john_strinlai

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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
by nature of being in the "known exploited vulnerabilities catalog" ( https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog... ) "CISA maintains the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have bee
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> Huh? These are machines, built by their human builders. The humans are responsible. i'm referring to the concept of intent, which at least when prosecuting under the US computer fraud and abuse act, is a critical component. for e
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
some say it will cure all diseases and lead to utopia. some, like you, say it will be "100% strictly negative". i don't really understand either take. nothing else in the world is so perfectly black or white. there will be g
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
its not incredulity. i'm unfamiliar with what law this would be prosecuted under, so i asked. the HF incident is pretty clear in which laws were broken. this one, not so much. i can't think of any case where, for example, maliciou
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
which law does editing a wiki break? i am not familiar with german law.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i would not be surprised to find out that similar things are already happening by the various 3 and 4 letter agencies around the world
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> To them, the consent is using the device/service/whatever. exactly. the problem is the missing qualifying word. when consumers say consent, it's almost always referring to informed consent. when companies say consent,
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
that's pretty hyperbolic. i would guess some very large percent (80%? 90%?) of gmail users have never once even thought about the feature. it'll lose them some tech folk, but it's hardly "suicide".
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> The point would be to not have websites be liable if things go wrong im mostly on board with that. > Enforcement of banning alcohol for younglings (or drunk driving in general) is equally tricky alcohol bans are way easier to en
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i am not a lawyer, but to the best of my knowledge there are specific criteria for "stalking", one of which being that the stalking causes fear or distress. the average person (i.e. a "reasonable person" by legal definit
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
maybe trickle-down privacy will be more successful than trickle-down economics. one can hope.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> Cool try explaining any of these terms to the average sysadmin. if someone is managing a mail system and doesn't know what spf is, they should be immediately fired. i am also not convinced this will remove or limit exposure to an
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
if the mail from that address is being delivered to mailboxes, that's your universities fault. if it's not (i.e. spf & dkim is failing), that's just how email works and is not unique to gmail.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> Right now you can forge email from any email address you can verify ownership. how can you "forge" something if you verify ownership? when you own something, it's not "forging" to use it. i think the point you
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> I would never advise anyone to get mental health advice from a computer, yes, sorry, to be abundantly clear i am not suggesting to replace a licensed therapist with ai. i am suggesting to replace "life coach", "job
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
im not particularly concerned myself, but any ban like you propose would almost certainly go up to age 12 (at least), making it effectively impossible to enforce. i see your other comment about guns, so just to preempt that a little bit: th
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
over my long career, i have had the (dis)pleasure of working with many of these career/organization/employment consultant/coach types. if i can pass on a piece of advice for younger folk: avoid them. dont waste your money. es
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
it's pretty easy to enforce that for 6 year olds. not as easy for 12 year olds.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
correct, timeline is opt-in.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> Nobody is arguing the risk values are exactly the same. please re-read the part i quoted from the parent, where they say it's the same risk. > You're taking a pretty rigid stance that the only thing that matters is risk v
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> You have clearly never negotiated a contract. feel free to make an actual point rather than vague assumptions about my history. when you do risk assessments, which over my career i have done thousands, you include historical data.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> You should have just as much of an issue with Valve as you do Sony since you are signing up for the same legal risk. it's not the same overall risk though. accurate risk assessment includes past incidents in the calculation. sony
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> You have drawn a boy, born in the Korean Peninsula in 3394 BCE > Life expectancy at birth: 28 yrs > Died before age 5: 42% > Died before age 15: 50% i knew life expectancy was obviously lower, but those stats were a bit ey
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> makes me think you are just a troll, or worse. not trolling, just found it to be an odd thing to add on. none of the other comments that i read at the time of my comment, except yours, brought up the age of the author. i typically try
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> There’s only one way to interpret this. obviously not.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> I think the author lost the plot. they stretched an imperfect metaphor. i think that's forgivable. the piece, as a whole, is (as they say) a retelling of stoicism.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
while it's not how i would have written it, i am struggling to understand many of the interpretations being posted in the comments. it's like people skipped over all the lines that say (or imply) "just do your own thing"
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i am not sure why people are interpreting so extremely. the gist of the post is " do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to. " and " the goal is to just do your own thing. ". it i
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
that is not really what is meant by that advice
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i dont think it's that deep. it's the age old advice of "dont give a fuck" dressed up in some modern terminology ("npc")

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