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Comment #48811531
If they shut down their gaming operation and instead decide to stuff money into bonds, where would that $5B even come from? As said elsewhere in the thread: > You’re saying that th…
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Comment #48186310
I agree we'd all be better off if SpaceX figured out how to send Musk to Mars ASAP.
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Comment #48068411
None, unless someone is renewing their certificates only 2 hours before they expire, which is a dumb thing to do.
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Comment #48068401
That's why they take incidents like this seriously and stop issuance until it's fixed. They could get kicked out of trusted roots otherwise.
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Comment #47037575
What do you even mean by LLM help??
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Comment #47037562
And imagine the numbers if downgrading was possible...
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Comment #46941349
It's just like gambling addiction.
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Comment #46470983
Why are you even encrypting? What's the threat model it's protecting against? Clearly it's not "prevent me from reading your data" since you have access to the keys anyway.
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Comment #46446536
KDE Connect sends data directly between your devices, while QuickClip sends data through QuickClip servers using useless encryption.
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Comment #46392209
They made significant changes to the bootloader with the explicit goal of allowing boot of third-party operating systems.
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Comment #46028895
Or you can just sign your Linux kernel from macOS recovery mode, which is what the Asahi Linux installer does already. No need for weird hacks. You also don't have "kernel access" …
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Comment #46026869
If you're new to the topic, this is a good place to start https://support.apple.com/en-lamr/guide/security/welcome/web
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Comment #46021297
That's exactly how LLMs are so effective: the text looks impressive to people who don't possess enough knowledge to make an accurate judgement. Meanwhile actual researchers with Ap…
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Comment #46021168
This article is definitely the latter, not just "fixing grammar".
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Comment #46020936
The bootloader doesn't even have a USB stack capable of reading external storage.
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Comment #46020575
And then the author posts it himself to Hacker News. Nah, that's not opsec.
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Comment #46020522
They just fixed the KBAG thing. This quickly went from Brandolini's Law to Cunningham's Law. Learn how Apple's boot process works by explaining it wrong and waiting for people to c…
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Comment #46020368
There's many factual errors in this AI slop. For example, it says quite unambiguously that the bootloader is encrypted directly with the GID key (loading the LLB ciphertext into th…
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Comment #46020275
Or maybe fully AI-generated. There's many factual errors in the article too.
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Comment #45485754
DigitalOcean lost some of my files in their object storage too: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/tmnyhddpkyvf Using a commercial provider is not a guarantee.
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Comment #45434374
> Not sure why very nice people on the internet are apologizing for laws that prohibit ripping off other people's work. These laws are very important. Remind me, who at Meta and ot…
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Comment #44944601
Yes exactly, Wayback Machine can use the warc files despite them being blocked for direct download.
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Comment #43009280
Doesn't the Google Photos app do that?
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Comment #42509199
There's no such thing as "update the original video" on YouTube. Unless you're like, Linus Tech Tips size and contact your YouTube "account manager"; and there's probably limits to…
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Comment #42372077
Are you sure you got a serverLock and not a clientLock?