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Comment · 15 days ago
I've used a Tang server to provide encryption keys. Since I don't take my laptop out of my home much, I like the idea that only a passphrase can unlock my machine outside of my home network. It works well for home servers also, and I don't need a bunch of secure boot and storage pcr configs that get mucked up during bios updates.

My model of defense is.if someone is in my house taking all my stuff, I'm probably owned though a smash and grab yields nothing. Plan accordingly for your needs I guess.

Comment · 2 months ago
I’ve been wondering this if you buy up all the memory you can ensure the competition cannot compete with huge investment raising the bar for competition. Of course this all sounds all conspiracy theory. Though without a place to power this or put it makes me wonder this.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
How does this impact security researchers? Or just student developers or tinkerers? This all seem like bad idea.

I would imagine security researcher could be registered developer but I could also see autobans if that is a thing to their accounts making life complicated.

Also some folks just being locked out of the due to government censorship etc..

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Possibly for systems that don’t support post quantum. Im guessing plenty of legacy systems that need to be wrapped by something like this for site to sites in the government.
Comment · 1 year ago
I still have my original Adam in the box, and I’ve been meaning to try and get it running. It was the first computer we had at home, and I have amazing memories of playing Buck Rogers on tape and other cartridge classics.

We ended up with two systems because the first one died along the way in 1983 or '84.

This brings back fond memories, including the desk my father built, which had a monitor stand and a cutout for the keyboard.

I feel lucky to this day that my parents invested in the Adam.

Comment · 1 year ago
I hope it doesn’t. At times need to run windows stuff and just prefer to just start a vm without networking. I wonder how this impacts people who do testing. Maybe they just have domain joined machines or just use windows accounts.
Comment · 2 years ago
I fully agree with distracted driving, but also think this beyond the car size though. I think those should be limited, but will be met with that’s going to be met with resistance. The US is just completely hostile to pedestrians both in how they build roads and how drivers think of pedestrians. I’m all for rules for car sizes for other reasons but this is cultural problem the US has and needs to solve.

This last month I’ve been in around Paris and felt SO much safer walking and respected by drivers than I do walking around my house a city in twin cities.

Comment · 2 years ago
Definitely
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
This also where I landed with Brave as it seems to be working great for all of devices. Runs smoothly and I don’t really have a problem full with many sites on aggressive mode. I’ve had the sync’ing feature go flaky a few times, but over all good experience.

My big gripe with FF honestly is the lack for PWA ( progressive web apps) If they resurrect that effort I’d give it a shot. I’m not really interested in running another browser for that feature.

Also the brave privacy settings are remarkably better “by default” across all my devices. I’m sure Firefox can be configured to be hardened I just have other ways I’d like to spend my time. Heck I’d even pay for better option for all my devices.

Comment · 3 years ago
Well that answers why my keys no longer work on recent re-install. Ended up having to get grey market key. Figured after 10 years wasn’t the worst expense, but the amount of adverts and telemetry they gather for the price not sure it’s even worth the 15 dollars.
Comment · 3 years ago
As someone who is just engineer / architect and has to have all my trades approved and accounts granted access to reporting for not only my self but my partner. it really annoys me that these folks are not under more scrutiny. I don’t even have really any information to what these government officials do.

This to me falls under the “rules for thee not me.”

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