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by lfam 8y ago
It's true HTTPS traffic can be blocked (at least partially) by revoking certificates, but is this worse than the censorship opportunities offered by unauthenticated HTTP? Whether the traffic is authenticated or not, ISPs block sites wh
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by lfam 9y ago
Is corruption really uniquely American? Every country and institution that I've studied seems to suffer from corruption and my intuition is that corruption is a universal element of human behavior.
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by lfam 9y ago
It's better to use Debian Unstable because Testing doesn't get timely security updates.
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by lfam 9y ago
The article says that Maersk is taking the opposite approach. Quoting the CEO, Jim Hagemann Snabe: "And this was a wake-up call to become not just good —we actually have a plan to come in a situation where our ability to manage cyber-s
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by lfam 9y ago
In most places in the US, the local cab companies are terrible. They might answer the phone, they might show up, and they might try to scam you. Imagine you call a taxicab for a medical emergency, and they never show up, or only after an ho
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by lfam 9y ago
And I'd like to add that I am really skeptical of replacing this job with software, considering that facilities management in these buildings always seems to be barely holding it together. I think a $50k employee can be more responsive
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by lfam 9y ago
I do deliveries to some buildings that still have freight elevator operators, in a USA city. I don't know what they are paid, but it is worth every penny for them to manage the elevators. There is not enough "supply" of freig
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by lfam 9y ago
I don't think that fraudulent behavior by site operators is relevant to the X.509 certificate system. All that the certificates do is make it possible to ensure you are talking to the server at the address you intend to communicate wit
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by lfam 9y ago
You can tell because every shadow will show the weird shape of the sun. Here is a photograph of the shadows during an annular eclipse: https://imgur.com/gallery/8c7rdEU Whether or not people >1000 years ago would no
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by lfam 9y ago
That kind of cellular ornamented vaulting is called muqarnas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqarnas
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by lfam 9y ago
Please, feel free to share your "off-limits" ideas, so that we can judge them in the light of day.
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by lfam 9y ago
> It shares most of the codebase with Nix, so to say it's NIH is missing the point. Nix improvements are shared with Guix, and Guix improvements are shared with Nix. In Guix, the only code from Nix is the Nix daemon. There is not re
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by lfam 9y ago
Much of the "wealth" was the people they enslaved, so they did not get to keep it. The American Civil War is seen as a huge and enduring economic loss (but moral gain) for the southern states.
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by lfam 9y ago
> Let's say the drop tower is open 9am-7pm Monday-Friday, so 10 hours a day, for 5 days a week, and 50 weeks a year. That's 2500 hours of drop time a year. Let's say the building can be expected to last 100 years (probably
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by lfam 9y ago
Red is great, but if we want to preserve our musical heritage, we can't need to hide as we do it. I think that secret libraries are not as resilient as public archives.
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by lfam 9y ago
Regarding Zimmerman's VoIP, Tarsnap does the same thing. The client source is available but you aren't allowed to use it for anything except building the client for the Tarsnap service.
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by lfam 9y ago
I think your judgment is too harsh. Very few software deployment systems make it possible for binaries to be independently reproduced from published sources by the public. AFAIK, it's limited to systems like Nix, Guix, recent Debian, a
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by lfam 9y ago
It's not comforting, indeed. But you should know that the various space-based positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou etc) are deployed and administered by the respective governments of their countries of origin. They were invented f
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by lfam 9y ago
This is something I really dislike about the use of 3rd-party wikis for documenting software. They always seem like a good idea at first, but then they slowly become misleading as contributors move on. You can't even call them "
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by lfam 9y ago
As mentioned in the linked announcement, they also added a complementary option to completely prevent gpg from talking to the network. It should address the use case you describe: * gpg: New option --disable-dirmngr to entirely disable netw
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by lfam 9y ago
Pretty much all free and open source software licenses specifically say there is no warranty at all. All non-trivial software has security bugs. To reiterate, every program you've ever heard of has had and will have serious security
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by lfam 9y ago
> It's trivial to turn a signal for driving a speaker into something that can be recorded with an audio interface. In theory, yes, it's trivial. But it's not trivial to 99.9% of people that listen to music. Also, I don&#x2
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by lfam 9y ago
The benefit of removing an analog audio output is that you can control what sort of device may play some audio. I am not looking forward to the new world of music DRM.
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by lfam 9y ago
Yes, this will be true 99% of the time. Although I think that most people understand the concept of "backups" in a basic way, and backups are one of the best tools for mitigating ransomware and wipers. Especially for small busines
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by lfam 9y ago
Bravo to KQED for owning up to the compromise! Meanwhile, there are countless lawyers, accountants, doctors, architects, engineers, landlords, and other small and medium businesses that suffer similar attacks and don't talk about it p
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by lfam 9y ago
True. It's the same thing in some cases. For example, you can no longer leave openings between the walls and roof, which used to let hot air out the top of your house. Talk about poorly insulated!
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by lfam 9y ago
Early Florida homes (19th and early 20th century) were built by people who understood passive cooling techniques. But, the invention of AC and the development of super-strong residential building codes in response to destructive hurricanes
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by lfam 9y ago
Perhaps they are trying to improve the situation, but I read Debian security advisories regularly, and they are almost always published without a fix on the testing branch. Unstable is the Debian branch to use if stable is too slow for one&
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by lfam 9y ago
Please don't tar all electronic musicians with that brush :) There is a big and varied universe of electronic, most of which is a lot more dynamic than radio-pop artists like Avicii.
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by lfam 9y ago
Well, extended exposure to 85 dB will cause hearing loss. I think a good techno club will not be louder than 100 dB. But my point was that many environments we consider "safe", "normal", or "enjoyable" are ac

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