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New comment by jmprspret in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

jmprspret — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:33:54 +0000

Thank you! However I do disagree with one point you've made here; I do not consider my case an "extreme" case. It's just antithetical to the US' vision. Which is kind of my point.

Iran could say the exact same thing about why they would be stockpiling weapons. And we (west) call bullshit. I'm calling bullshit on both.

New comment by jmprspret in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

jmprspret — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:29:38 +0000

But why would a country have to be "better" or "worse"? Why consider anything else besides stockpiling weapons, after all it's the key to peace, right?

New comment by jmprspret in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

jmprspret — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:21:00 +0000

Destroying Gaza itself is not the goal. It's destroying the people that's the goal. So that other people can occupy that land. And that is being accomplished with old, new, weapons, and with the "weapon" of withholding aid as well.

New comment by jmprspret in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

jmprspret — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:26:21 +0000

Maybe I'm from Iran. Maybe not. Maybe I'm from a country that Iran doesn't call for the destruction of. It's hypothetical. Let's say hypothetically, I'm not committing treason, I'm just building missiles for Iran - helping to guarantee peace by stockpiling weapons! It's for peace, after all.

New comment by jmprspret in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

jmprspret — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 05:50:10 +0000

So if I go and work for Iran's missile program it's fair game then right?

Best guarantor of peace is their large stockpile of weapons too.

New comment by jmprspret in "Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine"

jmprspret — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 05:11:29 +0000

Fonts do always look way better on Chrome. I can't explain it.

New comment by jmprspret in "The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown"

jmprspret — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:20:46 +0000

Xanax is a benzodiazepine. You get "high" when taking just barely more than instructed. It's addictive. It's abused frequently. I've abused it before. It feels nice.

I would be surprised if you asked your GP "I have mental breakdowns now and then, I'd like some Xanax", and they just handed it out to you. Then again, I don't live in the US, so maybe the doctors there do just dish it out.

New comment by jmprspret in "Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach"

jmprspret — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:40:07 +0000

Is this NPD's "IP" though? Is my personal information that company scraped, now that company's intellectual property?

New comment by jmprspret in "Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs"

jmprspret — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:29:37 +0000

Wait what? Do you seriously need bold fonts in your terminal? I find them annoying. I would much prefer a single weight.

New comment by jmprspret in "Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk"

jmprspret — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:10:56 +0000

Is there a non-twitter link? Blocks me because I have DNS adblock+using mobile browser.

New comment by jmprspret in "1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens"

jmprspret — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:58:10 +0000

I'm Australian and I've never heard a corner shop be referred to as a Milk Bar. I'm relatively young too though. Could be that.

New comment by jmprspret in "Eyechat"

jmprspret — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:52:41 +0000

Depending on how religiously pious the man is, he may not even look at her eyes.

New comment by jmprspret in "Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood"

jmprspret — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:23:39 +0000

I'm way out of my depth here, but I think this comparison to the birds of paradise feathers makes the most sense in terms of me visualising what Nxylon would look like with a thin metallic coating

New comment by jmprspret in "Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library"

jmprspret — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:45:25 +0000

I'd never heard of this. Looks very very interesting!

I'd be keen to know Filippo's (age creator) opinion on this, if he has any.

New comment by jmprspret in "Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled"

jmprspret — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 01:18:36 +0000

Given their track record, I do believe you.

New comment by jmprspret in "Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled"

jmprspret — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 02:00:33 +0000

This fucking sucks. I recently just told someone to stop using ABP and to use uBO. "Normal people" don't want, nor care enough, to switch to Firefox.

New comment by jmprspret in "Just disconnect the internet"

jmprspret — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:50:28 +0000

Yeah. As someone who has literally been in this industry.. As sad as it is, its a pretty massive ask to expect all healthcare places to have their security "tight". All it takes is one lax clinic or hospital (and truth be told they are ALL lax in their security in one way or another) for it to come crumbling down.

New comment by jmprspret in "TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch"

jmprspret — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 08:58:02 +0000

> Attacker could do this as well,

No they cannot. They should not/will not be able to view that initial TOTP generation code. That is the "secret" that determines what digits are generated at one time.

New comment by jmprspret in "The New Internet"

jmprspret — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 08:48:01 +0000

The clients are the open source part of Tailscale. They can be forked and built by someone else if required.

However I do not think Tailscale is going to remove the custom control URL feature from their mobile clients. For one, I think there are legitimate "Tailscale Enterprise" use-cases for the custom login server.

Additionally, I have heard that Tailscale has been supportive of the Headscale project, providing assistance to the devs.

Further, Tailscale seems fairly committed to keeping their clients open sourced, and engaging in the developer community. Of course as you can say this can change at any time.

New comment by jmprspret in "The New Internet"

jmprspret — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 04:34:44 +0000

Nothing that I've noticed. I actually have never run vanilla Tailscale without Headscale so I'm not sure.

I think auto TLS requires some extra config, and DNS rules. I don't use it so I'm not sure.