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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 …