redprince

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by redprince 4mo ago
That is known pretty well: The TPM won't release the the volume key unless the correct PIN is presented to the TPM.
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by redprince 11mo ago
The text he wrote makes a lot of sense under that prompt because that prompt provides the frame under which to read it. Knowing the prompt makes it obvious that his general observations happen to apply to Germany and he wasn't aware of
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by redprince 11mo ago
Just out of curiosity: How exactly do you imagine Germany looked like pre-WW2?
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by redprince 1y ago
Rest assured, he's also trying that route. That mastodon article links to parliamentary requests for clarification of aforementioned quote. In article 1425 he responds (google translate): "We know that social media and encrypted s
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by redprince 1y ago
Asking somewhat obscure hard data (like a date) from a LLM is pretty much futile even without knowing anything about LLMs: They are smaller than all the factual knowledge in the world so a lot of it won't be there. If it answers, it&#x
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by redprince 2y ago
That is kind of doubtful. The video clearly shows a small puff of smoke presumably above the ejection port when he fires the gun for the first time. The Welrod and its modern descendants have a bolt which is locked in position when the gun
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by redprince 2y ago
"The bottom line is that arsenic is a heavy metal, like lead, and all heavy metals are dangerous and carcinogenic." Gold, iron, tin are are all "heavy metals" and are certainly not carcinogenic or dangerous.
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by redprince 2y ago
Mentioned in the article, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 has an interesting history. It came about due to the work of Harvey Washington Wiley who used healthy volunteers to test and document the effects of then used preservatives like b
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by redprince 2y ago
> Turbo Pascal was in the running with assembly language for my favorite language to program the IBM PC in the 1980s. Teaching myself programming as a kid in the late 80s I encountered the limits of BASIC and then Turbo BASIC pretty soon
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by redprince 2y ago
> Physical access to the computer meant ... ... game over. That's one well understood fact back then as it is today. Where's the security nightmare?
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by redprince 2y ago
That was in fact one of the promises of IPv6: Restore the network of peers where every host is in principle a server and a client and communication between peers is unhindered unless a policy is enforced saying otherwise (on the machine, on
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by redprince 2y ago
Weird that you have to do an extra step for IPv6. Other ISPs in Germany have enabled it for every customer at some point. Unless your router asks for IPv6 addresses, nothing really changes anyway. So maybe just enable IPv6 on your router an
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by redprince 2y ago
> lack drive and take longer PTO and their work isn't really that adequate. People sometimes come to realize important things when they mature. This may include insights like "there's a life happening outside work waiting
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by redprince 2y ago
> If I can't run FreeBSD on my machine, I won't runt it on my servers. How does offering a laptop or desktop OS experience relate to being a great server OS? Anyway, the last time I was using FreeBSD on a client was in the late
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by redprince 2y ago
That there is no such mechanism can be explained pretty well with this extreme scenario: - Browsers would come with the no tracking signal enabled by default (why wouldn't they?) so that tracking would become opt-in. - Nobody chooses t
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by redprince 2y ago
Golden rice is a solution which works in a specific context by virtue of it being rice. People who will benefit from it already eat rice, know how to grow rice, how to store it and how to distribute it. When they could produce a fresh veget
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by redprince 2y ago
Golden rice attempts to solve a real problem: Vitamin A deficiency in many parts of the world, where rice is also a food staple and where the poorest cannot afford a diet with enough vitamin A in it. Golden lettuce solves what?
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by redprince 2y ago
I don't think that anyone from that community would ever stoop so low. For years now Germany is having an issue with organized trolls who target live streamers with swatting. A live stream of the resulting police action appears to be t
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by redprince 2y ago
> Instead, trying to access a blocked website gets me a wrong/unsafe certificate warning followed by a Fortinet/Fortiguard blockpage when I click continue. This is likely the Fortigate SSL/TLS deep inspection (< https:
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by redprince 2y ago
If you just want to maintain or operate what's already there on a RHEL (clone): https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_... If you want to dive deeper: "SELinux System Administration&
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by redprince 2y ago
Because pretty much everyone on the internet tells you to disable SELinux instead of trying to understand it. I'm always rolling my eyes when I open some deployment instruction for RHEL (clones) and they have as step one: Disable SELin
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by redprince 2y ago
As this particular issue of DNS blocking pertains to Germany: By law (EU Commission Directive 2008/63/EC and national law TKG § 73 Abs 1) the ISP must allow the free choice of routers and has to provide all access codes. So even i
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by redprince 2y ago
The solutions are just a Google search away and easy to implement. If that stops anyone even slightly motivated I must wonder what they are generally able to achieve with a computer.
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by redprince 2y ago
Is is from a movie and a novel which the movie was based on. Both go by the title "The Name of the Rose". The author of the novel is Umberto Eco.
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by redprince 2y ago
While that is correct they could at any point in the last 15 years have implemented an API for security software which does not require to load executable code into kernel space. Kind of like Apple did: https://developer.apple.co
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by redprince 2y ago
> Problem with climate discussions is that 99.9% of people don’t have any impact whatsoever Individually certainly nobody has any appreciable impact. But seen as a collective, everyone's individual decisions add up to pretty much al
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by redprince 2y ago
I have very little experience with the threat model associated with the macOS keychain and how its promises are enforced. A cursory look into its features reveals an export/import function for elements (except passwords) secured in the
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by redprince 2y ago
What is the threat model here? When the device is stolen or lost it better protects data at rest with full disk encryption. When the account operating Signal or the machine as a whole was taken over, the attacker can observe everything the
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by redprince 2y ago
> Some of this movement is funded by Germany Governement. At first I thought you were joking, but of course you were absolutely right: https://www.howsolargotcheap.com/germany
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by redprince 2y ago
Right. Except the around 400 nuclear power plants currently in operation.

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