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by xoa 5y ago
Somewhat related to the long HN discussion [0] on Google at last ending the legacy free custom domain accounts (Apps For Domains > G Suite > Google Workspace now). This doesn't help the people with lots of purchases, "Sign I
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Migrate G Suite account to a Personal Google Account (2017)(39digits.com)
2 points by xoa 5y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
> Taking Apple at their word here, I still don't get it. Can anyone explain the argument they're trying to make? As written it just sounds so ridiculous (but I'm still trying to understand it). There are at least three a
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by xoa 5y ago
Very glad to see some consideration of this sort of thing. That said I'd really like a minimally crafted law to start that created new options for consumers while also recognizing the value the existing situation brings, as well as tyi
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by xoa 5y ago
> Any insights as to why the big players are implementing E2E while ignoring P2P? Is this a control issue or purely related to technical challenges? Both. Certainly a lot of major players see messaging as an important strategic area, no
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by xoa 5y ago
> It's strange because they have clearly spent a LOT of time pushing partner channel development and certification. But the software side, the part that the user actually interacts with, seems so under thought. Yeah, and strategica
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by xoa 5y ago
Ars amongst a number of others had an article covering this [0] last week. Not that trivial to exploit but sounded relatively nasty if it was triggered, so better late than never. Though HomeKit overall has been a pretty significant disappo
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by xoa 5y ago
> Modern cryptography is not breakable via brute force any more Specifically, modern symmetric crypto (and hashing which is a related but different thing) is fine. It's public-key crypto that has always been the worry thanks to S
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by xoa 5y ago
Well (and to sibling comment), TIL, thank you :(. That's scary though, that anyone could even use the BMC and not at least pause a bit on "wait a sec, what could someone else do with this", same as hypervisor access. Though m
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by xoa 5y ago
> Would you really be more comfortable knowing that your hardware vendor had the capability to produce machines with a low-level, unremoveable backdoor? What? They do. Apple absolutely has the capability to build any or all machines wit
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by xoa 5y ago
> but I'd guess the vast majority are never even touched, much less thought about, by the people who manage those systems. Really? I'm certainly no big data center sheep dog, but even for the tiny handful of systems I manage I
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by xoa 5y ago
For the record, I'm in favor of legal mandate that hardware owners have the buy-time option to enable adding their own keys to any root trust stores on their devices. However, that'd be in addition to Apple's keys and wouldn&
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by xoa 5y ago
> I don’t understand why star link is country bound. First and primarily, the legal front: All regulated electromagnetic spectrum transmission is country-bound, since the regulators are by country. Private entities cannot legally transm
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by xoa 5y ago
> With the public API before it was heavily locked down I mainly used it in third party Twitter clients to avoid seeing the (revenue generating) ads in the official Twitter apps - I know many others who did the same. An open, freely usab
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by xoa 5y ago
What? You said: "F9 is a little smaller, everything other than Delta IV Heavy is a little smaller". How is everything other than Delta IV Heavy "a little smaller" than Ariane 5 when F9H is very much not smaller than A
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by xoa 5y ago
A few small expansions, not to take away from your overall point: > SpaceX F9 has 106 successful launches after their last failure. Ariane 5 has 106 launches since their last full failure. Worth noting given these rockets' history
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How to Add a Legacy Contact for Your Apple ID(support.apple.com)
1 points by xoa 5y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
> Can folks familiar with UniFi, say how reliable (and easy) upgrades are on the Ubiquiti gear? I'm considering getting some of their hardware. Running upgrades is certainly easy, always has been a feature of it. But "reliable
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by xoa 5y ago
> But, the moderator has taken on an editorial role. Yes? That's the point. That's why it's protected Free Speech. The entire point of free speech is to take perspectives! And critical to the right to say something is the
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by xoa 5y ago
There have been a number of articles on this today and the Techdirt one is the most extensive in terms of citing the key parts of the ruling and highlighting previous precedent from what I've seen, but the title had to be shrunk to fit
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Court Dumps Texas's Social Media Moderation Law as Clearly Unconstitutional(techdirt.com)
34 points by xoa 5y ago|11 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
I mean, I'm 100% with you on Bandcamp being absolutely awesome. But I'm not sure what you mean by this?: > I don’t trust apple not to change the deal at some point. Where as with band camp I actually own things. The whole poi
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by xoa 5y ago
> Yes, my original statement is entirely true. You're offering a poorly sketched basket of theoretical ideas No, it is not. I'm not offering theory, I'm offering physics . > none of which change the reality that no na
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by xoa 5y ago
A few small corrections: > Also, it's impossible to hide a satellite in space. Every nation with a space program tracks every orbiting object that's even remotely big enough to be a functional artificial satellite. There are no
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by xoa 5y ago
This reminds me of the sort of light poking of common "correlation is not the same as causation" and "beware of confounding factors" statistical failures behind the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster "clearly re
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by xoa 5y ago
It doesn't help at all on notebooks which of course are the subject of this discussion, or even nearly any Apple hardware at all at this point. But FWIW on systems that can support multiple GPUs using PCIe passthrough to a macOS Guest
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by xoa 5y ago
Sorry for not being clearer. Really though, the only "password policy" should be "no password reuse/dictionary" (check it against haveibeenpwned.com or the like, there is a nice API), and some minimum decent length.
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by xoa 5y ago
I think you misread me, or I didn't communicate clearly. By "lengthy" I was referring to the policy , not password length. Indeed max password length itself is another common bit of foolishness, for sanity reasons arguably i
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by xoa 5y ago
Agree with your overall post entirely, the thing about physical attacks is they don't scale well. If you're subject to an actual individual threat, it's a whole different and enormously scarier/more challenging threat sc
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by xoa 5y ago
> Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords. Here is an excellent (and timeless) post on this fact No, that is complete absolute shit post that isn't even self coherent. Like, it literally whines about needing something that can be

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