deadbytes

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by deadbytes 5y ago
>You will only ever get name calling, knee-jerk responses and purely emotional, speculative arguments here Thank you for so perfectly proving my point
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by deadbytes 5y ago
>Also, there should be more ways to "praise" a project. Maybe github should implement a "feedback" tab where people can post their experiences of using the project. Perhaps some of those experiences would be negative
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by deadbytes 5y ago
I would encourage all developers to download a Commodore 64 emulator and spend some time learning 6502 assembly. There is no memory protection and no software abstractions. You display graphics on the screen by writing directly to video mem
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Rely on distro maintainers for package security, not developers(blogs.gentoo.org)
1 points by deadbytes 5y ago|0 comments
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by deadbytes 5y ago
I think programmers need to start taking a lot more responsibility for what we release into the world. If you don't think your software solves a real problem, or will improve people's quality of life, then why release it? There ar
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by deadbytes 5y ago
You are just making this up. Nowhere in the article is there any mention of them requesting data of 1,000 users to find one criminal. What the article actually says: >From January 2020 to June 2020, Google received nearly 40,000 requests
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by deadbytes 5y ago
I am greatly opposed to mass surveillance, especially when justified by some immaterial bogeyman such as "stopping terrorism". However in this case, illegal immigration is a legitimate problem in the US with actual statistics to p
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by deadbytes 5y ago
>Google hands over data of criminals to law enforcement What is the story here?
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by deadbytes 5y ago
>calls for the killing of babies if they where jewish, black etc. How is this in any way equivalent? Being jewish or black are not disabilities. Downs syndrome is a horrible condition that greatly impacts your quality of life. I personal
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by deadbytes 5y ago
When I looked into doing this before I think the ultimate issue was that the C specification doesn't even give you any way to check the overflow flag. So even if you knew your specific C implementation handled overflow properly there i
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by deadbytes 5y ago
This is scary to think about. The upside of third-party trackers is that you can completely block all of them by just blocking third-party javascript. What are we going to do once all of this tracking code starts getting served from the fir
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by deadbytes 5y ago
>The difference is that with a human near by I feel like I am being judged and when they are not I do not feel that kind of pressure I will offer you another perspective to consider. Technology is extremely subversive in that it bypasses
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by deadbytes 5y ago
>goes to show you have to encrypt EVERYTHING at rest, even file names Or just block all third-party javascript. Facebook code shouldn't be running anywhere aside from facebook.com
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by deadbytes 5y ago
Tracking is not ethical. Corporations only get away with it because most users don't realise it's even happening. If you went into a retail store and an employee followed you around the whole time with a notebook and stopwatch wri
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Why you should rely on distro maintainers for package security, not developers(blogs.gentoo.org)
1 points by deadbytes 6y ago|1 comments
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by deadbytes 6y ago
The rich aren't, but the companies they run practically are, from a political standpoint. Basically all large, multinational corporations now make their company logo rainbow for pride month, and all release the same sounding official s
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by deadbytes 6y ago
As a white dude, I feel extremely proud because my ancestors abolished slavery. Oh wait no I don't, because feeling shame or accomplishment for something your ancestors did hundreds of years ago that you had zero control over is a comp
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by deadbytes 6y ago
The capitalize on it because it keeps everyone focused on white vs black instead of rich vs poor. They want you constantly thinking about race instead of thinking about wealth inequality. They want you constantly fighting with your fellow w
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by deadbytes 6y ago
I think it's a combination of both: a) modern corporate culture trying to make employees take on the company they work for as part of their personal identity b) young, liberal people working in PR departments who would be horrified if
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by deadbytes 6y ago
No, this is a terrifying precedent to set. You are completely inverting democracy. If 98% of people vote that something isn't offensive, and 2% vote that it is, and your takeaway from this is "the thing is offensive", then ho
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by deadbytes 6y ago
You are right that nobody is being physically forced to make this change, but I think you vastly underestimate the power of propaganda and social pressure. In today's hyper-socialized society there is not really much difference between
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by deadbytes 6y ago
You should contribute these improvements upstream then. The Arudino developers are not trying to write slow code on purpose. Mocking them on hackernews doesn't solve anything. I'm sure they would greatly appreciate you pointing ou
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by deadbytes 6y ago
The abstraction that docker provides you is simpler, but the whole system has gotten more complex. >Run something with no, or very specific, network access If this was such a problem in linux then why didn't people focus on improvin
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by deadbytes 6y ago
>Typically, vaccine manufacturing doesn’t begin until a candidate has proved to be both safe and effective in animal and human testing. In the past, that process could take ten years; Pfizer’s vaccine, which was developed in collaboratio
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by deadbytes 6y ago
Very strange title, I don't understand why people blame "capitalism" for problems like this. Saying "crappy kettles exist because we have a free market" is like saying "murder only exists because we allow peopl
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by deadbytes 6y ago
A large majority of people in tech seem to have convinced themselves that you solve complexity by adding even more complexity ontop. Yes, linux security is complicated. So why not work on improving this instead? Optimise and simplify what w