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by wolrah 7mo ago
> Why on earth not? Just because most of the code that uses the web PKI is crap and needs constant patching doesn't mean there aren't developers writing code that isn't crap and that you can leave running for 10-20 years w
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by wolrah 7mo ago
The position I think I can most simplify my beliefs in to is "it should have taken you longer to write something than the person receiving it is going to spend reading it." That position still fits your scenario, where if they&#x2
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by wolrah 7mo ago
Well, WebPKI is for the web, if you need TLS for other purposes that don't fit with the goals of those looking to protect web users and web infrastructure you need a different PKI. It's not like it's technically hard to set
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by wolrah 7mo ago
> You'd have to be a very online blue sky user to call e.g. abundance dems anywhere near the right in the US. I would argue that when discussing politics on a global network on a site with global reach that there's no need to t
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by wolrah 7mo ago
DNS-01 validation has nothing to do with where your DNS is hosted, all it takes is being able to create a DNS record to prove control over the zone.
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by wolrah 7mo ago
> Will this be a new threat vector? IMO no, because if they could take over your IP address they could already obtain a domain-validated certificate which is arguably a lot more valuable than an IP address certificate.
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by wolrah 7mo ago
> An SSD might've helped, but not by much. A SSD would have made an absolutely massive difference. Source: I have clients that still have 2nd/3rd gen i5 systems running 3-4 GB of RAM with Windows 10 and they're tolerable s
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by wolrah 7mo ago
Currently only for MX Master 3S, for anyone with other Options-controlled mice getting their hopes up.
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by wolrah 7mo ago
I get the point of this but I'm slightly annoyed that it dinged me for not telling it to pick up the knife to cut the sandwich in half when I didn't tell it to cut the sandwich in half. I don't want my PBJ cut in half. It g
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by wolrah 7mo ago
> Liability lawsuits drive a lot of this :/ That's the official line a lot of the vendors responsible will push, but the evidence for that is...lacking. Compare that to the simple reality that doing this is more profitable and
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by wolrah 7mo ago
That might work for the current form of the country-specific time zones officially acknowledged by countries that exist in TLD form, but the tz database contains many more current time zones more importantly piles of historical time zones.
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by wolrah 7mo ago
It absolutely has not. I absolutely agree most of those kinds of apps could, and those that can probably should, but more than enough have not. I support a lot of dental practices using Patterson Eaglesoft and they still don't officia
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by wolrah 7mo ago
> The only things for which x86 still shines a little brighter are games, and native office. But office is mostly available on web, on Mac, and on Winarm. So games. Which aren’t big enough market mass to sustain the x86’s popularity — an
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> I never saw Instagram as appealing to photography hobbyists. Instead, I saw it as deliberately nerfing things where hobbyists have advantages (image quality, choice of aspect ratios, posting from desktop PCs), likely to increase partic
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by wolrah 8mo ago
Agreed, this sort of thing should at minimum be considered gross negligence at this point, but because regular consumers who buy these products rarely see and almost never understand these news articles it doesn't really impact sales s
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by wolrah 8mo ago
"Accidentally" as in his intent was to gain control of his own device but instead discovered what would in a just world be considered criminal levels of either incompetence or indifference to the most basic levels of security in t
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by wolrah 8mo ago
Exactly! No one wants unsolicited input from a LLM, if they wanted one involved they could just use it themselves. Pointing an "agent" at random open source projects is the code equivalent of "ChatGPT says..." answers
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by wolrah 8mo ago
That assumes that demand is meaningfully elastic, that suppliers have room in their margins to absorb it, and that they're willing to. That is obviously not the case for a lot of things. Products with inelastic or less elastic demand
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> Are you seriously implying that flashing phones doesn’t risk bricking them or you’re not aware of that risk are you serious? Yes, that is generally the case. As a general rule with an Android phone reflashing the OS itself or the boot
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by wolrah 8mo ago
Spinner controls have been around ~forever in GUIs. They take up about the same space in a UI as a virtual knob, but they clearly display the current setting and are much easier to interact with.
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> Almost everyone seems to think the one with "real-looking" knobs and front panel "sounds better", "sounds more like the real synth", "has better filters" and so on than the flat design one, even
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> Huh? Is this true? It doesn’t make intuitive sense to me—if the device doesn’t have a 5ghz radio I would expect it to be physically impossible for the 5ghz network to interfere. It's not an issue with the device itself, it's
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by wolrah 8mo ago
I'm going to stand by my position there, if you're writing an application that's primary technical purpose is to communicate via an XML based protocol and feel the need to outsource the XML part to the bullshit machine, IMO y
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> There exists great promise in AI to be an equalizing force, if implemented well *looks at who's controlling the implementation of LLM-based "AI"* *looks at who the largest beneficiaries of societal inequalities are* they
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> It's a perfectly reasonable choice: flexible, well specified, well supported, reasonably performant. I think the extreme level of hype 20 years ago was overdone and (just like with anything) there's good ways to adopt it and
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by wolrah 8mo ago
If I pick "SSD" the #1 cheapest entry is a miscategorized WD Black 6TB HD. Not a great start. Also trying to click through to any product gets me multiple layers of redirects that uBlock doesn't really like eventually endin
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> I fully agree with your first point: Musk has shown tremendous ability to manage companies to become unicorns. He's clearly skilled in this domain. I would firmly disagree with that. What Musk has done is bring money to develop te
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> I can't imagine why someone would want to openly advertise that they're so closed minded. I would say the exact same about you, rejecting an absolutely accurate and factual statement like that as closed minded strikes me as t
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> owing to its height and the distance it can receive from, And, importantly, the fender-mount LIDARs. It doesn't just have the one on the roof, it has one on each corner too. I first took a Waymo as a curiosity on a recent SF trip
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by wolrah 8mo ago
> Always worth noting, human depth perception is not just based on stereoscopic vision, but also with focal distance Also subtle head and eye movements, which is something a lot of people like to ignore when discussing camera-based auton

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