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mjg59, to random
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Twitter rolled out half-assed encrypted DMs and people are angry that Bluesky didn't?

mjg59, to random
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Recruiters! If the first paragraph on your site talks about your defence contracting work, it is not going to be a good fit

tyil,

@mjg59 Be happy they put it in the first paragraph, that saves you from reading the rest of the page

mjg59, to random
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I'm still curious whether the Free Software Definition's choice to require the ability to use free software for any purpose is entirely deliberate - is there any writing on why free software must permit being used to restrict people's ability to exercise the four freedoms?

(I agree with the argument that it would be extremely difficult to write a license that enshrined this without restricting legitimate use cases, but if someone were able to do so, /should/ it be free software?)

mjg59,
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@abe no, only if you actually do use it to take the freedom away

RogerBW,
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@mjg59 I am distinctly tempted to release software under a You May Not Use This Software For Any Purpose licence just to see if anyone even bothers to read it.

mjg59, to random
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danderson,
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@mjg59 Thank you for pointing me at this, it's been an incredible read. My favourite so far:

penguin42,
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@mjg59 Wonderful doc isn't it - none of the forgery here is even slightly careful; it wouldn't have been that hard to find a ~2007 era PC and the version of OpenOffice used to produce the actual white paper.

mjg59, to random
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My @emf talk will be at 4:40PM on the Friday, and I'll be talking about how the XZ backdor was implemented, deployed, and discovered: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/409-the-xz-backdoor-what-why-and-how

michaelguntsche,
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@mjg59 Is there a recording of this talk?

mjg59,
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@michaelguntsche there should be

mjg59, to random
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Heading home from the cabin and the contrast between the industrial wasteland between the rail line and the water and the beauty of everything behind it never ceases to amaze me

mjg59, to random
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Why does my IdP have two entirely different flows for MFA auth depending on how you're hitting it

mjg59,
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User freedom is obviously the most important aspect of free software but the economic cost of staring at wire dumps to figure out a transaction flow instead of just being able to read the implementation should not be understated

foone,
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@mjg59 yeah. I'm a good reverse engineer, but you know what'd be way better? NOT HAVING TO!

mjg59, to random
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Yeah Twitter is fine

ondrej,
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@mjg59 It matches the narrative - you write something smart and naked women throw themselves at you…

jpmens,
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@ondrej

just last night I learned the term 'buckle bunny' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buckle_bunny

Maybe y'all need a similar term for the IT world? ;)

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mjg59, to random
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When you're definitely doing normal things

mjg59, to random
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In universe, did Indiana Jones's students know that the reason he kept flaking out of classes was because he was fighting nazis? Obviously the state department covered up the whole "Ark of the Covenant" thing, but did all his deeds go unrecognised?

jwz,
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@mjg59 I imagine his lectures included mention of his "field work" without going into the prurient details.

mjg59,
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The reason I ask is to determine whether student response to Indiana Jones is proto-"Hot Professor" stereotype or whether the students had a greater source of attraction than him just being Harrison Ford

mjg59, to random
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Impulse bought an LTE base station and I guess this is how @jonty feels about once every couple of days

mjg59, to random
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Given a webauthn.create response, what is the absolute easiest way for me to verify that it has a valid signature (in an ideal world something like https://debugger.simplewebauthn.dev/ but validates the signature rather than just verifying the format is good)

Natanael_L,
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@mjg59 since there's no PKI if you don't care about attestation, the main task is just serializing the signed data right and verifying the sig against the pubkey. Are you looking for a tool that does it automatically for you? Are you doing it in a browser or not?

mjg59,
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@Natanael_L yes, but ended up having to write one myself

mjg59, to random
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Incredibly random question, but anyone have any experience with LTE-U hardware?

funkylab,
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@mjg59 is this about the user equipment or do you want to work with the spectrum? My experiences with 4G / 5G in unlicensed bands are purely based on playing around with srsLTE / srsRAN, but that works well. But it's not hardware per se, you need to bring your own radio frontend

mjg59,
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@funkylab I'd rather use off the shelf hardware than deal with additional complexity that's under my control

mjg59, to random
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Hmm got a response from CPUC saying that they're not responsible for enforcement of AT&T's Carrier of Last Resort obligations, and referring me back to AT&T. How is this actually meant to work? (Yes, I know all they're nominally obliged to provide is a basic copper landline service, that's all I'm looking for here)

mjg59,
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@blaise as am I! They have given me a phone number, now I just need to buy a phone

mjg59,
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To my utter lack of surprise, there's apparently several miles of missing copper due to the entire "the forest was on fire" thing

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