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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
This is littered with so many missteps I don't know where to start. -Complete overkill requiring the use of a YubiKey for key storage and external RNG source - what problems does this solve? For a Yubikey to act as a poor man's HS
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
HN is rife with downvote (and in some cases, flagging) abuse. So the echo chamber is more self-imposed by the brahmins rather than curated. Slashdot had a superior moderation system whereby the ability to downvote (mod points) was given out
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Interesting how the concept of blacklisting was so horrifying to people that they immediately changed their vocabulary, code, and even broke APIs (despite the origins predating unrelated current events by hundreds of years) only to immediat
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Because caring about a stranger's political opinions that much, simply to play pretend activist, is mentally and physically exhausting.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
99% of normies don't want to decide what dictatorial fiefdom (server) they wish to belong to.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Cam you detail exactly what conspiracy you are alleging without evidence? This is the corporate version of "he quit before they could fire him".
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
The Trans Am also had simple analogue controls - including for the heat & AC - while the new Prius has evidently succumbed to the overcomplicated "let's take away buttons" phenomenon. Also, you're not getting a bride
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
These are the attitudes we get when we have a WebPKI cabal drunk on power.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> Our six-day certificates will not include OCSP or CRL URLs. If someone else did this, Mozilla would be threatening to remove them from their trusted roots. IP address certs sound like a security nightmare that could be subverted by BGP
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Middle class and minorities in Altadena don't want to raise their families in Soviet-style apartments because some hipster urbanist thinks its best. They want SFH, that's why they live there.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
When you keep rewarding bad decisions by voting for the same people such that they have a monopoly on elected offices, there really isn't a duty or motivation to perform well at their job. This isn't unique to California but it&#x
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Malibu and the Palisades were exclusive neighborhoods where celebrities and other well-off industry personnel lived. They're not adding low income apartments or execute any urbanist pipe-dream for the same reason they're not bulld
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
So a rectifier is considered 'vintage' technology? Cool article but the author seemed especially indignant that they have to use a wood stick to switch off hundred year old equipment or use a rotary phone. Was he expecting a smart
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
The Chinese auto industry was built upon IP theft from the Americans and Germans. F them.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Welcome to the world of managed code. The calc.exe of yesteryear was written in C IIRC but 2025 programmers need to wear protection at all costs.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
You think an 'off' button is not used by 'common users' and is restricted to audiophiles? This is also solved by using $8 earbuds and not shoving overhyped $200 hazelnuts into your ears.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
'Unsafe' is a subjective label often applied haphazardly. I find people quick to label others as 'unsafe' tend to behave in unsafe ways of their own on the road, such as parking themselves in the left lane at or below th
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
It doesn't offend me. Picture going into a restaurant, and before the hostess seats you she says "I'd like to remind you that I love black people". That's out of place it is. It doesn't offend anyone, it's
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> Those who generally agreed with efforts to improve the status quo and did what they could to help (started displaying their pronouns, tried to eliminate language that had deeply racist connotations, etc) You're making the assumpti
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
The most ardent tattletales from pre-Musk Twitter, angry that their sandbox has been opened up, have now co-opted the free speech argument to act like complete assholes. They're not one and the same. To those I suggest they move on to
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Were you banned for your speech or for being a troll intent on being disruptive to the community? Because there's a difference.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> I think it's bizarre that we treat computers as the most dangerous products in the world that for some reason demand paternalism, when none of these other products are locked down by the vendor. That's because there are peop
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Clippy came from Bob. The tech was called Microsoft Agent.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> We don’t necessarily need Bob. We just need an iOS 1 mode But web developers have done their best to wreck this. Have you ever had to explain GDPR cookie dialogs to elderly parents? I've watched them Google recipes only to blame t
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> what do other folks think is a better candidate for the biggest flop [in tech] of the 1990s? The CueCat.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Does marrying the CEO count?
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
They did an exposé on solvent use in decaf coffee and listed Peet's Coffee (a local SF brand) as having traces of methylene chloride. Yet Peet's claims to only use the Swiss Water (or similar) process to produce their decaf, possi
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
The only practical purpose of this appears to be to author a blog post about it. The true hack would be to purchase a mechanical water filter, probably much higher quality for the money spent, and have it attached to the plumbing. Bonus is
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> I don't know that cutting 90 days to 45 days would help move the needle further. What does this protect you from? If a private key is stolen from a device? If it went unnoticed for 45 days, the device is probably still compromised
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> Google Chrome also takes a hard line when it comes to revocation requirements Unless you run an enterprise CA, in which case Chrome doesn't check for revocation AT ALL. Google went rogue and made up their own rules. The whole of P

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