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by 0x_rs 3y ago
Port forwarding is a big deal. Mullvad is very well respected, and so is their advocacy of privacy, but once the setup ports expire I'll be forced to pick another provider, not as safe and certainly not as cheap either—I think many oth
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by 0x_rs 3y ago
>They say that preference will be given based on registration date but don’t say that’s the only preference. From a later modification to the announcement not present originally[0], early access will be given to users that were uninterru
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by 0x_rs 3y ago
I think it's a really bad decision. I always thought very poorly of the platform, but the username system seemed effective enough at making many people share the same name without ugly xXx_user_xXx abominations, and it was also very di
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by 0x_rs 3y ago
> Our attacks have shown that an fTPM cannot sufficiently protect its internal state against firmware or physical attacks. In such a scenario, a passphrase-only key protector of reasonable length provides better security than a TPM-only
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by 0x_rs 3y ago
It's pretty common for disc-based media. AccurateRip should be its equivalent for audio CDs ripping, about 5 million unique discs in its database. http://www.accuraterip.com/
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
>instead of the entire industry that didn't adopt it? Is this a good argument? Nobody is going to adopt something without being natively supported by browsers without ugly js hacks, and when it comes to browser standards it seems to
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
>Deutsche Bank is ok It's not. It's an infamous bank for not only poor management already mentioned in the comments but also massive, ruthless criminal scandals, among which for example laundering 10 billions to Russia [0]. Per
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Developer Edition and ESR (behind a flag) support unsigned extensions [0]. It's not possible to self-sign them, and standard release Firefox won't accept them (there's also unbranded builds that do not verify signatures). I d
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
>The default now seems to be to ignore any search term it deems irrelevant. Could be worse, think of YouTube's search: ignores your query if it doesn't belong to the most popular videos on the platform, gives you irrelevant res
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
What a camera does is a translative operation of something already existing in front of the operator, it cannot conjure things on its own (whether original or derivative) nor scale due to the aforementioned limitation. It cannot understand
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I don't know how it would be possible to distinguish between an unaffiliated volunteer and a company. They'd have to sign a statement, I don't see it being feasible. What I think would be a great step forward is moderation tr
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
You should read up on luddites more! This casual usage of the word along with the comical "literally" only disproves your own arguments, if there were any, and assumes bad faith.
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Plenty. Suppose you're working on a cross-platform application, building for web will get even easier, as up until a few months ago there weren't even official WASM builds from SQLite (but some amazing community run ones such as s
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I wouldn't use Stability as an example of this ("without safety locks"), quite the opposite with the very much detrimental censorship going on with 2.0 of SD. So far the most credibile attempts at true creative freedom have b
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Stealthily introducing malware to your repositories (and distributing it on npm) is A-OK, absolutely no action taken when it happened last year with node-ipc, so I'm really curious to see what the rationale was in this case, for it doe
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
>without any checks Not necessarily true, any country can legitimately or not (there are some regulations on this practice, often breached) force them, for mere political shows of force too, here's one recent such example. https:&#
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I didn't know they had been doing that before! That's intriguing. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
This is diametrically opposed to everything the previous governments' had been trying to fight. It's an encouragement to evade taxes and a political move to appease voters and criminals. The annoyance of being refused payments wit
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
You can always retract your statements and pieces, most of the time the evidence isn't as glaring and it just goes unnoticed. I firmly believe prioritizing shock value in journalism is dangerous and without brakes it'll keep getti
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
>their "Joined November 2022", following one account and no followers. It's generous to consider it a genuine account, no?
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I've read a lot of praise for India's IMPS. In a digitalized world with widespread usage of mobile devices universal instantaneous intra-bank payments are an obvious step forward. It'd be great if this could in some way remov
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
It's interesting to me how this post is greyed out but the vacuous "ugh" reply is not.
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
This post reads like satire, no wonder you made a new account to post it and used some interesting words in it. Regardless, "fine art museums" are "strictly optional" and "luxury" places? That's just somet
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
There's also the MX150 case more recently. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-has-been-sneaking-in-sl...
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
"This dude thought he was God" ? I'd like to know how you developed this idea of him. Because such an overly inane and unsubstantiated description can only be in bad faith.
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
From the video, funny bit at about 01:01:00: I'm reminded of one conversation with an executive, when I said I am confident we have a foreign agent, and their response was "well, since we already have one, what does it matter if
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Criminals are most certainly going to get away with it regardless of how many restrictions and surveillance you apply to the little people, as they have the means (capital) to do so. I don't want to stretch it too far, but the current
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Ours may be recorded and we may be declared guilty until proven innocent, but never those whose decisions matter. https://euobserver.com/eu-political/155377
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Lose sovereignty over occupied territory? I'd imagine what triggered your extreme reaction (and some others') is the bit about Israeli committing crimes against humanity in Palestine. I'd argue the article went too softly o
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
You could deal with them that way, sure. But every other person after them will learn not to divulge it and take the best offer from other countries (submission mentions offers from France and Pakistan for Phillips) and give it to them, bec

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