mjthompson

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by mjthompson 5y ago
You're right, one might invoke Poe's law in relation to complaints about a hat on a cone.
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by mjthompson 5y ago
man is not a safety nor mission critical system. It was trivial to work around functional anomalies. There was nothing wrong with this, and it was hilarious. I'm glad the VLC developers never backed down from the Santa hat popping up n
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by mjthompson 5y ago
Burglars are in and out in a matter of minutes. There's no way they're standing there taking photographs. Like I said, they want money (and easily hocked valuables). No street criminal is interested in your Google Account login. A
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by mjthompson 5y ago
> A piece of paper can easily be found by someone. Much easier than hacking a password manager. A piece of paper in a locked drawer is potentially accessible to a person breaking into it. It is probably an unsophisticated burglar looking
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by mjthompson 5y ago
A password manager only really offers marginal phishing protection, in the sense that 'automatic autofill' (as defined in the original post) is not available with an unrecognised website. The problem is most profound with tech ill
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by mjthompson 5y ago
Good advice. Ever since Tavis Ormandy set his sights on password managers, I have been a very sceptical user. I still use 1Password, but without the browser extension. Putting autofill aside, there's a couple of other concerns I have.
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by mjthompson 5y ago
The argument in response is that it is legitimate for the government to legislate to promote the health of its citizens, as we are seeing with lockdown laws in COVID-19. That people break lockdown laws is not a reason not to have lockdown l
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by mjthompson 5y ago
The counterargument to this is that there is evidence young people are neurologically not full adults at 18 years of age, and alcohol impedes neurological development. I have no doubt war also has neurological effects, but they don't s
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by mjthompson 5y ago
This shouldn't happen. If you create a Word document within a subfolder of OneDrive, and open it in Word, it should be saving to OneDrive with autosave enabled. Perhaps you are using an older version of Word and/or the OneDrive cl
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by mjthompson 5y ago
Costs are compensatory in nature, not punitive. This is a risky gambit, pardon the pun. Also, in Australia, you'll only recover a portion in accordance with scale limits (party-party costs). Indemnity costs (100% recovery) is rarely aw
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I don't think I need to respond - you've encapsulated what I would have said perfectly.
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by mjthompson 5y ago
The public/private divide is a well-known conundrum. And the analogy I gave is a practical example of that, one that has actually faced several nations. I note you've offered no basis for it being 'dishonest', either, w
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I'm not even close to convinced by your response. Relying on the public-private divide as the sole basis for your retort is weak. You also assert that the person is pushing a personal narrative, but I suggest you're doing the same
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I hope the twin prime conjecture holds, since it would be pretty incredible to think that, despite what you said, there are infinitely many twin primes.
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I own a Synology, but I'm still not opening it up to the internet. I use a Wireguard VPN on a RPI to access it. It's a minor inconvenience, but I can sleep sound at night knowing my NAS isn't being wiped by a zero day.
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by mjthompson 5y ago
How good would it feel to pop calc.exe on an ATM?
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by mjthompson 5y ago
Looks great, a little bit of localisation would be good though. What are gas stations?
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by mjthompson 5y ago
You don't have to use this app. If you don't want to open up these so-called attack vectors you can simply not use it.
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I thought this too. On the other hand, it does make sense to them to publicly claim that the reason they moved out was for technical rather than political reasons. It might not make themselves a highly attractive target for a retaliatory DD
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by mjthompson 5y ago
A very edgy comment! Well done.
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by mjthompson 5y ago
This is annoyingly vague. What was the software bug, and what was the valid customer configuration change? It's perhaps a bit premature to demand it at this point, but I'm hoping a full post-mortem will outline precisely how this
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by mjthompson 5y ago
Just an observation: your competitor site is using AMP pages,* while you don't appear to be. I suspect without knowing that Google take this into account in ranking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I'm sure there are valid reasons. Unfortunately, many sites disable it without a good reason, and in those cases, I am glad Chrome hinders their misguided efforts. Many banks, for instance, think password managers are bad and disable i
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by mjthompson 5y ago
That is not a matter of concern of Apple. This is just one of several examples of Apple forcing behaviour changes outside its own walled garden. Whether or not it makes business sense to restrict the use of Apple ID elsewhere is a matter pr
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by mjthompson 5y ago
Apple's use of its own market power on its store to regulate conduct on other markets is deeply concerning. Another example is Apple ID. If I use Google or Facebook SSO in my app, I have to offer Apple SSO alongside it. That is okay. H
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I edited my comment after posting it to get rid of some of the commentary, since on reflection, I really don't know enough about them to offer an opinion. But thanks for clarifying that. Are these staffers appointed by the community or
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by mjthompson 5y ago
I know you'll get downvoted but the last line did make me laugh. Edit: delete some things I'm probably not qualified to comment on
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by mjthompson 5y ago
[sic] [sic] :)
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by mjthompson 5y ago
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/4125/Mediawiki-Mediawiki....
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by mjthompson 5y ago
A static site generator that works now will probably still work in 10 years, even if updates cease. And it will be safe to use. After all, it just churns out HTML that you put somewhere. The same can't be said of WordPress or MediaWiki

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