cmcd

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by cmcd 6y ago
> "We want to start by apologizing for the confusion we have caused by incorrectly suggesting that Zoom meetings were capable of using end-to-end encryption. Zoom has always strived to use encryption to protect content in as many sc
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by cmcd 6y ago
You are only storing the hash of the password so there is no reason to have arbitrary length constraints like 32. Why not make it several thousand characters?
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by cmcd 7y ago
> The middle class already pays most of the taxes I'm not so sure about that. The top 1% pays 37% of federal income taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% paid only 3% and 44% of paid nothing at all. Depending on the source you use the mi
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by cmcd 7y ago
An example project using Pep. Most people are going to be skeptical that this can be done with a single line of code.
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by cmcd 7y ago
I'm not against DOH but there are definitely some downsides. For example, your token does not get reset on network changes. This means your DNS provider can track your DNS requests across networks, including VPNs. With normal DNS anyon
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by cmcd 7y ago
I am sure AWS, OCI, GCP, etc. all host scam websites with varying degrees of removal efficiency. What cases are you referring to specifically? Did they state they were not going to take these sites down or what was the context that you obje
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by cmcd 7y ago
Pretty sure that is illegal, wouldn't be a major complication to add a metal detector outside voting booths.
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by cmcd 7y ago
Why does MacOS only "sort of" have type-to-search?
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by cmcd 7y ago
If you are living "almost" paycheck to paycheck as a engineer with 200k+ total comp you are doing something seriously wrong.
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by cmcd 7y ago
Like what? If you are a high productivity engineer you will have excellent health care through your employer.
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by cmcd 7y ago
I didn't create a twitter account but my information could have been leaked via this process.
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by cmcd 7y ago
A Wacom tablet is not the same as a phone, it is a peripheral. This is like your Dell keyboard tracking your keystrokes and what application they go into.
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by cmcd 7y ago
Hate speech is different from speech inciting violence, which is already illegal in the US. Hate speech is not well defined, something that would be considered offensive in the Silicon Valley might be considered a compliment in New York.
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by cmcd 7y ago
Restricting hate speech restricts free speech, they are the same issue. You only have to look back a few years to understand why this is important. What we consider acceptable has changed vastly over time, if we don't have the freedom
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by cmcd 7y ago
The other question is, what is your cloud provider going to intentionally do with your data without your consent.
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by cmcd 7y ago
I don't think it is that controversial in the US. There is a small, vocal minority that is against free speech but the overwhelming majority of Americans do not see things that way.
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by cmcd 7y ago
What do you mean? Unless you are living paycheck to paycheck stock is just as real as cash.
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by cmcd 7y ago
You think the NSA is phishing from a nsa domain?
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by cmcd 7y ago
These failures apply to every tablet that is not running a full desktop OS. Of these the iPad is far and away the best option currently.
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by cmcd 7y ago
> And do you honestly believe a sandbox would have stopped MS changing the page? That is how a sandbox works, Microsoft's installer would not be able to access configuration files for Chrome to change the settings.
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by cmcd 7y ago
What do you mean? There is no reason an office suite should be changing configuration for your browser without explicitly asking.
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by cmcd 7y ago
Are there any advantages of using borg over rclone?
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by cmcd 7y ago
Advertising on iOS relies on internet access so toggling it off would mean no ads.
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by cmcd 7y ago
I don't think those numbers really capture the full story since the majority of children rarely or never cycle on the road. I couldn't find a resource for the number of children who regularly cycle on roads, but one of the main re
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by cmcd 7y ago
During the industrial revolution hard labor jobs transitioned to maintenance work for the machines. The problem is as we improve at automation the need for non-technical maintenance decreases. A small team of engineers can displace thousand
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by cmcd 7y ago
It wouldn't have to be Microsoft exploiting this though, a few rogue employees that can modify their telemetry system could do this on their own. There is no external oversight for Windows but on Linux there are thousands of people loo
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by cmcd 7y ago
We already know Windows has some pretty excessive telemetry, it is not unreasonable to assume this or other elements of the OS can be exploited to gain control of a wallet. At least with Linux we have thousands of open source developers kee
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by cmcd 7y ago
Just because the institution does not use the data irresponsibly doesn't mean the service provider will not. Not to mention third parties which could potentially gain access to this data directly or indirectly by listening for the chec
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by cmcd 7y ago
If you want to move away from phone numbers I don't think Whatsapp is a good place to go..
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by cmcd 7y ago
A company the size of Facebook probably has teams tinkering with all sorts of languages most companies will never use.

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