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by tatersolid 6y ago
No, we don’t.
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by tatersolid 6y ago
Agree. At $dayjob, our help desk guys reported dozens of calls from people having VPN connectivity or performance issues since stary-home. But most users see great throughout. Nearly every call was from an employee with their own cable mode
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by tatersolid 7y ago
I think because the big failing before was that Zoom was using AES, but was using it in ECB mode. Zoom clearly paid near-zero attention to security until recently. So by saying “GCM encryption” they’re highlighting that the fixed the mod
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Vorbis became competitive with MP3 and AAC many years after those commercial codecs were introduced. So again, the FOSS codec was nowhere near state-of-the-art.
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by tatersolid 7y ago
No, I mean zero of the pure-FOSS video codecs have ever been anywhere near stare-of-the-art in their time. So FOSS codecs have for three decades been unable to compete on technical merit. Even the current state-of-the-art audio codec Opus
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Yes. See xiph.org Lots of good bits came from FOSS codecs but Daala and friends have never competed with the commercial stuff that have 100s of decades of paid engineering time in development. Also it’s pretty impossible to do anything in t
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by tatersolid 7y ago
> The proper use of large-scale meeting products is in corporate or paid environments where you have some kind of guarantee that your chats aren't being recorded or sold. In banking/financial services, we want guarantees that a
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by tatersolid 7y ago
My beard must be grayer than yours. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Seagate was the gold-standard for reliability, and they were priced accordingly. We literally bought nothing besides Cheetahs for our data center for more than a decade. So d
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by tatersolid 7y ago
> And in the span of 3 weeks the US has spent $7,000 of every individual's future ($2T / 340M people). You can’t really claim that. The reality in the progressively taxed US is the higher tax brackets pay the overwhelming major
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by tatersolid 7y ago
> A default rich text preference is bad. Email client can easily apply some heuristics or honoring something mark-down-like, but the base need be always in plain text. I’m a grey beard, using email since the early 1990s. All these years
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by tatersolid 7y ago
“Everyone in the banking industry has blocked Zoom” was my qualifier. The U.K. even held a cabinet meeting over Zoom. There’s a lot more than schoolwork taking place on Zoom unfortunately.
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by tatersolid 7y ago
> works well and can handle 200MM customers That’s the the point though: Zoom doesn’t “work well” if you include basic security as a required part of “working.” Zoom using ECB mode for encryption, and transmitting keys to China says ever
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Eisenhower. He steered us through the greatest catastrophe the world has ever seen, and was wary of his own power.
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Just where do you think the trillions needed for Universal Basic Income will cone from if there is no functioning economy with tax-payers?
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Technically they could blacklist certain behaviors from certain sites. They and all other major browsers already do this in a privacy-preserving way for Safe Browsing, certificate revocation, etc.
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by tatersolid 7y ago
> I've never seen a documentation effort fail for the choice of content authoring platform. I also have, multiple times in a 24-year career. The XML-based monstrosities sold as “enterprise content management” have been bought by man
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by tatersolid 7y ago
WTH is Google Duo? They have a third video conferencing solution besides Hangouts and Meet? Madness.
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by tatersolid 7y ago
JS allows overriding overriding any object or method with separately loaded code. So even your “trusted” code could be compromised by separate “trusted” code. Even native app packagers and languages can suffer from this when loading librari
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Because animated GIFs are horribly inefficient and their use should no longer be encouraged. Should browsers add speed controls for the blink tag as well?
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by tatersolid 7y ago
In the real world: UPS,generators, cooling, BIOS/management card patching, 100 gigabit switches, optics, cabling, monitoring, tamper-proof logging, SEIM, cameras, physical security, software licenses. Plus maintenance on all that stuff
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by tatersolid 7y ago
How “anonymous” is a feature from a social media company operated from a totalitarian state?
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by tatersolid 7y ago
”If necessary I can use an Android phone and apps without ever logging into any Google service.” I don’t think this is actually feasible in practice . I’ve never encountered a real person using a Google-free android device as their daily
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Even something like a major country shouldn’t always be abbreviated: UK reports rampant student marijuana use before class That headline has quite a different meaning if “UK” is abbreviating “United Kingdom” versus “University of Kentucky
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by tatersolid 7y ago
> What did he think those contracts were for? Maybe internet transit or MPLS services, which were the company’s core product? I won’t argue for a second that he was a good guy, but CEOs rarely get involved in the details of customer cont
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by tatersolid 7y ago
In Chicago USA there’s a magazine called StreetWise that homeless can apply to sell for $2 a copy. StreetWise has been sold in this manner for as long as I’ve lived here (20 years).
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Safari reports expired TLS cert. nice job TechCrunch!
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by tatersolid 7y ago
How useful is a phone that is offline ? What exactly do you do with it? Making phone calls is inherently an online activity.
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by tatersolid 7y ago
> Eons ago I wondered why the IRC and NNTP protocols weren't being improved. For the same reason SMTP hasn’t meaningfully improved in the last 25 or so years. It’s an ossified protocol because of all the competing implementations.
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by tatersolid 7y ago
Oga’s was spotless when the fam went in October, other than the “decorative” grittiness literally painted on the walls so it looked like the movie. That said, most of the Disney World “quick serve” cafeterias are covered in food waste by th
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by tatersolid 7y ago
The Google Search homepage isn’t a browser, but they stick an intrusive bar across the top of the screen instructing me to install Chrome. Google’s search monopoly is even greater than Microsoft’s OS monopoly was at its peak.

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