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by problems 9y ago
Ads I can see as they pay for content, DRM, not so much as the content has already been paid for.
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by problems 9y ago
> This reasoning, IMHO, ignores the fact that the user-agent still asks for consent, so the user may choose not to allow anything they can't audit Aaaand we're back to the days of good ol' ActiveX.
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, this may change (in a somewhat scary way) with the Intel TXT and SGX extensions as then you'd only be relying on the obscurity of the hardware rather than the software.
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by problems 9y ago
Let's encrypt the DOM in our open source browser... wait what? EME is pretty great for cracking too - they enable rendering with the browser's own video engine, giving you a nice "hook to dump pre-decoded frame here" poi
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by problems 9y ago
I'm still doing this one too - took maybe an hour to configure a simple dovecot+postfix+spamassassin setup and I don't have to touch it beyond an upgrade once every 6 months or so. Having catchalls at bullshit domains is great.
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by problems 9y ago
This is fairly common - if you want a method that gets you around this at the cost of some privacy, you can use Mailgun or a similar service for free as your relay, which should pass most spam filters without issue.
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by problems 9y ago
I think sometimes opinions are best left to change slowly or through exposure, when you approach things in this way it often just comes off as hostile and that doubling down you're talking about becomes a much more common response.
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by problems 9y ago
On desktops, Intel Ivy Bridge and newer and everything AMD since June 2015. On mobile, most mobile SoCs include security stuff, Qualcomm seems to have had them since at least the Snapdragon 805. See here for the addition of the RNG to the l
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by problems 9y ago
The problem is that they couldn't get away with it. Most of the stuff I listen to on SoundCloud is available on other platforms which are free and run by companies that can afford to take a loss (YouTube) or on services I already pay f
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by problems 9y ago
To use a classic example, who's going to go to bat for you when they get a demand from a government agency - the EFF or the Hong Kong Post Office? I know where I'll place my bets. Go pull up your certificate authority list and ask
221.
by problems 9y ago
Many modern systems have hardware RNGs, but they may also be using stored seeds.
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by problems 9y ago
But what's her alternative proposal - that we say, accept pull requests from someone because of their race or sex without critiquing at all? Based on the way she responded to some stuff in this job... maybe that's actually what sh
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by problems 9y ago
> So you just say "don't do <<idea>>" and, rather than expand and qualify the statement with a paragraph like the above, you just move on to the actual topic you want to focus on. That's a terrible plan be
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by problems 9y ago
It's possible, but it's far, far less likely than a post on social media with your name tied to it - it's also completely deniable and contains only usernames.
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by problems 9y ago
Even when looked at from a progressive perspective I think what you're bringing up is a bigger problem to be honest. You're taking people who maybe think that say, write shitty things about fat people or want to use that as motiva
226.
by problems 9y ago
Perhaps - but the goal is to remove that kind of thing, which is in my opinion at least a noble goal and should be respected even if it's hard to implement properly. My point was not that it's perfect, but that successful meritocr
227.
by problems 9y ago
Didn't know about that, but abrasiveness like that is really unfortunate. It makes real progress harder because it means people dig in on views that maybe they shouldn't.
228.
by problems 9y ago
Isn't this the person who ran a code of conduct that has a website which includes things like "thoughtless use of pronouns" and mentions meritocracy as an evil, not a goal to strive for? Can't really say I'm expecti
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by problems 9y ago
I'm talking in terms of moral rights - which not necessarily everyone will agree on - but there are some generally accepted ones. For example, murder would violate your neighbors right to life. Denying your neighbor the ability to spea
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by problems 9y ago
If you express your opinion on a private forum instead of a public one, you're much less likely to be crucified for it. I can make nasty off-handed comments to my friends in private chat all day, with very little fear that it'll s
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by problems 9y ago
I'd argue you're still at liberty to do it - you just have to be willing to accept any social prices associated with it. Other people enjoy the same liberties that you do, they have every right to think and say whatever they will
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by problems 9y ago
Not dead - you can speak your mind - just you pay a social price to do so. Free speech, even in the most libertarian concept I have doesn't prevent other people's right to criticize your speech - in fact, I'd say it encourage
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by problems 9y ago
> Broadcom can torpedo this if it starts impinging on their own business in some way. That's not the kind of power you want to hand to somebody when you are trying to promulgate something. Not really - if broadcom torpedos it, tomor
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by problems 9y ago
Privacy badger also blocks referrers to those sites - having only a connecting IP and asking for a copy of jquery isn't exactly privacy breaching in my eyes. Could be any one of many sites that wants it. Not much they can do with that
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by problems 9y ago
There's 2 separate but somewhat related communities here - open source and open hardware. Most open source people don't care that much about hardware. They just want a cheap and tiny Linux box, maybe with some GPIO pins. And reall
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by problems 9y ago
Yes, but they can be trivially blocked or discarded. My main point is that no advanced fingerprinting tactics can be used so the simple means work in the case of most site-breaking things. Privacy Badger eats CDN cookies - that's actua
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by problems 9y ago
Yes, it's really that effective - blocking the facebook like button doesn't break most websites. And typically a request for something like jquery from a CDN will contain little more than your IP address and cookies. You can even
238.
by problems 9y ago
Simple blockers actually do a lot of good here - because many of the things that will fingerprint you are not first party sites but 3rd party ad scripts.
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by problems 9y ago
I wonder what the breakdown on the actual shipping vs handling labor costs are for a big distributor like Mouser or DigiKey. Compare with labor costs for either factories or small owner operated export businesses run out of Shenzhen and you
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by problems 9y ago
Interesting, after doing some searching all listings I've looked at they either lack a logo or have a TI-ish logo but they don't mention it being a TI brand or genuine TI part in any way in the description - which is always a dead

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