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by xoa 6mo ago
> Isn't your bank balance in a bank database also "just a number"? Absolutely not, but also "yes, which means no". In the first case, a bank balance isn't "just" a number, it's a massively re
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by xoa 6mo ago
> Q: Stealing is illegal, so why would anyone use a CRQC to steal Bitcoin? I've had this thought for awhile actually: how would reproducing some random number be legally "stealing" under any legal system in the world? Put
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by xoa 6mo ago
Yeah, sounds like it's time to take this very seriously. Sobering article to read, practical and to the point on risk posture. One brief paragraph though that I think deserves extra emphasis and I don't see in the comments here ye
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by xoa 6mo ago
> Instead of targeting data centers, it's far easier to target the electrical substation that powers the datacenter That has a lot of collateral damage that may or may not be desirable though. Simultaneously it might have quite a d
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by xoa 6mo ago
This may have been long discussed, but I feel like this war is the first time I've really thought hard about how big a target data centers would be in any sort of modern peer war and how that's an entirely new thing since the last
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by xoa 6mo ago
> if you dont colo your own servers you don't own anything. I'm confused, what does ownership have to do with this particular failure mode? The issue here is a (for many) unforeseen new tradeoff involved in centralization. Col
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Apple releases iOS 18 security updates for iOS 26 holdouts(sixcolors.com)
3 points by xoa 6mo ago|1 comments
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by xoa 6mo ago
This has been submitted already over the past few days, but it didn't get traction and I think it's important enough to be worth another spin. Apple has relented and made 18.7.7, the latest security patch series for iOS 18, availa
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by xoa 6mo ago
Not sure you'll see this so late but just wanted to say I really appreciate the reply and learning about this project. I've been working to switch myself and various places away from perpetual ESXi licenses as it finally starts re
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by xoa 7mo ago
Too late to edit, but just as a note for anyone else who gets confused by my post: I was not paying careful enough attention and missed/misread the "backups" bit in the parent post, completely my fault. As far as I can tell f
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by xoa 7mo ago
Do you have any opinions on how this works vs doing iSCSI to some other storage system using ZFS? That's how I've been handling Proxmox on the backend, and have mixed feelings. The GUI leaves a very great deal to be desired in hon
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by xoa 7mo ago
> I don't think Starship has gotten to orbit yet. It's gotten to altitude but not speed. I'm honestly kinda curious how you came to this thinking after watching the launches, like the last Flight 11 [0]? They have the vel
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by xoa 7mo ago
It's pretty wild to me that in both the article (written by Eric Berger, who really knows his stuff and did two fantastic books on the history of SpaceX and the rise of new space) and the first 31 comments made here on HN as I write th
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by xoa 7mo ago
> I think I like the idea, but I can't help wondering if it would have unforeseen consequences. As I said in a sibling comment, quickie comments on HN should be taken more as mental stimulation and kickoff points for further discus
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by xoa 7mo ago
I want to be super clear that I'm not proposing some finalized plan or numbers here, it'd need some real work spent hashing it all out. Mainly though I hope people will consider more the huge space of untapped approaches to balanc
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by xoa 7mo ago
I'm not sure I agree that any single fixed term makes sense. Rather, I think it'd be better if the exponential cost to society (in terms of works that don't happen, and works that don't happen based on those works that d
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by xoa 7mo ago
> Most Europeans don't live in single family homes for this to be a practical advantage. Uh, where are you getting that from? From what I can tell at sources like [0] "most" Europeans overall (though with very significant
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by xoa 7mo ago
> But I’m arguing the other stuff requires QC attention Apple may not want to provide to a legacy line. Oh come on. This is HN, we know how development works, how modular an OS, how the patch process works and what that entails for test
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by xoa 7mo ago
> Is it “you are not allowed,” or Cupertino isn’t going to bother developing and testing? It is very firmly "you are not allowed". In fact you're not even allowed to switch back to iOS 18 at all. Only actively signed iOS
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by xoa 7mo ago
> If it's really as bad as all that, they'll patch existing older releases. They have patched existing releases of iOS 18... but then they artificially restricted those patches only to a couple of phone models that don't
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by xoa 7mo ago
> Beamforming is an old technology though. It's not hard to do Well, so is satellite launch right? Cost, efficiency, and scaling are hard to do. That's SpaceX's entire raison d'etre. Doing a general public usable a
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by xoa 7mo ago
The answer to a lot of the pollution problems is probably, and perhaps counter intuitively, "even more mass even cheaper, combined with regulations that are enabled by that". The key identified current concern is very specific to
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by xoa 7mo ago
While the GUI and other polish certainly makes it more approachable then many I wouldn't really call it "consumer-grade", it's definitely into prosumer/SMB territory. And in that market there are thankfully a number
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Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov't probes into sanctioned crypto transfers(arstechnica.com)
9 points by xoa 7mo ago|1 comments
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by xoa 7mo ago
> It’s very disputable whether BEVs are industry’s future It is not disputable (unless you're including Old Auto lobbyists I suppose). Without government imposed restrictions keeping the public from buying Chinese BEVs without an o
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by xoa 7mo ago
> The fiasco you can cause when you try fix, update, change etc makes this my favourite too. I think some of the difference between "self-hosted" vs "homelab" is in the answer to the question of "What happens if
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by xoa 7mo ago
I'll admit I've still stuck with the original FreeBSD based TrueNAS, and still am kinda bummed they swapped it. So it's interesting to see a direct example of someone for whom the new Linux based version is clearly superior.
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by xoa 8mo ago
I'll second this, also adding that while it remains more of a project to setup Frigate has made significant advances over the last few years and has improved a lot. So if you previously looked at it and were put off, might be worth loo
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by xoa 8mo ago
I dabbled earlier but started using 1Password in earnest in 2010 or so with 1PW3. There are plenty of things that could be argued about when it comes to the switch from a native Mac application to Electron, degradations in the GUI etc, some
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by xoa 8mo ago
As another alternative, rather than using Touch ID you can setup a Yubikey or similar hardware key for login to macOS. Then your login does indeed become a PIN with 3 tries before lockout. That plus a complex password is pretty convenient b

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