rlpb

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Passkeys are being rolled out across Gov.uk One Login(gov.uk)
3 points by rlpb 1d ago|0 comments
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by rlpb 4d ago
> I don't want an ongoing relationship with the device manufacturer. I think it depends on the device. If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship
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by rlpb 5d ago
It does give you some more RAM for free, as Linux can park allocated but rarely accessed memory and use the freed space for other purposes.
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by rlpb 7d ago
> The busses lock down with a PIN when they get out of the seat (generated that morning at the depot)... How do drivers remember their daily PIN?
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by rlpb 12d ago
I had a similar experience but with the Fairphone 2. I never swapped out any parts because performance hardware upgrades never became available and it was superseded by the Fairphone 3. I've not invested again in a Fairphone since. I&#
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by rlpb 17d ago
I think there's a distinction between attribution and linking to something nobody else can necessarily access. Placing a path to my local build is something I'd avoid because it's irrelevant to everyone else. I think the same
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by rlpb 21d ago
It's established that exposing children to bad things causes harm. This isn't specific to technology. "Free speech" isn't a concept that applies to the exposure of harmful speech to children.
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by rlpb 24d ago
> but we know we have it Do we? We only know that at most one thinking person believes they have it, and everyone else claims they have it.
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by rlpb 28d ago
Didn't Google work very hard to avoid any GPL in Android, apart from the kernel? What is in there that is GPL?
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by rlpb 1mo ago
It sounds like you would be in favour of Choice 5.
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by rlpb 1mo ago
A lookup table of normative specifications for every API call is Reference material. But a tour of API concepts is not (that would be Explanation). Nor is a Tutorial that introduces the API. A lookup table of normative specifications of CLI
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by rlpb 2mo ago
> ...where I'm still left wondering "what's the difference between a tutorial and a how-to guide?" I don't find this question difficult. Without looking anything up, a tutorial exercises a contrived example for l
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by rlpb 2mo ago
I disagree. I see shell syntax as an “inversion” of normal quoting rules. Normally quoting is the default but to achieve anything special you have to use an escape. Conversely, in shell, quoting is not necessary but any special character wi
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by rlpb 2mo ago
One consolation is that you can use proprietary cloud based AI to make software that you can run locally and then depend upon. As long as you ensure that the software meets the quality standards you had before this revolution in terms of
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by rlpb 2mo ago
> Notable are the endorsements, which are balanced over all three options... I don't think this is notable. The process requires five seconders, so you're just seeing the set of people who seconded asynchronously before there w
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by rlpb 2mo ago
Email seems like an odd choice for sensitive messaging where you're in the position to manage the technology on both ends. Private XMPP or Matrix with E2EE has better privacy properties.
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by rlpb 2mo ago
That's interesting, thanks. For me this feature is mandatory, and I won't risk buying a car (second hand usually) unless I see it working with my phone first. I drove 200 miles to buy a car once and walked* away because of this. T
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by rlpb 2mo ago
Please could you share the name of the manufacturer, so the rest of us know who to be wary of?
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by rlpb 2mo ago
> Revocation should come with full refunds. That's not enough. If I purchase something, I expect to rely on being able to keep it. Its value to me could well be much higher than just the purchase price. Revocation should come with c
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by rlpb 2mo ago
If an attacker can do that, they could also do that with my real birthday had I used that. My birthday isn't a secret against anyone who wants to look hard enough. Therefore this method doesn't provide any kind of security against
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by rlpb 2mo ago
I like using a date of birth of 1 January. It's plausible but also hopefully suspicious how many people seem to be born that day if others do the same.
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by rlpb 2mo ago
What if you have young kids? It might be worth the suffering for their benefit.
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by rlpb 2mo ago
I think this is a backwards way to set up VMs. "Installing a guest" is the wrong concept. Use a VM image pre-prepared from your favourite distro to skip that step. cloud-init is the standard way for it to specialize to your use ca
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by rlpb 2mo ago
Adding contraints makes it take longer to deliver a result. I probably cannot install today's engines SDKs and related tooling for example. I'd have to write my own. Doable, and would make me a better programmer, but you won'
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by rlpb 2mo ago
> For example, aerated autoclaved concrete has better structural strength, doesn't need additional insulation, completely non-combustible, and is cheaper to build. Apparently it ages out though and becomes unsafe when it does, resul
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by rlpb 3mo ago
Copyright law is an artificial legal construct, not a moral code. I think appropriate attribution is a moral code, but I am not able to attribute every idea I have to all those who helped me develop the general intelligence that I use to de
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by rlpb 3mo ago
I don't pay for my mind to absorb the world's information, either. And when I publish to the Internet, or give a talk, I also typically don't charge. Even when I publish under some kind of copyright restricted licence, that r
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by rlpb 3mo ago
Better: set up a git diff driver so you see the semantic changes, not line-by-line changes.
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by rlpb 3mo ago
Placing various artifacts (eg. build artifacts) inside the source tree always seemed like a historical mistake to me. It leads to various accidents such as people checking in their credentials and accidentally bundling such files in source
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by rlpb 3mo ago
Arrests seem like overkill. Ask them to stop, issue a fine, whatever. Sure I get you're asking for any enforcement at all. But hyperbole has a polarizing effect on discourse we should try to avoid, IMHO.

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