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Beej Jorgensen

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  • FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it

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  • Also pro-privacy, here. I was unable to get a good answer on this on HN. It seems to me that replacing a human entering data into a computer at the checkpoint with a computer entering data into a computer at the checkpoint wasn't much of a change. The whole checkpoint area is already bristling with cameras, as well.

  • X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

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  • The closest we have to 555 is any social security number that starts with 9. Kinda dull. The closest one we have to a joke is probably 078-05-1120.

  • Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

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  • Should have stayed on until musk booted them. Missed opportunity. Also X needs more counter-content, not less.

  • An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I.

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  • When I see this kind of thing, I think, "Screw that. I want to listen to real people." But then I wonder if that's because I'm GenX shaking my fist at cloud and in the future will this become normalized or even demanded?

  • Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable

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  • I don't care what they do as long as they do it over there.

  • Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

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  • I'd say it's more intolerably long copyright terms than the DMCA specifically.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

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  • Yes, it is. I just need to know that the passkeys are in that file and that all the apps I use to read that file support them.

  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

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  • I don't entirely disagree, but I think defining much of that in effective legal terms is going to be virtually impossible. And I'm super-wary of anything that says someone can't link to something.

  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump

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  • Just be careful how you do it. The First Amendment gives a lot of leeway for people to be shitty.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

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  • I need to sync my passkeys between all my devices--which really means I need keepass to store the private keys in its DB so I can sync it with all the other keepass-compatible apps I use in various places. Last I looked, this wasn't solved, but it's been a minute. I'm certainly not using a centralized password manager unless they all can freely import and export from one another. I understand this is a "being worked on" problem.

    So someday, yes.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

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  • If you get my master keepass password, you have all my passwords, too.

  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

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  • I agree they should. But I also agree they shouldn't be required to. And if they don't, that we should just live with it as the lesser of two evils.

  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump

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  • A) I don't think there's anything illegal, here, and B) of course large private agencies manipulate elections, from news agencies to SuperPACs to social media, and C) there's not a heck of a lot we can do about that.

    The best thing we can do is smarten up and think for ourselves. In short, we're doomed!😅

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    License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars

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  • Hmm. I have a bumper sticker that says "I ❤️ Nuclear War". I wonder what bucket that puts me in.

  • Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story

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  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • I remember it being a big space sink when I was editing video. Now all I have is DVD rips of my collection and those are nice and compact.

  • Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature

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  • Yup. I signed up to their unlimited a while ago, so I was happy to not notice this at all. 🙂👍

  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • I can't believe how much mileage I've gotten out of my 512GB SSDs on my laptops. And my "big" backup disks are hand me down 1TB HDs my friend didn't need. I don't do video, though.