>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.…
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…
>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.…
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…
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…
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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.
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…
>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…
well, what happens is netflix gives blender real cash. and thats the entirety of the translation
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"…
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"…
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…
><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 doubt…
my mom can use signal no problem. she doesnt know what half the words in your comment mean, though.
>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 seriously all…
>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!
>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.…
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…
>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.…
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…
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…
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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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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…
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>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…
well, what happens is netflix gives blender real cash. and thats the entirety of the translation
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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"…
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"…
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…
><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 doubt…
my mom can use signal no problem. she doesnt know what half the words in your comment mean, though.
>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 seriously all…
>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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