Caligatio

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by Caligatio 3y ago
Should power companies be allowed to disconnect power (i.e. moderate) to entities that disagree with their ideals? I'm not necessarily arguing X/Twitter is in the same league as a power company but this line of thought has many pr
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by Caligatio 3y ago
This appears to exclude work done by the private sector under contract which is almost certainly how this app was developed.
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Tom Scott did a video on the National Helium Reserve a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOy8Xjaa_o8
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I've never seen it used in this context; it usually is used in reference to a social program (i.e. you benefitted from something and then advocate for it to be abolished).
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I'm not claiming to be an earplug engineer but I feel like it shouldn't be hard to ensure your product literally does the one thing it's supposed to do: block sound. Particularly if you know that your earplugs are going to be
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by Caligatio 3y ago
> What's your strategy for dealing with jquery not getting loaded? Host it on your own infrastructure so that it's the same reliability as your site itself?
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I've been binge watching Tom Scott videos after finding out he's quasi-retiring soon and just happened to have watched his video of the exact same project last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy_WJ3mE50
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by Caligatio 3y ago
It's contained in a single home which, presumably, the owners still live in. In terms of traffic, you're looking at an extra ~32 cars/day which is likely a rounding error in terms of total traffic. I have no idea what the cur
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by Caligatio 3y ago
As an American who has lived in Europe (UK and now Germany) for the last 6 years, this sort of thing now blows my mind. Mixed residential and light commercial zoning? Who cares! I have a modest grocery store just up my thoroughly residenti
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I really, really don't understand the obsession with the server source code. The client verifiably performs E2E encryption so who cares what the server does. Moreover, there is basically no way for external parties to verify what code
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by Caligatio 3y ago
The direction people refer to is the company making a few decisions that deviate from being 100% idealistic. Forget the fact that the client is open source, the parent company being a non-profit, and the app being ad-free. Instead, focus on
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Strictly true but settling for $1.2B certainly certainly points to there being a problem.
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Well, these problems do publicly rear their ugly head in cars intermittently. Telsa pushes out recall-worthy software updates, Toyota had its infamous stuck accelerator pedal issue in 2009, etc. The airline industry gets such a weird amount
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by Caligatio 3y ago
It actually is hard to carry a Yubikey and, more importantly, use a Yubikey. Some employers don't allow personal USB-like devices in the building nor plugging them into company owned computers. I say this as someone that has several th
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Without any data, I suspect the incidence rate of PPD is unaffected by social factors but having a support system definitely helps mitigate the effects on the family (i.e. more hands to help with the baby). Fortunately my family has never h
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I'm a huge Firefox fan (both on PC and Android) and I think Firefox for Android on ChromeOS is terrible, practically unusable. I know my Chromebook is cheap but Firefox runs ultra slow. It also randomly flickers to a black screen and
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Don't forget about the new still-draft-but-already-used HTTPS DNS record type (no, that's not a typo)! I'm still fuzzy on its IP hint value(s) but it can potentially bypass A and AAAA records completely.
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Beyond mDNS "snooping", has there been reporting of non-compromised IoT inappropriately listening on networks? To be clear, I agree that putting IoT devices on a separate VLAN is a good idea but I do that because they're blac
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I was actually able to visit the annual Rhubarb festival down in Wetherby and it was much more interesting than expected. In addition to learning about the unusual growing method, it was also surprising the number of rhubarb products for s
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I am unfortunately aware. To make matters worse, the preferred install mechanism is a .exe that adds all of the opaquely named DOD CAs to your machine. Regardless, this puts you back at a US Government controlled CA being on your machine.
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by Caligatio 3y ago
This sounds like a decent idea until you realize that means one of two options: - A US Government controlled CA root preinstalled on computers. Privacy advocates would be in arms. - Constant untrusted CA warnings when trying to access any
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Or Pence? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence_classified_document... It's apparently a problem for many high ranking government officials. The differentiator is what one does when it's discovered.
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I thought this was going to be some quasi-hyperbolic claim about forced monkey labor (which is also not great) but nope, straight up sadistic monkey torture. At some point messaging platforms (in this case, Telegram) will have to start bann
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I use uBlock Origin on Firefox on Android with "Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool" added but am weirdly conflicted on this news. If a user opts to kneecap advertising, that is soundly within their rights. If a company does t
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by Caligatio 3y ago
A friend of a friend - who was actually an infectious disease doctor - picked up TB while working in Africa. They had to do a video call with the local health department every morning for the health department to witness them taking their m
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I feel like lock-in is an understatement. If Relay shuts down or you opt to stop paying, your online presence is basically halted without a LOT of work to change your email everywhere.
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I have no information to back up this claim but my guess is that nearly all of the users of Mozilla's non-Firefox products also use Firefox (e.g. all Relay users are Firefox users). If this is true, they still need a best-in-class brow
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by Caligatio 3y ago
Current headcount of 1,070 and they really only have one product on the market that they're developing: Firefox. Their VPN is just a rebranded Mullvad and Pocket is barely more than an extension. I've lost track of whether Thunder
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by Caligatio 3y ago
The trend that is more troubling is the effective tax rate for the 1% of earners is falling (34.47% in 1980 vs 25.99% in 2020) yet their share of total taxes paid is rising (19.05% in 1980 vs 42.31% in 2020). This just highlights the growin
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by Caligatio 3y ago
I had to buy a Wickelfisch after seeing them in Basel! I think the floating commute is a massive testament to the cleanliness of the river. I can't imagine swimming in a major city's river without feeling the need to decontaminate

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