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But honestly with all the updates I'm putting off I'm probably actually more at risk, and a good password manager implementation will encrypt all passwords client-side so you're not actually uploading your passwords to anyone's computer.
Compared to what ? Very annoying when articles do that, it shows a lack of rigor that does not inspire confidence in the rest of the article.
Also an event being rare does not mean that it is unlikely. For example a 29th of February is a rare event, if you were to think about it in terms of probabilities, there is about 0.07% of chance for it to occur on any given day. So you would conclude that there is about 1-(1-.0007)^(2*365)=40% chance to occur within 2 years. But it is obviously absurd to think this way, since the next 29th of February will happen in 2024, in less than 2 years, the probability is 100%.
Second problem is that it looks awfully like an ICBM. Lots of countries wouldn't like one of these flying in their direction, which would limit the amount of possible routes.
Blurring is mathematically a convolutions product of an image that can be represented as a function f and a kernel g. The key fact is that the Fourier transform of f.g is the product of the Fourier transforms of f and g. So if you know g, or can guess what it is, you can solve for f knowing f.g and g, since everything is linear. (Some blurs might not be linear transforms but the usual gaussian blur is)
Information can be lost in two ways : 1/ quantization of the data due to storage in a limited number of bits, 2/ truncation of the blur at the image edges. So blurs cannot be fully reversed, but some information can be recovered. That might be enough to identify the information that was concealed in the first place. See the Wikipedia article on deconvolution for examples.
Early mechanical or relay computers for example had dedicated hardware to compute multiplications or divisions or more complex operation on full width floating point registers and still they took minutes to complete a computation. Doing things in software sounds great written from a multi-GHz modern computer but it would have been just too impractically slow at the time. Doing something as seemingly simple as a division can take thousands of cycles when you need to do everything "in software" with only additions and subtractions. When your machine has a clock frequency in the order of 1Hz, this translates to hours on a single operation.
So the issue was mostly technical, the hardware at their disposal was not capable of doing things quickly enough, so they did not design impossible things based on a future understanding of how things should be done. The process of invention is very iterative, building up on technological progress. When advances in semiconductors allowed to reach clock speeds millions of time faster, then doing things "in software" came naturally.
The keystore is stored on a nextcloud instance which allows to share the key easily between multiple hosts. It works flawlessly with git, ssh, also Windows tools like Putty will pick it up.
You should also be careful with video, since it contains many frames it might be possible to reverse rougher pixelations or blurs than would be possible with a still image. There exist various superresolution algorithm that can extract high-resolution images from multiple low-resolution video frames.
That's just not really true, plenty of people warned that with Germany closing nuclear and coal plants at the same time it would need to rely on external sources for energy, France for electricity, and with NordStream 1 and 2 projects, the reliance on Russian gas for Germany rose to around 50%. It was pretty obvious that becoming dependent on a not always friendly foreign power was a bad idea, but with Germany being so dominant in Europe no one dared to oppose it. Now Russia is playing this card fully.
> The primary duties and functions of the Board of Auditors include:
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> - Acting as a fiscal watchdog for the citizens of the township
> - Auditing, settling, and adjusting the accounts of all elected or appointed officials who received or disbursed funds during the immediate preceding calendar year
> - Setting salaries for supervisors who are employed by the township
> - Auditing records of the local district justice, if deemed appropriate
> - Filing the annual report for the township, unless the Board of Supervisors contracts an outside accounting firm per the code. (Nevertheless, in some townships auditors work together very closely with the township staff to insure that all township funds are properly expended and accounted for.)
> - Hearing cases involving financial loss to the township as caused by any elected or appointed official, who have acted in a violation of law or beyond the scope of their office
There are a few things here the supervisors might not want an outsider to look into.
It's better to have a strong judiciary than a strong administrative police, imho.
I was curious about that claim, so I did a bit of research and made a "back of the envelope" calculation. According to Wikipedia [1], the angular resolution of a telescope is proportional to <wavelength of light>/<diameter>. Starlink seems to operate from 10 to 40GHz, so assume the hardware has a 50% design margin so is capable of reaching 60GHz. Visible light has a frequency of 400 to 800THz, so take the middle of 600THz. Using those figures, it come out that the Starlink satellites, used as a telescope, would have the same angular resolution as a 1.3m visible light telescope. Is it enough to resolve exoplanets ? I'm not sure but I think not. Hubble is 6m and can apparently resolve some exoplanets so it's not too far off. Some launches to GEO would boost the resolution to the equivalent of 8.4m in visible. (IANAA)
There are also gloves that protect against puncture. If you're using both sharp needles and non-protecting gloves then it is probably time to revise the procedures.
But we're not talking about fighting crime here, but companies tracking what people do and as far as I know there is no societal right for Discord and LinkedIn to track people.
If that pendulum ever swings back too far, and you're right, it likely will, I'll be sure to let "my politicians" know using regular old no-government-id-required email as I already did on occasion with no issue.
I think the story of how uBlock was transfered and then managed in a way that was not what you wished is pretty well known, and I think most people know that you forked back the project to restore that trust, and they appreciate the work you're doing for the community. At least I know I do, so let me take this opportunity to say thank you.