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39 points by kevincox 3y ago|6 comments
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by kevincox 3y ago
> I've never seen or heard anyone talk about a website using up their data too fast. Is this because the website usage doesn't add up or because they don't have the tools to track which sites are using how much data?
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by kevincox 3y ago
100%, even if my performance slow degrades as my data changes I would much rather have gradual performance and be able to manually switch to a better plan at some point than have the DB suddenly switch a new plan which is probably better, b
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by kevincox 3y ago
I completely agree. The DCMA Anti-Circumvention rules are just a hack to make it easier to enforce copyright protections. But why should we make that easier? Why do we have a law making it illegal to do something that may be used for illega
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by kevincox 3y ago
No, TOTP is a cryptographic protocol for generating One Time Passcodes (OTP) based on a seed. Frequently this seed is displayed to the user as a QR code, but it is just a random string. The user will then somehow save this seed (usually by
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by kevincox 3y ago
Many people reuse passwords. Forcing SMS 2FA is something that they can feasibly do, because almost everyone can receive SMS and greatly raises the difficulty of credential stuffing (from just stuffing to needing to do a SIM swap). This sol
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by kevincox 3y ago
What do you mean by "dl the totp authenticator"? But the answer is no. Without the TOTP secret no one else can generate valid codes. If you sync your secrets to some cloud service then yes, you are trusting that cloud service. And
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by kevincox 3y ago
You are arguing a strawman. I'm not saying that I am guessing Y and that in my opinion it is what they need. I'm saying that if the asker provides Y it will often turn out better for both of us. I never once suggested that I would
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by kevincox 3y ago
The problem is more often that I can answer X, but it is very long, convoluted and odd. Because the question is based on bad premises. If you ask Y it saves us both a lot of time because I can give you a good answer without going down path
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by kevincox 3y ago
This article talks a lot about Nigel being better than AI. Is that true? It seems that with a quarter million words and a fairly limited search space a bot would pretty easily be able to find the best word for any play. It might get a bit m
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by kevincox 3y ago
The problem isn't proving your identity to IRS.gov. The problem is allowing a third party to store and sell your personal information. If IRS.gov is going to use a third-party verification service their agreement should require that th
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by kevincox 3y ago
> I was structuring my source better; I was applying recurring visual patterns This doesn't actually seem optimal. You lost a source of information so you are changing your coding style to compensate. The other changes mentioned see
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by kevincox 3y ago
I can be really nice to have this option but I'm surprised it is the default. For example I use Nix and running a build on the host is great because you get the shared caching. When doing this on GitLab I have a tiny shim socket image
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by kevincox 3y ago
I think also Google as a whole has pretty good diversity. But Cloud customers demanded regions in big population centers and smaller countries where Google traditionally avoided due to cost reasons. This lead to less redundant sites that we
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by kevincox 3y ago
I think the counter-argument is that "curl" is a project maintained by Daniel. If you are going to ship a product that doesn't behave in the same way you should call it something else. So Daniel is right about what "curl
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by kevincox 3y ago
Just because the switch takes time to move doesn't mean the new state doesn't take effect. I would expect the state to change immediately then the animation runs.
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by kevincox 3y ago
> B.C.’s attorney general was named as a respondent in the complaint and in its submission said that in early 2020 it implemented a 30-cent per-trip fee under the passenger transportation act or regulation as an incentive for ride-hailin
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by kevincox 3y ago
I don't think it necessary is. This is companies prioritizing short-term over the long term. In a world of cheap junk made by DNURES or some other six capital letter oversea retailer it seems that a strong brand name is more valuable t
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by kevincox 3y ago
I'm not super familiar with express but this seems to be listening on external interfaces as well: https://github.com/soorajshankar/logScreen/blob/f8b29aaef428... So this will be sharing your logs with t
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by kevincox 3y ago
With a quick look at the code I'm pretty sure this WebUI also wouldn't be snappy along before that.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Stopping users from modifying the software they run is user hostile.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Cert pinning protects against compromised certificate authorities. There are hundreds of trusted root certificates in most operating system stores so one of them gets breached every once and a while. Integrity checking is user-hostile, but
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by kevincox 3y ago
You can also change your Reddit settings to use the old UI for www.reddit.com.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Most of these use device attestation anyways so they are unlikely to run on Windows. The bank wants to ensure that the user doesn't have root access which isn't the case on Windows.
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by kevincox 3y ago
But with Git you still need to locate an up-to-date source for the repo. If the author is signing commits or you know a desired commit ID then you can verify once you have found a source, but finding the source is the hard part. IIUC with R
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by kevincox 3y ago
> they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window Not only that but the bigger spenders will have more budget so the bidding after a large outage should return higher bids on average leading to increased
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by kevincox 3y ago
> The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to
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by kevincox 3y ago
I recently got a new laptop and wanted to get Windows set up to do any firmware updates before I flashed Linux. I found a guide that said to put `a@a.com` into the username field and any password. I don't know if this account is specia
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by kevincox 3y ago
I used similar streaming HTML for my RSS reader. When you import subscriptions it can take a while as each feed is fetched so I use streaming HTML to show the progress of each feed as it is imported. This provides meaningful progress update
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by kevincox 3y ago
Yes. I mean a lot of the more frequent ones are things like comics that are fast to read. A few of them I mostly skim headlines. But I do read/watch most of them start-to-finish. Not as-they-happen, often I build up quite a backlog but

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