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by xoa 4y ago
> Just charge customers by the gigabyte like a mobile network or a satellite network. That's silly on multiple levels (and I'll note Starlink doesn't do any such thing either). The marginal cost of transmitting a gigabyte
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by xoa 4y ago
"Sin taxes" on self destructive behavior and officially run regulated versions of things which are infeasible to reasonably ban (and the black market "cure" would be worse then the disease) can often be reasonably justif
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by xoa 4y ago
OK, that's at least a more reasonable thing to be worried about [0], but as you say trying to use the law there would be damn near impossible. Take the case of a law against airplanes/cats again. I'd definitely feel very, ver
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by xoa 4y ago
> Credit bureaus — as well as the various credit building products that are so common in these countries — are required to play that role. No they absolutely are not. You know what institutions, after government, should have been in pri
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by xoa 4y ago
> What do you think about calls to remove platform immunity from algorithms that have an editorial effect? You mean, "repeal Section 230"? Because the entire point of Section 230 is to allow imperfect biased moderation without
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by xoa 4y ago
This area of finance is utterly, completely backwards and seems like one of the most (evil)successful bits of proper-burden reversal in existence. The entire concept of "identity theft" as it exists now is 100% pure industry propa
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by xoa 4y ago
I reference back to it for a lot of info too, which I guess I should probably load more of into my own notes database. But still today there were a bunch of saved comments I wanted to re-read as reference multiple times, definitely noticeab
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by xoa 4y ago
> With regards to SpaceX ratting on our location, I don't think that would be a serious worry but in any case whenever shit gets serious a warship will go into "black hole" operations that block any non-essential comms. A
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by xoa 4y ago
Me (for a client). I got it in January 2021 and deployed a few weeks later. At 10 below zero F in a fairly stiff wind natch, quite memorable :). Deployed up near 45°. This was of course a generation 1 circular unit, which actually turned ou
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by xoa 4y ago
Thanks so much for your comments over the years on this, I've read a lot of them with great interest and to my edification since I'm not remotely as deep in the field as you are. It's a little frustrating though to see commen
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by xoa 4y ago
Which they've now put a hard number on for end of this year in primary latitude band and global first quarter of next year, and they've gone ahead and filed with FCC for permission to activate polar satellites which depend on it [
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by xoa 4y ago
Always a treat to see the urban HN crowd comment with great confidence on anything outside of their immediate area. While hopefully eventually SpaceX will bring this down and be more disruptive, right now they simply cannot possibly meet de
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by xoa 4y ago
No, you're just wrong, even if your statements were right which they aren't either. Again, by your logic every single communication system on iOS is "backdoored" simply because iCloud Backup exists. Or for that matter an
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by xoa 4y ago
> We already know Apple has preserved a backdoor in the end-to-end cryptography of iMessage at the FBI's behest, as reported by Reuters. WhatsApp has always had the same backdoor (unencrypted backups to cloud services). The largest
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by xoa 4y ago
Paying for DRMed media is for chumps. While I agree with you overall in spirit, lets not forget that there are in fact 100% DRM free quality stores out there. And for music and games not minor ones either, in music in fact humanity outrig
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by xoa 4y ago
> - Configuration profiles cannot be installed, and the device cannot enroll into mobile device management (MDM), while Lockdown Mode is turned on. > HMM ... there are hardening settings only available through Configurator or MDM pro
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by xoa 4y ago
The release I've been waiting for in terms of upgrading a bunch of systems, while testing earlier was fine now it's getting polished. The release notes page [0] has a much more detailed list of bugs including links to their jira,
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TrueNAS 13.0-U1 Delivers Improved Performance, Scalability, and Reliability(truenas.com)
1 points by xoa 4y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 4y ago
> PoE is a bit excessive for this I think. I don't agree, and it's not really about the power (though there are plenty which either are or could be hungrier if the capability was there). Ethernet is very cheap, standard, and
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by xoa 4y ago
I wish there were more sensors and other smart home devices that a offered power over ethernet option vs WiFi/BLE/Zigbee. In many spaces running a wire isn't much of an ask, and it particularly is a nice complement to wireles
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by xoa 4y ago
>* My IPv4 address with FiOS changes frequently. I use an outside dynamic DNS provider that the FiOS router supports natively so I can always get back to my home network.* I handle this exclusively with WireGuard or Nebula now, though I&
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FCC lets Starlink offer Internet service on moving vehicles throughout US(arstechnica.com)
15 points by xoa 4y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 4y ago
> I think this breaks the "don't compromise usability" rule set at the top. What? It's more, not less usable. You plug in a key and now all you need is a 4-8 digit PIN for most operations while still being secure, no
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by xoa 4y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that using an HSM like a YubiKey or NitroKey isn't on there. Mac OS has had pretty solid support for smartcards and tokens for a very long time now, improving significantly in the last 5 or so generations. E
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by xoa 4y ago
OK, but can you walk me through the threat model here? This isn't a rhetorical question, it's easy to see how servers in general and shared hosting, colocated VMs etc in particularly might theoretically face a threat here, I'
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by xoa 4y ago
> What can you do about it? Nerf your CPU performance by disabling "turbo boost" or equivalent. Eh? Doesn't this require an attacker to actually be able to talk to the targeted system? You mention classes of actor ("
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by xoa 4y ago
This actually was about a month ago but didn't get any attention the first time, still a significant release for a product a lot of us use. More detail changelog for 13 development to date (including beta and rc1) is at the Doc Hub [0]
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TrueNAS 13.0 Succeeds TrueNAS 12.0(truenas.com)
1 points by xoa 4y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 4y ago
Another second order factor is that precisely because the GUI just puts it all out there visually, it creates encouragement to start imagining what can be eliminated/automated, or at least shoved behind "advanced options (rarely n
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by xoa 4y ago
iTunes supports play count and always has, and I and friends have made use of it extensively (albeit for ourselves not shared) including for things like smart playlists where it's great for natural curation/discovery. Now that it&

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