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by nybble41 4y ago
> A person's time is indeed intrinsically valuable -- to that person. That would explicitly make it extrinsically valuable, not intrinsically. The value is assigned subjectively from outside rather than an inherent property of the
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> this isn't a Jame Bond movie. It doesn't take James Bond to lift some fingerprints off a surface. Anyone with physical proximity and a little practice can manage that much. People have managed to fool fingerprint readers with
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by nybble41 4y ago
As I said—manufactured in China. Both the government of mainland China and the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) consider mainland China and Taiwan to be parts of the same country. They only differ with regard to who is in charge
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by nybble41 4y ago
With regard to supply-chain attacks, since the TPMs are manufactured in China, they can just make a perfectly "genuine" TPM with a valid, signed key which has their backdoor. The attestation process protects DRM users (media compa
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by nybble41 4y ago
Native resolution at 10bpp requires 40% less data per frame than the final Full HD RGB output at 8bpp per channel (24bpp total), so it would represent some savings. The problem is that neither format fits within the limits of USB 2.0 at 15
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by nybble41 4y ago
> If you have malware on your computer (that can compromise the browser), it can just wait until you actually log in to your bank and then grab the session cookie/proxy away your authentication. Sure, but you might never log in to y
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by nybble41 4y ago
The user-hostile part of the TPM is the built-in key signed by the manufacturer which shows that it's an "approved" TPM which won't—for example—release any of the keys stored inside to the device's owner. This is wh
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> What's easier to do? stealing someone's fingerprint or cracking\guessing their password. > Definitely the latter. You sure about that? A properly generated (i.e. random) password won't be cracked or guessed in any rea
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by nybble41 4y ago
Ledger and Trezor both support U2F, which is a FIDO protocol but not the latest version. The Trezor Model T additionally supports FIDO2 (WebAuthn).
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by nybble41 4y ago
A backup key is a good idea, but there needs to be a way to enroll the backup key for a new account (ideally automatically) without the key being physically present, since otherwise you can't (practically) store the backup key off-si
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by nybble41 4y ago
> … so the only thing that an authenticator could display on your screen is "do you want to authenticate as user x to website y" … That is exactly why you want it. Consider, for a moment, that you have a key which is used to lo
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by nybble41 4y ago
You're talking about processed color frames. The GP was suggesting that the camera stream the raw sensor data, which doesn't have individual color channels, just a monochrome grid with 10 or 12 bits of usable data per pixel. A bay
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by nybble41 4y ago
One would hope you still have separate personal device(s) which you can use without connecting through their VPN, in addition to the corporate-owned ones used for work. Or do they want you to run all your personal traffic through the VPN
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> The DA could sue immediately in the public interest… It's not in the public interest to block TPB. The DA would be suing for the sake of private interests, against the public, and at the public's expense.
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by nybble41 4y ago
Did you happen to read the GP's link? The Stationer's Guild was granted a monopoly on printing so that it could implement the government's censorship: > During the Tudor and Stuart periods, the Stationers were legally empo
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by nybble41 4y ago
> driving automobiles is a privilege Driving automobiles on public roads is a privilege. Driving your own vehicle on your own property (or with the consent of the owner(s)) is an application of property rights. Though some consideratio
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> Some types have no suitable "empty" value. It is dangerous to assume you can always find such a value. Indeed. In Rust you have Option::unwrap_or_default() for this, which is only available if the underlying type implements t
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Under Spotify's current scheme, top 20 artists receive ($1,000 * (999/1000)) = $999 dollars. Jazz artists get $1. There are 1000 plays per day (total) and 990 of those are pop—not 999. Pop artists receive ($1,000 * (990/
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by nybble41 4y ago
If everyone listened to the same amount of music in proportion to the amount they're paying it wouldn't matter which way the royalties were calculated, as the artists would get the same amount either way. Money is fungible, so it
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by nybble41 4y ago
> So we start with a wronged party like a copyright owner. "Wronged" implies that they were harmed in some way. A better term would be "offended". They discovered, indirectly, that someone else was doing something the
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by nybble41 4y ago
A tag can be changed. Barring the extremely unlikely chance of a (non-malicious) hash collision, the commit hash will always identify the specific commit intended by the referrer. As commit hashes ought to be globally unique—the same hash c
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by nybble41 4y ago
Chrome has a similar feature when sync is enabled: the "tabs from other devices" section of the History page (Ctrl-H). The context menu for tabs also includes an option to send the tab to another device.
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> because you aren't staring into a bright light source that refreshes 60 times a second LCDs update 60 times per second (or more… 120 Hz displays are becoming more common) but they don't flicker the way CRTs used to, so th
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by nybble41 4y ago
Cost is one factor, but if you live in, say, rural North Dakota, you may not be able to afford the risk that your main source of heat breaks down in the middle of a blizzard and you can't get anyone in to service it for several days… o
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> BTC is also currently down from its peak… At any given time almost every asset is "down from its peak". It's impossible to be "up from the peak". The best-case scenario is to be at the peak, but that doesn&
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A heat pump with a sufficiently powerful resistive preheater will be at least as energy-efficient in operation as the resistive heater alone, but it's also much more complex, with a correspondingly higher up-front cost and ongoing main
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by nybble41 4y ago
If you live in a climate where it's too cold for heat pumps to function, and rely on electrical (resistive) heating instead, the "waste" heat from the incandescent bulbs offsets the power needed for heating almost 1:1. Replac
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> Your No annual fee credit card is costing you $700 a year The title is inaccurate since it's not "your" card costing you $700/year. If you got rid of your card and switched to paying for everything in cash you'
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by nybble41 4y ago
That's correct if you're processing a credit card, but some of these (PayPal, Cash App, perhaps Venmo) have their own separate accounts which bypass the card networks altogether. If you have a balance in Cash App and you send part
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> It is the age old question of when does a human have standing and a right to life. Anything that is harmed has standing , human or not, conscious or not. A tree has standing to fight back when it's threatened with an axe. The f

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