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xoa
4y ago
This was me though I ended up moving to SuperMicro instead. Not fancy but their BMC seems to get the job done, and also doesn't cost a significant chunk of money extra for basic functionality. And then even more money to have IPMI be d
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xoa
4y ago
> The less real costs are factored into a product, the less the market able to efficiently price it. Many of our greatest modern problems could be ameliorated if we handled external costs better: pricing industrial runoff, CO2 emissions,
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xoa
4y ago
I really enjoy the Economist overall, but I think one of their serious, long term blind spots has been around this subject: > But President Joe Biden’s abandonment of free-market rules for an aggressive industrial policy has dealt it a f
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xoa
4y ago
Photographer's comment about level of planning required for the shot and article [0] on their site about photographing International Space Station transit in general was very interesting. The kinds of images that individuals can put to
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Photograph of ISS in conjunction with Tycho Crater as it transited the moon
(old.reddit.com)
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4y ago
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4y ago
I don't agree with money being the issue. While I think copyright is far too long, most of the stuff people complain about would be well within coverage even at the original 14 years. I don't think it's wrong for creators (in
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xoa
4y ago
> I hope this is the year that WebAuthN goes mainstream - but it'll be a long time before a plurality of sites support it. Oh for sure, like I said passwords will undoubtedly have a long tail. Even more so for internal apps/ha
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xoa
4y ago
One of my major goals for 2023 is to migrate as much as feasible from passwords to tokens or at least passkeys. NitroKeys or YubiKeys for that. Process has already begun, but I definitely hope to see that accelerate big time (at long, long
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xoa
4y ago
> Not exactly. A business that produces no products containing sesame will not have risk of even trace contamination, so it would have every incentive to not include "may contain sesame" on the label. But that was already the
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4y ago
> I'm thinking there is no realistic level of subsidy which could make it rational for Bob's Bakery (with 1, maybe 2 or 3 modest retail locations) to build a separate no-Sesame production facility. And a separate no-Peanut prod
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xoa
4y ago
> From the exact same comment, emphasized, add 'traces of sesame' as an ingredient. I'm not sure what you're confused about here? Say we consider bakers. Essentially before the law there were 3 classes of bakers wrt
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4y ago
> Does anyone know why a) this is not legally required when there's a reasonable chance of contamination and b) why laws are not written in such a way, that "contains traces" is enough if you aren't sure about cross c
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4y ago
From the exact same article (emphasis added): > If the ingredients DON'T include sesame, companies MUST take steps to prevent the foods from coming in contact with any sesame, known as cross-contamination. And as far as "may c
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xoa
4y ago
Many a long time forum has come and gone, degraded in culture, succumbed to featuritis or any of the many possible ends such gatherings online can face as the years slip by. It really is special how HN has stayed on balance a place one can
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xoa
4y ago
> I'm not sure where your question comes from. It comes from your assertion that "Private parties can't demand ID." That was your claim. I'm saying that as far as I know private parties absolutely CAN demand I
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xoa
4y ago
> Private parties can't demand ID. What? Can you cite any laws legally barring people for requiring ID for a business transaction or to access private property? I've honestly never heard of such a thing. Obviously if a private
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xoa
4y ago
> Where N is the number of services the key unlocks, is there a O(1) migration story yet? I'm not 100% sure I'm interpreting what you meant by this correctly, but if you're saying essentially "is there a single click
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4y ago
> prompted the FBI to issue a public service announcement in late 2020 urging users of smarthome security cameras to use unique passwords From a tech point of view, first in the medium term I first look forward to the long, long, loooo
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4y ago
> It should be adversarial. An independent body should administer test suites provided by the manufacturers. Everybody has to pass 99% of the union of all test scenarios before being allowed on the road. The tests are run monthly. While
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They Fought the Lawn. and the Lawn Lost
(nytimes.com)
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4y ago
> you're supposed to be banned from profiting from any crimes you did ("Son of Sam law") Not sure where you got this from? AFAIK that's a purely state level thing, and the first law that tried that in a broad way was
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4y ago
> What’s your take on accessing systems accepting passkeys on a shared computer? Plugging a token into a shared system is superior to passwords as well. Easy, somewhat safer if the system is compromised vs any given password (since an a
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4y ago
It's great to see ending the insanity of symmetric authentication (with passwords) is finally, finally gathering momentum. It's been frustrating because there were various potential efforts going back to the 00s at least, I rememb
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4y ago
> The point of E2EE is to prevent anyone, including the service provider from decrypting the communication. The point is to prevent anyone between the ends from reading it, not anyone at all obviously. The ends are trusted by definiti
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4y ago
> You want to separate iMessage and iCloud and say that yes iCloud breaks end-to-end encryption No, iCloud simply has nothing to do with iMessage E2EE, nor with Signal nor Nextcloud nor anything else. > but that doesn't matter b
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4y ago
> However, for most people their messages will still not be end-to-end encrypted because their contacts will mostly not have this optional feature enabled. To be truly effective, this feature would have to ensure that Apple does not stri
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4y ago
rsync.net is great and I've always appreciated the exposed ZFS capability, even if at this point 3x the cost per gb for a small scale users vs B2 is a lot more painful. Having encryption, including for transfers, also be part of the fi
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4y ago
> I've been meaning to look into this with wireguard, but I'm having trouble searching for/finding how to do this. Is "bastion host" what I'd want? Also is there a way to ensure the VPS cannot access the net
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4y ago
As well as what sibling said about it being E2EE and just using a standard API for storage, there are awesome tools these days so you can (and I think should) lock down your instance fairly well. Now when I run services like that I access t
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4y ago
> or did Apple finally kill off all initiators for macOS I would assume that'd work fine, because I run my main workstations and a server full time with my home folder and various data living off APFS or HFS formatted iSCSI targets
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