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by lucb1e 2y ago
Right. Yes, I'll have to agree simply neither option is good at all
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> Is card verification a lesser form of surveillance? It's not just about which is worse surveillance, it's also simply that everyone has a face but not everyone has a credit card. I'm not deemed creditworthy in this count
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by lucb1e 2y ago
They're already limiting it to one country at first. If they want a slower ramp-up, they can show it to more and more users rather than working weekends. Not to rule it out but this would strike me as a strange reason
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by lucb1e 2y ago
It's the same size as HN: 12px. HN looks larger to me for some reason, but I can't figure out why: when I overlay a quote someone posted here over the website with half transparency in GIMP, the text is clearly the same height. So
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Huh? Maybe I'm completely misreading the question, but when they say fiber-optic cable, they do mean optic. It's not an "electrical cable"; there is no metal needed in optic communication cables (perhaps for stiffness or
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by lucb1e 2y ago
There's some irony in having to click past a Google tracking wall to see the graphic you shared in this thread, especially when that graphic isn't actually Google's. It's from Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com&#x2F
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Wait, we're talking about buying domain names right? Not about buying countries in order to own a ccTLD rather than a 'regular' TLD So then you don't have to produce an offence that takes the TLD down (whichever kind) bu
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by lucb1e 2y ago
If you find that sort of thing interesting... I don't always know how seriously to take the things on this channel, but I discovered Fraser Cain not so long ago and find the ideas mentioned in the interviews to be fascinating, for exam
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Streaming services could price themselves out of the market in an attempt to generate the income needed to pay artists fairly. (Google/Apple could temporarily draw money from coffers and outcompete Spotify temporarily) Or artists could
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by lucb1e 2y ago
That's not the registrar, that's the registry
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Also after dividing the number of outages by the number of customers? I'm not a customer (wouldn't buy my domain overseas) and have no solid opinion on GoDaddy besides that I hate the name. I hear the horror stories also. I'm
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by lucb1e 2y ago
What TLD is not subject to a country's laws? .aq? .su? Edit: .eu might be an even better candidate for this requirement, but you can ask British former domain owners how that worked out gTLDs just subject you to an additional layer o
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by lucb1e 2y ago
If emotional reactions to a (likely intentional) annoyance factor surprises you, remember that people start wars for differing sets of beliefs! But there's also security implications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Is this a joke (as in, that you don't actually work there) to make CF look bad for posting product advertisements in comment threads, or is this legit?
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by lucb1e 2y ago
What? I work in this field and I have no idea what you mean. (I get the abbreviations like authz and pk, but not how "encrypting everything" and "posting links" is supposed to remove the need for authentication)
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Paying an expert to come set up a local CA seems rather silly when you'd normally outsource operating one to the people who professionally run a CA
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> 47 [is?] arbitrary, but 1 month, + 1/2 month, + 1 day are not arbitrary values... Not related to certificates specifically, and the specific number of days is in no way a security risk, but it reminded me of NUMS generators. If yo
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> it's a few commands to generate a CA My dad still calls my terminals a "DOS window" and doesn't understand why I don't use GUIs like a normal person. He has his own business. He absolutely cannot just roll out
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> > storing that random number is similar to storing a plain-text password > you could still store an expiration time, and limit the number of attempts to use the code Storing plain-text passwords is bad because: 1. Users re-use pa
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by lucb1e 2y ago
What's the difference between storing a random number and storing the OTP secret? It's all ones and zeroes in a database If you store the OTP secret in an HSM, then you can do the same when generating a random number. I'm not
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Perhaps you could contribute a version in a language that uses more descriptive names, something like BitPacker.WriteInt64 for >Q if I'm guessing correctly what that means (I'd equally need to check the docs to know what format
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by lucb1e 2y ago
I heard this rumor and to this day don't use purchase pages to search for domains; I query the whois database directly. If the TLD owner is in cahoots with scalpers, they'd see the search query come in no matter what I use, so tha
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Noticed it uses HTML5 canvas to render data by default. To screen readers, am I correct in understanding that this is equally accessible as when people share screenshots of text? There is an SVG option that looks identical but it doesn&#x27
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by lucb1e 2y ago
It's about veterans, for anyone else wandering around the comments and also expecting veterinarian like I was
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> Also dont forget about deskilling de-skilling (reducing skills), not desk killing, for anyone else as illiterate as me
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Bringing in a phone with decryption keys for this conversation is a risk, then, not just Signal's featureset... I agree it could be hardening to allow users/organizations to disable this feature, and also other features such as au
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> There’s a vulnerability in Signal where you can set up linked devices that replicate your signal messages. You mean the desktop linking feature? If that's considered a vulnerability, then so is being able to chat with someone af
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by lucb1e 2y ago
I'm also affected. I presume that this is per day, not just once, yet it's fewer requests than a human would often do so you cannot block it. I blocked 15 IP ranges containing 37 million IP addresses (most of them from Huawei&#x
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> Is your user-agent too suspicious? Hello, it's me, your legitimate user who doesn't use one of the 4 main browsers. The internet gets more annoying every day on a simple android webview browser, I guess I'll have to go b
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Somehow I expected something about merges and branches when reading git contributions graph. The missing keyword is hub

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