josephcsible

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Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows(theregister.com)
8 points by josephcsible 23h ago|1 comments
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by josephcsible 4d ago
Isn't that the same mechanism as the one you were saying it didn't need to use, though?
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by josephcsible 4d ago
> But the extension doesn't need to use that exact mechanism How do you figure? How else could it possibly work now?
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by josephcsible 4d ago
They changed how they do it, such that it's no longer possible for extensions to revert it.
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by josephcsible 5d ago
The reason this change is so bad is that it encrypts the actual URL, specifically to break addons like that.
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by josephcsible 5d ago
But then why mention execution at all, rather than just saying this is a place you can store arbitrary data?
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by josephcsible 5d ago
Yes, that's kind of what you need to be able to successfully back up and restore an encrypted file. Why are you making it sound like that's such a strange thing to want?
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by josephcsible 5d ago
It's unreasonable to ask everyone to own a second computer just to test restoring backups on, and it sounds like doing the test on the same computer wouldn't have caught this problem.
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by josephcsible 5d ago
The right way to do that is FDE, where you can't even mount the filesystem to see the files without having the decryption key.
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by josephcsible 6d ago
If it were possible to correct the size distortions with no downside, support would be unanimous. The problem is that that's impossible, and correcting the size distortion requires introducing some other kind of worse distortion. Equal
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by josephcsible 6d ago
There's nothing incorrect about the Mercator projection, unless your definition of incorrect covers every flat map and calls only globes correct. Every flat map projection has to make some compromises.
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by josephcsible 6d ago
> If Biden did that, he'd have been impeached in a hailstorm of critical media coverage. Biden did do that, on multiple occasions: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/11/02/joe-biden-doz
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by josephcsible 7d ago
Equal area projections don't preserve distance.
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Scammers demand ransoms from Instagram users over fake copyright claims(bbc.com)
4 points by josephcsible 7d ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 7d ago
This looks to me like you're copying the contents of an ELF binary from userspace memory into a kernel keyring, and then immediately copying it back from the kernel keyring to userspace memory, followed by userland exec the usual way.
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Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads(virtualizationhowto.com)
269 points by josephcsible 9d ago|158 comments
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by josephcsible 10d ago
The AGPL doesn't prevent competing services.
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The Death of Educational Content on YouTube [video](youtube.com)
2 points by josephcsible 10d ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 12d ago
Another ADA disaster, along the same lines as when UC Berkeley was forced to get rid of all their free online course videos, because they didn't have the budget to have someone write captions for them. You should never have to take som
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Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths(phillyvoice.com)
22 points by josephcsible 12d ago|46 comments
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by josephcsible 20d ago
This wouldn't be that bad if they had a functional website you could use instead, but their website doesn't even let you do things like pick your monthly rewards category or configure auto-replenish for your debit card.
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by josephcsible 21d ago
Didn't that turn out to be a lie? https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486753/anker-eufy-secu...
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I ditched cloud to keep my 3D printer private and stop mandatory file scanning(xda-developers.com)
2 points by josephcsible 23d ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 27d ago
Why shouldn't the foreground app be able to use all available memory if it needs it?
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by josephcsible 27d ago
No, they're worse than both of those groups. I'd accept having to deal with both of them forever if it meant manufacturers didn't have a way to remotely brick things after they sold them anymore.
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Wildfire alert backfires as public blocks all government warnings(telegraph.co.uk)
14 points by josephcsible 1mo ago|5 comments
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Farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI weed and pest control advice(tomshardware.com)
5 points by josephcsible 1mo ago|3 comments
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Navy drone boats 'were sending data to China'(thetimes.com)
5 points by josephcsible 1mo ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 1mo ago
It's especially annoying on pages that have big tables, where all the wasted space makes it need to horizontally scroll. Sometimes I wish that once a horizontal scrollbar appears, browsers would ignore max-width on that page from then
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macOS security bug went unreported due to Apple being deluged by AI slop reports(techradar.com)
1 points by josephcsible 1mo ago|0 comments

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