JacobKfromIRC

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by JacobKfromIRC 8d ago
My family bought a big Vizio TV around a year ago (IIRC), and I'm pretty sure we didn't have to sign in to anything for it to work. We didn't connect it to the internet. It often prompts for an update to the remote but the pr
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by JacobKfromIRC 12d ago
I wish Haketilo [1] would have caught on more. There's so many free JavaScript apps but we're mostly just missing a way to actually control which version or derivative of the JavaScript is run. There's also the problem of mos
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by JacobKfromIRC 12d ago
Thank you, It's been on my mental to-do list to do a 911 test call (with pre-authorization from my 911 center) from the device at some point, but I've been procrastinating. I decided to try this today. I didn't expect updates
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by JacobKfromIRC 13d ago
I tell people I don't have a cell phone, but when pressed I say I technically do have many smartphones, because I keep buying them at garage sales for super cheap and not actually using them. And technically, I also have the iPhone 6s
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by JacobKfromIRC 13d ago
This is not the case with current systems, but could future systems be designed to be tamper-evident in a way that makes it impractical to sign fake images or extract the signing key without leaving evidence on the device? If that were the
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by JacobKfromIRC 15d ago
If you just want to get away from Google, there are other operating systems that don't use as many Google services: see [1] and [2] I didn't realized when I started writing this, but apparently even so-called "degoogled"
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by JacobKfromIRC 15d ago
When did this start? I didn't even realize at first because I use Redlib.
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by JacobKfromIRC 21d ago
This is a minor nitpick, but I don't think postmarketOS is GNU/Linux. I am not sure what the correct term would be to refer to the group of operating systems including those you mentioned but excluding Android, since all of them i
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by JacobKfromIRC 22d ago
Are there somewhat popular social networks that require commenters and posters to license their work under a free license (e.g. CC-BY-SA-4.0)? Then anyone would be free to create a "clone" of the website and even make derivatives,
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by JacobKfromIRC 22d ago
How do you circumvent printer dots? I don't see how that could be trivial.
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by JacobKfromIRC 22d ago
I think the new account would have to be a Microsoft account also, so you wouldn't have even gained anything by not migrating. Some servers allow joining without a Microsoft account even these days, but probably can't play on any
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by JacobKfromIRC 23d ago
I would be curious to know what kind of vulnerabilities the latest version of Eudora (7.1.0.9 I think) has. With how old it is (2006), surely there are several critical vulnerabilities, but all I could find when looking online is that an IM
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by JacobKfromIRC 25d ago
I'm not familiar with Canva but I don't see any technical reason why every interaction would need to rely on the server. Since Canva uses client-side JavaScript, it could be designed so that the local version of a document updates
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Is this actually feasible? How do you tell when a page uses ads? How do you find pages without ads when you search for something?
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
How do you decide when to update?
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Good to know! Thanks. I notice the README file for signal-cli [1] says registration "may require solving a CAPTCHA challenge", which might involve running proprietary software. I found a forum post that says this also sometimes ha
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Oof, this is a problem at my workplace. Crew [1] and Connecteam [2] (workplace communication apps) both require an SMS code to sign in. Technically, you don't have to have a cell phone, because you can use a VoIP service, but it means
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Not who you replied to, but I do sometimes have problems like this, and as a result I am sometimes an hour late with no warning. It's bad, but it only happens very rarely. This also sometimes happened when I did use a smartphone, if it
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Not all banks require SMS. I use Chase bank and the two factors are my debit card and my PIN. I don't use any app, but instead just go to the ATM or talk to a human. Some things, like wiring money, have an extra charge if you don'
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
If this works without proprietary software, it might actually convince me to use Signal. I already have a VoIP phone number through JMP and would be happy to use it for Signal, but I've read that registration isn't an option on th
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Can you elaborate? What happened to your browser history? It seems odd that browsers would even let websites cause problems like this but maybe I'm misunderstanding because I'm not sure what the problems are.
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) calls the update system used in Windows 10 a "back door" [1], I think because it installs updates automatically. This sounds like nonsense to me, because it implies that I installed a back door o
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by JacobKfromIRC 1mo ago
Even on GOG, it's usually illegal to re-sell games you bought to other people, if I understand correctly. It's a minor point since there's no technical barrier to resale, but that's one difference between physical games
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by JacobKfromIRC 2mo ago
Defense against Signal may not be total, but if you build from source (or use a reproducible build) you can check to be pretty sure you have the same software as everyone else, in which case a backdoor would have to be in a public version o
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by JacobKfromIRC 2mo ago
The license seems to already require this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/ Maybe I am misunderstanding the summary, but it says: "If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produce
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by JacobKfromIRC 3mo ago
There is a book called "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye" which is (was?) banned in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_David_California Although copyright-infringing books may be ille
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by JacobKfromIRC 3mo ago
Woah, I just realized (because of this comment) that I've been grouping "technique" and "technology" as a single thing in my understanding and calling it "technology"/"tech". For example, I
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by JacobKfromIRC 3mo ago
> At that point, people shouldn't buy the product if they disagree with the conditions. I think a problem with this idea is that terms of service can be difficult to understand. For example a lot of licenses or terms of service forb
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by JacobKfromIRC 4mo ago
There's also the free culture movement, which generally believes all creative works should be free, not just software. There are many people who would advocate for free software and not free culture, but jxself has also written in supp
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by JacobKfromIRC 4mo ago
I think your definition of "free software" is too strict, otherwise public domain software would not be free software

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