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by zrm 5y ago
> The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices. That was what they thought it was for. Turns out it gives the creators of playback devices leverage against content providers, e.g. iOS App
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by zrm 5y ago
> So’s Reddit, though. I’ve become skeptical of the sort of people who volunteer to moderate. This depends heavily on the sub. And in this case you have an even better alternative to bad moderators. If they're bad on Reddit you can
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by zrm 5y ago
> I'm thinking a modern Usenet would need something like ad blocker lists - volunteer run filter(s) that you choose to subscribe to. This would be most useful if they're maintained per-category, by the people who frequent those
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by zrm 5y ago
The advantage with decentralized services is that they scale and distribute costs. If you want to compete with YouTube in the traditional way, better have a CDN, and if it becomes popular even though you're not taking in any revenue, t
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by zrm 5y ago
Does anyone know how this interacts with the AES-256 break from a while back? Something to do with, they didn't use enough rounds so the security is really only about equivalent to AES-128. And then nobody cared because having the secu
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by zrm 5y ago
> the more you try and thwart fingerprinting, the more unique you appear. This is presumably because most people don't attempt to thwart fingerprinting. If a particular feature behaves differently between the three most common brows
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by zrm 5y ago
Many organizations operate their own recursive resolvers. There is also nothing stopping an individual from doing so, even if most don't.
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by zrm 5y ago
QNAME minimization is for recursive resolvers. The scenario is that you want to resolve alice.example.com but you don't want the root servers or the .com servers to know any more information than they need to. Historically you would se
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by zrm 5y ago
Lower prices.
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by zrm 5y ago
That isn't anything inherent to the CPU architecture. We could have ARM (or RISC-V) systems that you could install arbitrary operating systems onto. The danger is that the transition to another architecture is used as an excuse to not
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by zrm 5y ago
Similar to eBay seller ratings where 99.9% positive feedback means you might get your item, whereas 95% positive feedback implies the seller is stealing the goods from the factory that counterfeits them and whether you receive anything depe
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by zrm 5y ago
> You may be surprised at the CPU requirement for modern WIFi Router. You may be surprised at the performance of modern CPUs. Even the slow ones are pretty fast. > That is not only it, the cost are going to support the linux firmware
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by zrm 5y ago
That should generally be the default assumption, because companies can pay for the improvements that most benefit their niche. Suppose your company makes the mid-range device. You have competitors above and below you. The one above you uses
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by zrm 5y ago
You're Netgear or Asus or someone. You need a core to put in your network equipment, and the low performance one is nearly good enough. If you spend some money to make it 10% better then it is good enough. If that amount of money is le
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by zrm 5y ago
Deleting entire directories by accident is expensive in more than computing resources. And copying them is still actually expensive. Data expands to consume all available space. Accidentally copy a 16TB directory structure and you're g
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by zrm 5y ago
Not really. Dry run is useful for complex commands you're not sure the effects of. These options are so that when you intend to type: rm /home/john/some/file.txt But you accidentally type: rm /home/john so
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by zrm 5y ago
> rm, cp require -r, mv doesn’t, no auto-directory creation for mv These are all like that on purpose. mv doesn't have -r because it's a safety feature for rm and cp , since deleting or copying an entire directory is expen
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by zrm 5y ago
This is a common theme with non-profits and open source projects. They see the for-profit incumbents doing something toxic and cargo cult it like not providing a similar experience would betray the users when it's really the opposite.
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by zrm 5y ago
Or just have browsers disable javascript by default and require explicit permission to use it. 90+% of web pages shouldn't need it for anything.
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by zrm 5y ago
That doesn't explain why their pricing for generic VMs or bandwidth is so high, or why anybody should want to pay them for that. It also doesn't really work. Some textile company is going to have some line of business software to
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by zrm 5y ago
> You need a lot less people per computer when you have millions of computers like big tech has than when you have 10. That's not the people we're talking about. Racking a server and setting it up to do virtualization takes may
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by zrm 5y ago
In general it's really the opposite. In 2004 you needed a rack full of $3000 servers to run your medium business. Now it's two physical machines using 5% of the power to virtualize everything that used to run on two dozen. Over a
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by zrm 5y ago
> Because utilization at mid will always be less than at hyper. Will it? Economies of scale have diminishing returns. If you have one engineer who is 20% busy, your engineer cost per unit will be five times higher than a company five tim
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by zrm 5y ago
Doesn't it cost less than that amount of money to have on-site backup power?
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by zrm 5y ago
Suppose you have 10 sources of entropy and you don't know which ones are good. If you pick one, and you pick the wrong one, you lose. If you use all of them with an algorithm that works as long as any one of them is good, and any one o
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by zrm 5y ago
Also, what he's talking about is from the Snowden stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
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by zrm 5y ago
A major cost for a web search engine is that you have to index the web, and it's pretty big. For even a modest commercial enterprise this isn't insurmountable, but it's a lot to ask for a hobbyist.
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by zrm 5y ago
Apparently the safeguards consist of using a non-SMS method of 2FA. Maybe just do that in the other case too.
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by zrm 5y ago
If the resume scanner is just doing naive keyword scanning, can't you easily insert things that ping the keywords without actually lying about anything? Deployed software to Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Google Android. Configured f
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by zrm 5y ago
> I'd argue like 90% of searches for Linux help have an answer which contains 'run this in a terminal'. Why is this even bad if 'run this in a terminal' actually fixes the problem?

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