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by yc12340 5y ago
Land borders are closed: https://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_348748/
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by yc12340 5y ago
> As a skilled developer ? Shouldn't be that hard - plenty of options to pick from. Maybe it used to be that way in the past, but not these days. When I tried to go to Ireland a year ago, entering the country was impossible due to a
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by yc12340 5y ago
Glibc, libasound and other key libraries have poor compatibility history, which can be seen from their sonames: libc.so.6 libasound.so.2 libfreetype.so.6 libX11.so.6 Each glibc/ALSA soname bump can spell death to entire generation of b
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by yc12340 5y ago
Probably not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Internet_Law
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by yc12340 5y ago
"Filtering code"? This sounds like trying to plug hole in dam with one's finger. And the the hole is several meters wide.
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by yc12340 5y ago
> do prompt engineering Prompt engineering has always been a useful tool and still is. But a lot of problem, discussed here, can't be solved by any amount of fiddling. When Google does not even search long tail results, and there is
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by yc12340 5y ago
> The security problem is being able to talk to the same X server as trusted applications Use Ctrl+Alt+F<number> to switch into another VT and run a different X server. Run zoom in container there. I found this a lot more convenien
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by yc12340 5y ago
Google will just stop showing statistics on cancelled subscriptions during shareholder meetings.
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by yc12340 5y ago
> A poor credit score does not limit your ability to board a plane, to be admitted to a university, or to found a political organization. Is it possible to do any of those things without money?
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by yc12340 5y ago
This sounds like it would cause LRU caches to lose their LRU properties...
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by yc12340 5y ago
So you are saying, that US government controls such staggering amount of money, that even it's debt (denominated in it's own currency) is several orders of magnitude bigger than total worth of the richest person in the world? And
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by yc12340 5y ago
Versions of Android starting with Android 11 no longer allow anyone to spy on contents of user storage: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/privacy/stor... Asking for access to root directory
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by yc12340 5y ago
> a keyboard isn't something you should install without some careful consideration because they can be used as keyloggers To be frank, Android should not allow input methods access to internet/filesystem in the first place. But
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by yc12340 5y ago
You can't really get rid of connectivity check, because it is a part of public API. Applications use it to check whether a network has internet access. Android itself uses it to detect captive portals and prompt user to authenticate wh
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by yc12340 5y ago
> On the other hand, having the wisdom of knowing what can be static in the first place? I don't think that it's something teached. All traffic is static by definition. You are not modifying bytes when they are in transit to us
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by yc12340 5y ago
> An attacker would merely have to brute force the tip of their attacker repository, a matter which you can do within the hour So you think, that you can do so in a hour? How much are you willing to bet on that? For bonus points try to &
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by yc12340 5y ago
The "non-west" countries are forced to regularly buy bespoke amount of US goods as official tribute to their suzerain [1]. Other countries might not have much better packaging policies, but if you want a war on plastic waste, US a
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by yc12340 5y ago
This sounds like it might help against DNS rebinding attacks, — at the cost of breaking interchangeability between DNS names and IP addresses. Not sure, if such policy is a good idea, especially if the permission prompt automatically appear
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by yc12340 5y ago
Judging from reviews of hardware keyboard-video-mouse switches, they tend to work MUCH worse than Looking Glass. All modern GPU connectors are digital, so those KVM switches have to include a mini-gpu (usually a costly and buggy one). Also
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by yc12340 5y ago
Godot's FAQ makes some very good points, especially about GC, poor interop and inefficiencies language runtimes. But it feels like that reasoning focuses too much on the top interpreted languages (Javascript, Python, Lua etc). Did Godo
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by yc12340 5y ago
> Java programmers are still confused by what happened when there's a data race IMO, the most important thing is that JVM runtime isn't being confused into executing attacker's code. Most programmers are unable to precis
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by yc12340 5y ago
...and easy to exploit
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by yc12340 5y ago
It is incredible, how HN community (arguably made from some of the lest dumb people on Internet) can turn blind eye to this major concern while laughing and patting themselves on their backs. I guess, industrial magnates of 1800s would have
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by yc12340 5y ago
You mean those musicians, who regularly have their music stolen by music labels? I am curious, how you imagine DMCA enforcement by such people. They send a DMCA notice to a Hollywood studio... then what? Will production committee pull the m
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by yc12340 5y ago
> Historically ads were easily blocked Historically ads were served by the site owner at their own discretion. Prior to that ads were served by TV and radio channels. None of those approaches were easy to block. Dedicated ad networks on
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by yc12340 5y ago
Gorbachev is directly responsible for collapse of USSR, — he ruled it when it collapsed. So he is responsible for both of the disasters. Shouldn't you be a little skeptical, when he tries to blame one of his disasters for another?
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by yc12340 5y ago
Because the laws of corporate mob don't apply to everyone equally? There is a huge difference between treatment of different parties, even if the their contracts are same (and I doubt, that Samsung has the same contract with Google as
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by yc12340 5y ago
> You can have third-party Android app stores. This is only half-true. Google allows users to install third-party stores. Because only handful of geeks do that. But if your competing app store gains enough adoption and you make deal wi
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by yc12340 6y ago
> Why would Xiaomi tell me to download a 26MB update from their store if the one from Google Play, where I downloaded the app it's less than 15MB? Because, unlike Google, they don't use app bundles and partial updates?
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by yc12340 6y ago
Yes, tracking pixels aren't a thing (anymore). Gmail no longer loads them. Thunderbird no longer loads them. Most providers, offering online email, have already caught on. > Trust me, people will find ways around it without JS. Rein

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