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by warner25 4y ago
I've been a reader and participant of the Bogleheads forum (on investing and personal finance) for well over a decade, and I think it's a shining example of good moderation in practice. My observation is that the key is preventing
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by warner25 4y ago
I used to say that I'm determined to not let technology pass me by with age, but now I suspect that it will happen someday anyway, despite being a technologist. I'm recognizing my aversion to newer, trendy things more and more. I
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by warner25 4y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but what's your logic? It seems to me that control of 99% of my accounts already reduces to having control of my email account, because account creation and password reset processes depend on my email. I&#
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by warner25 4y ago
To be fair, I guess it's a product of being an organization of three million people who are globally dispersed, working in every conceivable environment. There are a lot of edge cases. So while smart card login was better for my case,
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by warner25 4y ago
I love your indignation; it validates the way I've felt about various things over the years, so you deserve some explanation of the culture and my thought process: I'm reminded of the investing maxim that "markets can stay ir
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by warner25 4y ago
I ported a Verizon number to Google Voice ten years ago and I've used it as my primary phone number ever since, forwarding to my MVNO carrier number. I'd say it works fine with 95% of services, but I have run into some issues. I r
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by warner25 4y ago
Even worse than Antarctica might be working in a US DoD "vault" or SCIF. Many of us encountered this problem in recent years as various DoD organizations bought into O365. For a while, I had to enter a password and then get an SMS
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by warner25 4y ago
> my top priority would be placing agents in Microsoft, Apple, Google, Cloudflare, Juniper, Cisco Interesting thought. Or more likely, I'd guess, spy agencies might recruit existing Big Tech company employees who have access to sens
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, see that's the other side of the story that doesn't seem to be told much either, and I'm interested in that too. It does seem like some researcher or journalist should have blown the case open by now if this thing were
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I've seen before, lots of circumstantial evidence that makes the claims sound plausible, but then the trail just seems to stop cold.
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by warner25 4y ago
Usually when I'm reminded about IME (and whatever the equivalent is in AMD chips), it's in the context of some strong claims about it being "game over" for security and privacy against mass surveillance, engineered &#x2F
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by warner25 4y ago
Yes, in the installation guide, because s2idle is the default setting, it just advises adding the kernel argument under "Step 4" where it talks about SSDs. On that note, Western Digital apparently told Framework that this is only
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by warner25 4y ago
I agree with both of you guys. I've had my 11th gen Framework (DIY running Linux) for a year now, and I'm in love. However, I wouldn't recommend it to the average person. That person should probably just get a cheap Chromeboo
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by warner25 4y ago
It took a while for Framework and the community to figure it out, but the s2idle problem is fixed with the nvme.noacpi=1 kernel argument. You get instant wake and no more battery drain than deep. This is in the official Framework installati
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by warner25 4y ago
I feel the same as WheatMillington most of the time, but also feel the same as you when I look at pictures of my kids from the past few years. It's so conflicting.
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by warner25 4y ago
I'll go ahead and say that you aren't wrong. I have four kids under eight years old. I often feel like I'm just trying to kill the hours until they nap or go to bed, when I can finally have some quiet time alone. I feel very
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by warner25 4y ago
Not only that, we have active duty American service members stationed in Saudi Arabia working as instructors and advisors on how to maintain and employ that hardware. Saudi pilots are routinely trained at American military flight schools
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by warner25 4y ago
I remember reading years ago that the average American adult puts on 3 lbs during the holiday season and then never recovers by dropping that excess weight, so it just accumulates every year. For the people whose fitness routines and health
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, it's not my personal opinion, but this seemed to be the reason given publicly by various universities. The thread from last week showing that "Asian" kids' SAT scores crushed "White" kids' scores in
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by warner25 4y ago
Does the article talk about the fact that so many universities stopped requiring the ACT or SAT for admissions? It sounded like this was a trend pre-COVID (because of the prevailing belief that standardized tests discriminated against minor
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by warner25 4y ago
It's just that my car has given me 15 years of service and will, I expect, give me ten more. Many large household appliances can last even longer than that. Meanwhile, my phone is only two years old, looks and works perfectly fine, but
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm happy to talk to people about my experiences in Afghanistan, but yeah, I only have a few minutes worth of "war stories" to tell. One of the things that most non-veterans don't grasp is just how mundane day-to-day mil
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by warner25 4y ago
Interestingly, I work in DoD IT where everyone is required to have certifications from ISC2, ISACA, CompTIA, etc. so we all get taught and tested on knowledge of this and many other controls, but I haven't actually heard of it formaliz
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by warner25 4y ago
Yes, this and several other comments have made me realize it's easy but probably wrong to think in black-and-white that: "getting updates => secure; no more updates => insecure." I guess there are no obvious relationshi
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by warner25 4y ago
:( That page makes me wonder if LineageOS is even worse than my out-of-date Android system.
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by warner25 4y ago
On this line of thinking, one of my concerns is that SMS (to my Google Voice number, which is the app I exclusively use for phone calls and SMS) is the method that many services use for two-step verification, even if my other texts aren&#x2
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Ask HN: Options for Android phone no longer getting security updates?
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by warner25 4y ago
I was using it in 2014-2015, and yeah I thought the UX was fine at that time. I did have the foresight to tie my account to my US Google Voice number (which has long been my primary number), so I didn't lose the account when I returned
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by warner25 4y ago
I think that data plans used to be expensive (I avoided getting a smartphone until 2014 because of the costs), but once you had a data plan for other reasons (e.g. being able to browse the web) then messaging apps were a cheaper way to se
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by warner25 4y ago
I thought this was funny when I went to work in Korea for a year, as an American, with a bunch of other Americans; all of us stationed there in the military. Upon arrival, the other Americans immediately told me: "You need to get Kakao

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