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by lfam 9y ago
I'm sympathetic to your complaint, but consider that 85 dB is quieter than an unamplified symphony orchestra or the cabin of most cruising airliners.
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by lfam 9y ago
A good club sound system doesn't actually need to be very loud. It will still be loud enough that long-term exposure will cause hearing loss, but not loud enough that you would be shocked when you walk in the room. Unfortunately, a sou
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by lfam 9y ago
'Testing' is also usually the last branch to get security updates, sometimes weeks later.
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by lfam 10y ago
At least in the United States, driving a car on public roads is a privilege doled out by the states. There is no right to drive a motor vehicle here.
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by lfam 10y ago
> That would imply that there is no security benefit whatsoever provided by a DV certificate. The security benefit is that the connection to the server is authenticated and encrypted. Nobody in between can inspect or mutate the data. Thi
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by lfam 10y ago
I don't think this is a problem. If those sites should not be allowed to own the domain names they are using, then the registrars can take the names back. All the DV certificate means is "you are using an authenticated connection
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by lfam 10y ago
I'm also using borg, to a server I control and also to rsync.net. Essential and small files like keys (which may be necessary to "bootstrap" the backup in case of complete failure of my workstation) are copied and verified ma
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by lfam 10y ago
Marilynne Robinson's book 'Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution' talks extensively about the history of Britian's social welfare system and its degrading effect on the people it ostensibly se
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by lfam 10y ago
OpenSSL 1.0.1f is completely unsupported by the OpenSSL project, as that advisory points out: Support for version 1.0.1 ended on 31st December 2016. Support for versions 0.9.8 and 1.0.0 ended on 31st December 2015. Those versions are no lon
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by lfam 10y ago
It's interesting to think about where to find this information. Big ISPs have access to these "honest" signals on a large scale.
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CVE-2016-1252: Debian package signatures don't mitigate MITM attacks(debian.org)
3 points by lfam 10y ago|0 comments
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by lfam 10y ago
One of the biggest pharmacy chains in the USA (CVS) has stopped sale of tobacco products. You can't even buy a cigarette lighter.
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by lfam 10y ago
There are no "legal" music stores that approach the breadth and quality of the music library that was available on what.cd. As the music industry's revenue stream changes from music sales to low-bitrate streaming services, we
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by lfam 10y ago
That sounds interesting. Can you explain how to do it?
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by lfam 10y ago
All their software is open source. You can run both the client and the CA server on your own. But your CA server won't be able to sign any certificates that will be recognized by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, etc. It takes time, energy,
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by lfam 10y ago
Perhaps, but it depends on your needs. When using PGP, you have to decide how much you trust each key. All that PGP does is enforce your trust preferences.
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by lfam 10y ago
$2 million (or whatever number) may be the standard rate used to compensate others for a lost life, but does anyone willingly sell their life for $2 million? I think there is a difference between how we try to compensate for the loss of som
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by lfam 10y ago
There is a new project, Software Heritage [0], that specifically addresses the problem of long-term code availability. https://www.softwareheritage.org/
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Transmission BitTorrent client servers hacked *again*(transmissionbt.com)
2 points by lfam 10y ago|0 comments
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by lfam 10y ago
Citation?
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by lfam 10y ago
> I mean, what's the big advantage of Docker and the whole "container" movement? You are guaranteed (more or less) to have a known state. Why does resetting hardware fix problems? Because it resets things to a known state.
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by lfam 10y ago
You can have your house blurred out in the USA, too.
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by lfam 10y ago
> We don't want it so that everyone is forced to build everything from scratch every time. We don't want this either :) Let's not boil the oceans. Nix and Guix are both a hybrid of build-from-source and binary package mana
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by lfam 10y ago
You're right, I forgot about the GPU. I consider that a very optional part of the computer. I've also used an A20 for compilation... briefly. And not much was compiled in the brief period ;) As for the boot ROM blob, do you know i
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by lfam 10y ago
My understanding is that the Allwinner A20 is one of the very few systems produced today that can be used with 100% free software. Not that Allwinner themselves helped very much, from what I've read — the sunxi community has spent a lo
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by lfam 10y ago
Streaming is convenient, but I think it's not a substitute for CDs. The value of CDs is that they provide a canonical and lossless recording, which isn't provided by vinyl, tapes, or streaming services (AFAIK). Of course, lossless
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by lfam 10y ago
Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks for explaining.
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by lfam 10y ago
It might be a disadvantage to take off uphill, but I believe that it's desirable to take off into a head wind. The wind generates some of the lift required for take off, and by taking off sooner there is more runway available in case y
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by lfam 10y ago
One of the design choices of Unifont is to trade quality for coverage: "Unifont is a creation of Roman Czyborra, who in 1998 lamented that seven years after Unicode's first release, there was still no single font that could displa
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by lfam 10y ago
I used a search engine and found this list of enforcement actions against businesses: https://www.fcc.gov/general/u-nii-and-tdwr-interference-enfo... After reading a few of those reports, you should learn enough of the

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