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by nixgeek 4y ago
So don’t use the service until they have a privacy policy.
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by nixgeek 4y ago
It varies massively by airport and by time of year, and you just go into “Non U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents” (there’s almost never a “Europe” line). On airports, there are a set of U.S. airports like Los Angeles which always seem to
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by nixgeek 4y ago
The U.S. has been expanding eligibility for Global Entry over the last decade. No idea where you live but: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-... This also gives you TSA Pre. It’s cut my a
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Sure, but you’re going to disclose all of the same biometric and criminal database information should you then do the U.S. visa application, so this does nothing to improve your privacy or stop the U.S. having this information. You need to
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by nixgeek 4y ago
I mean it sounds like you’d be giving up all the same data just through a slower process. From the presentation: For all travellers (and asylum seekers) before entry into USA Hit/ No hit query of the foreign databases On hit: retr
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Global Entry and TSA Pre probably saved me >100 hours of queuing in the last 3-5 years, and I imagine I’d also have missed a handful of flights had I needed to endure the regular checkpoint queues in order to make a tight connection. It’
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Probably the most interesting part of this is if states don’t integrate by 2027 they will no longer be eligible for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). That adds a lot of friction for citizens of that state to travel to the U.S. for any reason.
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by nixgeek 4y ago
CoD: Modern Warfare 2 for PC shipped an update in April '22 which was >100GiB. Somewhat more recently in November '22 the Xbox variant required a 40-50GiB update. This does annoy customers, but they still keep doing it: https
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Only way I know to get $/port much cheaper than $50-75 is to pick up a used Arista on eBay, there are typically 48-port 10GE models going for ~$400-500. That's what I use to drive 10GE ports where I don't need 802.3bt. There
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by nixgeek 4y ago
One of the more affordable options nowadays is the Ubiquiti Flex XG [1] ($299) for a 5-port unit with 4 being 10GE. I’m using lots of their Switch XG 6 PoE [2] ($599) since it can drive 5GE ports on my APs and supports 802.3bt (which is req
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Most APs aimed at domestic situations are still on 1Gbps, but WiFi 6-series (not 6E/7) APs aimed at business/enterprise environments have had 2x5Gbps uplinks for years now - since September 2018, i.e. Aruba AP-555’s [1]. I happen
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by nixgeek 4y ago
"sub-accounts and ACLs" sounds just as awful to me, if not worse, quite honestly. Imagine managing an "Account" at each of 100's of online merchants and other sites like Netflix, where each has >= 1 "User&qu
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by nixgeek 4y ago
To whoever is reading this: I am not doing IT for the Mafia. ;) I mean, this is all apples and oranges, but if you could, examine your browser history across all devices as a household going back let's say 10 years. Lots of sites, righ
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by nixgeek 4y ago
I think if you’re moving between password managers, probably best to assume they did retain a backup, that said backup was leaked, and given LastPass does NOT encrypt all aspects of the vault, that you need to go ahead and roll almost all t
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by nixgeek 4y ago
I’m a happy user of 1Password for Families, which I only mention since it means >1 person is storing in our vaults (and 1P isn’t as vulnerable to “my backup has unencrypted URLs stored in it” — one of my main issues with LastPass’ latest
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by nixgeek 4y ago
If you can find the LastPass equivalent to 1Password’s detail on the vaults and their security white paper [1] then I would love to take a look! [1] https://support.1password.com/cs/opvault-design/
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by nixgeek 4y ago
“all the other parts are working correctly”, is IMHO the issue here, because LastPass doesn’t consider the URL to be sensitive material. What I think that means is in this breach the bad actor has your account information like emails and IP
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by nixgeek 4y ago
This appears to just be a copy and paste from LastPass’s own update on this incident? [1] This has been covered LOTS in the last 24 hours already in HN [2], with most of the conversation happening on this post [3]. [1] https://bl
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by nixgeek 4y ago
"Our customers' passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture." I take your point but I'm not aware of any hack of a major provider which resulted in exfiltration of decrypted customer s
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Federal sentences come with a maximum of 54 days per year [1] of good time credit, and there is no parole when serving federal time. This all but guarantees that a 10 year sentence will result in 102 months of incarceration and release no e
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Or, just have a unique password for every site stored in a password manager, and then they can all be “good” passwords, with no big concerns about how they are stored!
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Teams definitely supports changing video and audio devices after joining a meeting, I use that feature almost daily. It’s not new.
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Yes. I use them as 2.0 and don't have a subwoofer.
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by nixgeek 4y ago
I moved to Canon from HP and have both their Maxify GX7020 [1] and their imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 [2], both of which have a strong Just Works (tm) factor, at least in my experience. I'm a low workload user, and probably do about 300 pages
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by nixgeek 4y ago
It’s really worth reading Privacy policies: https://nopecha.com/privacy We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information: Category A: Identifiers Category B: Pers
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by nixgeek 4y ago
I own and love some KRK V6 monitors and would recommend! https://www.krkmusic.com/Studio-Monitors/V6
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by nixgeek 4y ago
I assume GitHub Enterprise Server would also meet the requirements for being entirely on-premise and not uploading data to the clouds?
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by nixgeek 4y ago
“I can only assume” is I think the key to this comment, however let’s explore some hypotheticals. You are a Director; you have a 350 person organization; you’re leading a rapidly growing business (let’s say >40% YoY growth in revenue, n
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by nixgeek 4y ago
A couple things: 1/ Managers particularly for SDE roles don’t usually have >10-12 people. In reality the URA (Unregretted Attrition) goal is mostly managed at the L8+ level where organization sizes are usually hundreds. Far more lik
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by nixgeek 4y ago
Does $2/mo even cover the power bill to have a smartphone on 24x7 though?

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