edelbitter

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by edelbitter 3d ago
The uniformed woman with the pistol is whatever the stitching on the chest pocket say she is. Is that not true just the same even in places where other people may routinely open-carry?
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by edelbitter 3d ago
That may not matter that much, as even if you run a relatively strict policy about where you send the reply, you can still easily get bitten by external mistakes there: Because of the huge number of individually administered departments tha
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by edelbitter 3d ago
Is it uncommon/impossible to ask for the federally-brokered in-person procedure in the US? (The way I know it: Local court or police officer shows up at our office later that day and hands over a printout matching the request that we h
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by edelbitter 8d ago
.. 9 out of 10 unhappy customers are currently unable to cause any blame, because they cannot even reach customer service because they are getting the "bot" treatment.
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by edelbitter 9d ago
If it does not happen quickly, then the result might end up similar to data privacy topics. If you can afford to keep fines in litigation/appeals/formal-defect limbo for a sufficient number of years, you can grow out of even once-
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by edelbitter 9d ago
I guess when discussing the reasons for the law failing to bring about the intended changes, we only need to agree on that the law did not intend to make this distinction (though it definitely could have made them, even before LLM this was
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by edelbitter 9d ago
Sending money to the intermediary is still essentially free. The likely incorrect assumption here is rather: that it would do any good in this case. Because that only works when the intermediary has agreed to do anything other than facilita
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by edelbitter 9d ago
RBOS is short for Royal Bank of Scotland. When accepting SEPA credit transfer (though they are not legally mandated to offer the instant execution variant), I don't think there is even a mechanism to sneak in extra fees, beyond what th
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by edelbitter 12d ago
>apples is as they are always in the supermarket You're missing out! Try a few of the apple varieties that are not available year-rounds, that are not optimized for insecticide compatibility and tons per square kilometer (well, more
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by edelbitter 12d ago
But.. Internet mail is not a lossy system. Quite the opposite! Unless providers do insane things (e.g. accept then discard), it is much safer than snail mail, where messages may not arrive and not cause the sender to be notified of non-deli
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by edelbitter 14d ago
Even worse with initcpio and linux kernel decompression choices: You can mix them, and it works.. sometimes .
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by edelbitter 16d ago
I might have believe this story, if not at the same time Intel had made an expensive bet on producing not-quite-gaming cards, later looked at the same trillion dollar question.. and then almost decided that this did not bring enough luck to
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by edelbitter 16d ago
That question does not require any greater explanation than "there was little else to be done, besides waiting for the storm to subside".
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by edelbitter 16d ago
I was thinking timezone update - because of course an internet-connected freezer needs updated zone info so one can configure defrost schedules without the benefit of UTC.
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by edelbitter 16d ago
Then again, many reasonable people would avoid, rather than specifically seek to buy raw honey from India (or the vicinity).
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by edelbitter 17d ago
(Obviously a take that does not get very far in lower level programming, but from the comfort of some abstractions away:) I like to think of buffer overruns, command injections and path traversal as all the same category of bug: type confus
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by edelbitter 17d ago
Not like Berlin could have paid anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqb6qYBdvX8
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by edelbitter 17d ago
This is less of a virt/x86 bug and more of a "don't call system() on arbitrary user input" bug. .. incidentally, OpenBSD also provides one of the clearest examples of how the excuse "calling system() is fine in my
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by edelbitter 21d ago
But what would the equivalent "do the expensive preparation 1 time, then re-use copy-on-write memory N times" pattern look like, after reconsidering my life?
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by edelbitter 21d ago
Why US financial sanctions against an EU-based non-profit? Making it harder to accept money from the US does not seem like quite the right tool. Are they known to be primarily sponsored by US individuals, or depending on other service provi
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Intel.com has 104 TXT records.. more than bind9 tolerates(dnsviz.net)
2 points by edelbitter 24d ago|2 comments
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by edelbitter 24d ago
The max-records-per-type=100 default was added in 9.18.28+ (and backported), because exceeding 100 was seldomly used and slow: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2024-1737 Besides clarifying relationship between domain contro
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by edelbitter 26d ago
You never know in Germany. Jail time might still be looming.. after some 3-5 years of delay because the telefax machine at the public prosecutors office is currently broken (and not even for DNS reasons!)
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by edelbitter 27d ago
Going batshit with browser APIs is also a formidable GDPR defense. e.g. try browsing the privacy-related forms for Google ( https://myaccount.google.com ) on Firefox :D (entire browser freezes up every other second for me, because
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by edelbitter 27d ago
> this file was independently reproduced by <name of trusted party> Sounds risky, unless paired with strong policy about what a verifier should do. e.g. if the verifier just grants network access to the buildbot that then checks
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by edelbitter 1mo ago
A "vacant plot" in this context might be example.ccTLD not being associated with a sufficiently large share of Example Ltd taxable income declared in CC, or some 3rd country maintaining suitable double-taxation treaties with CC. (
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by edelbitter 1mo ago
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled=false removes the non-consensual clipboard read access, which is an enhancement but not a strict requisite for attacks of this type. The utility of the other events boils down to mostly convenience: The w
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by edelbitter 1mo ago
You have not mentioned the final step, the one that is not certified in the Einbürgerungsurkunde: Becoming less German than many Germans by walking the tightrope between superiority thinking and self-harmingly downplaying legitimately gre
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by edelbitter 2mo ago
Would not count that as 20 years of sticking to that philosophy, though. We also figured out 20 years ago that SHA1 was not quite as strong as initially estimated, and not quite 10 years ago that generating two colliding documents was merel
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by edelbitter 2mo ago
> To quantify how disruptive this change would be to existing workflows, the PyPI database was queried for projects that have published new files to old releases While this may quantify how disruptive the change would be to those project

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