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Comment Re:The Problem is Hertz (Score 1) 217

Agreed. Hertz has all of these EVs, but I don't see a charger anywhere. Would it kill them to install a couple of chargers at each location, so that people dropping off their cars after-hours can simply plug it in and let it fill up overnight?

I rented a Tesla from Hertz, and they told me I'd pay extra if I returned it below the same charge level -- kind of like not refilling a gas car, I suppose. I picked it up at 94%. Fortunately, I have an EV at home (that's currently in the shop, hence the rental) so I filled it up, drove it back, and returned it at 95%. Whoever returned it near empty probably had to pay an exorbitant surcharge, not that it did a damn thing for you.

Comment Re:Absolutely Fuck No (Score 1) 106

Firefox has an option to anonymize the WebAuthn/U2F information that it sends to the remote server. I tried doing that, and my anonymized key failed the Cloudflare Challenge. From reading the article, I think it's because I didn't disclose my device attestation. Can anyone explain to someone who's only halfway-decent at understanding crypto?

Comment Re:So, no backbone then. (Score 1) 20

As opposed to Android device manufacturers, who are forcibly pre-loading these apps and making them unable to be removed by the end user. This is probably Apple kowtowing to the government while maintaining their focus as "The Privacy Company."

That being said, I'd like to know if these apps made by Russian companies are undergoing the same security and privacy review as any other App Store app.

Comment Re:this might help (Score 1) 62

That's what the TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV "cipher" is supposed to solve. If a client has asked to downgrade the TLS version, the server will include that canary with the list of supported ciphers. If the client sees that but did not ask to downgrade, the connection is assumed compromised and immediately terminated. Of course, this does require both client and server support. It's been in all of the OpenSSL derivatives for quite some time, though I believe it's still missing from Microsoft's SChannel stack.

Comment Re:ZFS? (Score 1) 69

ReFS is pretty nice. You know, besides it not being supported as a boot volume, not supporting whatever crappy NTFS features App1 and App2 require, not being open-source or open-specification, and seeing its predecessor NTFS continue to see active development. It's like Microsoft wants to implement the ZFS feature set as a hobby.

Comment Re:Typical Apple. Throw away products (Score 1) 42

Well, I hope they're made of recyclable or biodegradable materials. Or, in true Apple fashion, built a disassembly robot.

In all seriousness, my cloth masks are almost-infinitely washable. Still, I don't deal with deaf or hard-of-hearing people. I've never thought about it before, but they must really be affected by all this.

Comment Re:Can we actually delete? (Score 1) 47

On Windows 10, you can "uninstall" Internet Explorer, which removes the user-facing shortcuts. However, the Trident engine is still used by Windows (and curiously, the Edge MSA/AAD login pop-up), so it's not really gone for good. Heck, installing ChrEdge keeps the legacy Edge rendering engine around, because it's used to render Store apps.

Comment Re:Unusual choice (Score 1) 47

Interesting decision considering IE11 is still the only browser shipped natively with Server 2019

Yeah, that surprised me too. I get that Microsoft Edge is tied to the OS, and they (intentionally) removed that in the process of converting Windows 10 to Windows Server. Still, Chromium Edge is technically a third-party app. They could have even had it installed after Windows Setup, if they didn't want to formally bake it into the image.

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