RandomGerm4n

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by RandomGerm4n 3d ago
At least Bottles is really good and not just slop
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by RandomGerm4n 24d ago
The solution would be simply to add a warning as a temporary measure preferably in red text and in a way that would scare the average user. This warning should be accompanied by a call to action urging users to contact the device manufactur
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by RandomGerm4n 2mo ago
The answer is quite simple. You just don't verify it. The point isn’t to verify the age but to set the age on the device itself. If the parents set the age on the cell phone or computer, that setting is then used as the basis. The oper
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by RandomGerm4n 2mo ago
I'm fundamentally opposed to age verification because it usually leads to mandatory account creation no matter how privacy friendly the age verification process itself may be. It's already extremely annoying that, for example, on
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by RandomGerm4n 2mo ago
Mailbox.org is based in Germany, which is why you generally cannot trust its feature that automatically encrypts all incoming emails. Other german mail providers, such as Tuta, have already been forced at the direction of government authori
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by RandomGerm4n 2mo ago
I think that instead of trying to prevent web scraping, websites should try to make it easier so that it generates less traffic. As long as any user is allowed to view the website, there will always be a way to scrape it anyway. If there we
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by RandomGerm4n 3mo ago
That reasoning is complete nonsense. If someone scrapes the data, that’s not a big deal, and Reddit has no more claim to the data than anyone else. The data is public and created by users, not by the platform itself. If the traffic is too m
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by RandomGerm4n 3mo ago
I think the better solution would be to treat every answer as if it were written by a human and then hold the person accountable for any mistakes. I’ve often seen in academic contexts that people have published texts with completely fictiti
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Lobsters bug allows unauthorized email access(lobste.rs)
52 points by RandomGerm4n 3mo ago|6 comments
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by RandomGerm4n 3mo ago
So does that mean my girlfriend is also to blame for the war just because she happened to be born in Russia? She’s against Putin herself, but there’s not much she can do about it because, as a trans woman, she’s persecuted by that shitty st
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by RandomGerm4n 3mo ago
I think it's immoral to withhold LLMs for “security reasons.” All LLMs are all trained on forum posts from real users, source code from free software, and books written by authors. All of these people should therefore also have access
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Sonny Piers elaborates on his ban from the Gnome community(discourse.gnome.org)
7 points by RandomGerm4n 3mo ago|0 comments
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by RandomGerm4n 3mo ago
Privacy Pass would also be a good option. You can use it with Kagi, where you’ll have cryptographic tokens that you can use for searches without them being linked to your account. Even if you use a non-anonymous payment method, you could st
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
Why would that be bad?
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
> After about 2010 companies stopped providing the server binary. Games like Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield 2, etc could be played by communities in perpetuity on private servers. If the next game (MW3, BF3) were terrible, you didn't
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
> Am I responsible for providing a fallback to EOS, or Steam, or playfab in case their services are decommissioned? In this case, the company offering this service should be responsible for making it possible to host the service independ
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
> There's also the likelihood of the server architecture requiring many moving pieces. Think if fortnite died tomorrow how many different servers it would take to host. Could an argument be made that an end user couldn't be exp
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GitHub bans researcher for exploits; expert calls it vindictive(tomshardware.com)
12 points by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago|1 comments
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
Even though I wouldn't really use something like that myself, I actually think it's a good thing when people share their dotfiles with others. Whether you call it a “distribution” or not is basically irrelevant, and I don't u
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"Riot Games divides players after boasting Vanguard can "brick" hardware"(dexerto.com)
5 points by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago|0 comments
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
No, thanks. Vivaldi is proprietary software and therefore not trustworthy. Since the source code isn't fully available, there's no way to verify whether an update might secretly add a feature that collects data. Since the source c
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
> I, for one, like streaming apps enough that I don't want to go back to locked-down, expensive DVD players. The alternative to DRM isn't "no DRM", it's "no content". That statement is simply not true.
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
But that would only be possible for large companies. If I'm just tinkering with my own Linux distribution for fun, Google won't even bother responding to my request.
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
The intention behind it doesn't matter at all. In the end, it just means that only a few major operating systems are allowed, and the market is divided up among the established manufacturers. Anyone new to the market faces a major prob
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
In many countries, a VPN provider can be significantly more trustworthy than an ISP. In Germany, for example, you can have your home searched simply for insulting a politician. The ISP will then immediately hand over the data to the authori
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
Not all plugins are open source. Some of them are included in the jdclosed dependency which is just a blob. The developers claim this is to prevent sites from patching them. However this approach is not compatible with the GPL and the devel
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
The AusweisApp is Open Source and available on Windows, Linux and even FreeBSD too. You just need some NFC Scanner that works via USB and then you can use it without a mobile device. https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/open-sourc
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
There are still warez sites that upload content in RAR archives, which are then split into individual parts. A download manager can then download them all one after another instead of having to do it manually. There are also hosting sites w
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
I wish there was finally a decent alternative to this junk. JDownloader pretends to be GPL, but parts of it are closed source. Plus, the Windows installer on the official site is a gamble, and you can only find a clean installer in the foru
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by RandomGerm4n 4mo ago
Perhaps we should consider designing distributions to be more tailored to specific purposes. Since no one needs the affected module on a desktop computer, distributions designed for that purpose should no longer include it by default. If th

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