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by xorcist 8mo ago
We do. There are centralized databases of passport serial number, for blacklisting (revocation) or just persons of interest.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
The big drawback of one time passwords is that it doesn't protect against man-in-the-middle attacks such as phishing, which is in practice one of the most common attacks on systems of this scale. The logistics operation involved in dis
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by xorcist 8mo ago
PKI works offline until you realize you need to handle revocations. For this and related reasons, such as enforcing protocol upgrades, most smartcard systems end up permanently online.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
This is pure misinformation. I have personally never seen such large crows as the anti war demonstrations of 2002-2003. There 100k people marching several times for several weeks in the European capitals I know. Some estimate that these wer
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> 1400 seems fine except for the one big hurdle being "Þ", Someone here needs to brush up on their Icelandic!
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by xorcist 8mo ago
That trivial definition sees limited use in the real world. Few countries that are popularly considered democratic have direct democracy. Most weigh votes geographically or use some sort of representative model. Most established definitions
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by xorcist 8mo ago
Any writers for Black Mirror hanging around here?
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> it seems like the were fulfilling their legal obligation (at the time) Rather, their illegal obligation (at the time)? It was clear from the start these import tariffs are illegal. Only congress can set them. It says so in the constitu
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by xorcist 8mo ago
There are many reasonable ideas for import taxation. But what you describe was not what happened. China fought back with their own tariffs, and you may well have paid less import tax on your Temu knock-offs than you did for some widget made
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by xorcist 8mo ago
Setting aside the turing completeness of them, in practice Ansible is a complete superset of Terraform. From experience, the only times you appreciate the state file is when you have uncontrolled changes, in which case you are in for a bad
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by xorcist 8mo ago
Anything and everything is a social experiment. I can go around punching people in the face and it's a social experiement.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> It's like showing up at a community craft fair with a truckload of temu trinkets you bought wholesale That may well be the best analogy for our age anyone has ever thought of.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
It is a quite normal need. An always-on laptop that doesn't leave the corporate network is just a stationary computer in inconvenient packaging.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
I never understood this. Why not use Ansible instead, especially if you already use it? Doubly so when you have Cisco config to manage. The experience is generally so much better it's not comparable, and it is much easier to infer runn
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> you were supposed to decide paying Redhat Fwiw, all Red Hat LDAP products are based on 389DS because they thought OpenLDAP had too many pain points or something.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
I don't think it's exactly the same thing as sssd is primarily a cache. You can use pam_krb5 on Linux too. But can you disconnect your FreeBSD laptop and work as normal from cache? I agree that sssd is quite finicky however, and I
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by xorcist 8mo ago
That power isn't even a rounding error compared to their power today. In those decades you had commercial dominance over a niche sector. Today you play kingmaker together with the other oligarchs. Big Tech today is the media. Taken t
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> I set it and use JavaScript to tell them to reload the page While throwing out all users who opt-in to javascript, using Noscript or uBlock or something like it, may be acceptable collateral damage to you, it might be good to keep in m
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by xorcist 9mo ago
> Most people have no idea how to hunt, make a fire, or grow food That's a bizarre claim, confidently stated. Of course I can make a fire, cook and my own food. You can, too. When it comes to hunting, skinning and the cutting of ani
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by xorcist 9mo ago
I wish more people understood this. Or perhaps they do, but it doesn't fir their political pitches or something. Funding an enormously complicated semiconductor facility from a blank sheet of paper somewhere in Europe is a very expensi
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by xorcist 9mo ago
Why would you want to store your binaries in a hidden directory? It kind of goes against the idea why dotfiles are dot-prefixed.
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by xorcist 9mo ago
Word salads can be very intimidating if the words are extremely technical and the person behind them carries a lot of clout. It's a bit of a trick that some people are very good at. Bill Gates was known for making PMs and tech lead typ
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by xorcist 9mo ago
There is too much focus in this discussion about low memory situations. You want to avoid those as much as possible. Set reasonable ulimit for your applications. The reason you want swap is because everything in the Linux (and all of UNIX r
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by xorcist 9mo ago
It's not supposed to make sense. It's supposed to be cool and signal that demand for the stock will not go down.
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by xorcist 9mo ago
Maybe it's not for you as a human to understand. Why presuppose that a human wrote this, as opposed to a language model, given the subject?
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by xorcist 9mo ago
Yes, closely related to the question why AI services insists on writing software in ineffective high level languages intended for humans to read, such as Python. Which then needs to be compiled, use large standard libraries etc. Why not out
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by xorcist 9mo ago
There were dozens of other init systems that, like systemd, wasn't a shell script. What set systemd apart is the collection of tightly integrated utilities such as a dns resolver, sntp client, core dump handler, rpc-like api linking to
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by xorcist 9mo ago
It is pretty uncontroverisal that the owner, in the sense of having responsibility and ultimate control, should control the cryptographic keys. I think the disagreement here is who owns the computer.
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by xorcist 9mo ago
Two weeks ago this would have been completely uncontroversial, but given the repeated executions by shooting people of probable opposite political conviction in the face, things just got a lot more complicated.
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by xorcist 9mo ago
Some people like to say they did, but when you look at the money it was almost all private capital, from big banks and large infrastructure and private pension funds. That does not make the investment any better. Private capital can be misa

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