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by redprince 3y ago
> It is a program that reads unstrusted binary blobs When opening any office files from unknown or untrusted sources is something you feel you have to do, you're probably well off isolating that operation and thus limit the blast ar
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by redprince 3y ago
> That's it. That is all that DNSSEC does. Thus providing an interesting foundation to build upon, for example DANE or SSHFP. Not very known or common things, but they show the potential of what is possible when there's a way t
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by redprince 3y ago
> Do you audit every single line of code from OSS you use? I audit some of it sometimes. I trust that other do the same. Many hands make light work.
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by redprince 3y ago
Whatever you ask for may be (mis-)interpreted as extortion. There's very thin ice in that direction.
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by redprince 3y ago
> If I install LibreOffice, I want to be asked for permission before it tries to access my microphone or location or other sensitive resources. This isn't some untrusted unauditable binary blob from a possibly shady manufacturer. Ev
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by redprince 3y ago
> It's not really controversial in Germany, and largely the case. Well... sort of, but the incentives are broken. Simplified version of what has happened so far: In 1994 the Deutsche Bundesbahn was fused with the eastern Reichbahn a
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by redprince 3y ago
Maybe some fish will survive a rapid change in their ecosystem. I'd be worried, that most probably will die when their capacity to adapt is exceeded either directly or through breakdown of food chains. Though I'd be more worried a
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by redprince 3y ago
>iodine adds a bad metallic taste "Iodized salt in the U.S. contains 45 micrograms of iodine per gram of salt." [1] There's no way anyone can taste that. If the iodide ion even has a distinct taste independent of its catio
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by redprince 3y ago
As someone who actually enjoys the taste of milk and does not consider it a white liquid of unimportant taste to be poured over or into something other: No. Lactose free milk certainly hasn't the better taste and isn't the better
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by redprince 3y ago
Whatever a single person does is except for a few cases negligible. The problems arise when a lot of people buy manufactured goods without regard for the consequences. The problems arise when a lot of people consume meat and thus create a h
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by redprince 3y ago
Considering the massive scale of deforestation going on in the Amazonas, this feels like trying to put out a forest fire by spitting into it. "In the Legal Amazon, deforestation reached 356 km² in March 2023, according to DETER data.&q
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by redprince 4y ago
Unless you know of the hurdles this hypothetical source code change would need to clear to have any effect. Then there is no controversy at all.
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by redprince 4y ago
> And we cannot farm successfully on scale we need without them. The following study states that organic farming on average is 25% less productive than conventional farming. The major difference being the use of plant protection products
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by redprince 4y ago
> If this were true then the Middle East would be full of peaceful democracies. But the reality in Europe's oil supplying countries is rather different. Who said anything about democracies? Or that they are peaceful on the inside? T
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by redprince 4y ago
This is still arguing from hindsight and conveniently neglects the dependence of Russia on the EU: The EU was Russia's single largest customer of natural gas and an important purveyor of machines and technology. A valid reasoning at th
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by redprince 4y ago
That would an odd reason, because Apple could comply easily. Source and development tools to translate them into binary are readily available. And you can still install software that you yourself built without a hassle last I checked.
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by redprince 4y ago
It will not work when plugged into an USB3 port. It is marginal for USB ports following older standards and may occasionally not work. Putting an old USB hub between the computer and the AVR device can help with the connection. It's a
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by redprince 4y ago
> We can outsmart, and have repeatedly outsmarted, all sorts of potential disasters. Sometimes it was just mankind surviving as a species though. Humans as a whole are probably hard to kill. But that says nothing about one of the definin
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by redprince 4y ago
I have left this behind for a Rohloff Speedhub 500/14 and I'm not looking back. The chain runs inside a Hebie Chainglider protected from the elements and is lubricated with a nice mineral oil. I can run this setup without any main
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by redprince 5y ago
> You may not like the company, but it is definitely an innovative company. They may not innovate on the things you are drawn to, but they definitely innovate. A lot too. They certainly innovated world leading business strategies like &q
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by redprince 5y ago
> The number one complaint I hear (and have myself) is that maybe I don’t _want_ all devices on my LAN to have public IP addresses. This isn't a goal in itself. The formerly problematic and unwanted side effects of NAT, namely a bro
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by redprince 5y ago
> I think most corporate network should be able to do pure IPv6 internally, and then tunnel to IPv4 at the gateway. With the amount of legacy applications and systems populating the typical internal network that idea won't be going
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by redprince 5y ago
I like to quote the Internet Census of 2012 [1] whenever that question comes up: "A lot of devices and services we have seen during our research should never be connected to the public Internet at all. As a rule of thumb, if you believ
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by redprince 5y ago
I always enjoy when the decision against having kids is subtly framed as a weakness or a character flaw. I posit a different guideline: If having kids is something you feel is of vital importance to you personally and not because other peop
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by redprince 5y ago
So much so that it is known for at least 10 years that this is the case. And also why: Fear of being accused of being an alarmist or sounding too extreme. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...
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by redprince 5y ago
> I strongly upvote Mikrotik with its open-source RouterOS software (which you can run on nearly any computer). Unless I have missed a few recent development, the RouterOS is open source only in the sense that it is build on a foundation
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by redprince 5y ago
> In principle this would work. If they had a spinning mass, then moved the mass closer to the center of rotation, its speed would increase. Actually it wouldn't speed up. The speed of the mass traveling on it's circular path a
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by redprince 5y ago
> Plus there was a general sense of the project being pushed through by stubborn DB officials and state government as a kind of vanity project despite the aforementioned concerns. A public referendum was held in 2011. 58.9% voted for the
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by redprince 5y ago
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?dummynet The dummynet system facility permits the control of traffic going through the various network interfaces, by applying bandwidth and queue size limitations, implementing diff
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by redprince 5y ago
Which is Carbon, because that's what left when you take away the O2 from CO2.

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