That’s because people are stupid enough to never write down their keys and it’s better to have somewhat worse encryption compared to no encryption.

In an enterprise the recovery keys are most often stored in AD or Entra.

That’s a shame. Well at least it is not as important since you don’t actually live there. Not saying it’s not important, it’s not just quite as important as someone actually living there.

If one system is somehow compromised, the attacker could effectively impersonate all the systems on your entire domain if they had the wildcard cert. Maybe it’s not a huge deal for individuals but for companies or other organisations it could be extremely dangerous.

If someone wanted a wildcard cert at work I would be very cautious before I even considered issuing one. Unfortunately there are a few wildcard certs on our domain, but those are from before my time.

Luckily, wildcard certs are insecure and should be avoided.

Hope they don’t ever rotate the passwords.

Also it would be pretty hard to remember the likely very long passwords.

I would go back to ancient Rome, Athens, or somewhere similar and just do turism.

It would be incredibly cool to just look around and feel it how the world has back then. Video games like Assassins creed Odyssey scratch that itch but it would obviously be cooler in real life.

Because of the consequences and the ease of access to slave owners in the past I guess.

I have already addressed that in my original comment.

Go to a store.

Just because you wanted to inspect people’s creations in a way that suites you better doesn’t make banning piracy fundamentally immoral.

the discussion ends here.

Sounds great. It’s honestly no use arguing with idiots.

“I really don’t understand why people think they have a moral right to other people’s creations.”

That’s a straw man fallacy. That statement removes all the always important context you just alluded to, a statement which was never claimed.

In the articles this is being claimed:

Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal. In fact, Z-Library being illegal is immoral.

You say that it’s immoral that Z-Library is illegal. The purpose of Z-Library is arguably to provide people with copyrighted content for free. I.E Other people’s creations.

Please tell me what important context I’m missing. To me it honestly just seems like you want someone else’s stuff for free and are just brining up morally in a misguided way to achieve that. Wanting free shit is great, I support that. Pirate all you want. But it isn’t about morality.

P.S. isn’t bringing up the straw man fallacy a straw man fallacy itself? Some people have started to say that every argument they disagree with is essentially a straw man fallacy.

I’m not denying that 8 GBs of RAM is too little.

My personal PC has 64 GB, my work PC has 16 and the new work PC will have 32 GB.

8 GB is absolutely too little and apple absolutely charges way too much for more storage and ram.

I was just doubting their observation that new MacBooks from 2024 had 8 GB of ram. (They edited their comment. It said 2024 originally)

Btw, 256 GB is not that bad if all you do on your laptop is normal office work. When I looked for a new laptop this week, I had a fairly hard time finding a laptop which filled all of our requirements and had 1 TB of storage. Which is pretty insane considering that 1 TB is really cheap but I guess most don’t need it.

That’s true but in the context it puts a very bad taste in my mouth.

I really don’t understand why people think they have a moral right to other people’s creations.

Lol

Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal. In fact, Z-Library being illegal is immoral. That being said, I simply use Z-Library to inspect books before purchasing them. Translations from different authors are often remarkably different. Sometimes books have horrible layout. So yeah, Z-Library has been indispensable to avoid wasting money. Case in point, part of the first paragraph of Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead, the Dover versus Penguin edition

If z library only contained actual knowledge sure, but it seems to be primarily fiction. But no it’s immoral because the author likes to save money and not go to a physical store.

I like piracy too but saying that banning piracy is immoral and comparing it to apartheid, slavery and ccolonialism is just ridiculous.

Yes, and YAML is a war crime.

Can’t you vote at an embassy or consulate?

Vote in person then 🤷

Here it’s only possible to mail vote from abroad and I have never done it but it doesn’t appear that you get a confirmation here either.

If we are talking about registers of who voted and not for whom. Why does it matter? Who voted isn’t secret at all. So why even bring that up? For the record I voted in the most recent EU and national elections.

I’m so happy that doing taxes takes a minute for me. I did it on my phone while waiting for the train. I couldn’t stand the tax system you guys got.

You can get underwear with a better shaped crouch. I highly recommend it.

Yeah, I hate shopping for shoes. Getting shoes that fit well is hard and trying different shoes sucks.

Red star OS

You sure about that? I got my work to buy me a new one very recently because I need a new one for testing stuff (my main machine runs Windows). I choose the cheapest one available, because I don’t need a Pro model or anything. I also prefer a light computer since I often carry around both the Mac and my Windows machine in my backpack.

The cheapest M2 or M3 MacBook Air I could find had 16 GB RAM and 256 GB of storage. It’s only 999 USD which is quite cheap compared to my Windows laptop. Not cheap but not bad compared to normal business laptops.

Where do you get your numbers from?

P.S. it’s really fucking stupid that the MacBook Air can’t do more than one external display. Even the more barebone laptop available the decade should handle at least two displays. Hell even the Pi 4 can do 2 4K displays (at 30 FPS iirc but still)