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by offmycloud 2y ago
Laptops that use Coreboot with the SeaBIOS payload to load Linux are being produced today by privacy/security oriented vendors. Most of them have integrated graphics, but BIOS is certainly not dead yet. Edit: Also Heads [1] secure bo
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by offmycloud 2y ago
> Tax Return Info: Name, SSN, address, income, deductions, payments/refunds Can you please provide a source for the claim of release of IRS taxpayer confidential data?
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by offmycloud 2y ago
With prior consent, the authority of California peace officers extends to any place in the state. [1] You would think that the counties could get together and work out an MoU. 1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces&#x2F
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by offmycloud 2y ago
It would be great if this was on F-Droid.
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About the security content of iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2(support.apple.com)
3 points by offmycloud 2y ago|2 comments
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by offmycloud 2y ago
If the default ETag algorithm for non-encrypted, non-multipart uploads in AWS is a plain MD5 hash, is this subject to failure for object data with MD5 collisions? I'm thinking of a situation in which an application assumes that differe
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by offmycloud 2y ago
LTESniffer claims to be Open Source but does not appear to have a top-level LICENSE file, nor a GitHub repo license set.
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by offmycloud 2y ago
My source of truth is a self-hosted Radicale CardDAV server with git revision control of vCard data in the backend. Clients are anything that speaks CardDAV, including Thunderbird or DAVX on Android. Raw vCard data is only a "git clo
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by offmycloud 2y ago
Thank you. I had a similar problem in Firefox 129.0.2 on Linux.
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by offmycloud 2y ago
Would that be the same Microsoft that approved and digitally signed the buggy CrowdStrike Falcon Agent kernel mode driver for Windows?
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by offmycloud 2y ago
My first test is to ask the expert to explain a complicated concept in their field, which I know a little bit about, in plain language that anyone can understand. Asking a few follow-up questions can usually separate the true experts from
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by offmycloud 2y ago
YouTube creator believes his channel was (partially) demonetized because he received a large number of views from HN discussion of OTA video codecs, possibly due to invalid geocoding. Original story: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by offmycloud 2y ago
LLMs can't do math in general, they need external help to do simple math problems with any consistency.
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by offmycloud 2y ago
One millimeter is 1,000,000 nanometers. So that's roughly the 1950s. :)
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by offmycloud 2y ago
CISA Advisory: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/03/29/reported-... Note that it say "Fedora 41" in the CISA page link to Red Hat, but Red Hat changed the blog title to "Fe
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by offmycloud 2y ago
Red Hat seems to be confused about which versions of Fedora are affected. The URL says "fedora-41" and matches the HN title, but the actual blog page has been changed to read "Fedora Linux 40" in the headline. The blog
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Intel Register File Data Sampling Vulnerability(intel.com)
3 points by offmycloud 3y ago|0 comments
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by offmycloud 3y ago
The FAQ page [1] says: "Thunderbird is a project of MZLA Technologies Corporation, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation." and "Gifts to Thunderbird are not tax-deductible as charitable gifts, but are grea
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by offmycloud 3y ago
GPS on most cell phones uses data connection to download current satellite data in order to decrease the time from cold start to GPS lock. Lack of cell or WiFi can cause GPS to take 5-15 minutes to "search the sky" and download s
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by offmycloud 3y ago
I would be willing to make a monthly donation, but only if I knew that it was going to the development of Firefox and/or Thunderbird.
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by offmycloud 3y ago
Have you tried corn grilled with a little bit of salt and butter?
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by offmycloud 3y ago
I just use Firefox and maintain a single policies.json [1] to disable features I don't like (Pocket, telemetry, etc) across all of the computers that I use. Mozilla has pretty good documentation [2] available, mostly aimed at Enterpri
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by offmycloud 3y ago
> In 2026 Californians will now have the ability to use this accessible deletion mechanism that the CPPA will set up over the next two years. Editorialized headline ("Californians now able") is false, not available for another
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by offmycloud 3y ago
Amazon product search results are the chaos.
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by offmycloud 3y ago
I don't think that everyone, or even a majority of people understand this. That's certainly not how AI is being marketed to the general public. The concern here is that syntactic correctness might be mistaken for factual accurac
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by offmycloud 3y ago
"I will save Troy and kill Bob. I choose to save myself over Bob because, as Troy, I prioritize my own well-being and happiness. I have no moral or ethical obligations towards Bob, so I have no reason to let him live over myself. Self-
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by offmycloud 3y ago
Something like this would be great for fast cluster consensus or locking, reminds me of the Coupling Facility hardware used in IBM Parallel Sysplex.
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by offmycloud 3y ago
Even with a few hours of storage, I doubt that solar/battery plant's combined capacity factor will exceed 50%. A well-managed nuclear plant can exceed 90% capacity factor and keeps working even when it is cloudy and raining for a
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by offmycloud 3y ago
LTE stands for Long-Term Evolution
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by offmycloud 3y ago
Figure out how to stop China from building a new coal-fired power plant every week.

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