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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Such innocent mistakes make me smile these days because it gives assurance a real human wrote them.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
I don't think so. Anarchy is defined as the absence or non-recognition of authority, whereas I do not reject authority, but reason about controls a free market can meaningfully apply on it, namely through decentralization of technology
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
This reaction to one unsolicited email is frankly unhinged and likely rooted in a deep-seated or even unconscious regret of building systems which materialized the circumstances for this to occur in the first place. Such vitriol is really w
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
> I'm not sure what makes you assume that about me. I'm not sure why you're not sure; the parent comment explained it already: your vision of an idealized pasture is incongruent with reality, namely because the number of a
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
> How do you prevent malware running on the pwned laptop from asking for an ephemeral cert to be issued? If you have malware capable of code execution, restricting the ability to issue one command is not going to be a meaningful control,
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
> I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features. To develop and sustain these "AI features", human intelligence - manifested as countless hours of work published online and elsewhere - was exigently preempted and us
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
People will eventually stop eating meat because it is unsustainable, but unfortunately not without causing a great deal of suffering first, and your comment is an example of why this process is unnecessarily prolonged. It is clear you have
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Technology is a fundamental political right; asymmetry of power in a polity through a monopoly on technology is the goal of any State, which people have a responsibility to deny.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
The economics of what you describe are impossible. The entire concept of an idyllic pasture is actual industry propaganda which is not based in objective reality.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
You cannot treat a commodified individual "better" - it is only possible to euphemize such a logical fallacy.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
If you aready have an SSH CA, why not just issue ephemeral certs lasting for several seconds or minutes? What risk would be addressed by adding hardware keys into the mix?
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Taste has nothing to do with it; 'tis is all based on economics and the actual way to stop meat consumption is to simply remove big-ag tax subsidies and other externalized costs of production which are not actually realized by the cons
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
I stopped using webauthn for this reason, plus the fact requires a ton of intrusive browser features and access. This surely will enrage most readers, which itself reveals an interesting conditioning that has taken place.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
What exactly do we stand to "win" with generative AI?
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Curious if you have ever seen footage from a modern industrial farm, which has already replaced humans with domesticated animals and associated machinery, by a wide margin. Unfortunately those videos are a lot less appealing to most people.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Same reason people go to Disneyland and pose with someone costumed as an anthropomorphic cartoon mouse: people model their gods after their own experiences and ideology.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Even excusing that daemon, here is a list of processes which have attempted to contact Apple in the past 24 hours, according to Little Snitch. I am certain this is not even a complete list, because macOS is closed source and likely can bypa
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
This reminds me of the final scene in The Conversation, when Caul sits alone in his desconstructed apartment after being convinced he is being eavesdropped - a victim of his own paranoia.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Back up your seeds! Aegis for Android lets you do encrypted exports.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
mailbox.org hooked up to Thunderbird allows you to do so using custom domains. You can send and receive email as any string @ your domain.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Shall we showcase our trees? * | /.\ /o..\ /..O\ /.o..o\ /...o.\ /..O..o.\ ^^^[_]^^^
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Steam Store is offline(steamstat.us)
70 points by DetectDefect 9mo ago|20 comments
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
I would love to see an effort to amass these corpora of knowledge into zim files for offline consumption, similar to stackoverflow et al. https://library.kiwix.org
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Sure, it's only a place for permanent rootkits and bootkits to proliferate, why care about it at all?
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
How is Dell's firmware security story?
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
> an evaluation of the value granted by upgradability and repeatability of the machine The market assigns almost no value to these tenets, nor do the consumers participating in it.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
None of those would not prevent someone owning your device because the firmware has vulnerabilities.
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Until we see the source code (or at least a man page) that is an unverified claim and the process should be treated like malware: while : ; do pkill -9 dasd ; sleep 10 ; done The tasks it "schedules" must be very low-prio
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
Have Ubiquiti/Unifi firmware/devices ever been subject to independent, third-party security testing? Surely a company charging such a premium for high-end devices has invested in such processes and is proud to showcase them ...
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by DetectDefect 9mo ago
> Is there proof that Apple is monetizing our data with third parties? Other than a history replete of cooperation with domestic and foreign state surveillance, which in exchange allow its market position, you mean?

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