kackerlacker

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by kackerlacker 5mo ago
AFAICT from TFA the arrangement with Collabra was illegal. I think the frustration was that there is no vote to be had on how to proceed in a way that continues to be illegal. You can vote for a reform you can propose another actionable ref
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by kackerlacker 5mo ago
I pay a lot of attention when someone claims to have solved a problem I suspect to be NP-hard. There are a lot of possible explanations, for example they may have an incorrect measurement function or they may have chosen a simpler related p
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by kackerlacker 5mo ago
Is it better to have no upset at all until we are past the point of no return for global warming based extinction?
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by kackerlacker 5mo ago
I spend some time going through what programmers wrote over the past years and many of them were rewarded for getting things done quickly with no complaints.. The more diligent ones probably didn't last since they got things done corre
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by kackerlacker 6mo ago
I think such situations are rather big risk that a community that already wasn't very active atrophies or splits and then atrophies. With code bases like that there's also a lot of maintenance so being able to run an old version i
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by kackerlacker 6mo ago
Police have to be winning the war on drugs but not literally taking that financing that doesn't require congressional oversight away from the CIA.
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by kackerlacker 6mo ago
One could say the same thing about virus scanners. They are obviously too little too late "security" so standards that require them have given up on real requirements like a way to achieve actual assurance of no buffer overflows.
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by kackerlacker 6mo ago
This is exactly the situation I think of when I hear news of rescue missions. Running a rescue in a place with functional air defense is a recursive rescue problem that could quickly get out of control.
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by kackerlacker 6mo ago
In my view it is more important to stop using software keys so probably use sk (fido) for both host and user.. From there CAs would be a next step.. The level of documentation and example setups is astoundingly poor if you even look at step
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by kackerlacker 6mo ago
Eh, with browsers you can tell the user to go to hell if they don't like a secure but broken experience. The problem in most software is that you commit to bad ideas and then have to upset people who have higher status than the softwar
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by kackerlacker 6mo ago
I think most far from center paper writers are more successful if they don't let reality limit their ideas. Probably few consider a real idiot with enough power to ruin them as a threat when they start putting pen to page.