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by michaelt 4mo ago
> Although even then, the silly age verification laws and the people pushing them don't even care if the OSes run on walled garden devices. Believe me, the people writing the age verification laws care a great deal whether the ag
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by michaelt 4mo ago
I sometimes wonder whether the people in the tech industry who worked on things like secure boot, attestation, and DRM saw this as the inevitability open source advocates always saw it as. Did they think, as they worked to transfer final sa
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> force them to use TURN servers that are more centralized and easier to spy on Webrtc traffic is encrypted as it travels through the TURN servers, isn't it? Sure, you get some which-ip-contacted-which-using-what-service metadata,
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> probably they finally figured out the correct legal ToS and privacy policy Unlikely IMHO - the person who agreed to the TOS is the one person the glasses don’t record. More likely they’ve decided to launch it and see what happens; th
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by michaelt 5mo ago
The other stuff is bad, but surely "insiders who will pocket millions" is normal for an IPO?
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Stephenson's writing is great if you like lengthy asides that add to the world and to your understanding of the characters, but add nothing to the plot. If you want to read six pages of detailed musings on how the character learned bal
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by michaelt 5mo ago
It's not common, but it's not unusual either. If your standard developer laptop has a 256 GB SSD, but a certain team needs more disk space due to the work they're doing, you can just add a second nvme for a fraction of the co
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Can any serious security folks at serious orgs confirm they can't afford not to run crowdstrike?
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Isn't that Stephenson driving home the faceless drone, cog-in-the-machine characterisation of YT's mom? I mean, literally not giving the character a name fits right in with the alienating working conditions of the quote above, a
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by michaelt 5mo ago
> - MFA for publishing: https://docs.npmjs.com/requiring-2fa-for-package-publishing- ... > - trusted publishers, available for about a year: https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers According to [1]
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by michaelt 5mo ago
> Look at the issue of public drug use by the unhoused in PNW cities, as an example. If you state any opinion other than silent acceptance of the issue, you get called a far-right nutjob. Are you having these conversations about politi
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by michaelt 5mo ago
It depends on the details of the work sample test. If I ask you to write me a python function to convert OSGB easting/northing into WGS84 longitude/latitude the task has a very clearly defined scope. If you knock it out in a quart
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Yes, it says "hope your competitors randomly decide to fire their best engineers for some reason" (worded as 'ends up between gigs')
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by michaelt 5mo ago
IT departments can mandate tools like ninjaone and kolide, which let them run queries across the fleet of devices, and (as I understand it) basically gives them root-level remote code execution. The corporate VPN (or equivalent) can then pe
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by michaelt 5mo ago
I have a theory that about 97% of developers and managers completed the cookie consent (or whatever) on their own product 5 years ago and hence never see it again, and they have no idea how bad the experience for new customers actually is.
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Selling on consignment can be an absolutely great deal for shops, under the right conditions. If I'm a lego trader and I buy your set for $900 hoping to sell it later for $1000, in the meantime that's $900 I can't invest in a
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Among the people making things like a DIY NAS, who want fast USB, lots of cores and RAM, small-ish, not-too-bad power consumption, running Linux; and not caring much about GPIOs or passive cooling, it’s in competition with the N150 Among pe
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Then the esp8266 came along, offering wifi and gpios and an arduino-like programming experience at a price point of literally $1
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by michaelt 5mo ago
> Powering something off of any old USB port means it would have to fit within the 5V 500mA basic specification, which the Raspberry Pi 3 exceeded long ago. Theoretically, devices like the iPhone have lower power consumption than that
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by michaelt 5mo ago
OCR with a webcam pointing at the RSA token, of course.
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by michaelt 5mo ago
See e.g. https://www.murphytx.org/843/Safe-Exchange https://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/community-safety-and-crime-pr... Police "safe trade zones" are basically a parking space outside a poli
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Bizarrely, I brought a GPU new in Jun 2024, and there are sold ebay listings saying the used GPU is worth 4% more today. Of course, this is an unusual state of affairs; I see my GPU purchase as consumption, not investment.
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Some people feel strongly about defining jargon when using it - an article on here [1] the other day about Capture The Flag (CTF) hacking puzzle competitions was full of comments comparing the article didn’t say what CTFs were. [1] https:&
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by michaelt 5mo ago
The driving ML model will take care of the next 10 seconds of driving, in a fast loop deciding what steering and throttle commands to give. The LLM will apply the high level reasoning needed to deal with longer time horizons and complex dec
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by michaelt 5mo ago
You're right that politicians can pressure private financial institutions into cutting off anyone they don't like. For example Operation Choke Point [1] which cut off legal-but-scandalous businesses' access to the financial s
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Ships don’t need escort services because you don’t give command of oil tankers to risk taking thrill seekers. And insurance isn’t enough when the captain is literally on the ship, potentially getting killed. Ships need a robust, sustained c
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by michaelt 5mo ago
The other thing is: even if a country like the UK committed billions of dollars to joining the fight in the gulf - there’s no reason to think it’d lower their energy prices, or earn them any favours from Trump. Short of a nuclear strike (wh
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by michaelt 5mo ago
Presumably when the authors of TrueCrypt declared “Using TrueCrypt is not secure” If I trust them to provide my FDE software, I certainly trust them when they say I shouldn’t use it.
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by michaelt 5mo ago
> Who in their right mind bets on bug bounties to cover their basic needs? Someone with a vulnerability worth as much as a two bedroom apartment?
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by michaelt 5mo ago
> The Windows phone didn't make it due to Microsoft failing to compete As I recall Microsoft threw quite a lot of resources into Windows Phone. My then-employer had apps for Android and Apple, and Microsoft literally paid for us t

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