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tacticus commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?   torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
xenotux · a day ago
The main difference between democracies and secular autocracies isn't that they have a vastly different approach to run-of-the-mill moral vices, such as prostitution or porn. It's that democracies tolerate a much wider spectrum of political opinions in public discourse and don't kill or imprison people who try to start an opposition party.

I think we can agree that the UK is moving in the wrong direction without drawing parallels to a place where dissidents are disappeared, both off the internet and in real life.

tacticus · a day ago
Anti olympic posters got police raids. Plasticine action on your tshirt got arrests.
tacticus commented on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"    · Posted by u/nextdns
RiverCrochet · 9 days ago
Age verification for VPNs would be awesome. I would rather hand ID over to a VPN provider than individual sites I visit.
tacticus · 8 days ago
This would ensure you couldn't tie an Identity to an activity\user on a service which is of course why it's not where they're going
tacticus commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse   bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett
nrawe · 11 days ago
I'll stand to be wrong, but I believe in one case a member of staff and two police officers were also assaulted. Terrorism isn't necessarily about body count, it's about motivation. If the motive is political change, and the ends is violence/criminal damaged/anti-social behaviour that tends to be enough. Similar cases exist in the US, too.

I personally think its a bit of a stretch and will likely be undone. However, to pretend they are simply peaceful protests being unfairly targeted is also incorrect.

tacticus · 11 days ago
Yeah the assault one is interesting cause they didn't end up charging them with it at all... perhaps reading the police statements without corroborating evidence is problematic.
tacticus commented on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager   danfabulich.medium.com/pa... · Posted by u/dfabulich
commandersaki · 22 days ago
A passkey manager is morally required to do an extra factor of authentication (e.g. fingerprint, Face ID, hardware keys, etc.) when you login, but the site/app has no way of knowing/proving whether that happened; they just get the password.

Thought sites can request hardware attested passkeys? In this case usb keyfob, or passkeys instanced from a secure enclave, etc.?

tacticus · 21 days ago
Just don't use that on windows with how they have broken most real hardware tokens with their bluetooth nonsense.
tacticus commented on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
hajile · a month ago
This isn't very surprising. Intel has already been making their GPUs at TSMC for quite a while now (I believe using N4). Porting and validating that GPU to Intel fabs would be expensive and take a lot of time.

There is talk about the next version of Arc using 18a. If it does, I'd expect Intel to move that generation's compute tiles to 18a as well.

tacticus · a month ago
I guess that explains why the current intel GPUs are actually good value and somewhat not terrible.
tacticus commented on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/spenvo
this_steve_j · a month ago
Microsoft’s version of “Zero Trust” doesn’t care if things are reachable from the public internet. They have been preaching “identity is the new perimeter” [1] for years, and it doesn’t wash.

The NIST Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) implementation guides (SP 1800-35) [2] cut through the nonsense and AI generated marketing smoke.

In ZTA, ALL network locations are untrusted. Network connections are created by a Policy Engine that creates and tears down tunnels to each resource dynamically using attribute-based-access-controls (ABAC). Per request.

Microsoft doesn’t have any products that can do full ZTA, so several pillars are missing from their “Zero Trust” marketing materials.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/securing-the-bord...

[2] https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1800-35

tacticus · a month ago
> several pillars are missing from their “Zero Trust” marketing materials.

TBH several pillars are missing from their entire security posture.

tacticus commented on FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices   arstechnica.com/civis/thr... · Posted by u/Bluestein
CesareBorgia · a month ago
This seems to be good for Starlink at the expense of the fiber providers?
tacticus · a month ago
Yeah cause they're not going to have to compete with real bandwidth availability.

given the new shiny one (that hasn't launched) is topping out at 1Tb of downlink (with half of it going to backhaul) and the current units are 80 Gb/s

tacticus commented on Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'   brusselssignal.eu/2025/07... · Posted by u/ColinWright
protocolture · a month ago
>What I'm trying to say is: like in many offices, any slight change made users hostile,

I remember doing a Windows 7 deployment for a customer, and one of their staff had 3 A4 binders. Probably 1000 pages, of typed notes about how Windows XP works.

The second she sat down at her new Windows 7 machine it was like she had lost her memory. She was instantly aggravated and couldnt find the start menu. Dropped her windows xp binders in the bin and told me to effectively "get lost" so she can relearn it from scratch.

I was thrown. Like its basically the same system with some UI tweaks but she was acting like I had pushed her onto debian or something.

tacticus · a month ago
> Probably 1000 pages, of typed notes about how Windows XP works.

Probably more than microsoft themselves maintained.

tacticus commented on People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)   cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilt... · Posted by u/jszymborski
andrepd · a month ago
Well yeah it's the exact same thing except... given to people when they're 67, i.e. after a lifetime of working and about 10 years from the mean age of death.

Gee why would they stop working, you think?

> And if people don't work, or don't work nearly as much as they did before, then how is the system going to be sustained?

Technology gives us massive gains in productivity; we could reasonably reduce working hours to <20/week in the developed world. We might have less business dynamic analysts or scrum masters or social media coordinators. We'll be fine.

tacticus · a month ago
> Technology gives us massive gains in productivity; we could reasonably reduce working hours to <20/week in the developed world. We might have less business dynamic analysts or scrum masters or social media coordinators. We'll be fine.

> beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!

Unfortunately the governments and the wealthy looked at Hayek and decided they much preferred the idea where they could continue to abuse the workers.

tacticus commented on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app   cnet.com/tech/microsoft-w... · Posted by u/ColinWright
hakfoo · 2 months ago
I suspect it's another step in the push to make the mobile device the centre of digital identity. (Yeah, it might support some standalone key devices, but nobody's giving Joe Sixpack a Yubikey)

The one with far more data gathering capability and generally less robust ability for the end user to assert control over it, and which is generally tied to a service contract that in many countries requires identity verification.

tacticus · 2 months ago
That would require all the microsoft auth platforms to allow you to use yubikeys or similar instead of default forcing you in to ms authenticator only

u/tacticus

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