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by DCKing 9y ago
> The fear is that this makes it far too easy to use DRM for webpage owners. Previously, you had to pull in a slow-ass Flash-plugin or similar, which was very much known to bring all kinds of security issues. "Previously" in th
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by DCKing 9y ago
Lots of this stuff is so US focused. Any European nation for one will let you reverse engineer stuff you buy or download to your own heart's content in the safety of your own home. I expect many countries in the world are civilized lik
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by DCKing 9y ago
Can anybody explain to me what will change because of this decision? DRM has been very much part of the internet since 1995 when RealPlayer was released. DRM has been part of content delivery ever since then. It has not ever seem to have de
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by DCKing 9y ago
There's probably good reasons why he wasn't running Linux. I'd imagine for things someone in his position would need a Mac would make sense, with better software for making presentations, Office compatibility and video confer
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by DCKing 9y ago
I like CoreOS, and I know this is some post that is meant for marketing purposes. But it's a shame they're propagating a myth that good security is the result of good tools. It's a common fallacy to think that these security
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by DCKing 9y ago
Please note that this feature does not exist in isolation. Apple has not invented face unlock - nor have they invented reliable face unlock. You can unlock your Lumia 950 and Galaxy Note 8 (or 7 if you still have one) reliably with your f
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by DCKing 9y ago
To be even more fair: all Android phones you can buy today have a 'secure enclave'. It's been a recommended feature for Google Play certification since Android 5.0, mandatory since 6.0, and part of all Qualcomm, Mediatek, H
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by DCKing 9y ago
> When did you last unlock your phone without subsequently looking at it? I unlock my phone and then not look at it when making phone payments (Apple Pay will definitely take a step back with this). I also switch between maps and driving
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by DCKing 9y ago
I'm not sure why I get this response. You seem to imply I have issue with the quality of Apple's next gen implementation, which I have twice explained I don't. Or you imply that I can't have an opinion on the concept of
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by DCKing 9y ago
No, I brought it up once in my original post as minor compromise in security. As other have pointed out, it might be less secure as you could be more easily be manipulated to unlock your device by accident. It's a minor thing.
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by DCKing 9y ago
I'm not sure you fully understand my post. Again, I'm totally willing to go along with Apple's story for a 100% in the way it works. But they're pretty clear in their presentation and marketing that you have to 1) look a
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by DCKing 9y ago
I don't get it. This focus on FaceID seems to me some successful marketing spin by Apple, and the media seem to be drinking the Coolaid (again). Face recognition in my book is not a replacement for a fingerprint reader. See I don'
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by DCKing 9y ago
I got bitten quite hard by some edge cases in the combination of btrfs, LUKS and snapper in desktop usage. It was both btrfs and the tooling around it as well as my ignorance. It's not a very interesting story.
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by DCKing 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that: 1) There are known ways to perform Docker escapes on any or some common Docker setup. You could write a Docker escape binary or script today and it would not be a zero day. That's
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by DCKing 9y ago
Ugh RHEL stopping commercial btrfs support in their long term support kernels [1] does not equate to btrfs "being phased out in linux distros". It's just Red Hat, and Red Hat was never a major btrfs promoter. It's also j
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by DCKing 9y ago
The implications for the ROM community would be amazing. Reading this, the implication is that the LineageOS project can make a single build that would work on all Android devices that have 1) Treble support and 2) an unlocked bootloade
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by DCKing 9y ago
I agree that loud albums can still be amazing. Multiple albums on Wikipedia's 'loud' albums list [1] belong to my favorite albums of all time. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war#Examples_of_.
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by DCKing 9y ago
The loudness war seems to have been a temporary problem, prevalent mostly because music was primarily listened as downloads of individual files or small collections of files. Music streaming services have since become a very important music
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by DCKing 9y ago
The Jetson makes sense as many things, but it's serious overkill to be a Kodi box. It's a nice development kit that includes CUDA, and for some people it's even a nice and interesting desktop. For Kodi and media purposes howe
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by DCKing 9y ago
Before any confusion arises, Duplicity and Duplicati despite their similar names and goals are two different projects that are not mutually compatible. The majority of my post is about the former, not the latter. If my understanding is corr
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by DCKing 9y ago
Duplicity [1] is a free software project that creates incremental backups and encrypts them using GPG. It can use Backblaze B2 [2] as a remote synchronization option, which when I looked at options last year was also the cheapest cloud stor
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by DCKing 9y ago
They might. In an edit above, I remarked that for such a system to exist indeed Project Treble is a necessity. But taking centralized control over the way Android updates will be a very ballsy political move by Google to make. Some smaller
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by DCKing 9y ago
To be honest, I think Google has LG, HTC, Sony, Nokia, Lenovorola, and almost every other Android manufacturer in the pocket here. These companies don't have the capabilities to independently make a competitive OS and app ecosystem a
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by DCKing 9y ago
I'm very skeptical of the level of optimism that is thrown towards Project Treble. In the end it's just a way to make OEM's lives easier while developing updates. It will still require them to actually make updates for
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by DCKing 9y ago
Last year I disabled TLS 1.0/1.1 on my personal server and encountered problems. Turns out Mono (Keepass2Android) and Qt (QBittorrent) libraries on Android for some reason had not enabled higher-than-TLS-1.0 support, although AFAIK t
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by DCKing 9y ago
The fact that they announced it as 'second half' as opposed to 'third quarter' should tell you enough. Anyway, Raven Ridge will be released in laptops first. Desktop Raven Ridge will not be released in desktop formats un
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by DCKing 9y ago
You're out of touch on this topic. Firstly, AMD's newest architecture is competitive power wise with Intel's newest architecture. Secondly, TDP does not mean what you think it means. TDP is the maximum power a processor is de
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by DCKing 9y ago
It's not processors themselves that are an issue usually. Usually the difficulties in getting things running is the booting the system, and the motherboard chipset and device drivers. It's also to do with the stuff that goes along
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by DCKing 9y ago
I almost cannot wait for this. Native file system encryption will be so good, because it removes the ugly/inelegant layer of indirection with Geli or LUKS, and it allows stuff like encrypted ZFS send and receive. It allows you to switc
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by DCKing 9y ago
Nvidia makes an architecture (Denver [1]) that is made by former Transmeta people and is in many ways a direct successor to this chip. In its current forms, Denver is implemented to execute ARMv8 instructions, but it could in theory execu

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