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by minitech 3y ago
I’m perplexed by this comment on a few levels. Is this one of those replies on LLM-related posts that’s entirely LLM-generated to prove a point or whatever? Because… that joke isn’t funny at all, right?
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by minitech 3y ago
And TOTP predates “this new wave of SMS trash”, when every service actually started using it.
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by minitech 3y ago
Remember: no matter how big the improvement, it’s not worthwhile unless it achieves absolute perfection.
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by minitech 3y ago
App passwords are useless to Google as a tracking measure and are a much more secure option, especially across the entire user base.
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by minitech 3y ago
> Modern editors are declarative - you say "I want to move this file" or "I want to rename this variable" or "I'll drag this split here" and they do the rest. Those are imperative actions rephrased to m
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by minitech 3y ago
Seems like a potential fingerprinting risk, but I haven’t checked if the actual implementation is built to guard against that somehow.
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by minitech 3y ago
> Why is this not popular? If you meant using a counter-based cipher: it is. GCM is the most popular mode on the modern internet, for example. If you meant using multiple ciphers: because it adds overhead without adding security.
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by minitech 3y ago
Sure, Dillo in a sandbox is a big improvement over Dillo not in a sandbox (don’t forget an isolated X instance when you’re doing bubblewrap, ’cause FLTK 1.3 doesn’t support Wayland). I’d still feel more comfortable with mainstream browsers
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by minitech 3y ago
> Also, the lack of a Javascript engine makes it a very secure browser. Whenever I try to open a link that I am suspicious of, I do so in dillo. I would suggest using a Chromium or Firefox profile with JavaScript and webfonts disabled fo
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by minitech 3y ago
> it dominates Not compared to insertion sort, which is the actual contender here. Weirdly aggressive comment.
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by minitech 3y ago
“tearing into Lamarckism” as in using it to discredit evolution.
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by minitech 3y ago
It has exactly the same potential in the control and code-running respects as (minified) JavaScript. It’s overrepresented in malware because it’s faster, i.e. better for cryptominers. (Many sandbox breaches come from JavaScript’s complexi
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by minitech 3y ago
“n% unsafe” here refers to `unsafe` blocks that can’t be automatically guaranteed safe by the Rust compiler, not to actual concrete instances of memory unsafety.
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by minitech 3y ago
The context of the comment you’re replying to is a cryptographic hash.
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by minitech 3y ago
The linked post isn’t reCAPTCHA, it’s just some random bad CAPTCHA that’s been easy to defeat with OCR for ages. The real fundamental flaw is that human time is cheap enough: see Amazon Mechanical Turk. Many bulk, human-powered CAPTCHA-solv
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by minitech 3y ago
No, that wasn’t the point at all. Compressibility was used to determine similarity.
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by minitech 3y ago
How many more buses could you run for the same cost, and how much would they reduce car use? Hard to be convinced without seeing the math.
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by minitech 3y ago
Is this a generated answer?
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by minitech 3y ago
Not wrong, just a different criterion that describes the same complexity class.
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by minitech 3y ago
> The bug is that there's not a closure around the ssh instance, so if you call this function multiple times it'll actually return the same connection instance. I’m not entirely sure what you mean by this, but it doesn’t sound
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by minitech 3y ago
> HSTS was dead in the water from day one. No, it has served and is serving a useful purpose (reducing MITM risk) for a large number of websites.
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by minitech 3y ago
Hookworms (and sharp rocks with a bone to pick with humanity) love appeals to nature. Also, I’ll do you one better than some unspecified ancestors: we have evolved to wear shoes.
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by minitech 3y ago
Pick a different TLD and don’t fund squatters.
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by minitech 3y ago
Is pointing out that you’re not supporting your point with the correct evidence lashing out? For what it’s worth, I don’t feel the need to defend the site, and think it does a pretty terrible job of delivering useful questions and correct
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by minitech 3y ago
… as a result of two votes to close from members of the community, which is not an example of “shut down by a mod” (GP) or how “Stack Overflow has been absolutely destroyed by the moderators” (GGP). Closing questions isn’t really a primary
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by minitech 3y ago
Does this book actually exist?
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by minitech 3y ago
They’re usually not good answers, and they’re subject to the bullshit asymmetry principle.
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by minitech 3y ago
> SELECT * > FROM external_api > WHERE id = :my_id > AND sync_token = (SELECT max(sync_token) FROM ext_api WHERE id = :my_id) Does this have an advantage over SELECT * FROM external_api WHERE id = :my_id
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by minitech 3y ago
This is exactly what I want.
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by minitech 4y ago
If you can get to the right place that conveniently, Shift+End Delete works without a page load. But getting their is its own minor inconvenience.

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