michh

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by michh 5mo ago
I don't know what the percentage would be, but we do have some historical precedent that could give us a clue. Best one I can think of is when bigger websites started actually dropping SSLv3 and TLSv1.0 (and later TLSv1.1) support, cut
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by michh 5mo ago
Okay, but is being present at a protest where others push through a barrier enough for the first amendment to no longer apply or do we know he was one of the people doing the barrier breaking? The original post implies he bailed out after o
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by michh 5mo ago
I mean, given how the site performs on average I don't think they've optimized so much that the extra cpu cycles of ANDing with the fixed constant of 2^64-1 and then looking up or hashing a 16 byte integer - whatever they do - rat
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by michh 5mo ago
Perhaps a little tin foil hatty and definitely not the only reason but Microsoft owns Github and also makes a boatload of money off of Azure. Incumbent cloud providers like Azure have a major advantage in terms of having plenty of IPv4 addr
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by michh 5mo ago
I think there's an important distinction in making money off of a tragedy your investment had no part in causing and happily announcing you did so. To use a slightly hyperbolic example: A company that makes body bags is always going to
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by michh 5mo ago
mm, if i can't get it to work with the dc-dc converter i'll definitely go that route, good idea
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by michh 5mo ago
Coincidentally, I bought a 12v car horn yesterday with the intent of wiring it into my ebike's power supply with a little button on my handlebars. Not because of other cyclists or pedestrians wearing (anc) headphones but because modern
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by michh 5mo ago
cause a lot of lives have been lost! they even thoroughly blew up a school. it's generally considered to be in somewhat poor taste to celebrate your personal gain in situations like that. it's like openly celebrating a massive pas
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by michh 6mo ago
increasing the (social) pressure on maintainers to get PRs merged seems like the last thing you should be doing in light of preventing malicious code ending up in dependencies like this i'd much rather see a million open PRs than a sin
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by michh 7mo ago
You're right, I misremembered the order in which I learned about these things as the order in which they were announced. (lol, I sound like an LLM apologizing for getting something wrong but I promise I'm human :) )
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by michh 7mo ago
yeah, but I got the impression that the EU is very much doing it as a retaliation to the US and UK doing it. Tho they could have limited it to just those countries.
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by michh 7mo ago
Congratulations, you're a lot smarter than the average person. I understand this is sometimes a bit annoying, but at the end of the day it's probably something to be grateful for.
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by michh 7mo ago
table stakes, but people still mess up on it constantly. The "yeah, but that's only a problem if you're an idiot" approach to this kind of thing hasn't served us very well so it's good to see something actually
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Baseband, Bessel and Beyond(youtube.com)
1 points by michh 7mo ago|0 comments
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by michh 8mo ago
I flew out of the UK twice in relatively short succession in ~2018 and the first time was out of London City: did not have to take off my shoes. I was pleasantly surprised by this and concluded common sense had prevailed and it was no longe
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by michh 8mo ago
I'm aware. I just think the Trump administration would say "Do it anyway".
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by michh 8mo ago
even if they don't have access to the actual data, the US government has the option to order Microsoft to switch these essential government services services off. For example, as a means of pressuring the Dutch government into supporti
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MeshTower(heltec.org)
1 points by michh 1y ago|0 comments
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by michh 1y ago
The “benefitting from being friends with the US” is exactly the frame Trump would love for you to use. It’s a little more nuanced than that imo. After WW2 the US wanted the European powers under its wings rather than rebuilding their own mi
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by michh 1y ago
Sure, no argument there, but the fact is there was a weakness there and a weakness that would be considered a threat to national security if it were to get out - before today
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by michh 1y ago
I shouldn’t have used the word disappeared, I just meant picked up. And yeah no, not for saying a substation exists and could be bombed. But for saying there is a single substation that, if taken out (by sabotage, terror attack, arson, or w
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by michh 1y ago
I didn’t mean this substation existing. I know that’s obviously not a secret. The fact taking it out takes out the entire main airport for at least an entire day is a different matter. Do you really think they’d have been fine with you anno
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by michh 1y ago
The fact this substation exists, yes, obviously. The fact taking it out takes out the entire airport: not so much! These kind of things usually aren’t dependent on a single substation. The fact that it is, is not something the UK governme
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by michh 1y ago
There's "significant problems" and there's taking out *the* most important airport in the country. Yes, there are other airports but this one matters most. Both in terms of (inter)national perception and in terms of real
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by michh 1y ago
Funny, how we're all suddenly privy to highly classified information. Yesterday, if you'd have publicly shared this one substation is enough to take down Heathrow for an entire day, you'd have been disappeared by the British
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by michh 2y ago
He has (or had) permanent resident status. On a path to becoming a citizen. I think ‘foreigner’ does not accurately reflect that.
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by michh 2y ago
Yeah, but all you reference is Finland. That’s one country with strict blasphemy laws, not specifically about Islam, but about any religion. It’s curious you seem to only care when they apply it to Islam. You get into the same amount of tro
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by michh 2y ago
I don’t know where you’re getting your news but this simply isn’t true
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by michh 2y ago
I mean, if protesting for the Palestinian cause can get your green card revoked, I don't think America has any moral high ground on the topic of free speech anymore.
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by michh 2y ago
It's weird how a lot of stuff in that show I dismissed as unrealistic techno-babble back then, now is very real.

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