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by lixtra 5y ago
Since I wanted to learn more about Linus Jitter Dance, here is the patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/50ee7529ec45 And here is discussion of the concept: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by lixtra 5y ago
> There are ways to store data securely, one of the simplest methods is to do zero-knowledge encryption of that data by way of key-generation from a password only the user knows at the time of decryption. This keeps your passwords save u
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by lixtra 5y ago
Or just don’t affiliate with amazon. Instead use an online service, that is dedicated to your niché and both profit.
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Were Masks a Waste of Time?(unherd.com)
8 points by lixtra 5y ago|1 comments
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by lixtra 5y ago
> You can’t sample all parts and all fluids of someone’s body all the time. Maybe trace undetectable levels of the virus can be transmitted… You don’t need to be a 100% sure. Once the risk becomes small enough you can spend your time wor
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Saving Democracy from the Pandemic(tabletmag.com)
6 points by lixtra 5y ago|1 comments
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by lixtra 5y ago
No, there are many ways around it (i.e. tor, vpn). The internet provider (or user) is just too lazy to provide proper privacy. Just like the website owner is too lazy to self-host the fonts. Edit: in fact PII should not pass unencrypted, so
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by lixtra 5y ago
In other news: ip packages hop from one host to another and a dozen hosts see the private ip and the websites IP. Certainly the website should have asked the user before exposing their ip on the route.
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by lixtra 5y ago
Or that: > and did not wear both metal mesh and surgical gloves, as she was supposed to
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by lixtra 5y ago
It will be interesting to see the higher order long term effects of the policy. For example if snow plow drivers (men?) typically reach their vehicles by car they may only start their work delayed due to slower traffic. So it could be a net
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by lixtra 5y ago
> bad stuff carries linear risk This is a straw man. I believe that a lot of stuff carries continuous risk going up from zero and increasing with dosage. If a substance does not start with zero risk at zero dose, it is most likely no
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by lixtra 5y ago
> than the US gov’t telling a US based registrar to remove entries pointing to sites hosted outside the US. But this title does not capture the impact of the fact. Every RCE exploit is just the ability to change a few bytes on your compu
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by lixtra 5y ago
In some countries you have to pay for the road maintenance and development along your plots. That can lead to other absurdities, that a field owner along an agricultural road has suddenly to pay for make over and street lights that add zero
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by lixtra 5y ago
Look at the examples yourself, to form an opinion: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
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by lixtra 5y ago
> If the client and server have an agreement on a hashing protocol, there’s no reason that the browser shouldn’t be able to hash as well and prevent the password from ever leaving memory on the client system. Shouldn’t it be a proper cha
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by lixtra 5y ago
> An established company with a stable capacity need shouldn't ever be moving to a cloud provider with a generous big tech profit margin. I’m not a fan of the cloud. But if you’re too small to have your own data center and support t
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by lixtra 5y ago
> Just go Google > I’m not sure what’s difficult to understand about this. Of course you may expect the casual reader to do the googling themselves. But if you want to make your arguments heard, it’s helpful to put a link to an author
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by lixtra 5y ago
> … general security will not be as good as they have. > Entirely "on premise" email is now an inferior thing for almost everyone. I disagree on this one. Placing your email with a big player means that by definition, they h
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by lixtra 5y ago
> To top it off, they embedded a secret key in my iOS keychain that synced across all devices. If you’re in the EU or from the EU it might be possible to nag them with data protection request. Of course only if you enjoy nagging.
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by lixtra 5y ago
It’s strange to advertise a framework that doesn’t support more than “select *”. A framework should make easy things easy and complicated things possible. Ideally there is a natural way to do stuff, so different people understand each other
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by lixtra 5y ago
In my extended circle of acquaintances, below the age of 40, there have been so far 0 covid deaths (no hospitalizations either, some claim it was a very unpleasant disease). One died shortly after his vaccination. He developed high fever an
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by lixtra 5y ago
> I have never had an Alexa but surely there isn't that much time saved by having it turn off lights You should try. It’s a trade off: You choose when to spend more time to set up the assistant, in order to save time setting an alar
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by lixtra 5y ago
While might not be caught easily, you‘r still not compliant with GDPR by doing it all on the server without consent.
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by lixtra 5y ago
If you just want „hello world“, try tcl/tk. It’s the same as 20 years ago and a very simple language. I build some simple GUIs for myself (ok, for Linux) and it was a perfect choice for that. Very stable language, relatively small, eas
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by lixtra 5y ago
Do you have any java in your application stack (i.e. elastic search)? If there’s no java, then there’s no log4j and you may worry about other issues.
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by lixtra 5y ago
Remember the Titanic movie? Girl didn’t take the seat in the live boat. Di Caprio gave her his place on the floating wood - and drowned.
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by lixtra 5y ago
Seems to be overwhelmed https://web.archive.org/web/20210517082014/https://www.micha...
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Vax the World(science.org)
1 points by lixtra 5y ago|0 comments
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by lixtra 5y ago
Also 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29206833
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by lixtra 5y ago
Pr it could have gone all peacefully like Czechoslovakia split in two.

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