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by 127361 3y ago
The modern design trends, removal of color from the user interface, increasing the amount of white space everywhere. And the gradual dumbing down of everything. I think those are each a real step back, compared to the old versions. So it sl
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by 127361 3y ago
Many years ago I used to look forward to every new software release. That was when software got better with each version. Nowadays things just get worse with each release, when it comes to user-interfaces and desktop apps. Time to move on t
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by 127361 3y ago
It's Corporate Open-Source, with the same corporate politics behind it. Fortunately I've managed to excise this mess of interconnected dependencies from my computer and run plain X11 with a very functional desktop environment. No
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by 127361 3y ago
Mozilla will likely be one of the first to drop X11 support, forcing everyone to move to Wayland or use some emulation layer. They did the same with removal of ALSA audio support.
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by 127361 3y ago
Even more scary: (launch child porn web site)
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by 127361 3y ago
And I got flagged for speaking out against this ridiculous moral orthodoxy. Good. I'll just take my speech to another site, before I get banned from this Hacker News completely.
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by 127361 3y ago
Well it's dangerous to even check if it's true. Because doing so would be illegal, it would require downloading the browser. So you cannot even prove that it's really in there or not - or you risk breaking the law. This is sh
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by 127361 3y ago
The worst thing would be if some kind of virus or malware infected millions of computers or smartphones with such material. What would law enforcement do then? They can't arrest everyone under such strict liability pretenses. And it&#x
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by 127361 3y ago
So are you safe or are you going to be arrested for a thought crime? This stuff is straight out of dystopian fiction. What am I reading here, is it HN or Orwell's Nineteen Eight Four?
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by 127361 3y ago
That's absolutely so dangerous, so forking someone's repo on GitHub could potentially get you child porn charges? Insane. Fucking insane.
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by 127361 3y ago
There could be so many places where this is happening, and it's going undetected, until law enforcement happens to seize some unfortunate individual's computer and child porn is found on it. Distributing or creating such material
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by 127361 3y ago
And a chunk of Mozilla's funding going towards social justice related projects, as much of the organization has been co-opted by social justice types. As was stated in the article[1], close to half a million dollars was spent on a soci
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by 127361 3y ago
And the rest of the money going to social-justice and DEI inclusion related projects, as the whole organization has been co-opted by social justice types.
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by 127361 3y ago
That already happened on Xilinx Zynq FPGAs, where an incorrect power supply sequence causes random writes to one of the internal buses, which overwrites various eFuses, even after they have been locked. https://support.xilinx.com
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by 127361 3y ago
This will ruin the AMD brand, if Intel doesn't do such a thing, then people will start going with Intel instead.
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by 127361 3y ago
I'm sure this is illegal and AMD should be prosecuted for it. The people who decided to implement these "security" measures should lose their jobs and/or face legal consequences for it. If they did such a thing with car
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by 127361 3y ago
Yes, air-gapped and the entire operating system is running off overlayfs + tmpfs, so no data persists after power off. There's also a problem with TEMPEST emanations from the computer's display - the problem is almost non-existent
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And the next big thing to look forward to is local AI. With both the models and the hardware getting better and better, that's the next big thing. And it doesn't have any of the privacy downsides that the Internet has. You can do
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by 127361 3y ago
Likely a cognitive bias there, we pay selective attention to the topics we've been discussing previously, and likely remember when an ad comes up that's related. So yes, they're not listening to our microphones. It's jus
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by 127361 3y ago
Yes and if we start chatting to a local AI model instead of searching on Google, that means we get an overall increase in privacy. So the new local AI era could actually be much more private than the previous Web era - an era in which we co
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by 127361 3y ago
Mozilla took away native ALSA support and forced everyone to use PulseAudio, fortunately there are emulation libraries you can install to work around that.
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You could write protect them by removing a resistor (R6T3) from the console's motherboard. https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_360:Disabling_the_eFuse_Bu... (see Method 2)
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That's why we need open source chips, the same restrictions we had with proprietary software are now coming to hardware. Plenty of interesting things to do with FPGAs, and the community is even in the early stages of developing open so
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by 127361 3y ago
This practice should be made illegal, if it's not already.
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I really don't like the idea of having field-programmable OTP memories in microprocessors. This shouldn't be possible, there should be a physical VPP pin (as in MediaTek SoCs), if you don't supply power to this then no fuses
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So we need to address that one as well, so we can employ those who are brilliant technically but might not be so good at socializing. We urgently need something to counter the rise of China, so we are going to have to adapt as a society i
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by 127361 3y ago
Also it would be in Russia and China's interest to promote these diversity agendas, in order to destabilize and weaken the West. I remember someone say these DEI agendas are a part of a "long march through the institutions" -
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If we're not hiring based on merit then we're destroying the country's global competitiveness against China.
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Feed through capacitors for power and use fiber for the rest?
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by 127361 3y ago
Some old Realtek switch chips featured a protocol called RRCP[1] where you could write to the hardware registers using a specific type of Ethernet frame. So I guess a CCP-designed backdoor would probably detect a specially encrypted WiFi pa

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