rixthefox

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by rixthefox 4mo ago
I think one of the major reasons why it’s not here is because most AI tools are great for getting a prototype built up but undertaking a program like Photoshop which we can assume has a couple millions of lines of code is actually not easil
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by rixthefox 5mo ago
lol, Microslop shooting themselves in the foot once again. At this point people will move to MacOS or Linux because so much damage to their brand can’t simply be ignored anymore.
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by rixthefox 8mo ago
Starlink by virtue of being your ISP would have access to any DNS queries you send over the Internet over UDP port 53 in plain text. Starlink is also able to redirect those queries to their own servers. Even if you manually specify 8.8.8.8
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by rixthefox 8mo ago
Amateur Radio has entered the chat..... Even as a licensed ham it's getting increasingly difficult to even get hardware that allows utilization of frequencies I'm duly licensed to transmit on in the 2.4 GHz band. Short of building
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by rixthefox 8mo ago
In this economy? /s The other more compelling reason why people would have a rooted phone is to run ROMs that may still be providing OS support where the stock OS has been abandoned or EOL'd by the developer. Having an unlocked b
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by rixthefox 8mo ago
This is the way. Widevine is a cancer that only serves to lock down the browser market to a small handful of web engines that have been approved by Google. If your browser isn't based on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari you're out of lu
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by rixthefox 8mo ago
> Am I right in this assumption? Yes. I tried using Chrome on Linux just to watch movies that I purchased on Youtube at HD/4K and watched as the stream was limited to 240P. IMHO regardless of what Google says in their ToS they have
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by rixthefox 9mo ago
I think the difference is really more noticeable if you're on a limited connection. For example, on Starlink I only have 50 GB to play with. It's entirely ineffective if the browser downloads the ads and only scrubs them out of th
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by rixthefox 9mo ago
Oh I agree 100%. I also play for my search engine so it's definitely not a lack of interest in doing so. I agree with your point as well. Get rid of the money vultures in the C-suite who are paying themselves exorbitant salaries and ha
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by rixthefox 9mo ago
Unfortunately this is not unexpected because Mozilla needs to continue receiving money to survive and unfortunately nobody wants to have the tough conversation about paying for a browser so when whoever is funneling money into Mozilla (Goog
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by rixthefox 1y ago
Fuck that noise. The places that shadow ban and encourage self-censorship do not deserve your traffic nor your content. Start voting with your voice and your (digital) feet. Don't be sheeple. Keep the Internet weird. It is not on us to
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by rixthefox 1y ago
Those contracts will be monitoring their service availability on their own. If Google can't be honest you can bet your bottom dollar the companies paying for that SLA are going to hold them accountable if they report the outage properl
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by rixthefox 1y ago
> but it would seem a reasonable protection for consumers in general. The final say may ultimately come from the Cox vs Record Labels case from 2019 that is still working it's way through the appeal courts. If the record labels win
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by rixthefox 1y ago
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden
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by rixthefox 2y ago
The article is exactly right. Tech Bros aren't building communities but the people trying to build communities are being suffocated by the same platforms they attempt to use to build them. So to make it painfully obvious for everyone h
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by rixthefox 2y ago
It is not my job to tell Microsoft to correct their behavior and follow standards. There are standards for a reason [1] and if you break them, no matter how good your intentions you are in the wrong because you've changed the expected
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by rixthefox 2y ago
Yeah, all our pollution and climate change is disrupting ecosystems. Our only way to ensure survival on and off the planet is to mimic their actions (in this case pollination) to ensure that if we do manage to push more and more species to
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by rixthefox 2y ago
It is well known that people change how they act when they know they are being watched. Even if they can't see it, just the threat of surveillance is enough to make people change their behavior. I say it is no different than the people
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by rixthefox 2y ago
Half the US has already deployed it and 100% of the mobile carriers. I would say the detractors who continue to stomp their feet about not deploying IPv6 are holding a fake title of "Network Engineer". People need to grow up and d
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by rixthefox 2y ago
That was not my intention at all. My concern is groups who do that kind of red team testing on open source projects without first seeking approval from the maintainers risk unintentionally poisoning a lot more machines than they might initi
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by rixthefox 2y ago
Yes, getting through the article I was happy to see that wasn't the case and was just vulnerabilities that had existed in those programs. Definitely they could have worded that better to make it not sound like they had been intentional
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by rixthefox 2y ago
> We recently performed research that started off "well-intentioned" (or as well-intentioned as we ever are) - to make vulnerabilities in WHOIS clients and how they parse responses from WHOIS servers exploitable in the real wor
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by rixthefox 2y ago
> It’s just easier to ban you rather than spend the time and money to see if you’re legit. It’s even easier to just not release anything officially on the Play Store and go 100% into sideloading apps. Cut Google right out of the equation
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Discord flags lack of IPv6 as "intended"(github.com)
6 points by rixthefox 2y ago|2 comments
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by rixthefox 2y ago
Why blame LetsEncrypt? Instead blame the operators who are refusing to address basic network security. I run a network, we do the whole shabang of RPKI, DNSSEC, and CAA. It sounds a whole lot like operators who refuse to address clear secur
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by rixthefox 2y ago
You don’t have to pay a dime. But don’t expect the rest of the Internet (that DO pay for their resources) to continue to guarantee reachability to your address space. If you won’t get on board with RPKI/IRR you can’t cry foul when the
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by rixthefox 2y ago
So the Internet before 2016 wasn’t popular because it had net neutrality? That’s definitely a new one. Is that you Pai?
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by rixthefox 2y ago
Nothing wrong if it works faster, but it's not impossible to make tools that are compatible with other standard testing programs. By intentionally ignoring the tools network engineers are already using every day Microsoft is really sho
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by rixthefox 2y ago
I would suspect Microsoft's corporate culture is to blame for that. If you make a tool that "already works on Windows" work you don't get any extra praise. If you however come up with a brand new thing you'll get a
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by rixthefox 2y ago
That's exactly it. The untapped people are actually getting bunched into the "underperforming" category because in the eyes of the beancounter they are not meeting some benign performance metric that the company wants to see.

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