Em Adespoton

In most situations, getting that designation provides extra funding and legal protection. However, all of that is managed by the federal executive on behalf of Congress… and these days that could result in added risk.

On the plus side, I believe it means that every work submitted to the LoC also goes to IA, which is indeed a good thing. Sure beats the lawsuits they had to endure following COVID.

Security isn’t the size of the app, it’s how you use it :)

Those circumstances include immediate threats to national security and situations where a person is in danger of death or serious injury.

Well I see a problem there. It doesn’t specify the cause of the danger or the reason the person is in danger in the first place.

EFF missed a fun opportunity to call the Rayhunter “DeCSS”.

I wonder how much of that can be traced back to Broadcom acquiring VMWare?

Remember that fingerprinting can be your friend… because it’s much easier to fake an online fingerprint than a real one.

You can generate a unique fingerprint with each online interaction; this means that you will always have a unique identity.

Or, you can ensure you always have the same fingerprint as a large number of other people.

Think of it as the difference between using a different valid loyalty card each time you shop vs using one of the famous numbers that millions of other people are also using.

Of course, in both circumstances, you do give up the benefits of being uniquely identifiable.

Little Snitch on a Mac.

There are an infinite number of programs that could do this. Will they? Probably not.

Best thing is to install a trustworthy personal firewall, and block all outbound network access for all processes, and then enable as needed. This won’t stop Windows itself, but it will give you a heads-up if something else is trying to send data somewhere and you can make an informed choice at the time.

“Peak” is rather optimistic….

LibreOffice is offline; each person can run the software in their own device to create and edit documents.

It’s features are equivalent to 2010 Office. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not how people usually work today.

Collabora lets you host documents on a central server and have multiple people edit at once, dynamically tracking changes and allowing full revision management. Or, you can keep your documents local and not host them if you don’t want to.

Yes it is… but it actually allows for collab features that LibreOffice doesn’t have.

I wonder why they chose LibreOffice instead of Collabora?

This is why using a local web proxy is a good idea; it can standardize those responses (or randomize them) no matter what you’re actually using.

Personally, I keep JavaScript disabled by default specifically because of this, and turn on those features per-site. So if a website has a script that requires the accelerometer for what it does, that script gets to use it. Other sites keep asking for it? I suppress the requests on that site and if it fails to operate (throws one of those ad blocker or “you have JS disabled errors), I just stop going to the site.

I’ve found that with everything disabled by default, browsing the web is generally a pleasant experience… until it isn’t.

This of course requires using a JS management extension. What I’d really like to see is a browser that defaults to everything disabled, and if a site requests something, have the browser ask for permission to turn on the feature for that particular script, showing the URL for the script and describing what the code does that needs the permission. This seems like an obvious use for locally run AI models.

OAuth doesn’t require this. However, there are third party OAuth providers (cough MS) who already have the back end set up, so customers like Stripe just piggyback on the existing servers.

So in this case, your server and Stripe’s server are the users, and the third party is the OAuth provider that authenticates them to each other.

Seems to me Passkeys/Fido2 would make way more sense for this setup, but then Stripe would have to manage the technology stack themselves, and follow all the PCI DSS rules for storing/managing the information (because they do credit card processing).

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Trump intends to keep buying it from these countries for the same price. He’ll just charge the American people an extra 50% to access it, instead of charging billionaires and mega corporations taxes.

Shoot… this means 29 days to Russia rolling right through Ukraine, doesn’t it?

Sure they exist; rare earths exist everywhere; they’re just distributed thinly and so extracting them makes a real mess of the environment.

That’s why nobody wants to mine and refine them in their own country. Destroys the land and generates toxic chemical byproducts. This is what Ukraine would be agreeing to let the US do to it in exchange for… something.

Why is there no structural diagram?

I still haven’t figured out what they’re talking about, with the relationships of the polar charges wrt the crystal lattice. Kind of sounds like they’re creating a 3D structure with the poles flipped across all vertices?

The Turtle moves!