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> if you are in the context of a "known-plaintext attack", i.e. where besides the cipher that was used you know both the non-encrypted text and its corresponding encrypted text I k…

There's a lot going on in this story and interview, but I'd like to narrow in on one aspect I consider pretty core, and that I'm pretty disappointed Joel didn't push back on: > Gar…

> Social credit? Or money credit? Neither. Above poster is wrong. You don't require anything to own a house or car in the US except your own cash/equiv. If you wish to borrow other…

This is a very brief blog blurb linking the original Tech Radar article that got fairly extensive discussion on HN a week and a half ago [0]. Potentially quite an important one tho…

Actual court document [0]. The topic of grant funding under the Trump Administration has gotten some significant discussion on HN over the last year, such as (chronologically): htt…

> the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house? Just to chime in agreeing with sibling comments, the issue is when it's not about just your …

We live in the age of Wireguard (and Nebula and Tailscale etc). Not being home is not an issue for accessing stuff at home in the slightest, no other public service port exposure r…

> Jellyfin doesn't even have a tvOS client. Huh? I find Infuse to be a very solid tvOS/iOS client, and they added built-in support for Jellyfin over 6 years ago [0]. It's right the…

I'd like to add some extra strong emphasis/support to your post: > Being ahead of the game is never a bad thing, especially when small towns are so easily exploited due to income a…

> I can't think of any industry that has a market leader that only gets further away from their competition forever. You're on Hacker News and you can't think of silicon fabricatio…

> however using an old PC as a router almost certainly wastes an enormous among of power I don't think you're quite right on this, or at least you're imagining using something inap…

> Any service or product delivered at a loss seems pretty plainly anti-competitive. You have to get into the weeds though on what exactly counts as a "product delivered". Like, App…

> Starlink satellites are just routers to ground stations. You are very out of date on your knowledge here. When it first launched yes, Starlink sats purely acted as "bent pipes" s…

I also just tried this as well, sending an email from a Migadu-based account to one at both Gmail and MXRoute using Mail.app under macOS 15.7.7. Neither included any private IP add…

> I’m in the “we should protect kids online” camp, but I am not sure there’s a real way to do it without compromising privacy for everyone. Of course there is, it's easy! You take …

...yes, really? Gun fire is indeed stupendously, dangerously loud, which is why we have suppressors and heavy hearing protection for them. And there are indeed significant public/l…

> Apple is a digital services company that happens to sell hardware. Their big money maker is their app store, and no Linux user is ever going to buy apps from the app store. You d…

A perfect theoretical filesystem can still have subjective user configurable choices though right? Like case sensitivity, UTF normalization, checksum hash function, extra copies of…

OK, setting aside the possibility this is some sort of joke/sarcasm I can't quite get, and the absolute wtf of this "scenario" which doesn't exist and all the ways it cannot exist …

> privacy does not matter when there are rampant black operations being conducted which violates human dignity in every sense of the term. You have this completely backwards. The t…

At the time I write this parent comment is grey and I don't think it deserves to be. Some people may be down voting around the blanket statement about "US elites" despite a lot of …

> And it raises the heat outside of buildings. No it doesn't. Seriously, where does this meme even come from? It should be pretty obvious just from a solar insolation map that AC i…

Yes, at least in theory changing this is straight forward. Though: > You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done. I will note I have one Mac with one old user accou…