ElectroBuffoon

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by ElectroBuffoon 27d ago
Yet Qubes OS demostrates it's possible to run X11 programs isolated from each other. They had the need and will to improve security, and found the way over a decade ago. Making server side decorations an important part of it. Oh, the i
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by ElectroBuffoon 6mo ago
The adult entertainment industry cared decades ago [0]. Their solution is simple: sites send the RTA meta tag if applicable, browsers in accounts configured by guardians as "children" look for it. [1] [0] https://en.wik
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by ElectroBuffoon 7mo ago
We already have the tech, in multiple forms. First, tagging: ASACP/RTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Sites_Advocatin... PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_
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by ElectroBuffoon 7mo ago
And here we are again... ASACP/RTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Sites_Advocatin... PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_... POWDER https:/&#x
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by ElectroBuffoon 9mo ago
QubesOS and Xpra+Firejail demostrate security can be improved including the X11 side. Solaris had Trusted Extensions. X11Libre has a proposal for using different magic cookies to isolate clients and give dummy data to the untrusted. Keith P
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by ElectroBuffoon 9mo ago
Or parents could set accounts to "child" and every service send the proper tags so the programs deny access locally. No third parties involved. PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_
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by ElectroBuffoon 9mo ago
RTALabel https://www.rtalabel.org/page.php is over 3 decades old. Restricted to Adults, pretty easy to remember. For some history and related standards, see Wikipedia: PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by ElectroBuffoon 11mo ago
Keith Packard, another legend, was proposing X11 improvements in 2018. [0] He doesn't seem to be paid to work in X11 or Wayland, thus being free to float ideas he likes. [0] https://keithp.com/x-ideas/
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by ElectroBuffoon 11mo ago
It's like if Wayland is not just a graphical system, but a full business plan. Control upstream, then companies wanting solutions will go to you first. Because why go to someone else in the FOSS market, when there is no certainty the c
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by ElectroBuffoon 11mo ago
What cost do they incur while tokenizing highly mistyped text? Woof. To later decide real crap or typ0 cannoe. Trying to remember the article that tested small inlined weirdness to get surprising output. That was the inspiration for the up
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by ElectroBuffoon 11mo ago
If the same garbage is repeated enough all over the net, the AIs will suffer brain rot. GIGO and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656223 Next step will be to mask the real information with typ0canno. Or parts of the t
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by ElectroBuffoon 11mo ago
It's deeper than that, it's about loyalties among you. Trump wants US military to get paid even with the federal government shutdown. [1] Like your executive fearing mercenaries changing their mind, instead of household troops sta
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by ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
"They pass more time with this! They like it a lot! Engagement achieved!!!11one11eleven" said the developer. "Why is this slower? Why do I have to burn time massaging the interface instead of doing it fast and continuing w
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by ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
Found images that could match the everything one, Trump Was Right About Everything! Funny to see when he has contradicted himself, for example releasing Epstein file or throwing it away. Only missing the black hat.
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by ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
I wanted to see it too... o_O Can someone figure the other hats? Gulf of America, USA, 4 More Years, Make America Great Again, but the one top center is hard to read, something with Everything? Trump Will Fight About Everything? The black o
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by ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
Yes, many sites already have it, RTA is nearly 3 decades old. It seems new proposed laws always ignore such systems are not just a theory but in a reality in use. What happens over and over only reinforces they idea that they really want &q
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by ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
Upper class could completly turn off their telescreens, meaning they have partial exemptions at least. For middle class they were always on. Proles had no telescreen because they were considered to lack brains. Even the Party had levels, In
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by ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
We already have standards: PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_... POWDER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_for_Web_Description_R... ASACP/RTA https:/&
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by ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
Guardians of minors are responsible for what they view, as well as what they drink or breathe. So they should make sure their devices are configured properly, same way they make sure there is no alcohol or tobacco intake. Then we have syste
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
>> ...because humans had become too dependent on them for thinking. > ... but no. The causes of the Butlerian Jihad are forgotten (or, at least, never mentioned) in any of Frank Herbert's novels; all that's remembered is
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
> wages are being suppressed "logically, necessarily" as Marc Andreessen says? https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-investor-goal-crash-human-w... Now if they could also crash factors like material, energy and
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
Thanks to their power, their decisions affect many. Those decisions are taken sometimes blindly, even if they could pay for good advice, sometimes knowing it's only for own benefit in short term at the expense of the rest. In the later
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
The elite will finally meet the long term consequences of their past and present decisions. It will be an spectacle: the true test of how useful wealth is against the Universe, compared to other things like knowledge or wisdom.
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
Current Xorg has Glamor, using OpenGL to accelerate the 2D ops of X11. There is also Zink, OpenGL-over-Vulkan for the rare case of Vulkan without native OpenGL. OTOH, there are people willing to add support for old hardware that probably ca
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
Unified Reich of America. It's just one letter aways from USA. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/22/t... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
For improved security with X11, try firejail+Xpra, or Qubes OS. They will not just help in the graphical front, but also others like processes and storage isolation.
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
> And because the X11 maintainers decided that Wayland is the way forward and X11 will simply not get new display features like HDR. Is Wayland a racket? Barely maintain the previous code instead of making clear that others should take i
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
That would be right in a world where Corporations do no collaborate with the State, or lobby the State to get the laws they want. In our world, State and Corporations are too friendly to each other.
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by ElectroBuffoon 2y ago
Stasi fits even better. As in stasi phones, stasi devices, [strike]social[/strike] stasi networks... Everyone snitching on everyone, from self and family to passers-by. Everyone becoming an informal collaborator.