dminuoso

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by dminuoso 6d ago
On a side note: grouping cables based on the connector form factor is evil when you include USB-C. Which of the cables are for PD? How much power? Can they do USB? If yes, at which of the dozen speeds? Is it a Thunderbolt cable? Which TB ve
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by dminuoso 1mo ago
Merit-order pricing keeps consumer prices high. Whether it is the best mechanism to incentivize a transition towards renewable energy sources is debatable, but OP at least implies that we’re on the right direction. At some point we will hav
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by dminuoso 9mo ago
This would require a complete new ecosystem and likely new language where any degradation of code flow becomes communicatable in a standardized and fully documented fashion. The closest we have is something like Java with exceptions in type
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by dminuoso 9mo ago
One thing that has not quite been mentioned in the blog, is how much of the MITM spyware comes from very big and well known „security“ companies. You know, the ones that really know about security. X-PAN-AUTHCHECK type of security. The amou
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by dminuoso 10mo ago
The GPDR is not criminal law. But ignoring that, regulators barely pursue GPDR violations. Consider the swaths of dark patterns surrounding cookie terror banners. The GPDR language is extremely clear that none of them are legal, but virtual
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by dminuoso 10mo ago
If I infiltrate someone else’s computer, secretly run code in order to to exfiltrate data I risk prison time because objectively it seems to satisfy criminal laws over where I live. How do prosecutors in any modern country/state not ch
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by dminuoso 11mo ago
We operate an MSP business for tens of thousands of customers and have our own ASN, but gmail outright refuses all our corporate email. Why? We do not know and gmail refuses to tell us. Their postmaster tools lie, are incomplete, display no
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by dminuoso 1y ago
You can run your own mail server and name server on top. The network of mail is very much federated. In mail we have so many freedoms. We have become so locked into technology that we have to introduce a term like “federation” to signify th
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by dminuoso 1y ago
Bandwidth costs next to nothing these days. And it is also rarely if ever measured in petabytes. Commercially percentile based (in terms of speed) billing is the norm, but that only applies to businesses that act as downstream customers of
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by dminuoso 2y ago
You can use your own router in Germany, this is enforced by the regulation agency BNetzA. Your ISP must provide you with sufficient information to set it up.
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by dminuoso 3y ago
As a point of interest, there is a class of patterns called Standard Essential Patents (SEP), which the patent holder is required to sell licenses under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) conditions when an implementation of t
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by dminuoso 3y ago
What is even more interesting: At a given power rating, coal plants produce up to 3 times more radioactivity than nuclear power plants directly in leftover ash because coal contains large numbers of radioactive isotopes. It might not seem l
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by dminuoso 3y ago
The modern supply chains behave this way precisely because no such requirements exist. It’s a typical facade argument you might hear from politicians when they parrot lobbiysts.
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by dminuoso 3y ago
GDPR has no such exclusion criteria. The definition is astonishingly simple: ‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’). Note the weight of the word “any” here.
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by dminuoso 4y ago
Neither is the case. Elm semantics were originally loosely based on functional reactive programming in the sense of Conal Elliot, as per the thesis of its author. Redux on the other hand is just imperative programming folks rediscovering th
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by dminuoso 5y ago
The primary problem is language/library designers/users believing there must be one true canonical meaning of the word „length“ like you just did, and that „length“ would be the best name for the given interface. In database or mo