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by steelframe 2y ago
> What happens when the network goes down? When I was traveling in London in 2018 I was barely able to pay for the groceries I needed in order to eat that night because I was checking out just as the global VISA outage started happening.
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by steelframe 2y ago
> we still have checks and credit cards despite most young people just tapping their phone around Unfortunately we're losing cash. There is one of those modern "chic" mixed-business-and-apartments developments not far from
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by steelframe 2y ago
I have a card passport that I can use when crossing the Canadian-US border by land. In fact just my driver's license is technically all I need. The problem was when I caught COVID while on a trip to Vancouver. I was getting very sick a
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by steelframe 2y ago
Yup. You can always keep it powered off and in a Faraday sleeve until it's time to use it at the border. It should be possible to distribute a device that's smaller and lighter than a passport, and I'd be all for it, so long
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by steelframe 2y ago
I've simply been buying Pixel phones and using the GrapheneOS web installation tool. It holds your hand through unlocking the bootloader and flashing the new image on, and it always works without a hitch. Super-easy and reliable. I sup
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by steelframe 2y ago
The only personal information they're going to get from me will be what's in my libel lawsuit.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I recently Googled myself, and in the first page of results I ran across some shit AI website that scrapes random web content about people and attempts to summarize it. It got my current occupation completely and comically wrong -- as in, i
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by steelframe 2y ago
> If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Well, they're not getting any of my money, and they're not selling my eyeballs to any advertisers. For a while I used a filesystem written by a convicted murderer. I&
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by steelframe 2y ago
> Yeah, OP is comparing this to Google/Amazon/Apple/etc devices Thanks; it seems I actually needed to spell that out in my post.
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by steelframe 2y ago
If it's possible for the hardware to facilitate a use case, the employees working on the product will try to push the limits as far as they possibly can in order to manufacture interesting and challenging problems that will get them hi
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by steelframe 2y ago
> where the hiring company has even looked for US applicants I've worked at a company where >90% of the technical interviews I conducted were H1-B hires. It makes perfect sense for a tech company to bias the applicant deck in thi
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by steelframe 2y ago
> Stop making reactive decisions. If something bad happened on a total, extremely unlikely lark, don't act like it's going to happen again next week. This is a central theme in Bruce Schneier's 2003 book Beyond Fear, which
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by steelframe 2y ago
I think Apple Silicon has shown us that x86 doesn't have the monopoly potential it once had.
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by steelframe 2y ago
> any C-level exec will hold on to the position for dear life until they are forced out I don't know. Frank Slootman's retirement from Snowflake earlier this year was certainly not celebrated by any significant stakeholders. I&
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by steelframe 2y ago
My 2024 Toyota GR Corolla has a fuse that, when pulled, disables the Data Communications Module (DCM). It also disables the in-car microphone. At first I was mildly annoyed at not being able to make phone calls over a Bluetooth connection b
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by steelframe 2y ago
Speaking as someone who owns 3 Framework laptops, I was not disappointed to find Framework mentioned no fewer than 13 times in this comment thread. Assuming all goes according to plan with the moderation on this comment, now Framework is me
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by steelframe 2y ago
When I parked a rental car in downtown SLC last week I had to find a way to pay to park. There was a kiosk with a functional screen, but the touchscreen part of it was broken, so I couldn't interact with it. I plopped my stuff down and
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by steelframe 2y ago
Forgive me if I seem presumptuous in my advice here. You've done things in your career that I can only dream of doing. What I can say is that I've somehow managed to survive a quarter-century in a string of Big Tech companies with
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by steelframe 2y ago
This is exactly what I do with any software that talks to the Internet. However I'd still really, really like for an advanced adversary to not have arbitrary RCE on my machine, whether it's in a container or not. Any zero days in
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by steelframe 2y ago
> They best vote first The votes of all of the 1% are worth about one-hundredth as much as the votes of all the rest of us. They won't be missed. Except perhaps in one or two counties in a swing state. The lack of their money sloshi
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by steelframe 2y ago
> Search is pretty much dead to me. I've heard reports that requesting verbatim results via the tbs=li:1 parameter has helped some people postpone entirely giving up on Google. Personally I've already been on Kagi for a while a
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by steelframe 2y ago
> root kit that’d exfiltrate your credentials Yes. I truly believe some janky random anti-cheat kernel module could very well capture telemetry about my keystrokes to a log and then send that log off to a server. At the very least I don&
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by steelframe 2y ago
I built a separate Arch Linux box just for Steam gaming. I will never log into any of my sensitive accounts -- email, banking, etc. -- on that machine. It's a Framework laptop so I can physically keep the camera and microphone disconne
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by steelframe 2y ago
My education prepared me to make millions of dollars by the time I was in my mid-forties. I learned that if I take every task seriously and strive to do the absolute best I can on that task, no exceptions, regardless of how I personally fel
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by steelframe 2y ago
My concerns are around the normalization of pointing high-resolution cameras at people around you all the time. Perhaps this specific device may have a company behind it that, at least at the moment, will resist handing the video feed with
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by steelframe 2y ago
Sometimes politics comes into play at the office. "This is the decision. We're just informing you about it because we agreed in our informal hallway chat that it's the right thing to do." Suddenly all of the doc comments
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by steelframe 2y ago
I'm at a juncture in my career where I'm asking what could really motivate me to do anything that I really feel is worth doing in tech. In my earlier years I remember using both CompuServe and Prodigy. I'm not sure if it just
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by steelframe 2y ago
> since you MUST slow down Where I live some of the locals treat a newly-built roundabout like the Daytona Speedway. It's almost as if their mentality is that you must NOT slow down, and they won't hesitate to express their dis
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by steelframe 2y ago
> tea tastes fine through a metal straw I can't help but think about this story every time I hear someone talk about metal straws. https://www.today.com/health/health/metal-straw-punctures-th...
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by steelframe 2y ago
> HIPAA is not a joke, employees can be held personally liable for breeches Okay, great. So which employees were held personally liable for these two breeches? I got "The Letter" telling me I was one of the victims for both of

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