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by wolrah 5y ago
> You’ll never maintain a Wordpress site long term securely. Need to convert it to static html one way or another. I'm in favor of static HTML myself where possible, but it's not hard to maintain a secure Wordpress install. Ke
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by wolrah 5y ago
There is a massive gap between "Long term RF exposure can cause cell behaviors that may have subtle effects" from the paper you linked and "Hacked cell infrastructure can be weaponized" as the parent poster was claiming.
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by wolrah 5y ago
> If your device is hacked at the firmware level, it can be turned into a microwave weapon and used against you. (My hypothesis of the cause of Havana Syndrome: hacked cell transmitters beaming microwave at targets.) No, no it can't
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by wolrah 5y ago
> It's super annoying that USB-to-Parallel adapters cut corners and only transmit the bare minimum signals to print to an inkjet printer. That's because they weren't USB-to-Parallel adapters, they were USB printer adapters
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by wolrah 5y ago
I learned a similar lesson about the difference between LATAs and area codes around the time AOL went to unlimited. All of the Toledo numbers were constantly busy, so I tried other "local" numbers and ended up discovering that the
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by wolrah 5y ago
Right, but it's nothing to do with M1 or USB-C, it's any Mac regardless of CPU architecture and any USB external drive regardless of connector. Apple's USB Mass Storage driver is incomplete. That's the actual problem.
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by wolrah 5y ago
> AOL took issue with most third-party clients - I and a number of other users would periodically get permanently banned from AIM, apparently for the sole crime of using a third-party client they could notice. My friends got used to ever
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by wolrah 5y ago
I agree on permanent standard time, but just because I think it's silly to make the words "noon" and "midnight" permanently lies. Unless someone is at the edges of an extremely wide time zone solar noon and legal n
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by wolrah 5y ago
It's also a SOCKS proxy, which at least the last time I used Tor standalone (where I'd have to configure it myself, as opposed to as part of TBB or TAILS where it's set up for me) was the main way a client would access the ne
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by wolrah 5y ago
> How is this different than a warranty, which already comes with every device? I agree with you that this should be very explicit, although it’s the consumer’s responsibility as well to understand what they’re purchasing. People general
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by wolrah 5y ago
> So would you be happy to pay this “baked in” cost (which will cost you the same as paying for a subscription)? And should all buyers be forced to pay this cost as well, even those who can’t afford it? Should we not allow any alternativ
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by wolrah 5y ago
> What dangerous defaults do you think may exist with btrfs? The ones being discussed in the parent posts in this thread. I am not myself particularly familiar with btrfs internals, having only used it once, but I have heard of there be
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by wolrah 5y ago
> I would think it's reasonable to do at least a quick scan of the btrfs wiki or your distro's documentation before continuing with that, the same way I'd expect someone would do the same for ZFS. I would argue that the de
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by wolrah 5y ago
> In a year or two I expect that procedure to be fully automated, to a point where one could do a root on ZFS. Ubuntu has been able to install directly to root-on-ZFS automatically since 20.04. I don't think any other major distros
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by wolrah 5y ago
A regularly scheduled commercial flight on which a passenger happens to be a Russian citizen is not being operated for the benefit of that person. A chartered private jet on the other hand would be. The point of this is to prevent those wh
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by wolrah 5y ago
> I'm one of those people who think OS kernels should stay as portable and simple as possible (i.e. C89 or some other easily-bootstrappable language, to avoid Ken Thompson attacks) Why does the complexity of the OS, or even its abil
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by wolrah 5y ago
As I see it, RONJA's nature as a hack of ethernet was one of its benefits, it could be integrated with ordinary ethernet gear. I think if one was to try to develop a followup, basing it on one of the fiber variants of ethernet seems na
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Seen plenty of networks that don’t recognize this, use it for some internal purpose, and break https://1.1.1.1/ AFAIK Cisco used 1.1.1.1 as an example "dummy" IP in their wireless LAN controller documentation
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by wolrah 5y ago
They mentioned in their video about it how TrueNAS does do this correctly but they had manually set up this particular system on a normal distro.
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by wolrah 5y ago
Yes, but they are not subject to the whims of short-term "investors" who only care about maximizing the next quarter or financial year's numbers. That's the biggest problem in modern public corporations, a significant nu
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by wolrah 5y ago
> but if you have electricity, won't you have other options as well? No. There's a huge chunk of North America by area that does not have 100+mbit/sec broadband. Most of those areas don't have huge population, but th
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Most importantly, in 99% of cars on the road today, I don’t need to RTFM to turn steer, accelerate, brake, use the turn signals, or turn on the damn defroster. That’s why these things are standardized. There are lots of things I will l
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Well, if those devices use Windows server based services, then it makes more sense. But if they do not, Microsoft would have no way to know about their existence. Yes, that's exactly how it works. Windows Server Client Access Lice
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by wolrah 5y ago
Unfortunately Black goes with PEP8, and PEP8 recommends spaces. Guido made this call arbitrarily years ago for absolutely nonsensical reasoning (basically came down to that some people use shitty editors that don't handle tabs reasona
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by wolrah 5y ago
Texting is asynchronous. If I have a question for you I can send it when I think about it and you can respond when you have time. If I call you, it's basically me saying "What I want is more important than what you're doing
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by wolrah 5y ago
As I understand it 2.5 and 5G modes were originally primarily aimed at WiFi APs as real-world capacities started to scale past gigabit speeds but replacing existing wiring for an entire building worth of APs to support 10G or completely red
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by wolrah 5y ago
How would such a thing work from a standpoint of human interaction? The "vanity names" are the primary value of DNS to the majority of its users, and the desirable ones will always inherently be scarce. Obviously something similar
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Why get an EV if a newer one that's better in almost every way (range, cost, etc) is constantly just around the corner. It's just the nature of the beast when you're looking at a rapidly developing technology. Think of
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by wolrah 5y ago
I'm happy to see that a big name like Netflix is getting behind this. I've been wishing for better Name Constraints support ever since learning how certificates work. Almost every situation where someone currently uses a wildcar
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by wolrah 5y ago
My old floppies are great. The newer ones, starting around 2000 or so, are mostly junk.

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