zxcvasd

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by zxcvasd 7mo ago
> Operating systems are supposed to get in the way of things like this debbie from accounting will say "darn thing wont let me do my job", and get frustrated from all of the prompts and approvals she doesnt understand. she is
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by zxcvasd 7mo ago
at the risk of going a bit off topic here, what specifically has deteriorated? as someone who has used 1password for 10 years or so, i have not noticed any deterioration. certainly nothing that would make me say something like they are a
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by zxcvasd 7mo ago
> I guess almost anyone can do the following almost everyone knows the formula for olvine and quartz, too, of course theres probably less than 10 people in my entire company that know half of the words you wrote there. whats an "is
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by zxcvasd 7mo ago
sure, not denying that. my writing style is fairly different now in my 40s than it was in my late teens/early twenties. but, those changes are usually pretty gradual and relatively small. thats why when attempting to identify someone v
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
this is a well-studied field (stylometry). when combining writing styles, vocabulary, posting times, etc. you absolutely can narrow it down to specific people. even when people deliberately try to feign some aspects (e.g. switching writing
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
i am on mullvad and accessing it fine. if you are on one of the default exit nodes, try switching it. i find the default nodes get blocked by a lot of sites, likely due to malicious behavior of other users.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
only because it isnt enforced. if fines were levied and actually collected , itd be a pretty robust regulation for privacy. theres other issues with it, but nothing that requires gdpr to be wiped out -- just modified (and clarified) a bit.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
> you just need to know at least a little more than the companies you are consulting for. sometimes (i'd argue often, actually), you don't even need that. simply having an outside/fresh perspective and the fact that you a
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
well, what happens is netflix gives blender real cash. and thats the entirety of the translation
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
this is a very common pattern in tptacek's comments, but it's not worth calling out as he absolutely refuses to recognize it, always falling back to a similar response you see here. with a quick google of "3des broken" a
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
to any non-cryptographer, i think that's a distinction without a difference. it's disallowed from use by the major standards institute due to a vulnerability where people can recover the plain text. that sounds "broken"
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
if i were to guess, they are referring to CVE-2016-2183, which lead to deprecation of 3DES by NIST in 2019 (announced in 2017) and disallowing all uses in 2023. openssl also stopped including it in default builds starting in 2016 because it
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
> <obscure set of random words> "language server" is probably not particularly obscure (or random) to the audience of people who know what "mecrisp-stellaris" is (i.e. the audience of the post). i actually doub
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
my mom can use signal no problem. she doesnt know what half the words in your comment mean, though.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
> if your first instinct is to defend it the reminder of "theres a human there" is not "defending" the actions. its a call back to reality, because people on the internet take little things way too fucking seriousl
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
> A world without Microsoft.. no telemetry or backdoors. thank god microsoft is the only entity on the planet that uses telemetry or violates privacy. get rid of them and we're in a new age!
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
heres the second paragraph in full: "Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the "virtual" worl
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
> 10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k 10 hours x 10 developers x $70 per hour = $7000, not $70000.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
but you can be smug when theres a github incident, and thats hard to put a price on
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
> vMix is Windows-only, so I'd imagine the people it targets don't think about licensing much. they probably think about money, though. and whether there's a significant difference in features or not.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
if i thought it alone was proof enough, i wouldnt have also included the bit about how i was actively using azure. its one signal, among others. and in any case, i wasn't trying to prove the parent commenter wrong. i was offering my
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
like most rap videos do with cars/jets/mansions, just rent the ram sticks for a few hours!
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
having no issues on azure here, seeing no azure incidents on the status page or any of my admin panels
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
this attitude is exactly why and how those "deranged redditor activists" (we're from the superior hacker news, of course, where there is no controversy or activists or differences in opinion) took and maintain control.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
what features does vMix have, which OBS doesnt, that would be worth switching to a proprietary and paid program instead of a free, open source one?
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
> it is ridiculous to advocate that the solution to a broken system is circumventing the laws can you explain precisely why this is a ridiculous concept? it seems like an extremely reasonable course of action in some situations.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
vpn, piracy sites, government-level blocking, etc. is all pretty damn on-topic for hacker news. the "wrong" types of political content, for this site, are the ones that have nothing to do with technology of any kind, and spark no
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
The fine was issued in the Netherlands, by a Netherlands government body, regarding kids from the Netherlands. The predominately spoken language in the Netherlands is not English.
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
years and years and years of ptorrone's posts aren't capitalized, though. it's not like they suddenly decided today, for the purposes of this post, to change their writing style. in any case, i prefer to decide whether someon
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by zxcvasd 8mo ago
valuing style over substance is folly.

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