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>Windows Recall data mining surveillance screenshots Some of you people are just too far gone to turn off a setting.
Turn on. It's off by default. But people on HN, reddit and twitter are too stupid.
For now. This is Microsoft we’re talking about. Needing a Microsoft account to log in to Windows used to be optional.
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I thought it was argument from expertise? And while you’re on the topic of epistemology truth isn’t determined by how common an idea is.
He's not an expert on vaccines or infectious disease and pushed known provably false narratives during the pandemic.
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I barely know what SSH keys are, but last week when I was asked to provide one for an stfp site at work they said create a pair using putty. Well I googled putty and found a couple different .org domains, one who which said it was legit but not official, and another which said it was official but looked wildly out of date. Neither one I could find a download for Mac that worked. The one I tried gave a scary “we no lo…
If you hadn’t discovered this already with you mac CLI commands, OpenSSH from OpenSSL ‘ssh-keygen’ command is a good way to create SSH keys in ClI and ships in many OSes or is a lightweight download. The OpenSSL website name is unambiguous, which is a benefit. https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith...
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No one in the history of humanity has compiled a tool from source in windows
Apologies, detecting sarcasm on the Internet is always tricky, but relevant to this discussion I have even gone so far as to make a CMake descriptor for PuTTY because I was compiling on Windows to fix some quirk that I didn't like (it was so many years ago I don't recall, but I did recall thinking "whhhhyyyyy!!!" to people that do cutesy home-grown build systems) However, it seems that the universe heard my pleas htt…
From the PuTTY FAQ: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#... Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name? No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into goo…
… Well, I guess that's what they've done. Surely nobody could ever have been this naïve, though; it's not as though Google massaging results into unusable mess is anything new.
Simon Tatham's most important work is keeping its page: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Try Mines, you never have to guess.
PuTTY's use of an antiquated website, bizzarro url and difficult to find binaries has created trust issues for no apparent good reason.
The homepage and the downloads page both seem fine to me.
(BTW, the collection of one-player puzzle games is super!)
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Why would that be disregarding safety? There's no extra text you can put on the website that would prove anything else (apart from messages signed by a known key, but honestly nobody would check those). Certificates don't provide any identity validation in practice.
Certificates have fields for location, company or name of person.
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> on their weird "hachyderm" social media post thing At this point tech people should understand what Mastodon is. For their own benefit. It's been years.
10 MM MAU estimated. Not exactly foundational to online discourse.