Aachen

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by Aachen 7mo ago
If someone uses git commits like the save function of their editor and doesn't write messages intended for reading by anyone else, it makes sense to want to hide them For other cases, you lose the information about why things are this
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by Aachen 7mo ago
So far I haven't had much concrete reason for my family to switch away from Windows. The updates maybe, needing to pay for a new license and the UI changes are like pulling the chair out from under them, especially as they get older (W
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by Aachen 7mo ago
> Is it really inconceivable to you that the thing could have bugs? Or user error, or hardware setups where the docs didn't say "don't do that". If zfs is somehow better in any of those three areas, that would result
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Posted 9 minutes before your comment... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662987
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Note that phones also have NFC readers. Instead of requiring everyone to have a locked-down phone, they could offer day you use said phone to read the chip or use any other (USB) reader you like. I believe there's a German government a
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Are you saying there's a threshold percentage somewhere below which you're happy to A: exclude these people from society or force them to switch to big tech, and B: accept the consequence where a single other country holds access
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by Aachen 7mo ago
There's a difference between needing to lock down the whole OS and just the secure element. The secure hardware component can sign a challenge and prove possession of a private key without you being able to extract it. Smartcards have
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by Aachen 7mo ago
The nfc chips in identity documents
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Also if you are legally required to be able to use some backup mechanism, it can become the de facto requirement
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Thanks for confirming I remembered the razor names correctly! I still don't assume malice, at least as a default / until strongly indicated otherwise, from any individual employee. Emergent behavior of complex artificial incentive
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by Aachen 7mo ago
I'd call them video/image generators because I don't know the word for the underlying technology. I can't imagine they're LLMs because, indeed, the second L is for language
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by Aachen 7mo ago
> when they tested good chess players on random board positions they were just as good as people that did not play chess. Doesn't that prove the opposite as the statement in the first paragraph if they were only as good as non-playe
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by Aachen 7mo ago
I'm not sure most people are that naïve that they can't differentiate between "any computer that acts smartly" (how the term "AI" is used) and the word chatbot. Of course, LLM is even more precise
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by Aachen 7mo ago
This. It's so far out there that I have to wonder if it's a rogue employee who thought this a good excuse to cause reputational damage without it being too obvious. Doesn't pass several razors though (not the simplest explana
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Tip: tomatoes are on offer at Contoso now! (Now imagine this edited into the post you just made for a more-apt comparison) If you do work at MS, I cannot believe any person involved legit thought it was "just a tip and nobody will mind
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Fair enough. I would just interpret this as an exaggeration / way of speaking. In the end you always have to trust someone, be it Mullvad's reputation, be it an auditor, be it a hardware vendor Good comparison about the SGX contac
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Maybe this comment downthread helps for the email problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489711
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Also based on your reply on a sibling thread, is this a legit question (you expect that there is a way but you're not sure how) or are you just waiting for someone to bite just so you can state your case about proving a negative?
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Can recommend Runbox for a lot of reasons, but one gotcha that bothered me in day-to-day use was that emails are delayed by a minimum of 30 seconds, with no real upper bound, just a probability curve with, say, the 90th percentile around 5
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by Aachen 7mo ago
When first migrating away from Hotmail as a teenager, I just registered for new accounts/contracts on my own domain and migrated only the stuff I was still actively using At some point I downloaded the emails from Hotmail by adding the
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Somehow this reminds me of the time I downloaded, compiled, and ran a Bitcoin miner with the app called Linux Deploy on my then-new Galaxy Note (the thing called phablet that is now positively small). It ran terribly, but it did run! Having
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by Aachen 7mo ago
RHEL isn't Linux either then?
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by Aachen 7mo ago
If there were a reliable way of identifying people making multiple accounts, it wouldn't be anonymous now would it? This not a loophole but inherent to an anonymous system The trouble is, the accounts aren't meant to be anonymous.
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Care to elaborate then? It's in line with the announcements I've heard
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Not quite. You can do a lot of stuff that requires no permissions, or at least not ones that the user has to confirm (e.g. you get internet permission, sensor access, always run in the background etc. by default, but you do need to declare
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Is this in AOSP? I was assuming the changes are to GMS. I should hope that no distributor of AOSP(-based) images include this code anyway so it's just on the google devices
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by Aachen 7mo ago
So like a Motorola, Sony, Fairphone, Shiftphone, Jolla... none of these are 'completely locked down' (though besides Jolla, they're all a little: they don't come as "yours" by default because of the contract wi
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by Aachen 7mo ago
- NewPipe (I'm not sure if you wanted to edit in entries or if this was our cue :D)
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Why not grab Fennec from f-droid as well? It used to also have more features, I'm not sure if that's still the case but might as well go with the open source build
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by Aachen 7mo ago
> Why those apps are not in a store? Why'd I put my app into their store if I don't agree with the store owner's policies?

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