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by tnbp 2y ago
I documented how I did it here, which definitely involves downloading an older version of Steam: https://web.archive.org/web/20240412101635/https://datacu.be...
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by tnbp 2y ago
1. Doesn't matter. ZFS or whatever. I use ext4, it's good enough. 2. Buy as many 3.5 inch external USB drives as you need to reach 23 TiB, then connect them all over a single USB hub. Buy the same drives again, shuck them, and stu
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by tnbp 3y ago
Your comment is incompatible with mine, so one of us must be incorrect; I will leave it at that.
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by tnbp 3y ago
This! Your bank should never get a say in what you run on your phone or even if you have a phone. Do not take any such bullshit.
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by tnbp 3y ago
I can show my government-issued ID to any third party without the government knowing about whom I've shown this ID to. The third party needs to trust the government and the authenticity of the ID. The problem is that my ID contains
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by tnbp 3y ago
That sounds nightmarish. I don't want the verifier to know what porn sites I visit. Someone else proposed the following system to me: a third party authority issues a certificate which I can then use to prove I'm 18. The CA cannot
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by tnbp 3y ago
Some more clever sites asked for my birth year… forcing me to do the arduous work of taking the current year and subtracting 14. But why? You could have just picked a year that worked, and sticked with it. Obviously, there's no
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by tnbp 3y ago
We have no reason to believe you. However, there is one party who really benefits from people considering all encryption weak and all cryptography broken: the NSA.
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by tnbp 3y ago
You should not require users to change their passwords periodically, as this will piss them off and make them use many weak passwords rather than one strong password. Only require a password change when there is reason to believe their old
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by tnbp 3y ago
You can technically do this with TOTP if you save the secret instead of simply enrolling the account. You're not supposed to do that, though.
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by tnbp 3y ago
Both are true, #2 is huge. I would like to add: 3. Self-checkout displaces workers to the benefit of stores and the detriment of society at large.
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by tnbp 3y ago
Surely, this computer must have come with a non-BT keyboard and/or mouse, though?
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by tnbp 3y ago
Even if I do have keys, they are safe in my pocket, not sticking out the side of a fragile USB port. It's difficult, though not impossible, to break your USB port with a Yubikey due to its shape. It's not a regular USB plu
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by tnbp 3y ago
where can I read your paper
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by tnbp 3y ago
But it's a key though. It goes on the keychain. Unless you don't carry around keys either, in which case yes, that would be very inconvenient indeed. Also, your Yubikey is probably less likely to be stolen or break, but I figure
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by tnbp 3y ago
I'm a bit confused why the author is unfazed by "eleuthero root" and "cordyceps mushrooms", but puts "nascent iodine" in scare quotes. Is it not nascent iodine? If no, then what is it? Oh no, it's n
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by tnbp 3y ago
That's also possible; my mind was going the prostate route.
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by tnbp 3y ago
Give it a few years, pops :-)
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by tnbp 3y ago
Your web app is most likely rubbish and 20 times as complicated as it needs to be, and probably still nothing special. A website that requires JavaScript is, and always will be, worse than one that accomplishes the same without JavaScript
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by tnbp 3y ago
Do this only if you don't care about the people that use (sometimes: have to use) your software. Otherwise, >> Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose. (Don't make me needlessly enable JavaScript to u
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by tnbp 3y ago
"I drink, and I know things. The things I don't know, I research. But I mostly drink."
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by tnbp 3y ago
It probably is to some extent, too.
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by tnbp 3y ago
I used to wonder, as a kid, why most traffic lights in my region of Germany were red, orange-yellow and obviously turquoise. I remember drawing traffic lights (I loved drawing road layouts when I was young) without any use for the green p
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by tnbp 3y ago
This just in: people whose main source of stress is lack of money happier with more money. More at 11.
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by tnbp 3y ago
Good.
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by tnbp 3y ago
If Youtube makes it impossible to watch videos without ads, I will quit Youtube, not my adblocker. I will not watch ads.
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by tnbp 3y ago
Yes. Imagine you're giving UX advice while unable to get scrolling right.
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by tnbp 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
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by tnbp 3y ago
So am I, sans the paying part.
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by tnbp 3y ago
lol no

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