot. The title and discussion of the article is "Why is Windows still tinkering with critical s
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by jofla_net 1y ago
True True, I remember another example, with Linus Torvalds, who at a conference used a trivial example of simplifying functions, as to why hes good at what he does, or what makes a good lead developer in general. It went something along the
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by jofla_net 1y ago
> The Legend of Zelda is a great example. Shoutout for the Chris Houlihan room.
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by jofla_net 1y ago
After a while that kool-aid, chilled to optimum temperature, on infinite tap, becomes an aqueous sanctuary, even the most staunch hold-outs cannot resist.

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