I haven’t experienced either of these, but I’m fairly certain that period pain is less intense than being literally stabbed with a knife.

Give Burke a break, man - he just made a bad call. No need to nail him to the wall or anything.

Aliens (special edition)

This dismissive sentiment is actually why I think eventually many Millennials will end up clueless as they age. Yes, Gen Z might not know how filesystems work, but that’s because they don’t have to. It’s fast becoming an obsolete user abstraction, replaced in many places by tags, dates, and other contextual / searchable hints. If I want to find photos of my sister’s wedding, I just tap the map where it was and I see the entire gallery - no need to navigate to /home/MooseBoys/Photos/2017/JanesWedding.

Being able to adapt to new tech is as much about the ability to learn something new as it is to unlearn something old. The amount of people criticizing Gen Z for not knowing how some antiquated system works suggests to me that plenty of Millenials are holding on dearly to their mental models of how technology works. When presented with something vastly different, like a computer without a screen, they’ll probably be just as clueless as a boomer trying to figure out where to put the postage stamp on the email to their nephew.

AOSP has no Google at all

…? dafuq u smoking?

Android is a very secure system

Except for the ridiculously powerful permissions you need to give most system-type apps in order for them to function (i.e. read and paint over all screen content) because the accessibility APIs are shit, and password manager APIs too fragmented to be useful.

Sometimes the policy of “you will use our API and you will be happy” is actually beneficial for users.

Did you ever attend school?

They can’t force you to use it.

No, but they can fail you for not participating in required class exercises.

While WEI definitely doesn’t qualify as a rootkit itself, any useful attester is going to require aspects of one - whether it’s a phone asserting that it hasn’t been rooted, or a PC running with approved SecureBoot and TPM keys.

Corn me up, snake

I wish “nonce” still just meant something used “never more than once” e.g. a cryptographic nonce.

Get yourself a little something! See new listings for 3mm machine screws!

If I can fix my mistake of dumping my NVDA positions at $2.70 (post-split pricing) in 2010, then definitely the blue door.

Panel 4: Hellen Keller / Empty Square

Have you ever looked at linux kernel CLs? Many of the more substantial ones come from someone @intel.com, @microsoft.com, @google.com, etc.

Self-signed certs are not viable for general use because they’ll generate a browser warning that “Joes Liquor Co is not a trusted Certificate Authority” that will scare off 99% of users. And wildcard certs still need at least one specific domain, e.g. *.joesliquor.com. The only way I can imagine this working is if the vendor was handing out separate servers on client.vendor.com and giving each of them the same SSL cert for *.vendor.com.

They were issuing a single SSL cert to all of their clients.

How does this even work? Doesn’t the domain admin send their own CSR? Even if your company was serving as that admin, a single cert only works for the domain to which it’s assigned, so how could it be reused for multiple clients?

I think the majority of people who demand software cost $0 are hobbyists who write code themselves, but it bothers them that not all developers share their passion. I’ve written a little code and some 3D models that I’ve released under Apache2 / CC-BY, but the vast majority of the code I’ve written in my life was done in exchange for a paycheck.

Even code is not free. Any decent developer writing code does so with an opportunity cost. If those developers want to provide that software to others for free, that’s great. But it still costs their own time and skills that they could be monetizing. For many people it’s a hobby.

Starship Troopers

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