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shim__··on LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook
Does this require M2 AI capabilities or can it also run on other platforms?
shim__··on A BART seat-slashing gang that was part of an upholstery racket (2019)
Why are people so focussed on doors? Glass windows will always be the weak spot.
shim__··on VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
That question is pointless if you're using windows
shim__··on Fifth Circuit: Law enforcement doesn’t need warrants to search phones at border
Because convenience, creating a secure cloud backup and restoring it once you passed immigration is a lot of hassle must people would rather skip doing.
shim__··on Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
Integrating with a coin would defeat the propose, since getting coins for PoW would make the ddos financially rewarding. Allowing the attacker to outcompete normal user who just want to access the site.
shim__··on Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
It's a start but eventually I'd be great to add some sort of payment layer much like bitcoin lightening. If running a node pays much more people would be willing to do so.
shim__··on USBGuard
> This made me realize for all of the USB security/token devices (I don't think there is) an actual secure/signed transport mode for USB verifying the two aren't being snooped. Or maybe there is and I just don't know about it, this would be a much stronger method of securing devices.

CTAP2(Fido) uses opportunistic encryption without MITM the data will be unreadable to an sniffer.

shim__··on All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
There used to be brain wallets which were private key derived from a password. A lot of those got brute forced back in the day
shim__··on SSH alternatives for mobile, low-latency or unreliable connections
Using Wireguard is also an good option to prevent the connection from being dropped when switching networks
shim__··on NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
I'd say it's probably worse privacy wise, corporate IT or your ISP are at least accountable since you share the same jurisdiction. Some dody VPN company which you should prefer to be overseas if your main objective is piracy is much less accountable in regards to your data.
shim__··on Scala 3.0.0-M1
It's not really black magic https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/implicit-classes.... but I don't really see why having a filter as a method should even be encouraged.
shim__··on An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]
We already know that there a natural oil leaks all over the ocean floor, which makes me wonder if a lot of such additional small leaks all over the world are really going to have an impact.
shim__··on Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts
Unless you plan to post links to your tiny blog on reddit
shim__··on Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
A unionized workforce isn't likely to have this problem, since they would all be working under the same union contract being paid the same.
shim__··on Tour of Rust
Well thats just like how one might say numpy is written in python, so portion of it certainly is but all the heavy lifing is done by C, the same goes for Docker. Docker is "just" an cli around cgroups which is a kernel feature written in again C.
shim__··on German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
I'm in the same boat, every time that I have to use Windows I'll get annoyed by how complicated even simple things are. Not to mention the endless amount of menus and setup wizards you have to click through to get anything done.
shim__··on Linux Sucks 2020
Only if it's a good one, the bad ones will just load more content before you're able to click anything in the footer
shim__··on Zoom corrects usage numbers: says it has 300M daily meeting participants
I guess it's the client who's sending the video that's adapting.
shim__··on Zoom corrects usage numbers: says it has 300M daily meeting participants
There are alternatives provided that you don't need video. Mumble and Teamspeak have a proven trackrecord on all platforms and work even with the shittiest of internet connections.
shim__··on Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
> And yes, I believe this should be regulated at the policy level.

But why? Nobody is forcing you to use AWS, there in fact heaps of similar services around which at first glance don't share have said problem.

shim__··on Deprecating password authentication in GitHub API
Wont't work since the user is identified by his public key on the ssh level.
shim__··on The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
You can also swap it for any other coin on the ethereum chain on uniswap https://uniswap.exchange/swap
shim__··on What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
I'm actually surprised that PDF hasn't been superseded by some form of embedded HTML by now.
shim__··on South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux
Australia has it pretty hard be competitive exporting industrial goods since the supply chain is mostly overseas and the domestic market is small, which means most things will gehave to be exported again. All this results in high shipping costs and latency in addition to being a high wage country.
shim__··on Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt
Not entirely if you account for secure elements which might erase the secretif the wrong pin was entered too many times or if an wipe code was entered.
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