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by Iolaum 6y ago
You are getting updates for the OS and kernel but not for device drivers. That's a big surface area for someone to hack your phone.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
For all the hate it gets, the GPL protects from exactly that. Microsoft would need to publish all changes in the copyleft components of the shipped OS.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
Yes it is if you put it on an extraterrestrial place. This is why space agencies do a thorough decontamination before sending satellites to other planets.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
Wrong. Special relativity ignores gravity interactions. This article is explicitly mentioning gravity. Describing gravity is why Einstein researched/invented GR.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
Genuine question. Why are people worrying so much about the camera but none talks about the microphone? Whenever I think about it, the microphone is able to gather far more harmful information than the camera about what I m doing close to m
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by Iolaum 6y ago
As long as Google allows installation of apps outside the play store this will not happen. Moreover Google devices are the most open modern mobile devices out there now (I am intentionally excluding Librem5 and Pinephone). That is because o
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by Iolaum 6y ago
Here's a technical description of such a backdoor found in the wild: https://medium.com/@topjohnwu/huaweis-undocumented-apis-a-ba...
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by Iolaum 6y ago
It's one thing to criticise flatpaks on the grounds of not getting the job done because nobody uses it properly and another to say there's no sandbox.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
This article is written in bad faith. RE: The sandbox is a lie. No it's not. The technical capabilities are there. The problem is that the application needs to be written a certain way in order for the sandbox to be enforced and the ap
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by Iolaum 6y ago
I ordered a pinebook pro on April 1st and arrived on June 3rd. I knew it was a pre-order when I paid. This meant months before the product arrives and that I would have to monitor the news from their website. They posted monthly (and bi-we
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by Iolaum 6y ago
Does this vulnerability also affect users with Bluetooth disabled?
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by Iolaum 6y ago
That was the desktop version. I think they changed that "feature" to be opt in after the outcry.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
I 'd suggest the Red Hat model. Copyleft code, trademarked name, make money from support. It has good synergies in incentive alignment between you and the community (that may hopefully materialise) around the project and a track record
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by Iolaum 6y ago
I wonder if that's true for RedoxOS microkernel [0]? I m not technical enough to make the comparison myself. [0]: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/kernel
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by Iolaum 6y ago
I was thinking of posting the same thing. Especially since his resignation cites political risks...
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by Iolaum 6y ago
After moving from theoretical high energy physics to data science I m really happy I don't have to care about numerical precision on my computations. The problem is that numerical errors when solving partial differential equations not
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by Iolaum 6y ago
If the password to the account hasn't changed, log in, change back the email and change the password.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
Speaking with the investor directly is necessary for this. From my limited (books and movies) understanding of law, a protracted legal battle can tie up resources in a company. Even if they win it will slow them down. Note to mention all th
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by Iolaum 6y ago
Is the investor aware of the legal risk the new company is under if you aggressively sue them? He may be willing to settle things if that increases the chances of the new company staying afloat.
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Pi-hole 5.0(pi-hole.net)
587 points by Iolaum 6y ago|248 comments
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by Iolaum 6y ago
The ask is not to allow users to install firmware with the vendor's key but with their own key.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
The problem with that is you are fighting the platform. That's not a great place to be. Unless your disagreement with the platform's design is small enough you are likely to be better choosing a more appropriate platform.
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by Iolaum 6y ago
I moved from Ubuntu MATE to Fedora MATE for this reason. One reason I use free software is that I get to have the final say in what my computer does. There's a big thread at snapcraft forums asking for the ability to shut off updates.
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by Iolaum 7y ago
Not lately. Apple is deprecating it in favour of Metal and nvidia haven't been supporting well the latest 2.x versions nudging users towards CUDA.
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by Iolaum 7y ago
RE: prices. Anecdotally I m happy with the ~$150 price tag. Those phones are not going to be daily drivers any time soon. I m much happier to buy a secondary phone for ~$150 than ~$400. I also suspect that a phone with hardware closer to a
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by Iolaum 7y ago
No, fedora Mate has no flatpaks by default. I do use them on my machine though. They are not as integrated to the system as snaps on Ubuntu but they update only when I tell them to and I like the additional security benefits of the flatpak
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by Iolaum 7y ago
Snap packages are the reason I moved from Ubuntu Mate to Fedora Mate. I use free software to own my computer, if it decides on its own when to update like snaps do that defeats the purpose.
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by Iolaum 7y ago
Firefox is doing a lot of innovation in the privacy sector. One extreme example is the TOR browser.
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by Iolaum 7y ago
DU is less radioactive but is quite active as a chemical element and causes a lot of problems.
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by Iolaum 7y ago
Maybe because the actual privacy benefit for this change is negligible? (Or so I 've been told).

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