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by controversial97 2y ago
Have you considered how much money you could loose to credit card chargebacks and similar fraud? How will you stop a flood of scammers trying to use your service to pay a 'freelancer' that is actually an accomplice in Nigeria by p
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by controversial97 2y ago
"with the latest policy update in 2021, WhatsApp made data sharing with Meta mandatory for all users" "Given the network effects and lack of effective alternatives, the 2021 Update forces users to comply, unde
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by controversial97 2y ago
I think this would be better with a "How do I use this?" section at the top. Normal people are unaware that the person who wants to receive a file or message should be the one who generates the key pair (in a public key system). &
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by controversial97 2y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742556 On-device scanning of files is not "New Tech" This video is someone vaguely rambling about EU chat control.
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by controversial97 2y ago
DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager" KMS is "Kernal Mode Setting"
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by controversial97 2y ago
In Chrome browser on Windows and in Firefox and Chromium on Linux, the text on the /signup page is black. The background is black. That makes the text invisible.
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by controversial97 2y ago
The create-an-account pages have black text on a black background. The text and submit buttons are not visible unless you ctrl+a or drag-select.
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by controversial97 2y ago
It sometimes makes sense to made a distro that is specifically for new or unusual hardware. I point to Asahi Linux, supporting Apple computers based on their M1, M2 and M3 ARM cpus is a load of work that is still in progress and sometimes i
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by controversial97 2y ago
VOLMET radio transmissions, which are computer generated voices reading out weather information on shortwave frequencies are getting much less range than usual. Listening on some WebSDRs, overnight Shannon VOLMET on 3413KHz upper-sideband f
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by controversial97 2y ago
This creates a booby trap for everyone who avoids using a Microsoft account to log on to their computer. If you use a local account and don't keep a backup of your bitlocker key then you can loose all your files if windows won't b
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by controversial97 2y ago
Debian stable, but my hardware is all old. Hardware that uses a new chip, such as some wifi devices released in the last couple of years, may require using a kernel from backports or waiting a couple of years for a new major version.
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by controversial97 2y ago
I like that Firefox still exists, despite the questionable management at Mozilla, and this is almost entirely funding it. At least some good comes from this.
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by controversial97 2y ago
Two weeks ago that website said that they are moving their office and lab from one US state to another: http://web.archive.org/web/20240406204554/https://www.greena... The website was/is served by a
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by controversial97 2y ago
Windows file explorer parses files in the folder you are looking at. It does things like read jpg files to get the date that that a photograph was taken from the EXIF data, read eml files to get the date that a saved email was received and
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by controversial97 2y ago
I prefer having a medium amount of RAM, 32GB, because I mainly run Linux with xwindow and many years ago I generally found that it handled out-of-memory condition very poorly. I do not like the whole of xwindows crapping out or applications
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by controversial97 3y ago
Perhaps search hnn for "cryptocat" which was an attempt to do e2e chat through a website a dozen years ago. It was somewhat controversial at the time. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cryptcat The author gave up on it af
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by controversial97 3y ago
Anyone doing that should be warned that it is not unusual for a new laptop to have the harddrive/SSD encrypted with bitlocker without any notification to the user. If you don't create a Microsoft account and then later the laptop
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by controversial97 3y ago
This reminds me of a thing from a few years ago, my vague memory is that it was by Travis Goodspeed. A smart TV would accept a firmware update from a file on a standard USB stick. The TV reads the file start to finish to check the digital s
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by controversial97 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/195/
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by controversial97 3y ago
A radio club in the Netherlands were able to receive it with their twenty five meter diameter dish. https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024/uhf-signals-of-japanese-m...
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by controversial97 3y ago
Until about the year 1993, 3.5" disks were very reliable if you didn't abuse them. Around the early days of windows 3.11, someone figured out how to make cheaper 3.5" disks and putting data on off-brand disks became a gamble.
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by controversial97 3y ago
I think the number of UK people who are inconvenienced by not getting huge 5G speed is small. Two of the UK cellular networks are completely turning off 3G service over the next few months, which will allow them to use more radio spectrum f
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by controversial97 3y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-analysis-starlink-link-... I don't think that polarization makes any practical difference to how hazardous non-ionizing radiation is. Please show a reference to back up your cl
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by controversial97 3y ago
The RF power from Starlink satellites that hits the outside of your body when you are outside is very very tiny. It is estimated at 0.000000294 watts per square meter. That amount of energy is much smaller than the 1000 watts per square met
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by controversial97 3y ago
Discussion at a slightly earlier post about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38808026
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by controversial97 3y ago
I presume this open Mozilla issue is related "incorrect relative order of Subject attributes" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864204 It appears that they didn't exactly follow the long complex t
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by controversial97 3y ago
He also paid $300 million for a minority share of a website for finding someone to walk your dog and invested $375 million in a company that failed to make robots that can make pizza. It was not just WeWork that set his reputation as an inv
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by controversial97 3y ago
In my opinion, all that matters is that you look at the screen while typing, not at the keyboard.
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by controversial97 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955264
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by controversial97 3y ago
I can say from personal experience that for at least five years it has been common for small companies to buy a laptop direct from Dell and for it to have a bitlocker encrypted drive without anyone choosing that.

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