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by jsiepkes 2y ago
Well since Yubikey's can't update their firmware everything with a firmware below 5.7 is e-waste I guess?
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> In other words, the bugs are in faulty implementations, not specification. Problems with STARTTLS have been going on for atleast a decade. At some point you need to start wondering if the design isn't the problem. Besides, why wou
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
> If you can redirect the victim to a proxy via DNS poisoning you don’t need this attack you can simply pretend to be the mail server. Not if the client uses SMTPS (i.e. SMTP with TLS) on port 587. Which is actually quite common for mail
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> Sourcegraph CEO here. We made our main internal codebase (for our code search product) private. We did this to focus. > There were actually very very few companies that were going to pay but then decided to use the open-source versi
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
I've seen this multiple times with companies. Another example which went fully closed in an instant is ForgeRock (OpenAM, etc.). Usually it happens when management caves in to complaints from sales. Who will complain being open makes s
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
The software Heritage project has archived most of their repo's. Including the main one [1]. Last crawl seems to be of mid July 2024. [1] https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
Pretty clear from the article why he did the interview: > What happened is that the community team were getting a lot of questions about AI and asked if I wanted to help give some answers. I agreed. I’ve seen people speculate that I was
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
Last week half of civilization came to a grinding halt because of the crappy engineering practices of a single company. I don't know if now is the right time to complain about perfectionism in IT.
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As far as I know the old mode is also no longer the default. At least it isn't in Fedora and in GIMP's own release notes they also don't use the old mode [1] [1] https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
> I feel like the OS window manager should provide this kind of experience GIMP (the OSS Photoshop-style tool) had this idea for literally over a decade and eventually gave up on it because they never got it to work well.
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
> Shareholders are probably relieved. Don't think so. Google has a relatively good track record for acquisitions. So I don't think they were really worried.
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
> Just stomp booking.com into the ground - I simply don’t understand why hotels and airlines don’t do it? Classic prisoners dillema. The problem is all the hotels, etc. need to be on the same page.
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I highly doubt their SLA says something about compensating for damages. At most you won't have to pay for the time they were down. And even more ironically; A botched update doesn't mean they are down. It means you are down. So I
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
OP asked: "Is/Was he a dictator/mass murderer or something?" so I answered dictators and mass murder roots are in general not regarded as a problem.
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Dictators and mass murderer roots are not a problem. For example I don't think there is much fuss about Hugo Boss (Sponsor of the Nazi's, designed and produced the SS uniforms), Volkswagen (car brand literally created by the Nazi&
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
> My rough understanding is that this is similar to async/await in .NET? Well somewhat but also not really. They are green threads like async/await, but it's use is more transparent, unlike async/await. So there are n
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
I thought Gitlab put more stuff in the free tier after KDE made that a requirement for moving to Gitlab?
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
The problem is not that the cars are cheap. The problem is they are cheap because of illegal support from the Chinese state.
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And once again a big tech company proves that as soon as their "principes" are put to the test they will abandon them almost instantly. When buying some wind energy was easy and wasn't really a trade-off they were quick to us
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
Does the shield still get security updates? The last update from NVidia seems to be older than a year of I'm not mistaken?
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
The code wasn't really ported to WasmGC. They now compile the same code base to WasmGC with J2CL where before they used J2CL to transpile it to JavaScript.
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
Don't get too sentimental. Windows 98 didn't really have any real memory protection. Meaning every process could modify all kinds of memory they shouldn't (kernel, other proceses, etc.). Hence kernel panics (aka "blue sc
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
In the early days of ADSL in the Netherlands all PC's got a public IP when they connected. Winpopup was a lot of fun those days...
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
So far the ban on nuclear energy in Germany has brought more open mining of coal, increased carbon emissions and now they have to keep subsidizing Russia's war machine.
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
As always; There is often a difference between what people say they will do and what people actually do once it costs them money.
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
If you have only public key authentication enabled with SSH I honestly don't understand why people bother with things like fail2ban. It just adds more moving parts with very little security gain. The real risk is a zero-day in OpenSSH
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
I highly doubt Africa cares about 5G as much as the west does. Someone will need to pay for that stuff and 5G also needs to be hooked up to a backhaul which supports 5G speeds.
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
Friend of mine has a e-bike from cowboy. The thing is 8 years old and has rust and other forms of oxidation on all kinds of places. Meanwhile my 20 year old koga miyata bike (which I also used for 10 years for my commute in all kinds of wea
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Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL(github.com)
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by jsiepkes 2y ago
> but my guess for what will happen regardless is the EU outsources its tech innovation to some other place where they can still reap the rewards. The AI laws don't work that way. Just like Google can't say: "We'll ju

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