alwayslikethis

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by alwayslikethis 1y ago
They are more dangerous. They contain significant amounts of lithium metal, the thing that bursts into flames when in contact with water. There are similar restrictions on them for air travel.
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by alwayslikethis 1y ago
NAT may go away, but stateful firewalls won't. There will still be many environments where you can't easily get a point to point connection even though the IP is addressable and there is a route.
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by alwayslikethis 1y ago
Git gives you a full history of changes which is convenient for many other reasons. I also do sometimes put dated and less often timestamped entries when desired.
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by alwayslikethis 1y ago
If you use org-mode, you can just set up a git repo which auto-commits with gitwatch. And run magit-blame when you want the timestamps. With the advantage that it doesn't distract you when you don't need to see them, but super use
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by alwayslikethis 1y ago
I wish sites offered a way to opt out of 2FA if your password has enough entropy (128 bit random string). These are not getting cracked anytime soon. I store my TOTPs in keepassxc with the other passwords anyway. The keepassxc database is t
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Even if it's free I doubt they would have wanted it. Supporting DRM is the opposite of what KOreader is for.
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
I wish browsers had better support for local web apps. If local files can access persistent storage easily, this can open it up a lot of opportunities for quick and easy GUI apps. Basically the opposite of electron.
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Unfortunately, RCS on Android requires google apps, so this isn't really a solution to anyone who doesn't want to be tracked by Google everywhere they go. I'm still a little confused as to what problem RCS is supposed to solv
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Liquid nitrogen (boiling at -196 C) is a semi-common substance that people would have heard of, though not everyone would have seen or interacted with it.
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Any claim of fees for hosting a distribution platform is nullified by the lack of alternatives. I don't get to kidnap you can then charge you rent and food costs.
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Piracy has always existed and will always exist. The issue is that it only takes one determined pirate to overcome the DRM and that piece of information is freed from DRM. You can already do all this even without a legally recognized right
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
This is a part of it, but I don't think it's all there is. Words mean little when there is such a large power and information asymmetry between consumers and sellers. The law should formalize the concepts of rentals (licenses) and
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
> In fact, the DMA doesn't even explicitly require that gatekeepers allow third party app stores; they can only allow direct distribution (e.g. via web sites) instead, if they want. Is Apple actually complying with the DMA then? The
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
> digital “purchases” are transferrable and have all of the rights and privileges afforded to physical goods. I concur. We need to establish a "secondary markets act", which would allow individuals to transact accounts and digi
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Oh, I wasn't aware that slashes can follow the #. In that case it seems to be. Thanks for the correction. So the only concern here is injecting js to exfiltrate the key then.
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
It doesn't seem to be.
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
But isn't the key just in the url? If the key is sent to the servers in any way, it can be used to decrypt and read the files. I'm not sure that this achieves anything more than a pinky promise of "we won't read your fil
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
> any examples in mind for Apple Their image scanning proposal? The recent UK E2EE backup thing? For the first, although they eventually backtracked, proposing it alone should be ruinous they are actually a privacy-oriented company. Alth
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Someone with everything to lose if they break it. Most large companies do not. Perhaps smaller companies whose main selling point is privacy? Proton? Signal? I don't use either but they seem relatively plausible.
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Even when using Firefox (with RFP) I often get captchas that say "You have been blocked" after you solve it. I don't bother with sites asking for captchas anymore. If I see a captcha, I close the tab, since there is no guaran
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
> a fully self-sovereign life, with no dependence on trust or agents, is an unrealizable ideal I agree with this part, but relying Apple is quite far from self-sovereignty compared to many other practical alternatives: not relying on ext
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Your analogy doesn't really work because a food poisoning attack is hard to scale (across restaurants, locations) without being detected, whereas one backdoor can compromise everyone all at once if they all have the same software. If A
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
It is specifically with these smaller projects, not something like Linux or Chromium, that AI can accelerate. In particular, companies would probably not bother using an (A)GPL'd library, and would instead recreate them from scratch wi
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
I would have said this in the past, but at this point I don't think it matters that much anymore. 1. Code copyright has devalued a lot in general, as you can code significantly faster with LLMs and use them to launder GPL'd code i
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
The main benefit of having US monopolies is the spying capabilities that it enables. No other country ever had such a global surveillance network. For the average American, both the efficient parts of monopolies (reduced redundancy which me
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
If Google sells Chrome keeps control over Chromium, I don't see this benefiting users. They'll continue with their anti-user efforts (Manifest V2 phaseout, Web Integrity), and the only difference is that the new Chrome will come w
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
You can get the age quite quickly with a binary search. If everyone is between 1 and 100, that's no more than 7 requests. The only way this wouldn't hurt privacy excessively is that it has to work the other way around. You, not th
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Syncthing works great for this if you have an always on computer. If you don't you can use a server and add it as an untrusted recipient if you have to, though I would not bother since the database is encrypted with your password anywa
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
Wouldn't it also make you lose everything in a recovery scenario? If all your computers are lost in a fire or flood, you would lose the recovery key, and having your password would not be enough to recover your database. I use keepassx
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by alwayslikethis 2y ago
> The shopping experience on Amazon is meh I wouldn't say it's especially good, but most others are worse. As a start, many online shops show me a captcha from Cloudflare before saying "You have been blocked" or refus

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