jonathanstrange

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by jonathanstrange 2mo ago
Question about this from a EU citizen who doesn't know the details of how the EU works (who does?): Are there legal means to challenge this vote based on the procedure that was taking place?
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by jonathanstrange 2mo ago
You need a centralized developer program but only for the apps for the secure enclave. The whole point is that they would require special privileges.
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
The people who are against this do not trust any of them for good reasons, so that ship has sailed long ago, too.
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
The problem is easy to solve by making 99% of all apps normal apps that don't get any special privileges and don't require any developer certification, and having a certified developer program with heavily locked down run mode for
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
Wars are sometimes caused by small acts of violence (e.g. at the border) that are mutually retributed, becoming larger and larger, until the hostilities turn into an all out war. This is sometimes called "escalation of violence."
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
What Anthropic is doing is illegal in many jurisdictions. I don't know about the legal situation for the Chinese domains they mark, but steganographic data extraction without user consent would definitely be illegal in the EU, for exam
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
That's not correct. Many slippery slope arguments are perfectly valid and sound, namely whenever there is plausible evidence for the existence of the respective slippery slope. It can for instance be based on historical precedents, or
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
The world you describe is not plausible from a technical perspective. Any kid who wants to will be able to download a tool that will enable them to surf the net like an adult. It will be as common as our access to cracked C64 games during t
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
> Yes, in an ideal world, it would all go down to parenting. Since we live in reality, some of that work is shifting to ensuring defaults are in place. No, they aren't in place at all. It's the parents' job and vast majo
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
Why do parental software / settings and filters not work? Aren't there even approaches based on whitelisting?
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
First of all, the sane chip card design will not take place. That's virtually guaranteed. As a closely related example, banks all over the world have moved away from this design to merely trust the (nonexistent) security of mobile phon
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
Kids will simply find a way to circumvent it without any extra steps. To make age verification useful for protecting kids, you'd need to lock down every software on every operating system and put it under tight government control. We&#
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
I was replying specifically to someone who insinuated that all social media (or, at least, all supposedly addictive social media) should be banned for everyone, including adults. To me, it's a matter of personal freedom that they shoul
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
[citation needed]
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
No, but I'm not against selling alcohol and fast sports cars to adults, for example. I'm not very fond of a nanny state that prohibits almost everything to adults "for their sake" and because the government knows so much
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
How about taking some personal responsibility for your life? This shouldn't even be a consideration concerning adults.
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
Very simple, just don't use it and switch to another model (e.g. a Chinese one).
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
I'm creating cross-platform GUI applications in Go. Besides that, there are numerous reasons why an extension/scripting language might need various security and sandboxing features on a server, too.
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
Thank you so much! For some reason, I didn't even know about Distrobox!
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
Very cool. As a Linux Mint user, I'm starting to get interested in SteamOS. So maybe someone with experience can answer my question: How good is SteamOS as a general distro for a desktop machine? What are the Pros and Cons?
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
From what I can gather from the site it has no security or sandboxing features. Or am I missing something? I'm asking because I'm thinking about R7RS Wile scheme[1] as an embedded language, which has some basic security features.
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
I'm tired of this story and the corresponding fake discussions because it's completely obvious that Anthropic was singled out because they didn't play along with the current US administration and this whole charade is just pa
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
Because they siphon off data to US intelligence, and if you claim they don't, you couldn't possibly know because the CLOUD Act can mandate them to do so without telling you or allowing you to admit it. Of course, if you're in
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
IMHO, models by US companies are the biggest security risk so I'm fine with using models on this "blacklist."
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
A dying country that doesn't want small business to continue, that's not something I had in my 2026 bingo card collection. Be that as it may, I would just close down the business and incorporate elsewhere. Let them sort out their
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by jonathanstrange 3mo ago
US companies cannot comply with the GDPR because of the CLOUD Act. The two frameworks are fundamentally in conflict with each other and it seems to me that everybody in the EU knows about it, yet this is somehow swept under the carpet and i
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by jonathanstrange 4mo ago
The point is that without copyright you can' do it professionally. Someone will just sell whatever you created for you and you will not get a cent from it.
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by jonathanstrange 4mo ago
It's worth pointing out that some people under some circumstances need to use VPNs. For example, timestamp.apple.com stalls when I call it from my machine, so I cannot sign any executables for macOS. When I use a VPN that changes my
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by jonathanstrange 4mo ago
I'm always interested in how they pay their bills. Unless I know how they make a living, the advice is worthless. Of course, you can give away things for free if you're a rich aristocrat in a society of slave holders, like many a
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by jonathanstrange 4mo ago
Not everyone has that luxury, some people need to earn money. That's why I sell software instead of giving it away for free. It's fine if you want to get everything for free, you're just not one of my customers then.

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