brians

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Chief Architect, Information Security, Akamai Technologies. I do not speak for my employer.
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Comment · 1 month ago
If you don't even explain neato vs fdp, what's the point?
Comment · 1 month ago
Yup. This tells me the AWU is not the adventure watch for me. I love my Apple Watch (8? I think?) and I love my Garmin Instinct Solar with 40d battery life. One of these is for daily wear as a communicator; the other is for weeks in the mountains or offshore.
Comment · 2 months ago
Those are largely domestic, though some have quiet foreign support. And there’s no law for designating domestic groups as terrorist. The FBI does a ton of work here though
Comment · 2 months ago
That’s a Mac bug if so—it should be always using dumb udp/53 for captive detection, not some fancy DoH thing.
Comment · 2 months ago
Well. Facebook has invested a fortune in proving that its systems follow expected properties of respecting consent—that all the data flows that happen are permitted. That turns out to be helpful for them in avoiding fines.
Comment · 2 months ago
Actually that makes it really easy to tell. If one side were very rare maybe we’d miss a subtle effect. But at 3:1 we should see plenty!
Comment · 2 months ago
This text is clearly AI and not your own words. What did you actually learn?
Comment · 7 months ago
I think any browser will allow it but not allow data read back.
Comment · 7 months ago
They offer it as an option but default it to false! This is still a --footgun option but it’s the least unsafe version I’ve seen yet! Well done, Apfel authors.
Comment · 7 months ago
I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to make changes.

Some such projects use CORS to allow read back as well. I haven’t read Apfel’s code yet, but I’m registering the experiment before performing it.

Comment · 8 months ago
I do not agree with your interpretation of copyright law. It does ban copies: there has to be information flow from the original to the copy for it to be a "copy." Spontaneous generation of the same content is often taken by the courts to be a sign that it's purely functional, derived from requirements by mathematical laws.

Patent law is different and doesn't rely on information flow in the same way.

Comment · 9 months ago
The US FDA requires that schools not serve whole milk or any products containing normal and natural saturated fats, and instead serve “low fat” versions which literally remove the fats and replace them with sugar.

You say nobody is doing this, but all the subsidized meals for my kids do this.

Comment · 10 months ago
A major difference is when we have to read and understand it because of a bug. Perhaps the LLM can help us find it! But abstraction provides a mental scaffold
Comment · 10 months ago
No. You can always take the MIT-licensed source. And GnuPG got used through a CLI “API” anyway.
Comment · 10 months ago
Having something that read everything I read and could talk with me about it, help remember things and synthesize? That’s awesome. Follow links and check references.

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