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Cake day: March 2nd, 2023

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  • I guess integration with Google Drive is a big convenience for users.

    But yes, if the cost of getting access is to high for indie developers, then it make sense to avoid Google Drive. Creating and maintaining your own cloud sync service for a specific app may not be worth it, they should investigate integration with existing Google Drive competitors/alternatives.



  • Knowledge of the account is an obvious caveat. Yubikey-based MFA is an added layer of protection for accounts, so any kind of attack against MFA assumes the attacker already knows which account to target.

    It’s like saying “our door lock is flawed, but the attacker would need to have knowledge of the door”.

    The cost and complexity is what’s noteworthy and is more relevant. Although attack cost and complexity usuallu goes down with advances in tooling and research. So it may be a good idea to plan a progressive retirement of affected keys.




  • Once the war in Ukraine is over, weaponized drones won’t just vanish. They’re already made by companies with different level of ethics and any country able to pay is or will be able to buy them. Sooner or later, like many weapons, organised crime will get their hands on them, and use them outside of battlefield.

    There’s no way to completely prevent it, but we could at least limit damage by regulating the shit out of drones.










  • Bitcoin is not practical for small purshases, because transaction takes several minutes, and have around 50USD per-transaction fee. Note the cost of fees and value of bitcoin vary wildly, so the same amount of bitcoin may be enough to pay rent in August, but not in September.

    On a more ethical level, it’s also quite bad because of the insane energy cost of bitcoin transactions.


  • This is an opinion piece… It’s clearly marked as being an opinion. Even though it has solid arguments, and probably hold some truth, it’s not an actual news article written by NYT staff, it’s not pretending to be a factual reporting by a journalist nor an objective truth.

    Everyone is free to agree or disagree with it. To buy, sell, or hold.

    It would be wise however to consider the argument themselves, and not decide go to in one direction just because the author/publisher is someone you like or dislike.