jake_the_third

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by jake_the_third 7y ago
Perfect timing. Yesterday, I urgently needed to run a piece of software on one of my systems. I had two versions of that software on hand: One for linux and one for windows. The linux version flat-out refused to run. In my desperation, I in
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
> The difference is that this is private companies doing it of their own volition and not by government demand. Is this really a meaningful difference if the end result is the same?
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
I think that's his point.
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
Many years back, I bought an expensive android phone to discover that it did not support my native language. I have the necessary technical skills to add support for it, but because the phone was locked down (something enabled by permissive
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
I also have difficulty believing anything bloomberg puts out after what had happened. With all the independent investigations and the lack evidence found, I'm baffled that they still haven't admitted their mistake and issued a red
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
Projecting political views onto browser users by default is a big one (new tab). Another is the limiting of user control by not allowing them to install third-party extensions. They also enable telemetry by default, and that not all telemet
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
I'd be glad to forget Mozilla's past if they'd show that they have learned from them. The problem is that they haven't. In some cases, they've doubled down on them. I say this as someone who uses firefox on every de
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
> I am getting increasingly annoyed by the fact that buying anything is becoming a minefield Not only that, but they keep repopulating the minefield with new mines after you've spent considerable time clearing them. (Google, I real
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
If that's really the reason, then I and (likely) the majority of other Linux users are completely fine with that.
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
Except no one is going to jail.
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
Unless the developer has enough foresight to account for, and sufficiently handle, every single instance where that brick wall would stop a legitimate false positive, I stand vehemently against them. There are enough examples in the past th
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
> I wouldn't have expected Lenovo to mess with the ThinkPad brand like that. My image of ThinkPad has always been no-nonsense, get-stuff-done, power-user-favored. I used to think the same until I got a T480. I was drawn to it becaus
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
I though the issue was with getting your mails accepted. Even gmail has no problem sending email to a server that isn't properly set up as long as it is willing to accept. Can you mention (or link to) situations where gmail refuses t
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
> De-centralized hosting of the packages (news to come soon!) Is the index also going to be changeable? Will I be able to completely avoid your servers if I wanted to?
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
> although AppImage doesn't have a concept of automatic upgrades like Snap And that's a good thing. If I wanted my system to force software updates on me, I'd use windows. Users should always have the ability to control up
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
This is literally also how cert signing works for tls. Unsurprisingly miss-issued certs have been far from common. This model can work. It's just that microsoft is being sloppy.
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
While your at it Mozilla, stop spamming the new tab page with your podcasts.
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
It's all about decreasing the odds. US -> China -> CPU is longer than just US -> CPU.
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by jake_the_third 7y ago
I agree. I hope this ML meme becomes more popular if only for their entertainment factor.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
And only in the EU... Hey Google, how about supporting choice and competition in the rest of the world?
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
This is really good news. Hopefully a more well-developed and thorough reference will allow for a GCC rust frontend to be developed.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
It can also be implemented purely on the client side: store the counter in the browser, increment on each visit, and prompt the user after N visits. This way, no information about the client is sent to the server at all.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Perhaps, but then following the same line of logic would make all hardware vendors equally suspect. All hardware vendors will eventually comply if "asked" by their government (including US, remember prism?). The only difference is
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> multiple intelligence agencies investigating them and stating that their hardware shouldn't be used, practically being an arm of the Chinese military intelligence Has anyone come forward with /any/ hard evidence that imp
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> Why not require the watcher to enable a webcam & mic while watching videos containing children and create an algorithm to detect wanking? Just how far are we willing to go to make our selves feel safer?! If you think that recording
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> I would start by closing all the accounts that made creep comments on children's videos, or showed a pattern of viewing videos that are obviously intended for that audience, and banning them from creating other accounts While bann
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Just how would you solve this if you were in their position?
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I think you're making a mistake. The primary intention behind warrant canaries isn't to shield you from legal retaliation, but to make it very hard to /legally/ force you to lie directly or by omission.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
This is apparently github's doing, and not the people behind faceswap: https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392 Github has an infamous history with imposing their feelings on projects they don&#x
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Does it include the fix for apt's recent mirror redirect vulnerability? If not, any update to a fresh system would be trivially susceptible to a MITM attack if redirects aren't disabled. This includes docker images as well: https

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