boatswain

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[–] boatswain 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There are over 5000 Kanji

Did you drop a zero? The number I was taught when I was studying Japanese in college decades ago was 48,902. I don't know why it stuck in my head so hard, but it did.

I found kanji to be both difficult and fascinating. It's tempting to just focus on them as a writing system, but I think the readings are at least as important.

[–] boatswain 4 points 4 days ago

Huh, interesting; that's a good question. I'm not actually sure about that; it'd be a good thing for me to dig into more. Thanks for the thought!

[–] boatswain 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean, they specifically point to post-quantum cryptography and advise people to move towards it in the article:

Google said: “We’ve adjusted our threat model to prioritise post-quantum cryptography migration for authentication services – an important component of online security and digital signature migrations. We recommend that other engineering teams follow suit.”

The issue here is not that there aren't solutions; it's that organizations are not interested in taking the time and effort to move towards them. I've been beating this particular drum at my org for about a year, and I've gotten zero traction. This is a concern because moving to New encryption means taking all the data you've got, decrypting it, and re-encrypting it. That's not fast when you're talking hundreds of terabytes.

[–] boatswain 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With keycloak you can have a single local password to all your selfhosted apps: you sign in to keycloak, then you sso into everything else from there. I'm building that out on my homelab right now, and it's working fine.

[–] boatswain 1 points 2 weeks ago

One place I'm familiar with actually just deidentifies data when they say they delete it. They also have ways to re-identify if needed.

[–] boatswain 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah, surely nobody would ever like Batman... /s

[–] boatswain 5 points 2 weeks ago

"plotting" != "conducting"

[–] boatswain 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They explicitly don't:

The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require "commercially reasonable" verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks. Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who authored the bill, said this "avoids constitutional concerns by focusing strictly on age assurance, not content moderation," in a press release. The bill passed both chambers unanimously, 76-0 in the Assembly and 38-0 in the Senate.">

[–] boatswain 1 points 1 month ago

I'm still hopeful about https://veilid.com/ but I suspect that's a long way out; the protocol is still in development stages, let alone implementations of it.

[–] boatswain 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Your formatting makes this wall of text even worse

[–] boatswain 13 points 1 month ago

[citation needed]

[–] boatswain 4 points 1 month ago

Just use Obsidian without using folders, then? They're completely optional.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by boatswain to c/cybersecurity
 

Looks like they're pretty concerned with the possibility of mass discrimination by AI, perhaps in the wake of the news about United Healthcare using AI to decline coverage. This could be useful to people:

If you believe that you or someone you know has been subjected to unlawful discrimination due to a health care provider’s or health insurance plan’s use of AI, please let us know by submitting a complaint to my office: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/

 

Hi all, I recently got into the world of ergo mech by borrowing a friend's old Iris v2, and I really love how powerful and customizable things can be with QMK firmware.

Recently, my old n52te has started to show signs of age after a dozen or so years of abuse. If you're not familiar, they look like this:

There's definitely stuff that could be improved on--just being able to build your own firmware for it would be amazing. Having one or two more thumb buttons for layers would be sweet as well.

The community of ergo mech keyboard builders are doing some super cool things with 3d printed builds and all kinds of neat stuff. Since I've just been dipping my toes in, my question is: does anyone know of any good replacements for my n52te? Is this something anyone has tried tinkering around with?

Thanks!

 

I'm trying to figure out the best way to deal with some homebrew stuff I'll be dealing with in my 5e campaign.

If you're not familiar with Ancestral Weapons, it's a pretty cool system that gives you the ability to have weapons that level up with your players. The players get points periodically that they can spend on upgrades to their weapons.

I'll be using a variation of this setup in my campaign, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do so. My initial thought was a scene for each character's weapon, with some Monk's Active Tiles to handle a "talent tree" kind of interface where a player could select and then lock in which powers they want.

That doesn't really take care of updating the item itself though, which means that the players would have to update things manually ("oh, I need to make this sword +2 now" for example) after using the scene as a kind of calculator.

So maybe there's a better way: make the weapons Actors of their own, with special character sheets or something? Or maybe there's an existing mod I can use? Any thoughts or suggestions on the best way forward are appreciated.

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