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by mormegil 4y ago
Yeah, this is basically the stability/instability paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%E2%80%93instability_...
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by mormegil 4y ago
A different take on this by Scott Alexander: :-) https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-dee...
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by mormegil 4y ago
IIANM, this is only when _scanning_: as soon as you pair/bond with a device, the app can communicate with it even with the location permission switched off.
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by mormegil 4y ago
> What I would love, however, is a way to turn that off for particular searches But you can! In search results, click Tools and switch the Any time dropdown to Custom range... and you can specify a date range in the past. (Apparently, th
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by mormegil 4y ago
Wikimedia Germany, the German "chapter" of Wikimedia; see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland
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by mormegil 4y ago
Yeah, I guess you can prepare a set of strong (well... weak?) single-vowel words like XYLYL, URUBU, etc. for other vowels, plus the trumps of GRRRL and PHPHT and play these in sequence, undoing if you get a colored square too soon.
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by mormegil 4y ago
When this topic came up the last time, I plotted the probability distribution. It was far from 50x, the range was several orders of magnitude, which seems to be the correct behavior. See https://gist.github.com/mormegil-cz&#
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by mormegil 4y ago
Doesn't X-Plane support similar custom plane designs? (Sure, not as a separate KSP-like game.)
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by mormegil 4y ago
I was holding onto my XZ1C. Two months ago, I bought Samsung S22: it is bigger, but acceptably so, and there seems to be no smaller option in the foreseeable future, anyway.
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by mormegil 4y ago
There is a Nature preprint evaluating the Chinese situation and coming to the conclusion that: > We find that the level of immunity induced by the March 2022 vaccination campaign would be insufficient to prevent an Omicron wave that woul
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by mormegil 4y ago
I think you could ask an admin for a copy of the deleted article. On my small home wiki, such a request would be fulfilled without any trouble.
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by mormegil 4y ago
There is/was a standardized way similar to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P It was complicated and never caught on. I'd say the basic problem (visible also in the DNT fiasco) is that if you ask a use
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by mormegil 4y ago
> This pseudo-security measure actually only slows down humans, not bots, because you can still edit the value of the text field using Javascript I don't think this is a defense against bots. Virtual keyboards were created primarily
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by mormegil 4y ago
No, it just explains that whenever you make an HTTP request to an AGPL server, you are entitled to the source code of the server (under AGPL). Obviously, Google does not want to give you the source code to any of its services (which are gen
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by mormegil 4y ago
Not sure about the Bismarck, but the Panzerschiff Deutschland was renamed Lützow because of the risk that "Deutschland" could be sunk. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Deutschland
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by mormegil 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delet... > Expired PROD, concern was: The only reference is primary, as are all external links. No indication that this is more than a personal project. Ar
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by mormegil 5y ago
> (Unfortunately NoScript has a limitation that you can't tell it to "only TRUST javascript from example.com when I'm visiting example.com"). uMatrix (which I'm using in desktop Firefox) works exactly like this.
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by mormegil 5y ago
Yeah, there is this classic: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-fo...
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by mormegil 5y ago
> you can't get an edge against someone playing completely randomly Sure, random choice is not only a Nash equilibrium, it even has a fixed expected value without regard to the other player's strategy, _but_ that is only in the
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by mormegil 5y ago
There already is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8855
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by mormegil 5y ago
That reminds me of keyboard heat maps for programming languages: https://g-liu.com/blog/2013/09/reblog-programming-languages-... (the winner being, obviously, LISP :-))
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by mormegil 5y ago
In the Czech Republic, one of the major TV broadcasters now leads a dispute against the IPTV providers, requesting them to disallow the customers skipping ads when watching past programs from the archive. Some of the providers now disallow
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by mormegil 5y ago
Oh, I misunderstood. You enter the mentioned code into an authentication calculator which emits the signature code which is then used. Yeah, that probably fulfills the PSD2 requirements, though I agree it's not exactly good UX and very
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by mormegil 5y ago
I think the FIDO Alliance is already discussing solutions to these use cases. (And also this is a bit circular reasoning, isn’t it? “Why don’t you use the XYZ standard? Because it does not support our use case. So why don’t you cooperate on
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by mormegil 5y ago
#2 and partially #1 are solved by regulation and reputation: banks are highly regulated business, and BankID support requires specific security audit. Ad #3: FIDO is basically unusable for banking. It's designed for user authentication
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by mormegil 5y ago
For aircraft registration data, I think offline database download should be available without (paid) API access on some smaller services. I thought ADSBX was providing the aircraft database but cannot find it right now. Quick googling found
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by mormegil 5y ago
(2012)
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by mormegil 5y ago
> Instead of paying billions of dollars to opioid victims and states, Purdue will stay in limbo and pay hundreds of millions of dollars to lawyers. > [...] > The problem is ... well, one problem is that fairness is sometimes the e
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by mormegil 5y ago
As Noah Smith wrote: [0] > it’s easy to delude ourselves into unreasoning optimism in the face of an onrushing threat. It will still be weeks or even months before we know for sure whether Omicron is a step in the hoped-for transformatio
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by mormegil 5y ago
> I have tried to help out here by adding business in my area but the process of slow. Not sure who is in charge of approvals. There are no approvals at all. After you submit your changeset, it's in the primary public database. Some

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