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jrexilius
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Architect, engineer, hacker, amateur hardware geek. Currently working on communications security problems. personal site: jasonrexilius.com

  1. This is an very user-powerful feature. WHY the fuck would they disable it? It basically gives you two buffers, middle click for dynamic selection-paste. repetitive-chunks of text can use the more cumbersome ctl-c/v. I've been using this feature since before linux was a thing. When I teach it to young engineers now they find it quite useful. STOP trying to turn everything into a mimic of a damn smart phone OS!
  2. Last time I played with Moremicro they didn't work with real 802.11s and had some hokey proprietary hierarchal tree topology that required a main basestation gateway. ad-hoc, peer-to-peer was broken. They finally fixed their driver?
  3. I live in Chicago and it is a BIG city. I've seen, in real life, none of this. But the online reports are legion. I think, like a lot of things, you can choose what reality you want to inhabit and find anecdata online to support any of it. During the Obama adminstration the right wing whackos came up with theories about black helicopters and UN camps and the rest. This may be _slightly_ more factual as the Orange Troll is more purposefully playing a media game, but I'd still take these reports with a grain of salt.
  4. I'm confused, is the assertion here that this is the first time silicon valley tech people and their companies got involved in partisan politics? Is it really short memory or selective memory?

    example: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-...

  5. No, most don't. I've used that approach in the past for privacy and in recent years most services started blocking it with no alternatives.
  6. The easiest, fastest way to hack this together would be a raspberry pi zero with a display hat. It'd be chunky, but it would keep all the TOTP shared secrets off of other less reliable devices.
  7. I'm a bit confused.. are people suggesting that the poor pay in the EU is a _good_ thing? These aren't lawn maintenance or car mechanics here. We're talking about saving peoples lives. I would think the people in the EU would feel a bit of shame for paying them so poorly..

    [disclaimer] my wife works in pediatric cardiology and saving kids lives seems worth a hell of a lot more than a software jockey job. The dead baby days are the worst and make a rough merge or code deployment appear as trivial as they really are. The EU should be ashamed of paying their people so poorly. None of that is to say that our system isn't broken and wasteful. It certainly needs fixing. But paying critical care givers less is a really bad suggestion.

  8. I have taken to appending "DO NOT START WRITING CODE." to almost every prompt.. I try to get it to analyze and ask questions and summarize what its going to do first, and even then it will sometimes ignore that and jump into writing (the wrong) code. A big part of the wrangling seems to be getting it to analyze or reason before charging down a wrong path.
  9. This is such an important distinction that gets lost so often...
  10. Graphene has been the best alternative I've found so far.
  11. yeah, had no idea what that word jumble was meant to convey..
  12. The Netguard app worked well for me for that on vanilla burners and such. No root, "VPN" that I had block pretty much everything but the browser and Signal.
  13. I just installed Graphene on a new pixel. I've only used it for two days, but I got that same feeling of "finding buried treasure in your backyard" I got when I first installed Linux in 1999. I can't believe this amazing software is free in all senses of the word. It is a TON of work and they got so much right. The security and usability settings give all the grainular control I've known was possible and wanted for a long time.

    I see some core team on this thread, so just wanted to say THANK YOU! Awesome job! Keep fighting for the users!

    I'm totally the wrong person to offer recommendations on mobile, but so far it works very well for me, but then, I use almost no third party apps, and none of them are Play store only. My only complaint is the hardware (outside of their control).

  14. There are certain threat/risk models where having multiple profiles might be helpful (non-forensic examination by an offical at a securtiy screening kinda scenario). But you're right, it's nuanced, requires know-how by the user, and possibly a foot-gun for some caught unawares. NOT an easy problem to solve. Personally, as a user, I'd like the ability to be able to choose that option in the instances where I needed it, but it's likey a TON of work for a very small actual user community who needs it.
  15. I love these. Kinda insane they got it packaged so cheaply.
  16. When cryptocurrency first started getting attention (2010,2011-ish?) I was so excited that a potential micropayments system would come out of it and solve this problem. Sadly it did not go that way..
  17. The thing that sucks about it is maybe his english is bad (not his native language) so he relies on LLM output for his posts. Im inclined to cut people slack for this. But the rub is that it is indistinguishable from spam/slop generated for marketing/ads/whatever.

    Or it's possible that he is one of those people that _realy_ adopted LLMs into _all_ their workflow, I guess, and he thinks the output is good enough as is, because it captured his general points?

    LLMs have certainly damaged trust in general internet reading now, that's for sure.

  18. The main flaw is the enforced duopoly of iOS/Android for everyones favorite personal surveillance assistant. The secondary flaw is centralized control over transport layer access (internet really isn't decentralized anymore). And the last flaw is proprietary hadrware that controls the OS and transport layer access.
  19. Perfect summary ".. there is still value to be found in creating things that serve humanity in the real world; our humblest three dimensions."

    Great read and echoes my conversion from web software to wholistic-product (which includes hardware).

  20. Pump the stock up a bit after the "accounting errors"?.. Seems like the CEO is trying ot slip out the door before things crash?

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crowdstrike-probed-over-32m-i...

  21. Amazing work! Is the primary goal here to allow more production use of python in an embedded context, rather than just prototyping?
  22. That has to be one of the best comments I've read on here in a while.. a nice chuckle for the morning.
  23. Forgive my ignorance on this but does his assertion that a CSPRNG is all you need after an initial truly random seed, hold up against theoretical quantum attacks? If not, then I could see the need for very large/fast sources of entropy for OTP uses and such?
  24. We need one of these in Austin!
  25. Thank you for this, and for the project!

    One feature request: as I have never dug into the internals I don't know if this is feasible, but long ago Firefox had a very simple extension that exposed a button that could disable javascript (without a reload of the whole page). It appeared to be native or built-in capability as it used to be a config option if I remember correctly. I have not found anything that works well in current firefox, perhaps it's not technically possible anymore? But being able to disable javascript, ideally on per-tab basis, is super helpful.

  26. This is a great way to frame it with the caveat that you've done a fair bit of homework to support your assertion. And the other thing I would add is context-aware time padding. The "deadline" should be adjusted to respect the bosses schedule AND the potential impact. i.e. if it could hit production, give them more time. If it can't easily be rolled back, give them more time, etc.

    But in general, if you are an adult, competent at your job, taking initiative, and have spent a bit of time thinking through the second and possibly third order effects, this is great.

  27. The first part of this, where you told it to ask YOU questions, rather than laboriously building prompts and context yourself was the magic ticket for me. And I doubt I would have stumbled on that sorta inverse logic on my own. Really great write up!
  28. So, in the context of the US, yes, those trends are reversing, so it is apropos to examine it (see article content). I am fully aware of the tendency of grumpy old people decrying the amoral youth, my point is that the degree of nihilsim seems qualitatively different than 70's burn-out, 80's goth, or 90's grunge, or what have you. It appears more like a kind of defeatism than rebellion (the more normal youth passtime). Who knows, maybe during the great depression the younger generation was in a similar place, don't know, not THAT old ;-) But it seems less a case of "those old peoples values aren't MY values" and more of a "there are no values" differnce than previous generatonal divides.
  29. Me to. I suspect its a combination of demographics and sub culture thing (I'm old, and out of the loop on a lot of pop culture and sub-variants). I have noticed a very high degree of nihilism and a sort of "morals are just a role you play in a game" kinda mentality with the younger crowd that looks and acts _very_ different to past generations though..
  30. So UK gov is demanding similar access as China? Not a good look for a supposed free democracy..

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