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TL;DR Is US continues to change policy without any clear guidance nor facilitation. Impractical to comply. https://apnews.com/article/us-tariffs-goods-services-suspens...

I'm a personal and professional advocate from r passkeys, yet I must acknowledge that your criticisms and skepticism are valid. I don't see this as a flaw in the passkeys concept s…

This rebuttalakes no sense to me. What you cite is about about transport encryption. App -> Server. The end of the process is that the receiver (Telegram servers) receives a decryp…

The simplified terminology is not for you or I as technologists. It is for the general consumer market. Yes, public/private key cryptography has been a thing for decades, but it ha…

You are completely correct and I really wish you weren't.

MS ToDo was hewn from the corpse of Wunderlist. It's the same "ding".

Yes! I dove into this (and later, Moondlander) because I have mobility issues and had to reduce travel, but the resulting 90WPM and (unprovably) faster coding have been awesome sid…

> Yeah it's a neat idea but I struggle to think of good use-cases [...] If I'm working on a service [...] I suspect that's simply not the use-case they're targeting. You're thinkin…

That's an alarming equation. The harder you lie, the less likely you'll be called out on it. What else in life works that way?

Yes, thank you. A mindset which thinks that documentation is wasted due to a need to constantly update, is cousin to the mindset which thinks that software, once written, is a purc…

They most certainly do not "handle it just fine". They are highly scammable, they know it, and it's "solved" my moving as much of the burden and repercussions onto the consumer as …

What wouldn't be the 5th time I've heard such stories, but I don't think it's in any way specific to IBM. Employers like that want any OT you do to be dedicated to THEIR endeavor, …

My team of consultants will write Android apps, and the customer takes ownership of the code base when we're done. My wife would leave me if she knew how much I love Kotlin, but I …

I haven't done Windows development for a long time, but I think that this may be an overstatement, at least on that platform. You need to have cursor focus to receive key events, r…

I do not see this as an actual rebuttal to the idea of it being a backdoor. The article makes two points: 1. Ultimately, verification falls to the user, so even in a secure system,…

Sometimes PDFs store actual character data (like vector graphics), and sometimes they store static images. Last I checked (admittedly a few years ago), Word conversion only works o…

Following that statement, the author spends the rest of the article explaining how the people asserting supremacy often do not see it as such. It is an implicit and unwitting reali…

The striking difference here, at least to me, is the a matter of scale and delay. Aphids and fungus are smaller than the ants, and have shorter lifecycles than the ants themselves.…

By what reasoning? On the surface I would assume that to be false. Please elaborate?

Sorta. The basis for your concern underlines one of the problems. When such gaffs happen in engineering, the firm is blamed. Within the firm, individual actors are blamed. In softw…

Well, yeah, that's one of her few points in this tiny article.

Your .bat files still work, and you can use the legacy terminal if you I insist. All they did was change the default terminal from the archaic one to newer one they first introduce…

Steam.

Sounds like a joke, yet it's spot-on.

Do you do much C programming? If I put my "Java goggles" on, the first, "untasty" snippet looks so very obviously to be the right way to do it. But... If I put my "C goggles" on, t…