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Comment · 1 month ago
It’s crazy to read all the comments basically dismissing everything. It’s either complete regulatory capture or no regulation at all. How about at least some reasonable regulation? Fine, assume the CEOs don’t care about safety and want regulatory capture.

We can ignore that and push for something reasonable. In other industries such as housing construction we have building codes without making housing construction a monopoly. We don’t just let random people build nuclear power plants and then go “if you think it’s dangerous, stop doing it.” People are going to do dangerous things even when they know it’s dangerous. They also know it’s dangerous.

Comment · 1 year ago
It states that it doesn’t require major changes because it all happens under the SSH protocol. A new program is needed on the client to sign in and you can already run a custom program on the server to authorize the key.
Comment · 1 year ago
I bought these and they are great. They strike a balance of programmable, but have a kit. Relatively simple for a novice
Comment · 1 year ago
I am looking for a similar service that turns any document (PNG, PDf, DocX) into JSON (preserving the field relationships). I tried with ChatGPT, but hallucinations are common. Does anything exist?
Comment · 2 years ago
Aren’t they using a NoSQL store? They migrated from Casandra to Scylla DB
Comment · 2 years ago
The prize is very underwhelming. If they really want people to spend effort on it, they need to make the prize worth it.
Comment · 2 years ago
How does this compare to other GCM alternatives such as AES-SIV and AES GCM-SIV?
Comment · 2 years ago
To be a deterrent, it just needs to curb some percentage of behavior. Not stop it completely. Do you think people are murdering at the same rate as if there was no punishment? It could be, but I would bet the numbers would go up significantly.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are some really good findings about TikTok APK used in many apps. In addition I agree that better privacy laws that would affect all companies, even US ones, would be the ideal.

The statement that this ban won't help is completely wrong though. Passing universal privacy laws will take years, if ever. Banning TikTok has bipartisan appeal. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Tiktok can still influence people through the feed and collect even more data through the app itself.

Obviously we should work towards a privacy law around this, but this is a reasonable first step to address the most dangerous actor.

Comment · 3 years ago
I envy your experiences. I personally have had the opposite experience. It’s important to remember that your personal experience may not be the same as others. As this movement is very popular in the general public, my guess is many others have had bad experiences with trying to repair their device (i.e. $500+ for a simple repair from the manufacturer).

I personally don’t care for Louis and he may be a jerk as you suggested, but I try to look at ideas instead of people. Some really bad people have had good ideas. If you follow ideas instead of people, it’s not an issue if you agree with someone on one topic and disagree with almost everything else they have said.

Comment · 3 years ago
Don’t attribute to malice what can be equally be explained by stupidity
Comment · 4 years ago
This is a horrible abuse of the DMCA. HackerRank does not own the copyright to independent solutions.
Comment · 4 years ago
There is some useful information here, but saying docs are more secure than introspection makes no sense. The person can learn about your file upload endpoint through docs. Security through obscurity is not a reasonable security strategy.

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