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by smsm42 11mo ago
If there's a printer with OSS firmware, Stallman likely owns it.
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by smsm42 11mo ago
I know somebody who smoked a lived to be 90 years old, therefore all that they speak about harms of smoking are lies. You realize people are different, and your knowledge of tiny number of data points tells you very little about people who
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by smsm42 11mo ago
> think free software needs a new figurehead. It's not like politician's post, where random people can just decide to run for it. We don't really have many people that do what he does.
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by smsm42 11mo ago
I totally get it. If I were famous I probably would do that all the time (fortunately I am not). I don't hate people, I just don't need to always talk to them. Sometimes I just don't want to talk to people, especially ones I
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Coverd – gambling with your credit card purchases(coverd.us)
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by smsm42 11mo ago
I wish that'd happen, but instead what we have is that everybody is making terrible new content, and getting any of the old content is a nightmare too because there are 28 or so subscriptions needed, which are constantly increasing pri
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by smsm42 11mo ago
Or they are performant now . But once people start writing CSS code the same way the write JS code, they stop to be. You can still write super-tight code in ASM (or eve C) and it will be blazing fast. Almost nobody does it, because it&#x27
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by smsm42 11mo ago
Well, you can not have a product without having "AI" somewhere in the name anymore. It's the law.
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by smsm42 11mo ago
> The fact is that our most intimate interactions with others are now governed by the expectation of surveillance and punishment from an online public It's a horrible way to live your life. But it doesn't have to be this way. T
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by smsm42 11mo ago
OSS projects are not governments, they are communities. You can't just come to a village and declare "I don't like how you live here, you therefore must have a plan of how to accommodate my wishes!" Nope, they don't
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by smsm42 11mo ago
Linus should take a lesson from history and appoint the successor in advance, and publicly groom that person for the role, so nobody would have any doubts.
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by smsm42 11mo ago
That sounds very bad, but I guess it depends also on which code it is. And whether Nadella actually knows what he's talking about, too.
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by smsm42 11mo ago
It certainly feels that way, though it may be an instance of availability bias. Not sure what's causing it - maybe extra load from AI bots (certainly a lot of smaller sites complain about it, maybe major providers feel the pain too), m
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by smsm42 1y ago
That's why I used "yet". It looks like things that were the domain of wild tinfoil hat theories a decade ago now are routine policies.
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by smsm42 1y ago
I could probably remember one or two things like that key, but retaining it over the years would be questionable... I used some of my favorite quotes as the passphrases for some of my crypto wallets, and once spent an annoying week when it
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by smsm42 1y ago
> It doesn't win the vote because it's not the most important factor when it comes to voting, This implies there's a vote for and against it, but is there? I didn't see any party or serious political movement raise th
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by smsm42 1y ago
UK government had been consistently working in this direction for decades. It's not "on a whim", it's a known and consistent policy, and yet there's no substantial resistance and pushback. The only reasonable conclu
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by smsm42 1y ago
Better solution for a race car, driven on specialized tracks, by highly seasoned professional, who is paid enormous money, in compensation for the grave risks he is taking. It's not a better solution for everyday car driven by everyday
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by smsm42 1y ago
Hidden where? Are you writing it on a post-it and putting it on top of your screen? Are you keeping it in your wallet? In a safe? What if you lose it or your house is flooded? > And 5/21 might be the birthday of your first child, or
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by smsm42 1y ago
They can't. But they can police any service that has substantial number of users. And that's what most of the people would use. So, the hardened criminals would use their own underground darknet services which the government could
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by smsm42 1y ago
The right way to respond to this reality would be to stop UK government from being insane by electing a more sane government. Stopping using iphones is going to help only for a short term - once encryption is de-legalized, they will come fo
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by smsm42 1y ago
Yes, it's nothing to do with Apple per se - any major E2E provider would be under the same attack. The problem here is UK government is drunk with power and doesn't want their citizens to have any privacy rights, and UK citizens a
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by smsm42 1y ago
And as soon as you have "a provider" as a business entity, UK government can ban them from providing E2EE solutions to Apple users the same way they did ban Apple. Or the provider would just silently bend over hand hand all the ke
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by smsm42 1y ago
You may think you're being sarcastic, but you are just stating a true fact here. For about 99.9% of this planet's population, it's not just hard, it's something they'd never ever know how to do and have no intention
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by smsm42 1y ago
It's not a backdoor per se. UK just banned using E2EE (at least for Apple users' data). I don't think though they can ban E2EE in general - like, if I upload a binary blob to a data store, how would they know whether it'
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by smsm42 1y ago
> How is it possible to have compromised password but not compromised the second factor? Server-side (assuming weak password storage or weak in-transit encryption) or phishing (more advanced phishers may get the codes too but only single
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by smsm42 1y ago
Mostly for the sites that insist on MFA and I need to use daily. Using two separate stores would be too annoying, and the increase in security is minimal - I consider Bitwarden to be secure enough (password + yubikey), and the main scenario
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by smsm42 1y ago
Those are the same guys who told us we must give them backdoor keys to every encryption algorithm, because nothing can go wrong with it and otherwise terrorists win.
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by smsm42 1y ago
It costs $10/year, so there's really no reason to not pay for it.
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by smsm42 1y ago
Bitwarden supports TOTP too, even though it's not entirely obvious from the UI.

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