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by mormegil 6y ago
With all those high-profile third parties using Apple ID, what would happen if somebody stole/deleted/damaged my data/assets on Dropbox/Spotify/Airbnb/...? Would I sue the provider who would sue Apple? But does
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by mormegil 6y ago
> In that case, the universe of the far future will be littered with tiny, indestructible black hole remnants — the remains of any black holes that carry even a touch of charge I don't get that. Wouldn't the charge be neutraliz
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by mormegil 6y ago
Also, there is this case of a daycare center which started to collect fines for late child pickups. The result? The rate of late pickups increased. Picking the child late stopped being a shameful thing to do, causing the poor worker to wait
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by mormegil 7y ago
This is a bit misleading, IMHO. The important difference between CC0 and public domain is that PD is a copyright status, while CC0 is a license. Which means you use CC0 to grant PD-like status to works you hold the copyright for. You cannot
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by mormegil 7y ago
This was my exact plan for my (current) computer a few years ago. But after learning about all the real-world complications I became lazy and abandoned the idea. Is this in a realm of "easily achievable out-of-the-box on a standard Lin
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by mormegil 7y ago
AFAICT, it's not only "internal representation". .NET strings are defined as a sequence of UTF-16 units, including the definition of the Char type representing a single UTF-16 code unit. I can't imagine how such a change
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by mormegil 7y ago
Since the encryption is typically asymmetric, you do have per-SP encryption keys, since you encrypt using the key specified in the metadata provided by the SP. On the other hand, the SP verifies the signature using the public key specified
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by mormegil 7y ago
"? true :" is equivalent to just "||".
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by mormegil 7y ago
Right, see e.g. https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/caught-in-the-net-ji...
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by mormegil 7y ago
I use K2pdfopt to convert scientific articles to a format (mostly) readable on my Kindle.
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by mormegil 7y ago
> 2) It is easier (last I checked) than with Firefox to leave some config tabs open so I can quickly turn on/off javascript, images, and/or cookies for those sites where I need them (by exception list or temporary exception, an
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Game Has a Message: Subversive Gaming in 1980s Czechoslovakia(obieg.u-jazdowski.pl)
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by mormegil 7y ago
Just yesterday, I read the comments on the Physical Polynomial-Time complexity class on Complexity Zoo: https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Complexity_Zoo:P#php
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by mormegil 7y ago
https://cybermap.kaspersky.com/#startcountry=NL Logs (real-time) from #wikimedia-operations IRC channel can be read at https://wm-bot.wmflabs.org/logs/%23wikimedia-operations/2019...
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by mormegil 7y ago
Just a piece of anecdata: a (large) bank we work for struggles with this all the time. Because of historical/branding reasons, they use several different domains. The services used to be quite independent, so everything used to work fi
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by mormegil 7y ago
Yesterday, while googling around to gather clues for reverse-engineering the protocol for a Garmin smart watch, I stumbled upon an e-mail on a listserv, discussing pieces of Garmin BT communication. Only after a while I noticed it had been
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by mormegil 7y ago
> actually, it appears that Lion didn't spring for the "optional" warning indicator feature in the first place. AIUI, there was no "optional warning indicator feature" at all. The AOA disagree warning should have
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by mormegil 7y ago
If only the heads of security people... It's right there in the law: "[...] the tool for user identity verification [...] must enforce rules for [...] regular password change in the interval of at most 18 months [...]" §19(5)
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by mormegil 7y ago
> But I see, that the meaning of real-time is a bit biased. Any suggestions? "Interactive"?
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by mormegil 8y ago
I thought you meant a simpler heuristic http://haspvsnpbeensolved.com/ :-)(I had thought Scott Aaronson is somehow connected with it, but probably not, it seems)
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by mormegil 8y ago
It's just a specialized renderer for the same database. But the project cares about the data model and helps curate the data. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap
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by mormegil 8y ago
Right, after adding tags and answers, comments need to be added as well...
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by mormegil 8y ago
Wikipedia (or, rather, MediaWiki, the wiki engine powering it) has a comprehensive API (see e. g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox ), allowing all kinds of automated tasks. You do not need any special pe
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by mormegil 8y ago
Reminds me of all the “dubious security vulnerability” stories on the Old New Thing blog, e.g. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20111215-00/?p=... where MSFT needs to investigate obviously bogus “secur
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by mormegil 8y ago
In other words, IO Monad Considered Harmful. https://blog.jle.im/entry/io-monad-considered-harmful.html
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by mormegil 8y ago
Isn't the new Hyper-V support in VBox 6.0 using that? https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hyperv-support
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by mormegil 8y ago
Immediately sprung to my mind: http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/comic/444-fall-in-all
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by mormegil 8y ago
Meditations on Moloch is one of the best texts I have ever read, bordering on a spiritual experience. And it left me with an even more pessimistic view of the universe... http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/m
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by mormegil 8y ago
This addendum is now in the article: > CP/M actually didn't do these special names as simply as I described them, which is a fact I either never learned or had since forgot. > It actually required them to be followed by a co
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by mormegil 8y ago
Yes, they do, for most of the world, at least. In fact, it was originally a Czech-only map website Mapy.cz (and later a mobile app), with their own map data (they even have their own Street View-like function) in the Czech Republic. For the

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