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Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
The link to the Guardian article appeared earlier ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720342 ) and was ignored by HN readers.
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Alcohol without the hangover?(theguardian.com)
169 points by Fice 13y ago|97 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
Have I said anywhere that using metaphors is wrong? What is wrong is when a UI uses the button metaphor but avoids making buttons look like ones just to seem more "digital".
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by Fice 13y ago
> The mere fact that this works every day for billions of people demonstrates that you're wrong. Flash/Silverlight are easy hacked and yet the content cartels have decided they're enough. Flash and Silverlight do not prov
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by Fice 13y ago
In my understanding, buttons and tabs are skeuomorphs, no matter if they are rendered flat or pseudo-3D. In a true digital UI (e. g. CLI shell) there are no such things. I am not trying to say that we should get rid of buttons everywhere, m
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by Fice 13y ago
> from a binary blob perspective, EME plugins are strictly better than NPAPI plugins DRM can't be implemented in a simple binary plugin since the user will still be able to copy the protected content by e.g. modifying the video driv
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by Fice 13y ago
DRM can't be properly implemented in free (as in freedom) software. Either you will not be able to run any modified version not signed by the vendor on your device, or any version you build yourself will lack DRM support. DRM is all ab
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Don’t Blame the Mice(loper-os.org)
5 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
And then spend the rest of the day configuring it to match the habits acquired with whatever desktop environment that was used before installing Xfce.
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by Fice 13y ago
They are not simply removing middle-click paste function, but replacing it with something presumably more useful. What I learned from my own experience with GNOME 3 (I really like it) and from observing other people's reactions, is tha
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by Fice 13y ago
These obligations are meaningless unless there is a way to verify compliance.
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DNI Asks Why People Trust Facebook More Than the Government(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
Firefox DOM Inspector showed that each <video> tag has one src attribute pointing to webm file while I expected to see separate <source> subtags for webm and mp4. It turns out that the video tags and other content are inserted b
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by Fice 13y ago
Great use of HTML5 video! These clips are in WebM, what is shown in browsers that don't support it?
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Terrorists, Data Mining, and the Base Rate Fallacy [2006](schneier.com)
2 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
No longer? Like if there were not enough reasons not to trust them (or any other proprietary software vendor) before.
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by Fice 13y ago
Yes, and about 40,000 people die every year in car accidents in the US. Terrorism is nothing compared to that.
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by Fice 13y ago
And even if they say they will not keep your data if not encrypted, how can you know for sure?
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Distributed search engine(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
The first thing to do is to avoid using the most popular email hosts. The world's email should not be centralized around some popular service like Gmail, but should be distributed over many hosts and countries. And we also need distrib
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by Fice 13y ago
Yes, but it can be a patent trap: https://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29#Mono_and_M...
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by Fice 13y ago
I would rather say that the mentioned problems are typical of languages that use their own VM instead of basing on an established platform like JVM or CLR. JVM and CLR are not very different. What would be the reasons to want to avoid JVM,
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How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List(slate.com)
1 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
“There should be no distinction between a file name and a file. A human mind can more effectively use a fast, whole-text search engine, so that any word or phrase from the file can serve as a key to it.... An unlimited length file name is
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by Fice 13y ago
Why do people who knowingly trust their data and communications to a few corporations expect any privacy in the first place? Why do people who, as it now appears, care so much about surveillance use Skype and Facebook? It is not the governm
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by Fice 13y ago
> hundreds of corporations lobbying the US government to stop And then if the government say that they stopped, how can you ever be sure they did? Unless we use free (as in freedom) software, open encrypted communication protocols, and d
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by Fice 13y ago
We saw this already with Skype. FSB: we are not able to eavesdrop Skype calls and Skype is controlled by US, so it must be banned. And some time later: we reached an agreement with Microsoft, Skype is OK.
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by Fice 13y ago
Any government will do large-scale surveillance if they can. It's been said a thousand times before: do not use centralized social networks, cloud services, proprietary software if you value your privacy and freedom. This may be inconv
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DRM != SSL [2005](boingboing.net)
2 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments

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