rlpb

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Passkeys are being rolled out across Gov.uk One Login(gov.uk)
3 points by rlpb 11d ago|0 comments
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by rlpb 12d ago
I think the law needs to change. Statutory damages for any initial refusal that is later overturned, whether by a court or by the company themselves. Treat it as breach of contract. This is is to change the economics so that there is a cost
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by rlpb 12d ago
I certainly want the gate. I just acknowledge that some kind of relationship with the hardware manufacturer for the benefit of the ordinary consumer is the best that the technology industry can offer right now.
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by rlpb 13d ago
The trouble is that we haven't figured out a trust model that works when we do exclude that relationship. The traditional Windows "run setup.exe" model is terrible for modern expectations of security. The alternatives availab
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by rlpb 13d ago
> I don't want an ongoing relationship with the device manufacturer. I think it depends on the device. If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship
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by rlpb 15d ago
It does give you some more RAM for free, as Linux can park allocated but rarely accessed memory and use the freed space for other purposes.
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by rlpb 17d ago
> The busses lock down with a PIN when they get out of the seat (generated that morning at the depot)... How do drivers remember their daily PIN?
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by rlpb 22d ago
I had a similar experience but with the Fairphone 2. I never swapped out any parts because performance hardware upgrades never became available and it was superseded by the Fairphone 3. I've not invested again in a Fairphone since. I&#
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by rlpb 27d ago
I think there's a distinction between attribution and linking to something nobody else can necessarily access. Placing a path to my local build is something I'd avoid because it's irrelevant to everyone else. I think the same
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by rlpb 1mo ago
It's established that exposing children to bad things causes harm. This isn't specific to technology. "Free speech" isn't a concept that applies to the exposure of harmful speech to children.
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by rlpb 1mo ago
> but we know we have it Do we? We only know that at most one thinking person believes they have it, and everyone else claims they have it.
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by rlpb 1mo ago
Didn't Google work very hard to avoid any GPL in Android, apart from the kernel? What is in there that is GPL?
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by rlpb 1mo ago
It sounds like you would be in favour of Choice 5.
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by rlpb 2mo ago
A lookup table of normative specifications for every API call is Reference material. But a tour of API concepts is not (that would be Explanation). Nor is a Tutorial that introduces the API. A lookup table of normative specifications of CLI
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by rlpb 2mo ago
> ...where I'm still left wondering "what's the difference between a tutorial and a how-to guide?" I don't find this question difficult. Without looking anything up, a tutorial exercises a contrived example for l
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by rlpb 2mo ago
I disagree. I see shell syntax as an “inversion” of normal quoting rules. Normally quoting is the default but to achieve anything special you have to use an escape. Conversely, in shell, quoting is not necessary but any special character wi
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by rlpb 2mo ago
One consolation is that you can use proprietary cloud based AI to make software that you can run locally and then depend upon. As long as you ensure that the software meets the quality standards you had before this revolution in terms of
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by rlpb 2mo ago
> Notable are the endorsements, which are balanced over all three options... I don't think this is notable. The process requires five seconders, so you're just seeing the set of people who seconded asynchronously before there w
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by rlpb 2mo ago
Email seems like an odd choice for sensitive messaging where you're in the position to manage the technology on both ends. Private XMPP or Matrix with E2EE has better privacy properties.
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by rlpb 2mo ago
That's interesting, thanks. For me this feature is mandatory, and I won't risk buying a car (second hand usually) unless I see it working with my phone first. I drove 200 miles to buy a car once and walked* away because of this. T
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by rlpb 2mo ago
Please could you share the name of the manufacturer, so the rest of us know who to be wary of?
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by rlpb 2mo ago
> Revocation should come with full refunds. That's not enough. If I purchase something, I expect to rely on being able to keep it. Its value to me could well be much higher than just the purchase price. Revocation should come with c
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by rlpb 2mo ago
If an attacker can do that, they could also do that with my real birthday had I used that. My birthday isn't a secret against anyone who wants to look hard enough. Therefore this method doesn't provide any kind of security against
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by rlpb 2mo ago
I like using a date of birth of 1 January. It's plausible but also hopefully suspicious how many people seem to be born that day if others do the same.
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by rlpb 3mo ago
What if you have young kids? It might be worth the suffering for their benefit.
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by rlpb 3mo ago
I think this is a backwards way to set up VMs. "Installing a guest" is the wrong concept. Use a VM image pre-prepared from your favourite distro to skip that step. cloud-init is the standard way for it to specialize to your use ca
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by rlpb 3mo ago
Adding contraints makes it take longer to deliver a result. I probably cannot install today's engines SDKs and related tooling for example. I'd have to write my own. Doable, and would make me a better programmer, but you won'
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by rlpb 3mo ago
> For example, aerated autoclaved concrete has better structural strength, doesn't need additional insulation, completely non-combustible, and is cheaper to build. Apparently it ages out though and becomes unsafe when it does, resul
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by rlpb 3mo ago
Copyright law is an artificial legal construct, not a moral code. I think appropriate attribution is a moral code, but I am not able to attribute every idea I have to all those who helped me develop the general intelligence that I use to de
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by rlpb 3mo ago
I don't pay for my mind to absorb the world's information, either. And when I publish to the Internet, or give a talk, I also typically don't charge. Even when I publish under some kind of copyright restricted licence, that r

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