afarah1

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by afarah1 8d ago
They want to make money. Their buyers want a closely surveilled world with no exits.
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by afarah1 9d ago
Legislators in every jurisdiction seem to have more to gain with the data collection than without.
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by afarah1 9d ago
I think the insane part is that this is not criminal and the executives are not jailed for it.
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by afarah1 12d ago
Just call it war and it's no longer criminal. Perhaps on terror, or whatever. If one is concerned with this sort of scenario, this talk about corporations and regulations is really short sighted.
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by afarah1 17d ago
Most large companies hedge their exposition to FX rates.
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by afarah1 17d ago
Why not aggressively rate limit? Legitimate use of HTML rendered commits should be largely unaffected, and crawlers slowed to a halt. You can even jail after a number of 429's...
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by afarah1 19d ago
Well, nowadays the purpose of a TV is usually to watch content over the internet, so I wouldn't call it "stupid" to connect the TV to the internet. You might say it's naive, but is it really naive to buy a TV and expect
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by afarah1 24d ago
Yeah... Original and clever, and a great read! But it seems mostly useful to the handful of people dealing with ELF internals, than to the vast majority of people executing ELF blissfully ignorant of its internals... Maybe if the latency an
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by afarah1 1mo ago
Correct, but there are no better non-root alternatives as far as I know. Would love to be proved wrong. There are some workarounds to use NetGuard with a VPN based on a work profile or something, but I haven't personally tried them and
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by afarah1 1mo ago
Worth the shout-out to the open source NetGuard app which allows you to block internet access for select apps without root, using Android's always-on VPN feature as a firewall. This is useful to prevent this and any other apps from tal
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by afarah1 1mo ago
>the .NET developers magazine. Surely it's online? Such magazine still being in issue would be equally surprising to me.
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by afarah1 1mo ago
If there is a sustainable market for higher volume/quality/durability products for a higher price, it is in the interest of companies - new and existing - to capture it, as by definition they would profit from it. Consolidation al
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by afarah1 1mo ago
It prevents event dispatch, upon which this exploit relied. The same could be achieved without listening to clipboard events, in which case the setting would be insufficient. I'm not sure there is a way to fully prevent clipboard manip
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by afarah1 1mo ago
Huh, I don't know about the world of HSMs or crypto and their audits, but in FedRAMP SaaS, you absolutely have to run everything with FIPS mode enabled, there are strong guarantees that need to be in place and audited.
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by afarah1 1mo ago
You can disable it on Firefox by setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false. I haven't had any issues with it. Someone shared the code in the comments, it uses 'copy' and 'cut' event listeners, so disabling
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by afarah1 1mo ago
Also interesting to look at the chart per country. [2] US fossil fuel is 4x entire Germany, while for China just coal is over 8x all of Germany. So good and relevant news at a local scale! But pretty irrelevant at a global one... A scale at
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by afarah1 1mo ago
Nothing new about that
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by afarah1 2mo ago
The same can be said about Flock, or other surveillance state mechanisms. It's good for security, it's more convenient than police doing police work. Until it's not. Until it's hacked or abused as powerful mechanisms com
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by afarah1 2mo ago
Yes but also as always a people problem. People put the cameras and monitoring systems in place and operate them, to govern other people who ultimately yield to be governed, as the alternative is made too costly / dangerous by the gove
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by afarah1 2mo ago
I use a separate user for all development tasks, its home folder contains all repositories I work on, and nothing else, and that is all the IDE and the AI assistants have access to. Create the user once, start the IDE from a shell using tha
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by afarah1 2mo ago
Even if all applications look at the OS trust store, in my experience there's always a gap distributing the CA to every consumer, leading to time spent on debugging from time to time... Maybe that's not the case in perfectly homog
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by afarah1 2mo ago
EU driving assists are obtrusive to the point of making driving less safe in my experience. Great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-S76WEl25k
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by afarah1 2mo ago
Couple of things that could be done, from the top of my head: - Strip links, script tags, etc - Apply the same filters used in user comments - Add a warning indicating user-generated content may be present The post suggests the UX is proble
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by afarah1 3mo ago
Driving a rental car in Germany almost makes me cheer for the ongoing bankruptcy of their auto industry. It really needs a full reset at this point. Sad thing is EU law mandates for a modem in the car as well as intrusive driving aids that
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Intrusive Driving Aids make driving worst(youtube.com)
1 points by afarah1 3mo ago|0 comments
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by afarah1 5mo ago
I've had the "problem" of forgetting syntax before any AI, with IDE autocomplete. It was only ever a problem when switching jobs and being expected to write syntactically correct code on platforms without syntax checks or aut
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by afarah1 5mo ago
Biometrics is just something else to get leaked, terrible idea because it's even more sensitive (can be used to track you through cameras for example, like used in the Iran war). This problem has long been solved with federated IdPs an
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by afarah1 5mo ago
You can also race it with another promise, which e.g. resolves on timeout.
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by afarah1 5mo ago
In Brazil you already can't access some government services without a smartphone, such as paying for municipal parking in various cities. So if you own a car but not a smartphone, you get a fine. Sadly the least of the country's p
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by afarah1 6mo ago
Ah, so the minutes long wait hearing answering machine bs is a universal experience. I thought it was a local thing and limited to ISPs, utilities, and financials... When I can choose between competing companies, having a direct line to a h

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