feurio

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by feurio 3mo ago
I am willing to be educated; does the average schoolkid carry such a device? I suspect that the number of kids using not using an app on a device that is aware of its locality is a rounding error. Tesco* phones on some network's family
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by feurio 3mo ago
This. Smart people could apply their skills and build a genuinely useful technology. But seems they would rather stick their finger in their ears and pretend that it's not happening. And they will be ignored. WHen did this learned help
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by feurio 3mo ago
Doesn't sound like the kind of device that your average schoolkid has in their pocket?
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by feurio 3mo ago
> But the entire EU is implementing stuff like this. Gov ID's, backdoors (swiss article 50a), etc. Switzerland isn't in the EU, though.
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by feurio 3mo ago
"But everyone uses their phone all the time!" Kids do. Sure if they want to circumvent and go home and use Dad's laptop to cyberbully or send pictures of their wang they probably could ...
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by feurio 3mo ago
Not it's location.
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by feurio 3mo ago
If a site creates some opaque token representing the request, and the token is signed by the ID service with no other information disclosure that "The user that presented this is of the appropriate age" that would seem like a reas
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by feurio 3mo ago
"like" It's not beyond the wit of humankind to build a working system.
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by feurio 3mo ago
If the app on the kid's phone knows that the phone is registered in the UK, how would a VPN circumvent it?
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by feurio 3mo ago
Article is doing a lot of supposing: "To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age sc
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by feurio 4mo ago
I have absolutely zero knowledge about the area, but doesn't Polymarket just set up bets between users? If you're a regular bookmaker, who is on the hook for any losses, then yes you would ban successful users. But in this case
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by feurio 4mo ago
> Setting up Kerberos just to authenticate users for access to my Linux ISOs is a crazy large requirement! Export as read only?
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by feurio 4mo ago
And how does one verify that the public key received belongs to the intended party, rather than a mitm? If the answer is blind trust in a third party that runs the messaging service then I suspect that you can guess what the people asking t
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by feurio 6mo ago
"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun" - Charles Montgomery Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4
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by feurio 7mo ago
This is on the backlog and will be fixed.
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by feurio 8mo ago
> "The compact mainframe occupies a MERE 70 sq. ft. of floor space." (emphasis mine)
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by feurio 9mo ago
LOOKITCOULDBEWORSESOJUSTCHILLANDTRYNOTTOWORRYABOUTITTOOMUCHOK
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by feurio 10mo ago
Shoes. All the way down. ;-)
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by feurio 1y ago
As the Mayor was born in London I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting.
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by feurio 1y ago
The London Mayor some years ago, Ken Livingstone, was a huge proponent of public trasport and used it extensively. The current Mayor, whilst still a proponent, likely does not use it. A quick glance at the social media that he recieves will
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by feurio 2y ago
Can confirm. Made a bit of a leftfield suggestion for an issue that there were no truly good solutions proposed for. I was tasked with building and deploying it. It's in production and working well so far (service which is 90% of our e
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by feurio 2y ago
I can't think of many better ways to demonstrate to your colleagues and corporate overlords that you are worthy of their trust than to readily hold up your hands if you've screwed up. So long as you're not so incompetent that
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by feurio 2y ago
I've built a proof-of-concept WireGuard VPN for work (SSO with mTLD portal/OIDC, BGP/WG tunnels to link edge servers into the network) and the team love it - better than the Cisco VPN they'd have to use otherwise. Only p
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by feurio 2y ago
Well, you know what to do - just sell a system that runs COBOL on an x86 cluster or Kubernetes or whatever, and you'll make billions! Be sure to allocate me a bunch of shares for giving you the idea.
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by feurio 2y ago
Euripping Yarns.
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by feurio 2y ago
Maybe it's just me, but isn't ~10K r/s pretty much just, well, normal?
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by feurio 2y ago
My procrastination pays off ...
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by feurio 3y ago
You must be so proud.
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by feurio 4y ago
I suspect that this was a playful take on the notoriously dishonest character of the ex-Prime Minister :-)
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by feurio 4y ago
Grant Shapps had an interesting take on it: https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/161277296322435891...

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