SahAssar

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by SahAssar 3y ago
Sure, but that is worrying from a privacy perspective. For any other venture their value is their current installed base so they will probably try to use that either via bundling (as might have been the case here) or via cross-marketing (wh
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by SahAssar 3y ago
For privacy I trust mullvad more than my ISP and I think they have the track record to back it up. If your ISP is shit in other ways then a VPN does not help of course. All a VPN does is either move a bit of trust to the VPN or move your ap
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by SahAssar 3y ago
> Web privacy focused people begin thinking of Brave someday turning on the VPN service and tunneling your traffic through VPN nodes they control with nefarious intent. No, it is more that any one company that installs unwanted stuff on
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Vivaldi is pretty much closed source, no?
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Not-shit-isp can be helped with not-shit-vpn (like mullvad)
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Number of patches seems like a very bad metric. Especially since many of braves patches are not about security or privacy, but rather implementing their custom stuff on top of it. I clicked around that github folder and of around 15-ish pat
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by SahAssar 3y ago
You didn't answer the question: " What does it actually do? " I get that you have a vision, but when I run the code you wrote it does something. That something is hopefully something you designed it to do. What is that somet
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by SahAssar 3y ago
I don't think the parent meant commercial use-cases, more like what can you actually do? Or what is a concrete use-case that you are testing it for? Or what is one goal for it to do in the future?
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by SahAssar 3y ago
The name really irks me. I read the explanation, but really what you are talking about has nothing to do with linux, and while it might philosophically share goals with unix it really sounds like you are more talking about small tools (alth
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by SahAssar 3y ago
How would it be anonymous? Spacex ties your account to your traffic and most likely logs quite a bit. Or do you just mean geo-located to the wrong country?
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Wouldn't that just put KeyBase in control of being able to validate your identity? What would happen if they banned you? The parent talks about decentralized (or perhaps federated) solutions which I can understand but I don't get
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Yes, but I don't know if there are ready made ROMs for the 5 yet. I ran CalyxOS on my 4, and it officially supports running alternate OS:es.
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by SahAssar 3y ago
That's mentioned in the article.
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by SahAssar 3y ago
> That said, Lenovo and the thinkpad brand are known bad actors. They were busted for phoning home and adding spyware. I agree about lenovo as a whole, but IIRC that spyware was never on the thinkpad brand, only ideapads and other lower
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by SahAssar 3y ago
192-168-1-1.backname.io works for me. It might be useful to get DV certs for temporary things that need HTTPS. I've done a sorta similar thing to enable HTTPS for local network IPs for IoT: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by SahAssar 3y ago
The "information" you speak of vary. Some site plumb everything into GA, some just use it for pageviews. Some send all data, some use their own proxy backend to strip all remotely personal data. For examples of different ways to u
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Agreed, I've had my own rabbit nightmares. But setting up a more robust queue on postgresql is easy, so you can easily gain a lot more guarantees without more complexity.
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by SahAssar 3y ago
> which is clearly informed consent, because you can choose not to install it I don't even know if you are sarcastic but: That is not how that works, legally or otherwise.
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by SahAssar 3y ago
That is the sort of thing that bites you hard when it bites. It might run perfectly for years but that one period of flappy downtime at a third party or slightly misconfigured DNS will bite you hard.
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by SahAssar 3y ago
It runs on or depends on so many disparate software packages that each comes with their own versioning strategy, security model, etc. Usually when you install a package in a linux distro either the distro or the package maintainer of the pa
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by SahAssar 3y ago
YAML is far to helpful to convert bare strings to what it thinks is right (like 1.20 to 1.2 or no to false). It could be helped by having data validation, but the fundamental issue is that YAML does not make it clear to either human or ma
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by SahAssar 3y ago
> The types are too fuzzy Do you mean non-json types? Because the supported types seem pretty straightforward. (besides perhaps supporting null bytes in strings in things like postgresql) > the syntax too quirky Care to explain? This
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Getting ROMs is legal in a lot of circumstances, either by backuping the game yourself or if you own the game but download a ROM (like https://law.stackexchange.com/a/41876 )
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by SahAssar 3y ago
It most probably is. See a similar case recently in Germany: https://www.iubenda.com/blog/understanding-consent-and-cooki... And there is absolutely a great number of major European news and media companies willingly i
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by SahAssar 3y ago
It does not, since most of those APIs are not directly called from the framework. What react and most other JS frameworks do is DOM modification (which is clearly sync) and delegate events (which is usually done via callbacks or binding).
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by SahAssar 3y ago
The linked site in the toot almost certainly violates the GDPR since it requires either payment or tracking consent to access. Requiring payment is fine, but forced consent is not.
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by SahAssar 3y ago
DNaaS: Death Note as a Service
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by SahAssar 3y ago
> As long as the JavaScript VM and the DOM uses non-blocking async models The DOM is almost entirely sync, all the operations on it are blocking operations (including things like replacing an entire document with innerHTML).
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by SahAssar 3y ago
If the content is good and nobody is hiding their affiliation with it then the correct word is just "posting". Otherwise it might fit within one of the categories you mentioned. I agree that it would be better if they were up fron
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by SahAssar 3y ago
Posting ones own content is not astroturfing unless they try to hide that it was them.

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