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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • This exactly. At the broadest range you can say there are certain qualities that are more prevalent in one age group compared to another age group, but at the individual person level those trends are meaningless. Any individual person can be conservative or liberal, be caring or selfish, be x or y.






  • I’m sure you’re not nearly as loathe as you think.

    I’m sure you like being able to plug any device into any power outlet and have it work correctly and safely every time without even having to think about it.

    I’m sure you like being able to use your cell phone and wifi without it being an unusable mess of different technologies all trying to use the same frequencies.

    Etc. Etc. Etc.

    When an aspect of technology becomes far reaching enough that it effects essentially everyone and every device, and there are far reaching consequences to it not being interoperable, then that’s exactly the type of situation where it’s good for government to work with experts in the field and decide on an official enforced standard















  • It all depends on the value of what you’re trying to secure, and if an attacker knows the value of what’s in the account, and if the attacker has access to hints about the password you used to narrow down the possibilities. The researchers knew all of that info and they still didn’t want to bother trying to crack the password until they found an additional way to narrow down the possibilities even further.

    There’s no such thing as perfect security. A lock only needs to be strong enough to make it not worth breaking into for what’s in there