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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Flashing a custom ROM is not exactly a possibility if the device is remotely disabled on first activation, as unlocking the bootloader is a relatively lengthy process that requires waiting from few days to weeks for approval, needing also a
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
This was somewhat common voluntarily or not thanks to the Farewell double-agent "revelations" of an actual massive technology siphoning operation from the west to the Soviet Union. There's a funny anecdote on Buran's TPS
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Which is not reassuring considering their past abuse of phone numbers provided for allegedly only security reasons. [0] [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
I don't have a reddit account, but it has (for now) the old, usable interface available, so the issue does not persist. Twitter doesn't, and one needs third party services such as nitter or other front ends to avoid the bloated, b
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
>With rockets, well, we already had rockets. The author uses naivety, but this statement is very questionable to anyone interested in spaceflight. No, "we" didn't have any vertically landing reusable rocket capable of auto
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
I certainly hope the similarities with Marek's disease reaching 100% mortality begin and end there. What I can personally extrapolate is that allowing or even advising vaccinated people not to wear masks and distancing is rather danger
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
I think you could (can? can't verify now) set fade:none to at least make it less immeasurably annoying to look at. It's one of my first examples when I talk about hostile software, it cannot have been developed the way it is witho
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. Quote aside, I haven't found the heavy industry statement you seem to be talking about. Is it about that Bezos tweet or whatever? There's so
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
There ought to be better ways, if any is needed at all. Downvoting should never be free and unlimited (having requirements is fine, but only involves a bit more time and effort to the would-be disturbance), most of the time it turns into ba
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
>what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? They have apparently not done enough to warrant a mass exodus to greener, more privacy (and human dignity, intellectual honesty) respecting pastures. What's a
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Defender, as per Windows 10 philosophy, is extremely annoying to use with its UI and behavior that makes you feel every setting and button you press is entirely useless and nothing will change. A shame the old Security Essentials UI was rem
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
I struggle to find one (1) reason for this exemption but political leverage. Embarassing.
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
The threads on this matter are publicly visible on the technology board and there's no indication of personal contacts such as phone numbers being out there. It also seems a bit exaggerated to have 600 chats open simultaneously for som
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Does not seem very much in line with their response at the time of "basic telemetry" addition [0], or at least that's my impression. Telemetry can be useful, but can also be the first step towards something much worse that we
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
I guess this will explode in popularity now, because it's a heinous behavior and what's (clearly) ridiculous is that it would be discovered out of the box if not long parted with it making returns needlessly more complicated. Besi
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Concrete production represents 4-8% of all worldwide CO2 production. It's a significant percentage. There's talk on sequestering CO2 in concrete itself but I'm not sure how far it has gotten. I do remember some plants in Fran
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
I wonder how related to Microsoft Pluton this change is. I suppose it's going to be very beneficial for Microsoft to have a security chip to rely on for all sorts of uses, beneficial to the end user or very much not. This change may or
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Older thinkpads are perfectly fine machines still today—until not. The performance blow to Sandy Bridge from all mitigations I've experienced is significant , especially so in SSD I/O speeds (still fast enough, though). A saddeni
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
>“It’s a lie, but it’s fun.” Taken alone this quote is frightening. A man seemingly died because an officer thought it was acceptable to play this ruse, that could have (and did this time) devastating effects.
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
I recall some years ago during a period of uncertainty regarding Assange's safety an encrypted safeguard archive was released and could be downloaded, but I can't find anything about it online now. Were the keys ever revealed, if
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Setting up Optimus is quite the miserable experience, and nouveau being pretty much useless is exasperating. I just gave up and "disabled" the discrete GPU on my thinkpad, as intel's iGPUs are good enough for all daily tasks
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Has it ever worked out, if we want to take it as far as believing any of such things have ever been done in good faith? I can't recall any occurrences where an overthrown regime did not snowball into an irrepairable shift of power with
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
From my limited knowledge in the field, "traditional" nuclear power plants are usually very likely to incur in cost overruns (a recent example being [0]), supplemental to an already significant expense and a very long term investm
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Such things will never stop being utterly absurd to me. More often than not it seems that Taiwan is alone (particularly interesting was WHO's antics with covid-19 last year), and everybody plays pretend to please the CCP, and it's
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
It takes quite the effort to consistently worsen user experience ignoring any user feedback and defending dubious telemetry as if it were a godsend. I am aware this does not contribute to discussion, but after more than half a decade I&#x27
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Not since the days of XULRunner, which is ancient nowadays.
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Content except top navigation bar doesn't load at all on mobile Firefox. It's 2.5MB of JavaScript in the webpage so I guess it doesn't surprise me.
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
There's precedent with crippled FP16 performance, so it would not be surprising to see such things in the future to attain market segmentation from consumer cards.
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
It's a "guilty until proven innocent" story, and I'm afraid there'll be many more in the future when the black-box software so prints out and whomever is in charge refuses to question the legitimacy of the claims fo
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by 0x_rs 6y ago
This is possibly not a fitting reply but your comment reads like satire to me, in all honesty. Both your claims in your first phrase I believe are wholly incorrect and could only originate from an out-of-context, accusatory source such as s

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