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35 minutes ago#2 Dicing and drinking at an inappropriate time bring poverty, contempt, and a ruined reputation
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31·49 minutes agoSSNs are generally considered public information but how the SSN is linked to other information is usually the more difficult bit to find and it’s generally pay-walled. (Any jackass with a business license and a credit card can usually buy background check information for ‘hiring’.)
But no, it shouldn’t be solely used for authentication. That is just dumb. However, it can be used as part of a larger verification and validation scheme while building authentication/authorization profiles. In most systems that I have seen that use full or partial SSNs, it is always linked to several other identifiers that need to match.
291·2 days agoYou could probably look at RAM and GPU prices and come to the same conclusion much faster.
1·4 days agoUpdate: “Blur” will not save and will revert to “Hide”. “Show” seems to save.
Random other settings not being saved, like seeing down votes on posts. That one is weird. It takes a while to revert, but it always eventually will.
46·10 days ago69% of developers report losing 8+ hours weekly to inefficiencies—20% of their time (Atlassian, 2024)
Yep. If there is any company that knows what it takes to drive inefficiencies, it’s Atlassian. (Fuck them and their software.)
21·12 days agoIf you think that’s crazy, you need to read this: https://www.arebirdsreal.com/
11·17 days agoMods still catch quite a bit of spam, which needs to be removed. Mods should also be able to manage their communities as they see fit unless they break the instance rules. It’s not ideal to have comment removal, but it’s what we got. (TBH, it seems you underestimate the dedication to shit posting that some trolls have.)
I also just watched this PBS video: https://youtu.be/HxpkOym11pw
5·20 days agoI would speculate that it’s related to Russia’s ability to retaliate and Russian allies willingness to help. Also, Russian reliance on the shadow oil trade is exponentially higher than it was a couple of years ago, so the investment loss is much higher now.
Most of all, politicians are just slow. I am not extremely familiar with EU politics, but my assumption is that decisions can take much longer to make when multiple countries are involved in taking actions like this.
Memes are the communist gateway drug.
These are actually real, for those who care: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/mist-cannon-leaves-rainbow-trail-floating-over-city-avenue/1195796
7·22 days agoYeah. This is hail. 2018 Denver area, Colorado. When the conditions are right, I suspect the air currents swirl this against the mountain range until its heavy enough to get launched across the state.
I wouldn’t call this sleet in any country as sleet just sounds too dainty.
2·22 days agoYou can enable POP access for an email application like the standalone Outlook client, and it’s not a firm requirement to delete emails from the server. If you don’t connect with a client app that is configured to transfer all emails off the server, the webmail interface should work fine.
https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/2063-outlook-leave-copy-on-server.html
I have used this kind of setup multiple times.
Fair. “Extreme” was probably too strong. Still, I still believe it goes a little further than being just self-centered. He is just too quick to stroke his own ego for various accomplishments. It’s not that I hate the character at all, it’s just how I see him.
Extreme narcissistic and egotistical behavior is probably a sign there is something much deeper going on. Of all the categories I could put the Dr in, neurotypical probably wouldn’t be one of them.
2·25 days agoCORN. I see why they tried to get creative with “comBat”. Dumb name for a dumb group.
4·29 days agoThat’s kind of the point. You want the sheep to think they are burning down society for some do-good ideology while the politicians sidestep the government into a into dictatorship or other kind of single party authoritarian system. Regardless, the politicians of the new government will be just fine.
No. It might be in a politicians best interest to ensure a population stays dumb and then ensure those dumb people raise even dumber children.
I am making a slightly different point and have a bias to this perspective: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SD/19230.pdf
I am saying that an SSN can be part of a larger validation scheme, not the only key to the castle. Specifically for government sites, SSNs can be linked to IRS data to verify places of last residence. A person generally needs to verify multiple items that are referenced by the SSN before basic authentication can be established and set by the user. (This is part of the full Authentication, Authorization and Access Control triad.)
An SSN is just a broad level identifier. If you look at many laws around the release of SSNs, the redaction is usually in place to prevent the linking of different documents and other data points.
If I released my SSN in this chat, I could be fully doxxed in a matter of seconds. It’s mainly because there are many legal systems in place that use an SSN as a primary key, of sorts. (It’s a bit more than that, as SSNs can be duplicated in some circumstances.)
So to say, at a high level, an SSN is considered private is absolutely correct. However, it’s so easily referenced and obtainable it really isn’t fully private either.
If I was to generate a full list of every possible SSN in the US (which I have done, multiple times), that list is effectively useless to anyone who obtains a copy of it. So, by itself, an SSN is effectively public.