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by lwf 3y ago
https://mosh.org/#faq:~:text=Q%3A%20What%20is%20Mosh%27s%20s... The cryptography is standard AES-128 in OCB3 mode. It's been around long enough, and has had enough security scrutiny to at least discover a few minor DoS
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by lwf 3y ago
It's client-side, so works even if the remote system is totally hung and did not clearly disconnect. For example, running `systemctl suspend` will not terminate active SSH connections before putting the destination machine into a sleep
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by lwf 3y ago
DNS servers listen on port 53 :)
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by lwf 4y ago
The vast minority of utilities in the United States, by number of customers served, are investor-owned; publicly-owned and co-operative utilities only cover 50m people.[1] Theoretically, the grid is supervised by the California Public Utili
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by lwf 4y ago
Written so hastily they misquoted the "discount" offered (57%, when the clickthru clearly says 51%).
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by lwf 4y ago
Note that Shaw's and Star Market are both Albertsons :)
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by lwf 4y ago
Surprised to not see gmail.com in the list[1]. [1]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/25/Gmail-is-a-huge-source-of... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26265329
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by lwf 4y ago
> Translated to a human-readable timestamp, 54566975 becomes: > > Friday, September 24, 1971 06:29:35 GMT No, that's PDT :) $ TZ=UTC date --date=@54566975 Fri 24 Sep 13:29:35 UTC 1971
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by lwf 5y ago
Which doesn't even make sense, given it was abolished by Nazi Germany "when Hitler's distaste for the supposedly "Jewish-influenced" script saw it officially discontinued" (via https://en.wikipedia.o
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by lwf 5y ago
If you have teams in Israel, you at least can cheat a bit on Sunday v.s Friday. And having at least one daytime rotation agree that "well, you're expected to be on-call during business hours on Saturday" isn't nearly as
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by lwf 5y ago
(To start: Just to clarify there's a significant difference between benzodiazepines and opiates.) > I have a friend in the US who told me they have an app on their phone where they can just tap a button and the next day they can ref
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by lwf 5y ago
Most libraries do not record that information once material is returned. See SFPL: > 10. The Library does not maintain a history of what a library user has previously checked out once books and materials have been returned on time4. &
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by lwf 5y ago
The article you linked describes preventing the creation of a shared link, not actually deleting content from people's Dropbox accounts. (previously worked there, not speaking on their behalf or from private knowledge)
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by lwf 5y ago
Right, so don't use the network: broadcast a signed message on a band reserved for emergency services.
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by lwf 5y ago
Link to opinion: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21046832-castellanos... The key bits: > The Court finds that Section 7431 is unconstitutional because it limits the power of a future legislature to define ap
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by lwf 5y ago
This is addressed directly in the article via economic theory, comparative analysis, and "detailed empirical work" (from studying cases where new housing was built and the observed effect on prices): From the article: > When I
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by lwf 5y ago
Twitter does in fact have a separate adult content filter, which I have turned off in my Twitter account, in part because it's often wrong :) It filters out a lot of SFW content, and a lot of queer accounts are tagged as such incorrect
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by lwf 5y ago
> The pictures in the tweets show up as links by default. Follow these links at your own peril. Ah, I totally missed that! I'm admittedly a bit tired, and that line was above the first set of boxes, where nothing loaded -- I scrolle
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by lwf 5y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello... > I regret to inform you that you are wrong. I know that you've likely heard this from someone else -- perhaps even someone respected --
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by lwf 5y ago
Should probably have a NSFW warning -- the "offensive" tweets I was randomly shown were porn. Granted, I have the Twitter "adult content" filter off, so perhaps that's just on me. Was just a bit surprising :)
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by lwf 5y ago
s/trained/strained/
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by lwf 5y ago
Wow, I didn't realise it was this old: > The URL had been registered back in 1999, before 2001 regulations restricted the “.edu” designation to accredited higher educational institutions. “[D]espite its misleading top level domain
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by lwf 6y ago
The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network[1] isn't publicly funded, no. PBS, NPR, and, via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting[2], lots of individual, independent local radio and television stations. [1]: https://en.wik
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by lwf 6y ago
Harvard disagrees with you: > HARVARD COLLEGE has almost as many students from the nation’s top 0.1 percent highest-income families as from the bottom 20 percent. More than half of Harvard students come from the top 10 percent of the inc
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by lwf 6y ago
When you talk about a concept, then talk about a personal anecdote, people are going to assume they're related.
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by lwf 6y ago
IRV == "instant runoff voting"?
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by lwf 6y ago
[First engineer at Zulip; work at Dropbox] Portions of Zulip's backend were used to power some Dropbox features in 2014-16, but the product itself wasn't further integrated. In any case, I'm proud of how we handled the handof
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by lwf 6y ago
In the context of this case, which was over a criminal matter, they cannot pass a retroactive law. ("ex post facto") For civil matters, yes, with a bunch of asterisks: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan
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by lwf 6y ago
Right, and that content was on YouTube Kids. The current "made for kids" policy goes a length toward improving on the situation GP was decrying.
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by lwf 6y ago
Standing military in the US is also 0.4% (1.38M/328.2M), v.s CA's 0.17% (67,000/37,894,799) of population.

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