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by ncphil 6y ago
+1 that.
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by ncphil 6y ago
A very sad beginning of the end, but even more sadly, predictable. Rampant cannibalism from the top down. Will it ever stop?
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by ncphil 6y ago
Here in the US many major church organizations, including the Roman Catholic Church and mainline protestant groups (Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran) used to invest seriously in the same kinds of things. I think they lost a lot of credibil
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by ncphil 6y ago
"... almost no government has the IT capacity and resources to single-handedly develop an eID quickly and to the appropriate standards." Bullshit. We're talking identity management here. Any government that can't handle
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by ncphil 6y ago
The first time I realized Atom and RSS were actually different standards was when I went to write a feed. "Oh. Well that's interesting..."
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by ncphil 6y ago
Tried this long ago when we got our first Yubico U2F keys. Cool, but ultimately unwise if not paired with a password or a decent-length pin because without that second factor you're back to a single point of (security) failure. Also, a
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by ncphil 6y ago
Oh. No. The bridge clearance on the LI parkways was _very definitely_ intentional, but really aimed at preventing them from being used by commercial truck traffic rather than busses. Local sources for it are legion and predate Caro's b
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by ncphil 6y ago
It was a marketing war. IBM, Hitachi, NCR and other mainframe vendors vs Sun, HP, and later Microsoft and Oracle on the distributed computing side. As usual, it wasn't about whose tech was better: but who was going to get the customer&
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by ncphil 6y ago
... which begs the question: was Stalinism ever really a serious threat global capitalism? For me, part of the answer comes from looking into the reasons for the split between the Stalinists and Trotskyites, and how successful the US was in
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by ncphil 6y ago
This isn't your mom's educational labor market. The stats are there to support most assertions in the above reply. They're just inconveniently scattered across the states and not all electronically accessible. I wonder whose
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by ncphil 6y ago
Had a serious talk a Unix manager over a decade ago who was convinced Windows ops didn't require as much expertise as Unix/Linux. It was a common misconception that MS seemed to encourage. As someone who came over from Windows, I
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by ncphil 6y ago
A while back spent about 2 mos mastering WSL2 and came to the conclusion that the default of automatically opening up in the Windows fs share was... unwise. Besides fs permissions being a complete mess, the unstable behavior described here