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by taftster 5y ago
Good thoughts/questions, thanks. 1. Not sure, but I think that's the problem I'm asking about. Because prepaid or auto-generated cards are not mainstream, big vendors don't need to accept them. 2. Agreed, but at least th
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by taftster 5y ago
Another solution to this problem is the availability of disposable credit cards. It would be ideal that credit card numbers could just be created from scratch, as needed, and turned off whenever the use was done. We had promises of this as
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by taftster 5y ago
Direct link to the product page for this tool on his website. It wasn't hard to find, but took me a few page clicks: https://covertinstruments.com/collections/lishi-tools
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by taftster 5y ago
Right. But I think OP was suggesting that the website needed to include this information.
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by taftster 5y ago
Fair. Thanks for the reminder. Should I edit?
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by taftster 5y ago
Fair point, I think. It's a very impactful company, for sure. But again, the hyperbole around "1/3 of employees" is just too much for me to take seriously. That's 15-20 people? Not that interesting of a story, even
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by taftster 5y ago
Doesn't Basecamp have something like ~50 employees? It's a very small company. The concerns around the current issues scale to larger companies just the same. But saying "1/3 of employees" doesn't really amount
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by taftster 6y ago
Here's a decent twitter thread (2019) with some background on the project: https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136631437514272768
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by taftster 6y ago
One of the project authors (Lea Kissner) relates the story to the naming of the project here: https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136691523104280576
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by taftster 6y ago
My problem with this is that the colors make it hard to see the board. I get caught off by missing a long attack vector or a simple exchange. But this is overall an amazing accomplishment. I've played several good games with it so far.
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by taftster 6y ago
I respectfully disagree to an extent. I think most/all documentation ends up rotting and being ignored. If you take the time to write it down, it doesn't mean that others will take the time to read it or refer to it. I think it&#x
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by taftster 6y ago
Right. If I can run Ubuntu on Docker without Canonical knowing, I should be able to run Ubuntu on Azure without Canonical knowing. This is a big misstep for Microsoft, from my point of view. I think it's less a reflection on Canonical,
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by taftster 6y ago
The pressures for electricity demand has helped drive research and innovation in renewable energies. In some way, the quest for bitcoin has helped renewables get off the ground. I personally don't mind this extra demand on our electric
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by taftster 6y ago
Supercookie protection! Thank you Mozilla team, the changes and focus you've made to protect user privacy in recent years has really been appreciated! https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/su
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by taftster 6y ago
Right, I think in the end, this is going to show just how bad monopolies (or near-monopolies) can be for innovation. These are super impressive results, just hoping that the rest of Apple (software, developer relations) can turn away from t
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by taftster 6y ago
Even "simple objects" can be MITM'd. I know I'm on the extreme theoretical edge, and so maybe your perspective is pragmatic enough to pass. But even small images, javascripts, etc. should be protected by HTTPS, not just
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by taftster 6y ago
Honest question. How is this feature enabling increased corporate/government control?
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by taftster 6y ago
I don't have a real answer for you, more just shades of understanding. I believe it's the case that Chromium is just more extensible and designed for reuse. Whereas Firefox is more monolithic and less able to be extended. I don&#
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by taftster 6y ago
This is a good point. But realistically, that choice is not an option. Therefore, I'm at a disadvantage if I don't use the most "rewardy" type of card available. The cost of these points/rewards are priced in. So th
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by taftster 6y ago
I think you're right, but that's maybe not giving credit to the overall concept presented. The patent description text, even surrounded with the illustrations, still stands on its own. Yes, a picture paints a thousand words, but i
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by taftster 6y ago
Neat. Thanks for the link!
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by taftster 6y ago
Right. When a tool like this can actually "compose" a dataflow using cloud native components (lamdbas, messaging, storage) in real time, this has potential to be super powerful. Think of, for example, Apache NiFi [1] but instead o
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by taftster 6y ago
Yes, but did they sell for $1 million? Or did these "premium" domains sell for something more realistic?
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by taftster 6y ago
Ha ha ha, they make too much money on you to allow that. Protecting your privacy can't happen at the platform end, because of the nature of the network itself. And there would be too few people that would pay for this feature, it woul
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by taftster 6y ago
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
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by taftster 6y ago
I don't feel comfortable tying any two logins together for any site, regardless of mobile vs. desktop. Choosing to log into any site using facebook, google, etc. is setting up for trouble. I much prefer a strong password manager and se
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by taftster 6y ago
I understand the general sentiment here, and don't disagree. But I think ultimately this is about dollars. There is a LOT of money in the government defense sector. AWS is in an excellent position to capture a lot of that money, but t
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by taftster 6y ago
OK, fair to call that out. My bad for grabbing numbers from my arse. So let's take the average, which per your source, says $1400 / year (or $700 per 6-months). $700 * 0.15 = $105 savings per 6 months ($17.50 per month). So now y
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by taftster 6y ago
Yes, exactly. There's no winners here except the corporations and shareholders. And it's all at the expense of personal liberty and freedoms afforded by driving.
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by taftster 6y ago
It will raise rates for those who are already risky drivers, but will not save money for typically safe drivers. And worse, this will push risky drivers to even more abandon auto-insurance entirely. The good drivers will be forced to carry

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