zzo38computer

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by zzo38computer 4d ago
I mostly agree, although if the manufacturer has a catalog of software (which they have managed to check for quality, classification, etc) that you can optionally use for installing software (which others can also choose to do, e.g. in th
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by zzo38computer 7d ago
(If the message is not displayed, try appending ".json"; in my experience, this works on some Mastodon servers (and some others too) but not others, and works on this one. However, I will repeat it here because it is short enough.
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by zzo38computer 7d ago
Neither authentication nor authorization is solved very well in general, although in some specific cases they are partially solved. For working on a single computer, I think capability-based security with proxy capabilities is helpful for b
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by zzo38computer 9d ago
I think that the fines should be the amount per crime that is being fined, plus the total amount of all revenue from whatever the fines are related to (including indirect, but only counted once).
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by zzo38computer 9d ago
Most TV sets should not normally need microphones, and if they have that in some models (as long as there are models without), then there should be a hardware switch to disable them. However, "continuously sweep home networks, map seco
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by zzo38computer 9d ago
> I have gone and ticked the “stop hiding file extensions” since they were introduced in ~98 (or was it Windows 95?) I think Windows 95, although even selecting that option still hides some file name extensions (such as ".lnk")
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by zzo38computer 11d ago
People have managed (and sometimes do manage) to do without golf courses and refrigerators and dishwashers and cars (and roads for cars) etc, and should learn to be able to manage to do without such things, for multiple reasons.
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by zzo38computer 13d ago
> for UTF-16 you've already got UTF-8 and given that even Microsoft have abandoned BMP strings I doubt any attempt to reintroduce it will get much traction This is not reintroducing anything; the BMP type is already there, although
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by zzo38computer 13d ago
I might have misremembered then, or maybe it was someone else.
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by zzo38computer 13d ago
I do not use the ASN.1 schema format, and have not written a specification for how the new ASN.1X features would be used in the ASN.1 schema format, although someone who is interested to do so might be able to help to write such a thing. (A
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by zzo38computer 14d ago
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Marilyn vos Savant had said that it is acceptable to use a calculator when learing arithmetic (I do not remember the reason given) but that clocks should not be used to learn time. (I might be mista
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by zzo38computer 14d ago
In my opinion, JSON is not the best format and has some problems. Lack of comments is one of the reasons, as they mention in there. Another is the lack of trailing commas (optional trailing commas would be useful for manually written files)
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by zzo38computer 14d ago
That is not quite true, because you have to define "numbers" and "strings" more specifically; JSON uses Unicode strings, and how numbers work depends on the implementation (but are generally finite 64-bit IEEE floating p
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by zzo38computer 14d ago
I do not (and never had) a smart phone, either. I have been at one restaurant that had a QR code to view the menu, although they did provide a iPad to any customer who needed it. (At the time, I was with someone else who had their own iPad.
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by zzo38computer 15d ago
Line Mode Browser has some features that have not been found anywhere else. (In some cases, old version of Firefox can be hacked to support a few of them, such as that URLs entered by the user are treated as relative to the current document
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by zzo38computer 16d ago
I think not quite, although many planets have the names of the gods. They called them planets due to their motion, so it is still called that. The use of the same word in different contexts can have different usages and different (but somet
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by zzo38computer 17d ago
The "system" function (and also "popen" function) are helpful, although they should be used carefully. You should only use it where the entire input (rather than merely a part of it) comes from a trusted source from the
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by zzo38computer 21d ago
> It is a bad design trade-off to send a bunch of header fields on every request just to tell the server all of the possible variations of preference held by the user, particularly when there is a very small chance that any of those dime
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by zzo38computer 21d ago
The web page does not load for me (I cannot reach the server), but the idea to serve Markdown according to the Accept header is possible, although it might be better to do that by changing the file name and adding a header (or a <meta&gt
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by zzo38computer 1mo ago
If the feature can sometimes be useful (including this situation, which some other comments mentioned; but also for other things such as hiding actual secure data), then perhaps it should be made as a setting which can be changed in the set
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by zzo38computer 1mo ago
Mirroring is probably the most important consideration to me. However, if another hosting system is done, there some other ideas of some possible things to do: - Mirroring tickets/discussions as well as the repository (in both directio
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by zzo38computer 1mo ago
I think that archive links should be made to include a cryptographic hash of the file; this can prevent alteration of content (including of the original file that it is copied from) but also can allow alternative sources of the file to be f
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
Working with screen readers is not the only possible problem. It is not very good if you disable loading fonts, or if you disable CSS as well, or using a browser that does not load fonts, etc.
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
I agree that benefits come from fine-grained permissions; however, for the fine permissions of user authentication (and API authentication), I think it would help to use X.509 certificate chains. The certificate can include a extension for
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
Possibly, to add the anti-discrimination law, one of the other things that is protected against discrimination would be the computers (including kind of computers and lack of computers). Then, they cannot expect you to have a app to get a d
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
Different countries use different money, and also if they sell in the place then it can still be a price for the different place, which does not necessarily involve surveillance, nor does it necessarily involve hidden fees, etc. (If they tr
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
My only use of GitHub Actions specifies permissions that only allow it to write to the issue tracker, so if the program it executes (which is the "gh" program) is malicious then the only damage it can cause is to the issue tracker
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
I might su combining Proposal A (but only for contributions (to Debian) that actually involve the output of LLMs/generative-AI or that blindly trust their results) with Proposal C (for everything else). However, in the case of item 4 o
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
I have less than one terabyte of disk space, and less than 10% of the full capacity is in use, so it is closer to being empty. (The hard drives they sell have more capacity than I require.) And, there are files that I do not use (some of wh
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by zzo38computer 2mo ago
I agree with most of what you write, and I think it is good that you mention these details. I also do not use LLM/generative-AI and I do not intend to use LLM/generative-AI, and many of my reasons are like what you have.

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