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by kobalsky 5y ago
The xkcd author did a disservice to online security with that comic. You can be forced to disclose your secrets but you will know they were compromised, that's encryption doing its job. There's a world of difference in knowing.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
I do something similar but to test that my pc hasn't been compromised. I have an unencrypted btc wallet with a few hundred usd worth of btc as a canary. It's not perfect of course.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> CSAM is just a tool that matches image hashes. It can't make accusations who validates the source content of the hashes? what stops the government from adding one tiny bitty hash that they know is uniquely present in let's sa
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by kobalsky 5y ago
regardless of website bloat, tcp is pure garbage when dealing with even minimal packet loss and it has always contributed to the crappy feeling that mobile connections have. if something doesn't start loading in 5 seconds and you are s
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by kobalsky 5y ago
what I heard some naugthy people say is that one way to deal with these kind of issues is to have two virtual machines, one that connects to the vpn and a second one (without host networking) that can only access internet through the first
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by kobalsky 5y ago
if a security tool lets the user shoot themselves on the foot it's a problem of the security tool not of the user.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> That is incompatible with the law. who says? that premise seems to operate on the idea that justice only works on stuff that can be returned to its previous state. if anything crypto has proven that big heists don't pay off becaus
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by kobalsky 5y ago
What I did was: while true; do docker-compose logs --tail=100 -f myservice; sleep 1; done
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by kobalsky 5y ago
I really hope the privacy-conscious people downloading this aren't just downloading these binary blobs and instead compiling it from source. Especially after seeing this disclaimer on their download page: >>>IMPORTANT: These b
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> Now tell me which of those categories Bitcoin falls under Where do I put my workstation? I mean I do watch youtube on it sometimes but I mostly work with it... and it does heat up the room but that's mostly a side effect and not a
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by kobalsky 5y ago
I think the difference in G forces sustained during launch and when hitting the floor are few orders of magnitude off.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
Just tell japan we could send some politicians over there to fix their issue. Argentina's issue isn't a case study though. On one of the last auctions to print bills there were no bids because they were asking for an insane delive
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by kobalsky 5y ago
I have a macbook pro late 2013 with a retina display, i7 cpu, 16gb ram and 512gb ssd that doesn’t get monterrey. I am not very happy about it, it’s a waste
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by kobalsky 5y ago
I think selective immigration is “eugenics” with extra steps. it’s the logic thing to do but also completely unethical. I hope the future sees the practice how we see picture of kids working in coal mines. immigration visas need to be issue
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> Those in debt (which is the majority of people) benefit from inflation though it's a temporal win though. it never ends well.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
for all practical purposes it was cosmetic. I constantly got heavily downvoted slideshow + text-to-speech autogenerated garbage videos that were ranked above good videos on search results
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by kobalsky 5y ago
if you set a retain policy on persistentvolumes it will prevent your volumes from being deleted even when you delete the owning objets. cloud providers will keep the virtual drive on those cases even if you delete everything regardless, it’
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by kobalsky 5y ago
doing your own thing can be a chore that keeps you very far from doing the fun stuff, especially if you love R&D. when you least expect it you will be in a meeting about business management crap, it's very hard to keep that at bay.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
Why is it optional? Why would someone want the option to use it if it’s not required? Sorry I don’t understand well. A lot of jargon is being throw around and I haven’t touched this topic much once I got my pass through setup working
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by kobalsky 5y ago
you don’t have an eureka moment and build a perfectly functional android from scratch. this is a necessary step towards a better-than-human arm
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by kobalsky 5y ago
the thread I saw on reddit where everyone was outraged and talking about cancelling their subscriptions felt fabricated. I hate to put a tinfoil hat on but this just seems like ad campaign.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
except c++ is not welcome on the linux kernel. torvalds said recently: “Probably next year, we’ll start seeing some first intrepid modules being written in Rust, and maybe being integrated in the mainline kernel.” [1] the rust community is
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by kobalsky 5y ago
it was a 100M bluff in front of the CEO of one of the most important companies on earth if you don’t pay for inexperience there I don’t know where you will
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> but not having automatic layouts is really a deal breaker for me there is layout saving on i3 now and it works pretty well. basically you build a layout on a workspace, dump it to a file, adjust window selectors so that they swallow th
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by kobalsky 5y ago
amazon and google both created managed version of popular open source software like grafana and airflow and they are priced at a premium.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> coreos archived etcd-operator doesn't surprise me. this operator really tarnished coreos in my eyes when I learned that the it worked only with volatile storage, so if for example, your power backup failed and every node went down
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by kobalsky 5y ago
protonmail used to say this on their website and removed it after some people were arrested because they did provide logs to the french authorities. the catch is that they didn't log by default but they had to log specific users due to
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by kobalsky 5y ago
wifi is terrible at long distance connections even with high power directional antennas. with a phone's omnidirectional it seems impossible. if I recall correctly wifi is also sensitive to doppler shift, so LEO satellites traveling at
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by kobalsky 5y ago
this isn't something you will use to watch youtube. >>>A 911 call may not be possible yet, but an SOS message containing basic information and coordinates certainly would be this is an intermittently available emergency servic
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by kobalsky 5y ago
google cloud monitoring's uptime checks started failing this morning too https://status.cloud.google.com/ >>>Global: We have identified an issue affecting "Uptime Checks" within Google Cloud Monitori

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