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by appendix-rock 2y ago
I don’t follow the logic here. There seems to be an implication of ulterior motive but I’m not seeing what it is. What aspect of ‘privacy’ offered by a VPN do you think that Reddit / LinkedIn are incentivised to bypass? From a privacy
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
No. They might trust your professional judgement, and not all professional judgement has roots in academic publications.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Yep. Not that it’s necessarily happening here, but I always…sigh deeply, let’s say, when something that’s described by Americans as “an $x industry problem” is actually ‘an America problem, manifesting in the $x industry’.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
That is not at all what’s happened with shortened expiry date requirements so far. Industry has proven that it can largely put these systems in place.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Huh? How do you see that this aspect of the PKI has at all changed with this change?
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
OpenSSH does it “nicely” for you maybe. I’ll maybe even accept “for most users of an SSH client”. This behaviour implemented in a browser is utterly unacceptable. The average user is orders of magnitude less technically capable. You are not
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
No. Didn’t you hear? There’s zero benefits to working in an office, at all. It’s all lies because of commercial real estate or something. /s
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
This sounds like some sort of attempt at Ultimate Scope Creep. How did we get from ‘licensing faux-issue’ to ‘a complete rebuild with a very complex architecture just to support the plugin ecosystem’?
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
I’m sorry that you ran afoul of a CoC or whatever, but this sounds like a real ‘airing dirty laundry’ tangent.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
God. Yeah. I’ve always hated #IAMPolicies on Freenode :)
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
No it doesn’t.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
I mean, this thread has itself very clearly turned into some crypto-fetishist fan fiction, completely departed from reality. I guess it’s just what came to mind.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Add several more 9s to that.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
No. That is just naive pattern-matching against a hot-button issue that you read a lot about on HN. For both this story AND Boeing, the explanation is more complicated than “outsourcing bad!”
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
No they wouldn’t. You just dislike Apple.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Still naive enough to buy into the lie that they can just be “left alone to do the REAL work” and a business just…spontaneously appears around them.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
I don’t buy this article. > Clients are often influenced by hype. A few years ago, it was "Linux is a toy." Now, it's "Why bhyve and not Proxmox?" They ask, "How can they sell FreeBSD? There's no AI, th
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Yep. Not rebooting for a decade is in most cases an irresponsible ‘advanced rookie’ move. I’m more than aware of the greybeard-era uptime fetishism. I’ve more than dabbled in it. I’ve typed /exec uptime into my IRC client more times th
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
“Boring” in this instance obviously means some weird tech culture virtue signal. The situations in which Linux isn’t at least ‘just fine’, and a BSD is better enough to justify SWITCHING, are, well, I’m skeptical of the author’s reasoning.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
That’s not evidence. It’s as baseless as the other side’s arguments. You’ve just heard it on HN enough times and are parroting it. I assure you that there’s not a person on this website that hasn’t read essentially your exact comment 100 ti
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Americans relating everything back to “freedom” is so jarring for literally everyone else.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
That’s…not Matt.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
> It’s intended to be a safety tool. A way for people in unstable, potentially violent, domestic situations to quickly leave the page. An upsetting but nonetheless incredibly interesting abnormal UX problem to solve. I appreciate seeing
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Just a reminder that AI tried pivoting to much more clear-cut legitimate piracy, presumably because they got bored or something, and certainly put ‘donations’ toward that effort. IA is an incredibly valuable resource, but let’s not put them
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
All things that aren’t remotely unique to running your own mail server.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
Because language is rarely if ever prescriptive. It evolves organically and without much rhyme or reason beyond “because that’s how things went”. The fact that you think that software neckbeards, err, greybeards, are somehow exempted from t
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
How does this constitute a meaningful reply to OP? What’s your point? That you’re angry? That doesn’t rebut anything they’ve said.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
…yes, well, it’s quite common for people to pay others to do things that they could do themselves but would rather just do something else. That is kind of how the world works.
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by appendix-rock 2y ago
And why “they’ve got physical access, so all bets are off” isn’t an excuse to stop trying

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