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Account abandoned due to Daddy Dang personally disliking my sarcasm or tone, not because guidelines were being broken.

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DEADMINCE··on Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
The solution is pretty easy - put caps on various types of growth/income/profit for corporations.
DEADMINCE··on My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
Why not use bubblelwrap or selinux or something? Docker is overkill for this.
DEADMINCE··on My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
> I had heard multiple stories of how long that's supposed to take but it really doesn't.

It used to, but that's why they are only stories now.

DEADMINCE··on My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
It's more work to switch to podman than it is to just configure docker to run rootless.
DEADMINCE··on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
Advancements are always foisted upon the common man without their consent.
DEADMINCE··on Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
It's lacking in a lot of freedoms though. It might not be at China or Russia levels but it's getting further from other first world countries also.
DEADMINCE··on Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
They could sequester juries if that were a concern for them.
DEADMINCE··on Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
This is why a decentralized internet is so important.

Ultimately, governments should not be able to decide which sites or content are OK for citizens to visit.

DEADMINCE··on Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
> In the UK we have no constitution we rely on an independent judiciary.

And we see how much weaker that system is. The country and similar countries like Australia are significantly less free as a result.

DEADMINCE··on Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
Your lecturing here seems to be making a lot of insulting assumptions unnecessarily. It's probably best to try and avoid giving 'advice' like this.
DEADMINCE··on Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
> I said nothing that goes against the context.

You mentioned the EU as a whole but the point is it isn't and is indeed widely varied when it comes to the sorts of laws you are relying on to make your argument.

DEADMINCE··on Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
I absolutely think they were caused by too much democracy. Most people are not equipped and may never be so to vote or have a say on the most important issues. They need to be managed by those that are capable.
DEADMINCE··on Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
Yeah, there's no VPS with a gigabit connection for free.
DEADMINCE··on Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year
> Do you think mostly everyone can convert from km to miles?

It's such a simple calculation that anyone from western europe or a commonwealth country or the US should be able to do so back and forth with ease. Same for feet and meters.

DEADMINCE··on A forged Apple employee badge
Well, the base claim was sure, not anything regarding the staging of photos though.
DEADMINCE··on A forged Apple employee badge
About the base claim sure, not about anything regarding the staging of photos though.
DEADMINCE··on A forged Apple employee badge
> I wrote that because it seemed like the binder was unnecessary information posed specifically in the photo to try to gain my trust

As opposed to just being something he grabbed to use as a quick kind of table? I mean out of the two possibilities of just quickly throwing something on the couch to use as a platform to take a photo or purposely trying to set up a staged scene to look 'casual', I think Occam would say the first is significantly more likely.

Nothing wrong with having suspicions or gut feelings, but this just seemed a stretch too far to me personally. Nice article though!

DEADMINCE··on It's always TCP_NODELAY
The difference is SELinux shouldn't be disabled.
DEADMINCE··on Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
> When the subject is brought up anywhere with experts it is usually dismissed with a bunch of ad-hominem attacks which is just not helpful for anyone trying to learn

Because you're trying to 'learn' from an unreliable source spouting fiction. It's like someone learning homeopathy being frustrated that doctors dismiss it with passion.

DEADMINCE··on A forged Apple employee badge
The author is a little paranoid IMO. Sure given his suspicions I assumed this was more a case of a broken clock being correct twice a day.

For example:

> But, again again, I had a weird feeling — this series of photos was trying too hard. That binder labelled “BILLS 200[0]—2010”, conveniently flipped upside down for casual authenticity? Why would you put that in these photos unless you were trying a bit too hard to make your case?

That's just ridiculous.

DEADMINCE··on What's New in Neovim 0.10
> because he used emacs and wanted to argue with someone about emacs in the office

That's weird to me as in more than 20+ years I don't think I've ever been around people arguing that in real life. It's always been more of a meme to me than anything real.

DEADMINCE··on Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (RFC 896 – Congestion Control)
Not in context.
DEADMINCE··on AI is the reason interviews are harder now
> The vast majority of candidates are like me - some combination of time constraints and lack of superior intelligence will prevent them for excelling in those interviews or even trying.The vast majority of candidates are like me - some combination of time constraints and lack of superior intelligence will prevent them for excelling in those interviews or even trying.

Surely that's an attitude thing more than a true limitation? Just because the hill is steeper for you doesn't mean you can't still get to the top.

DEADMINCE··on Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year
Honestly pretty much everyone, even Europeans should be able to convert miles to KMs without having to expend any effort.
DEADMINCE··on I coded something dumb and I'm proud of it
Because it wasn't always.
DEADMINCE··on Statement on CVE-2024-27322
> Imagine a coworker fixed a random JIRA ticket which may be "switching to night mode does not work on a certain page" and then named it "Nightfall" and a logo and a landing page and a lot of bragging in the next periodic meeting.

Well, that would be hilarious.

DEADMINCE··on My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
> making my existing setup more secure and robust.

The first step should be to not be so entirely reliant on Docker.

DEADMINCE··on Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode
Yup, a pretty backwards law. Solution is to use a wiped device and only have servers in the US to store info.
DEADMINCE··on Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode
As a non-citizen, I don't think you have enough rights to really fight back, and you could risk upsetting a petty border agent who may decide to 'punish' you and maybe deny entry.

Thankfully I've learned to back up and wipe devices before travel and then only restore after landing.

DEADMINCE··on Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
> The issue here is that how "illegal" something is depends heavily on where you live.

The context of the discussion was the EU.

And the point stands. For 99% of people VPNs offer privacy even against the government, that would need to meet a high burden of proof and require a warrant to break that privacy.

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