lawfulcactus

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by lawfulcactus 6y ago
Statuspage isn't currently up-to-date; see downdetector[0]. [0] https://downdetector.com/status/shopify
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by lawfulcactus 6y ago
Do you have any data to back this up? I should hope people would be embarrassed to post wildly unsubstantiated nonsense under a username linked to them.
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by lawfulcactus 6y ago
It's a random individual's approximation of the value added by their status as a government agency; and no, we patently /don't/ pay for it through taxes (unless you count subsidized borrowing, but that wasn't t
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by lawfulcactus 6y ago
> Laws that bar any other shipping service from delivering mail and packages directly to residential and business mailboxes. Shapiro estimates that this gives the Post Office a $14 billion annual boost, more than three times what the Pos
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by lawfulcactus 6y ago
So, I think what you're missing here is that the 'verification' is a formal specification about the behavior of the kernel, along with a set of proofs about that specification. This is vastly simplified (there are multiple le
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
...why? If you don't like it, just don't install it. Not sure why you feel the need to ruin it for everyone else.
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
From Wikipedia[0]: > A medallion signature guarantee is a guarantee by the transferring financial institution that the signature is genuine and the financial institution accepts liability for any forgery. [0] https://en.m.wiki
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
You're effectively talking about APRS[1]. [1] http://www.aprs.org
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
I use a weechat relay over websockets (via nginx). It's a pretty convenient solution to the whole "my corporate firewall thinks I'm part of a botnet" issue (in addition to giving you channel history persistence).
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
> they put a Tor client in the default distribution Something that Mozilla is also doing[0], albeit with significantly more attention paid to the privacy-minded patches to Firefox made by the Tor Project. The end goal is to mainline thes
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Debian General Resolution: Init systems and systemd– first call for votes(lists.debian.org)
3 points by lawfulcactus 7y ago|0 comments
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
How are participants prevented from simply splitting up their stakes?
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
SELinux's sandbox[1] tool works pretty well for isolating GUI applications (with -X). [1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/sandbox
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
Tor also gives you the option to use a variety of pluggable transports, which are purpose-built to circumvent DPI boxes and such. Pretty sure obfs4 (based on [1]) works against the GFW. [1] https://www.cs.kau.se/philwint&#x2
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
The ratio of value (or entertainment) provided to oneself versus value provided to another entity clearly differs significantly between a user of a site and an (unpaid) moderator of it.
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
while I might be an uninteresting target, this doesn’t mean others are not And though you might be an uninteresting target now , there's no guarantee that will be the case in the future . The sorts of personal information people wo
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
I've had a great experience with my 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon. All its hardware is fairly standard and well-supported-- I haven't found anything it doesn't work with yet (I ran OpenBSD on it for a while). Keyboard is great,
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
>JT8, etc, have reduced "contacts" to a few bytes I think you mixed up FT8 and JS8 there. :) FT8 is the (effectively) zero-interaction DX mode. JS8 exactly the opposite-- a weak signal mode based on FT8 tailored for ragchewing.
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that all these measures can be fairly trivially defeated by the analog loophole[1]. I suppose it's harder to prove authenticity in that case, however. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
##security and ##ibmthinkpad are my personal favorites. They don't take themselves too seriously (as in, you're allowed to get off-topic), but can be super helpful when needed. The wealth of knowledge combined with the general lig
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
If you're looking for a polished mobile SSH client without a subscription model, you might be interested in Blink[1]. It's worth mentioning that in addition to SSH, it also supports Mosh[2] (it's the official iOS client!), a
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
Well, there's Youtube Kids: https://www.youtube.com/kids/ And on iOS, you can use Guided Access to keep them in the app. Not sure about Android.
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by lawfulcactus 7y ago
Can you explain? I'm not an expert on ML by any stretch of the imagination, but you'd think with the sort of stringent logical coherence required to construct useful programs, it'd be a pretty subpar use case. Or do you mean