Xaiph_Rahci

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by Xaiph_Rahci 1y ago
> Andreas seems to be such a nice, humble guy. Truer words have never been spoken! His monthly update videos are so soothing to watch.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 1y ago
> "Freedom of speech belongs to humans, not artificial intelligence" Gawkowski said Wow, I never imagined I'd come across this sentence outside a sci-fi story.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 2y ago
> absolutely zero reason A prevailing theory is that advanced users opt out of telemetry, where as regular users don't. So Microsoft has no idea what advanced users use and the OS gradually becomes less sophisticated.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 2y ago
Because doing this reduces the 2FA into 1FA (i.e. there is no longer a possession factor).
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
Mine is very similar (fortune -c | cowsay -f tux) I don't think I've ever seen a cookie repeat in over 10 years, but it might just be my poor memory
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
What I got is pretty accurate: https://imgur.com/a/vH0zq5b (seed: 3919562)
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
> You can't. Ellipse Select Tool 🡢 Draw Circle 🡢 Edit 🡢 Stroke Selection 🡢 Stroke
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
A physical OEM USB dongle on PC side, whether Bluetooth or not, and an On/Off switch on the peripheral side would have certainly prevented the issue in discussion.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
> How do you go about managing your photos? 1. Saved all Photos in PC directories as follows: $HOME/Pictures/<YYYYMMDD - Event> 2. Ensured '$HOME/Pictures' is regularly backed up to at-least one more dis
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
People who get existential crisis out of this can find relief in the fact that the Universe can expand faster than the decay. So, it is possible that decay never reaches your region of Space.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
> cost of writing after a snapshot is the same as before the snapshot I didn't understand this, could you please clarify? If there was no snapshot, there would be only one write operation, the actual write. However, with snapshot in
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
The entire OS being declarative. You tell it what is required, not how to do it, as in other OS.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
> if you have two separate apps under two different passwords If you have two different passwords, aren't they still only one factor (knowledge)? > specially if you have... You mean to say in case the password and the TOTP seed
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
> PCI DSS 4.0 has this phrase... Oh, ok. This is very convincing. Thanks for sharing.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
> I'm going off the assumption that you mean storing your password and TOTP secret in the same app. Yes, correct. > So my long-winded answer is that I do still consider it two factor auth. Ok, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
> But is is still a second factor, unless you can do HMACs in your head Ok. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
Ask HN: If TOTPs are generated from desktop applications, can they still be called Two Factor Authentication?
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by Xaiph_Rahci 3y ago
“You sleep. I watch.”
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by Xaiph_Rahci 4y ago
Thank you.
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by Xaiph_Rahci 4y ago
> there is no business model behind it Why can't Google use the user's prompt (and AI's output) to display targeted Ads?
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by Xaiph_Rahci 4y ago
It is not the same. There are AI algorithms that 'enhance' blurred faces, however, the output 'looks' like real human face, but in all likelihood, different from the ground truth (i.e. the real face that got blurred). Th
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by Xaiph_Rahci 4y ago
If it is for short duration, then power off/on drains more battery than just sleep[0]. [0] https://www.macworld.com/article/675859/should-i-shut-down-m...
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by Xaiph_Rahci 4y ago
So the entire website is just for training