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I used to work for a certain company that made certain software, and this software had to pass a security audit in order to comply with certain government regulations, so that certain customers could legally use our software for certain needs.

The audit process was basically as follows. Our guy went to their office with a usb stick containing our software and a suitcase containing a metric fuckton of money. Later he returned without a suitcase but with our software signed using their public key.

Now you know how software is audited for use in large government organizations.
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wow. trey parker and matt stone are geniuses.

youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFD

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i'm sort of surprised there isn't some turnkey app that speaks to an rtlsdr, does a VHF and UHF survey automatically over a few mins, identifies any carriers, identifies the ones that are p25, and starts logging all of the signaling traffic on them, offering you a list of all observed talkgroups to decode/record. you need to use like 5 different programs for this simple task.

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i have a fuckton of VHS tapes. once i digitize their video contents, is there anything useful i can do with them? are there commonly available data storage systems for them?

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how many pounds of halloween candy is an acceptable amount to consume on all saints' day?

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what are the best trrs or usb headphones+boom mic you know of? i have insanely expensive high end headphones that i end up not using in favor of $25 headphones because they have a boom mic on them and switching for calls is annoying. halp

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Nolan  

One thing I've changed about my open-source behavior is that when I open up literally any issue or PR on another person's repo, I always start with a paragraph gushing about how much I appreciate the project. "Thanks for creating this project, I really appreciate it," etc. I don't know if it helps, but it makes me feel better knowing that I'm making a bid for that person's time and attention, that I at least tried to send some good vibes their way.

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buying a pinephone with two clicks via apple pay checkout feels strangely like punching myself really hard in the dick.

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shibayashi  
TIL that Chrome has a hidden “reader mode” feature, similar to Firefox, Safari, etc.

I just thought: “Why is that feature hidden? It’s very useful.” And then I realized: “It hides the ads, that’s why.”

Sad

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-75-released-with-secret-reader-mode/
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@duponin @Shamar here's a short comic explaining the benefits of WTFPL
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it should be a feature in more products to automatically email you a data export monthly (excluding media, like a 1-5mB file) in case the service suspends you or otherwise disappears/fucks off

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Is it possible to do a U2F authentication without executing any javascript?

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Microsoft and the NSA
techrights.org/wiki/index.php/

(submitted by URfejk)

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Gone from Twitter, after a 12 year run, because I can't endorse censorship platforms by donating content to them. :(

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stux⚡  

$ npm install

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My PaaS I use to run containers uses docker swarm, which uses a userspace L3 connection proxy (even though only one box), which means my main nginx rproxy/tls endpoint doesn't see client IP, which means mastodon's rate limiting (which has no off switch) breaks constantly.

so now i might have to rent a vps just to run mastodon. or switch to pleroma.

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cant even escape the stupid culture war complaining in the latest billy gibson novel. ugh.

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I've finally decided that Twitter's censorship has gone too far, and I'm deleting my account on Halloween. Wish me luck.

(They used to just censor what you're allowed to post, but now they're censoring search results too, deciding for you what you're allowed to read. Fuck that.)

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linux OSes should not let you install packages via the command line; you should be required to add them to a syntax-checked file and then run a command to ensure system installed packages match the file.

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hiya, new followers.

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