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isjamesalive
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Comment #45893202
I think they meant in the sense of it being worn away and destroyed as an intended use. Adjective definition 3 from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ablative
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Comment #45409760
I'm assuming the cure for paracetamol-related autism is equal parts bleach, ivermectin paste and hot sauce.
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Comment #42749524
The user’s password would protect the disk’s key, but would not necessarily derive it, I think.
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Comment #42643570
> No good music players for MacOS for instance Slightly OT but Doppler is quite good in my opinion.
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Comment #41006581
My physical workstation (a Precision laptop) was affected and a single reboot fixed it. Most of my colleagues weren’t as lucky.
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Comment #40738878
To be fair, the only place the words ‘open’ and ‘source‘ appear in the readme are once in a sub-heading, where it’s phrased ‘open-source’. It’s clearly labelled ELv2. Possibly more…
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Comment #40717595
I don’t feel optimistic about this.
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Comment #40608713
I’ve been using NearlyFreeSpeech.NET since for 15 years or so and have never needed to consider moving.
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Comment #40597359
> QEMU is a large project and doesn't have much formal design or API documentation. This is bonkers to me considering how it’s used in industry.
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Comment #37816227
Which comments sounded entitled? I didn't get that from any quotes in TFA.
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Comment #36737063
> if you accept no input, you can't attack that system But this is a side channel attack, right?
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Comment #34307416
Do you mean Truffle Security or Microsoft? Bonus points for any explanation (purely out of interest).
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Comment #31872449
This looks cool, and thank you for using rust and not js/npm.
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Comment #31404835
100% agreed. I switched from Google to Fastmail about 8 years ago and it has been wonderful. In that that time: * I have not had to worry that I’ll inadvertently trigger an account…
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Comment #30659910
+1 for bit/vaultwarden. Nice mobile apps, nice browser plugins, nice web interface. Regular updates, easy to install. Using it for a year + (two years?) no issues. Super grateful.
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Comment #28554853
eBay forced its Australian users to pay with PayPal a few years ago: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/accc-probe-of-ebays-paypal... I’m still annoyed about that.
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Comment #26683903
> This vulnerability was reported to Apple in Dec 2019, and it got patched somewhere in 2020. I don’t know why a CVE-2019 ID is given. FYI: The year part of a CVE ID is either when…
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Comment #25574070
Really scary. Whenever I see the latest Boston Dynamics video, I’m always thinking ‘and now imagine it’s hunting you’.
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Comment #25223212
TL;DR: What is wrong with the world that software that prints text to the screen has/needs a special project by a megacorp to make it perform/operate acceptably. But you could say …