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by mpyne 1y ago
> We could engineer usable systems where actual security is a priority, Security is a priority. But it's not the only priority. It would be difficult engineering even if it was the only priority, but given that there's litt
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by mpyne 1y ago
Well, not all of us. I was the 'coming-of-age-in-the-late 90s' teen and went to exactly 1 party. And it wasn't even the backup party, it was the cool kids' party. Outside of that I hung out with close friends and that wa
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by mpyne 1y ago
In addition, the link-loader already should ignore LD_PRELOAD for setuid binaries so even if you're not root but running a setuid binary, LD_PRELOAD can't help you (and if it can it's a security flaw with the link-loader).
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by mpyne 4y ago
I have found it useful for driving in hill country (to avoid having to ride the brakes downhill) but beyond that I'm not sure there's much practical benefit. I used to think you could downshift to buy you more time to coast to a s
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by mpyne 4y ago
If Keffals's own personal statement wasn't enough, this press article https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/swatted-toronto-man-caug... confirms her address and her father's were posted to Kiwifarms i
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by mpyne 4y ago
This refers mostly to content, not activity. As far as they do mention activity, they do say they ban content related to activity that is, for example, "libelous". So they'll block you for publishing insults about someone,
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by mpyne 4y ago
If what you say is true, Cloudflare's security service would be freely made available to email spammers. Is that the case?
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by mpyne 4y ago
Unfortunately it is still practiced in many environments, including most Navy software acquisition efforts, which are frequently run under a "systems engineering" process intended for hardware like ships and airplanes. This proces
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by mpyne 4y ago
> You wouldn't use an agile methodology in construction, you waterfall the hell out of that. On the contrary, Mary Poppendieck has a wonderful presentation she gave on how the Empire State Building was built in record time by litera
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by mpyne 4y ago
> Also, Cloudflare asserts their position is that they largely do not want to restrict speech beyond that government baseline and they won't act themselves against speech. Here they claim they are forced to (and they probably were).
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by mpyne 4y ago
On the off-chance that this is a serious question and not gaslighting, start with this investigative journalist's thread: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/15657972205318144... This isn't recent
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by mpyne 4y ago
I think the point is that this isn't even KF's first go at the bomb threat thing. They've organized bomb threats, swatting, stalking vulnerable people at hotel rooms they've fled to, and worse things besides... and CF wa
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by mpyne 4y ago
> It also seems like the player might get rather frustrated that they can't hit an enemy ship that is five feet in front of them because the player ship is not exactly at the same elevation as the enemy ship. Ha, I even had this pro
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by mpyne 4y ago
They canceled his passport even before he left China. He's always been welcome to return to the USA to face justice. But that's not what he wanted, and that's why he's in Russia, and why he was at the Russian consulate
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by mpyne 4y ago
> It's not. In fact, it's a fairly modern invention from the Nixon era created with the expressed purpose of rationalizing a socially conservative agenda. The outcome of the Nixon era was to rein in the NSA, not expand it more.
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by mpyne 4y ago
USS Jimmy Carter was named after the former President because Jimmy Carter was himself a submarine officer, and during his Navy service used his nuclear training to assist in the cleanup and recovery of a nuclear accident in Canada. He cons
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by mpyne 4y ago
The government can't direct a company to do surveillance that the government itself couldn't do. If the government were just going to flaunt the law anyways there'd be easier ways to get after the data in these buckets. And
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by mpyne 4y ago
> Fortunately, VSC allows comments between a // and a following newline. Yes, that's my point. If a human is required to look at the JSON it's not hard to find a parser that permits comments. So of course it would be
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by mpyne 4y ago
It's true that the Navy spends a lot of money, but it's also true that the Navy can be (and has been) wasteful in terms of spending. What this means is that commercial power can in principle achieve the same safety outcomes with p
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by mpyne 4y ago
Yes, but the 'nuclear Navy' is practically a whole separate branch-within-a-branch of the Navy.
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by mpyne 4y ago
JSON either has those (namespaces, extensibility) or the advantage is slight at best (comments, canonical form). There is a real advantage of XML over JSON not mentioned though, which is its usefulness in annotating computer-readable data i
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by mpyne 4y ago
Yes, but didn't many of them also engage in some level of stimulus spending due to the impact of COVID on the ability to work? And even without, if it is true that Americans are trying to point all the world's supply chains to fee
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by mpyne 4y ago
For what it's worth that's also been my experience with some Ruby projects I have. Usually bum-simple Jekyll web sites in response to a dependabot warning. It's almost always a fight to get going again and it seems so needle
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by mpyne 4y ago
> why does every little country need its own currency? Are they all just addicted to printing money? Controlling your money supply can be needed to improve your country's position with regard to foreign trade. Greece would probably
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by mpyne 4y ago
The DoD has recently updated some of their policy around use of open-source software as well: https://dodcio.defense.gov/portals/0/documents/library/softw...
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by mpyne 4y ago
They're not arguing it's an economic harm to decarbonize, they're pointing out that it cannot physically be done, at all, without some way of storing energy. This is needed because otherwise you'd only get energy when th
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by mpyne 4y ago
That website appears to specifically try to disable antialiasing with CSS properties (though for some reason both Chrome and Firefox still antialias the font text anyways). Also, bitmap fonts won't be antialiased anyways, and it's
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by mpyne 4y ago
> This isn't a good idea organizationally though. It's absolutely necessary for very large organizations though. The alternative of trying to centrally plan the IT operations of an organization of, say, 500,000, gets to be qui
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by mpyne 4y ago
Sure, but you're talking about all of AWS as if every customer is impacted when any part of AWS suffers a failure. But that's not the case, which makes it quite an apples/oranges comparison. But even comparing the apples to t
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by mpyne 4y ago
AWS also operates at a significantly larger scale. When was the last AWS outage due to two critical disks failing at the same time?

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