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vigilans··on Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
In my case, highlighting a16z is why.

Organic garlic never talked up a partnership with <society-scale nasty characters>.

vigilans··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
You need to learn what that phrase means.
vigilans··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
That's not selling out. They explain that it's to combat abuse and that this was not their first choice.

By all means move to a different registrar, but deliberate honestly. They are not requiring ID/face scans for the same reason Discord and Roblox are, as your framing suggests.

vigilans··on Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
In Qubes you use VMs to separate your banking environment from the one where you pull npm dependencies and the one where you open untrusted PDFs.

Networking also happens in its own VM, and you can have multiple VMs dedicated to networking.

Much lower memory footprint running mirage firewall, and an attack surface orders of magnitude smaller (compared to a VM running a Linux distribution purely for networking).

vigilans··on Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
There's a man who hasn't tried running qubes-mirage-firewall.

Unikernels don't work for him; there are many of us who are very thankful for them.

vigilans··on Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)
Did you get a genuine key? I never had one fail on me.

The immobilizer is the single best piece of technology for preventing car theft. If you create a backdoor for bypassing it, you'll end up like Hyundai/Kia which decided to sell cars without the immobilizer in recent years and which have turned into a joke in the minds of potential customers.

It does not require a battery in most cases and is separate from the keeloq system that controls your car's doors.

vigilans··on Signal Secure Backups
Thank you. I should have read to the end, and I'm glad they're planning to support backups stored on their users' media.
vigilans··on Signal Secure Backups
This BS is why I completely stopped donating to the signal foundation.

The messages are mine, not theirs, and yet they refuse to allow me to handle them how I deem fit.

vigilans··on Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
If you're hooking up an LLM to your production infrastructure, the vulnerability is you.
vigilans··on Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
I’m in the same boat.

Love the compartmentalization and being able to route VMs to different network backends and the ability to create ephemeral domains for quick tasks.

Thank you Joanna, Marek, Andrew, and all the wonderful contributors. I couldn’t live without Qubes.

vigilans··on Review of Mullvad VPN
You heard wrong. Mullvad is the best ;)
vigilans··on Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff
Nothing adverse besides widespread outages and revenue collapse.

To be clear the revenue collapse might be unrelated to the full but I'd call it adverse.

vigilans··on A French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
"If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve."

You haven't talked to me :D

vigilans··on Lessons from a fountain pen addict
I don't know, there's no mention of pig skulls and prime ministers.
vigilans··on Lessons from a fountain pen addict
Sounds like the issue was the environment, not the pens.
vigilans··on Car insurance in America is too cheap
ITAR blocks export, not import. It has nothing to do with TSMC building fabs here. $50B in incentives might have something to do with that.

And like sister comment says, ITAR is not about industrial or economic policy. It’s about maintaining a qualitative edge in weaponry. How is there a qualitative edge when you can buy the restricted components freely from China?

Just noticed the other comment on GP saying they’re restricted through a different list (EAR). It serves the same purpose so I’m leaving my response as is.

vigilans··on Car insurance in America is too cheap
That last part would indicate that the restrictions are utterly moronic if one were to reason. At the very least they need to be relaxed so technology that's readily available to end consumers worldwide isn't restricted.
vigilans··on Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones
The most uninformed takes always come with a healthy dose of arrogance and vulgarity.

Every part of the industry that matters has been bitten by using phone numbers as a 2FA mechanism. It's why they're actually disappearing and are being phased out in favor of apps, OTP tokens, and email codes, depending on the amount of influence technical people wield at a given org.

vigilans··on Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous
> finally, what does this have to do with Google's antitrust?

Just having a laugh. Satya isn't the only one who gets to ;)

vigilans··on Camera crushes Lidar, claims startup
The best strategy is to hide under your mattress.
vigilans··on Multiple Vulnerabilities in PfSense
Ubiquiti is also morally questionable. They do not contribute their modifications to the Linux kernel as required by the GPL.

Maybe that has changed but I'm not aware that it has.