I use KDE/Linux btw

Not for home computers. But storing data in DNA could become feasible for archiving, as it is very dense and degrades very slowly.

I use en- and em-dashes religiously in my LaTeX documents, and I’m not going to start using the wrong kind of dash on purpose. Might as well abandon grammar while we’re at it.

‘universal HDD compatibility’ means all their devices can handle SAS drives, right? Right??

I’d like to live in actual democracy, where the economy is also organized democratically (e.g. workers’ co-op) instead of the current system, where companies (which can hold immense economic power) work like dictatorships.

They advertise that passwords are only stored on the server in encrypted form, meaning they couldn’t read them even if they wanted to (or were forced to by a government agency) and you don’t have to trust them not to. This paper shows that several vulnerabilities exist in the protocol which could be exploited by malicious code running on the server (injected by hackers or a government agency), which would then allow an attacker to obtain cleartext-passwords. So you do, in fact, have to trust the servers integrity.

Yet, he was building capital. If you try to put away as much money as possible by living as frugally as possible, that does not make your financial situation ‘bad’.

I have my AP connected with a trunk link and configured to offer different SSIDs for different VLANs. I connect IOT devices to the IOT WiFi, and home assistant can see them since the machine running it is connected to that VLAN as well. Apart from the initial setup, this feels like less of a hassle, as firewall rules are already set up for this VLAN (no connection to internet or other VLANs). If I had to manually make sure that every new IOT device I add is incapable of talking to the internet, I think I’d go mad.

Or who do so little cleaning at home that their appartment becomes almost unusable or outright dangerous to live in

*so Apple claims. Is it possible to verify the key is un-recoverably deleted? The more reasonable approach (when it comes to security) would be to never upload a key in the first place.

How tall do you have to be for 120kg to be near death?

I usually go in the morning because it is incredibly packed in the afternoon / evening.

Yes, for incandescent lights that’s true. Are they still being sold?

Do people actually confuse color temperature with operating temperature? I wouldn’t want any lights in my house if their operating temperature was ≥2700 K. I want the room to be bright, but not if that means melting the steel beams in the ceiling.

So we should fine the corporations to make sure that’s not profitable, right? Right??

Corporations and fascists: name a better duo

ssh is a protocol that is used to log in to a computer remotely. Servers are usually administrated not by plugging a keyboard and monitor into the server, but from another machine via ssh. You can configure ssh to allow login with the same username+password you would use locally, but it is common practice to only allow authentication with an ssh key.

ssh keys allow for much higher entropy like you suggested. They are also asymmetric, and the private key can be password-protected or stored on a smartcard.

If you rely on some specific piece of software, set up a dual boot and only boot into windows to use that software. Put your Linux installation onto a separate (encrypted) partition.

We’re never going to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of user adoption and software availability with the mentality to only switch once everything works 100%.

I know computers are hard for normies, but I believe that’s only because they’ve been using dumbed-down walled-garden stuff for too long. And just like it is important to know how to cook and do basic repairs around the house, a basic grasp of computers should be the standard in today’s world.

Have you heard of ssh keys?

Which Wi-Fi standard does your router / access point support?