RaleyField

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by RaleyField 8y ago
> the words I've written Which words? I'm confident you misunderstood something. > both disingenuous Throughout this thread you've been very creative in pissing people off. Don't assume malice in other people'
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> my claim is that People don't care about your claims - you want to change fundamental parts of society for a view that perhaps isn't that well thought out. Until your claim is virtually everyone's then assume that many p
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by RaleyField 8y ago
I hope I'm getting downvoted for my sarky tone. There have been stories that other vendors are even worse but it doesn't matter, they should've updated Defender 12 years ago concurrently with IE as they were developing the te
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Welcome to 2006. Only took them 12 years.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Good news, everyone! I never wanted them. It would be swell if they could also start charging for syncing functionality and google account integration.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> $1 trillion I wonder if there is some magical market cap boundary beyond which companies stop being grossly negligent. We know it's over 200B as Intel somehow never bothered fixing their products for decades, let's hope five
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by RaleyField 8y ago
I welcome it for two reasons. First reason is that the transaction is more transparent. Contrast that to what is happening on the internet - in the cafe informed consent is given explicitly instead of implicitly and from often less informed
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Question for any lawyers - can they gag any benchmarks that are published against the terms? I'd imagine the license terminates - what kind of damages can companies realistically extract when you break your license agreement?
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> It's not that there's anything to hide Clauses like these make me think you think there is. Which is perhaps a bigger red flag than the attempted censorship in itself. > Spreading wrong performance information can hurt a b
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure they made this change in good faith I'm not sure. Not one person in the entire chrome team raised their hand and explained that some users expect their browser to firewall web pages from the browser itself and
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> It screws third party logins and integration Sounds like a feature to me.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> simply do not want to talk about this topic I wonder if there are many respectable companies that don't allow you to post benchmarks. It's almost as if they don't have any confidence in their product that they have to re
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Which is because they're computer geeks. I'm not sure that's necessarily the reason to choose Android over iOS. Many use Linux on desktop because it is good enough or better than other choices, but might be ambivalent to
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Monomorphization is a feature of compiler not the language, in the context of systems programming binary size often isn't the foremost priority. Perhaps Rust compiler could get feature flag for controlling optimization priorities as I
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> May I suggest Perhaps your suggestion could be valid. Since you pointed that out, what set me off primarily is similar sentiment when parent hinted that op might be arguing in bad faith with "so it comes off as a bit of a complain
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> to you so it comes off as a bit of a complaint for the sake of it. People like you really rise my blood pressure. No, it's not important to him/her, bad defaults[1] are important for everyone because they are incorrect design
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by RaleyField 8y ago
There are different plastics. And you came off like aluminium is the only thing that defines premium experience. For me premium experience also includes some baseline functionality. Level of keyboard noise I'm not embarrassed about. Pe
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by RaleyField 8y ago
I switched to MacOS and gave it a good 3 month try, it pissed me off so much that I'm back on Linux. > awful UX as a bonus. Mac shell felt arcane and overly verbose, like a weird powershell clone that doesn't pay the price for
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Otherwise you buy the plastic Inspiron or whatever Aluminium body is now premium? How about not sacrificing cpu life for fan noise? Or repairability. Or non-soldiered on ssd? Working keyboard? Why's that not premium?
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Have they changed their policy on UAC not being considered security barrier on administrator accounts since W10? Windows was screwed for a long time[1], in practice not much better than running in SYSTEM all the time like in Windows 95 days
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> @gmail.com address Doesn't need to be, tons of people use G Suite. you'd have to be checking MX records.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> but if we claim this is malware then Android is malware too. It is? Android is completely ridden with dark patterns[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
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by RaleyField 8y ago
What's your opinion on the Superfish incident[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...
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by RaleyField 8y ago
How does you application prevent MitM attacks?
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by RaleyField 8y ago
People's take on this is depressingly cringeworthy. Prison time was for trying to pass CDs as genuine Microsoft media. Imagine this: You go to one of these shops looking to buy a new computer, you ask to get genuine copy of Windows. Th
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> There's nothing sneaky going on here; It bloody is. Egregiously so. If they are deviating from expected behaviour[1] they should obtain informed consent and even then it's unethical. Half of Mozilla is screaming decentralisat
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> if you shared the account details with someone, it seems to me difficult to claim that the forum and not the user is the one responsible. I kinda wanted to make a larger point on how even if someone logs in to your service you don&#x27
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Apple has monopoly on their store and they have ability to play kingmakers on other platforms with app developers in every niche. Without presence on all relevant platforms your product or service will die off.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Does signing in really prove identity? What happens if I share accounts with someone else (against TOS potentially) and one person then abuses GDPR to dox the other person? GDPR seems so poorly thought out.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
And I don't need the hassle to figure out who stands behind them and if I can trust them. Most of the time there isn't any good reason to trust them anyway.

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