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amdavidson··on Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed
Aren't all PS4 discs AES signed?

I believe that (barring a hacked system) there is no side loading of games that aren't Sony-blessed.

amdavidson··on VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
What legal protection from the NSA does a foreign (to the USA) provider have? Signals intelligence from foreign sources is the NSA's exact mission.

At least the NSA has a purported requirement not to do domestic spying, even if Snowden proved that's not being followed.

amdavidson··on SUSE will soon be the largest independent Linux company
Genuinely don't see how an RPM based distro is based on slackware... What am i missing?
amdavidson··on Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker
What raid system are you using to allow for adding arbitrary drives?
amdavidson··on Russia blocks ProtonMail
Streisand doesn't install an email server.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand#services-provid...

amdavidson··on Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived
Referring to no specific case in particular: that is not a circumvention but an application of the authority that Congress delegated to the President in the National Emergencies Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act

amdavidson··on Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived
While Grant was financially troubled, the pension wasn't passed until Truman was destitute in 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act

amdavidson··on Winding down my Debian involvement
Which flag is that? I don't see anything when searching for "read".
amdavidson··on Ask HN: Immortal software: how would you write it?
I'm not sure that your side note is a good example.

If you owned shares in the American Can Company, you would have then owned shares in Primerica and would now own shares in Citigroup which was only bumped out of the DJIA in 2009.

Several of the mining companies were bought out.

The Texas Company is Texaco.

United States Rubber Company became Uniroyal and was bought out by Michelin and Continental.

Sure, some like Studebaker and some of the locomotive companies collapsed and would have been a total loss, but it's entirely likely that holding all of those original companies would have made you a whole lot of money.

amdavidson··on The hard part in becoming a command line wizard
One does not have to subject oneself to nonsense in order to keep an open mind about the world.
amdavidson··on Linux Desktop Setup
From the htop page:

  Thanks to Alexander Waldeck for the idea of having htop
  itself as the page background! His page actually presents 
  a live htop session -- mine is just an animated gif with
  a few frames stolen from his page. :-)
The drunken-security.at page is offline as far as I can tell, but as I recall it he eventually had to drop the htop background as people were DDOSing him to see the results.
amdavidson··on Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices
You absolutely can and many do pass security without a confirmed seat.

That's the practice in the article, passing ticket holders along and telling them the seat will be assigned at the gate, well after baggage is checked and security lines have been waited.

Selling standby seats at the same/similar overbook ratio as they currently do wouldn't lead to any more of a dystopia then we currently have.

amdavidson··on How many .com domain names are unused?
Does Brazil have private prisons that are much better than their public ones?

If not, I don't think you have contradicted his point at all.

There are not too many places that we can look at public vs private institutions for direct comparisons (in the contexts that they operate). Prisons are one, I can think of FedEx/UPS/DHL vs the Post Office as another, and it's difficult for me to come up with much after that.

amdavidson··on Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate
Sources?
amdavidson··on Practical Linux Hardening Guide
Do you sync your ssh keys to all the machines you login from?

How do you ssh-copy-id without some allowance for passworded logins? Especially if you're doing it from such distant machines that you can't scp over a .ssh/config file.

amdavidson··on Practical Linux Hardening Guide
Is OpenSSH safer when used in addition to OpenVPN?

Probably.

amdavidson··on Wine 4.0 released
try `brew install wine`

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wine

amdavidson··on For the Love of Pipes
The Unix Haters Handbook was published in 1994, when System 7 was decidedly not unix-like.
amdavidson··on Job Promotion is a Trap
As a person who also interviews people, it should not take 2-3 hours to read a resume. If you're spending more than 30 minutes on it, I have no idea what you're reading.

Spending 3 man-weeks finding the right candidate is an easy win over spending 3 hours finding the wrong one and 12 weeks training, remedying bad behaviors, and building a case for termination.

amdavidson··on Job Promotion is a Trap
I would argue that it is better stated as:

Job security is the number of job opportunities you have, not your current job title.

amdavidson··on Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
Presumably, "intelligence agencies".
amdavidson··on Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy
How does this involve more trust?

With either Alias, or an homebrew solution you're sending the query portion ("How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?") to the megacorp?

amdavidson··on Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy
How is this different than an actual echo device as it sits now?

You're still relying on a piece of software to make the wake-word assessment and hand off the audio to the cloud. Now you're just adding more hardware parts to fail.

If your argument is that you trust your software more than Amazon's, then you shouldn't need anything more than a single microphone anyways because why would you surveil yourself?

amdavidson··on A Giant Speaker in Taiwan Is About to Switch on Again (2018)
I think you mean teraphone (10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12)
amdavidson··on JMAP is on the home straight
When the email has been generated by some far off server, you want JMAP to apply a new layer of encryption on top of it while inside an HTTPS pipe?

That doesn't begin to solve the real issue of how to reliably encrypt from sender to sender across two servers it just makes the process even more needlessly complex.

amdavidson··on Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps
I've been doing this for a couple years with a Zero (pre-W) and a pHAT DAC[0] with great success.

It just runs and reliably shows me a Airplay device for my garage speakers. I recommend it for people who have audio hardware lying around and don't want to replace it with more expensive and worse sounding smart speakers.

0: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/phat-dac

amdavidson··on VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape
The difference is that the key was not encrypted with the password.

If the key were properly encrypted (as you describe) the password check could not have been bypassed.

amdavidson··on Myth of the Brown Recluse
Where is the place with no dangerous wildlife?
amdavidson··on How I hacked modern vending machines
The term in English is... season[0].

Look at the second definition for the transitive verb.

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/season

amdavidson··on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory
Why is he not wearing gloves?!
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