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Comment · 8 months ago
In my case, highlighting a16z is why.

Organic garlic never talked up a partnership with <society-scale nasty characters>.

Comment · 8 months ago
You need to learn what that phrase means.
Comment · 8 months ago
That's not selling out. They explain that it's to combat abuse and that this was not their first choice.

By all means move to a different registrar, but deliberate honestly. They are not requiring ID/face scans for the same reason Discord and Roblox are, as your framing suggests.

Comment · 10 months ago
In Qubes you use VMs to separate your banking environment from the one where you pull npm dependencies and the one where you open untrusted PDFs.

Networking also happens in its own VM, and you can have multiple VMs dedicated to networking.

Much lower memory footprint running mirage firewall, and an attack surface orders of magnitude smaller (compared to a VM running a Linux distribution purely for networking).

Comment · 10 months ago
There's a man who hasn't tried running qubes-mirage-firewall.

Unikernels don't work for him; there are many of us who are very thankful for them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Did you get a genuine key? I never had one fail on me.

The immobilizer is the single best piece of technology for preventing car theft. If you create a backdoor for bypassing it, you'll end up like Hyundai/Kia which decided to sell cars without the immobilizer in recent years and which have turned into a joke in the minds of potential customers.

It does not require a battery in most cases and is separate from the keeloq system that controls your car's doors.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you. I should have read to the end, and I'm glad they're planning to support backups stored on their users' media.
Comment · 1 year ago
This BS is why I completely stopped donating to the signal foundation.

The messages are mine, not theirs, and yet they refuse to allow me to handle them how I deem fit.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you're hooking up an LLM to your production infrastructure, the vulnerability is you.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m in the same boat.

Love the compartmentalization and being able to route VMs to different network backends and the ability to create ephemeral domains for quick tasks.

Thank you Joanna, Marek, Andrew, and all the wonderful contributors. I couldn’t live without Qubes.

Comment · 1 year ago
You heard wrong. Mullvad is the best ;)
Comment · 2 years ago
Nothing adverse besides widespread outages and revenue collapse.

To be clear the revenue collapse might be unrelated to the full but I'd call it adverse.

Comment · 2 years ago
"If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve."

You haven't talked to me :D

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know, there's no mention of pig skulls and prime ministers.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds like the issue was the environment, not the pens.

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