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by Seirdy 5y ago
Would you consider assembly to be unsafe? High-level software written with low-level languages like this includes: - Decoders and encoders for video, images, and audio - graphics libraries - Many parts of fast cryptographic libraries This i
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by Seirdy 5y ago
One of the biggest causes of (un)planned obsolescence, if not the biggest cause, is an end to firmware and microcode updates. Once they stop coming in, vulnerabilities start piling up. For how many years can consumers expect to receive thes
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by Seirdy 5y ago
The Software Freedom Conservancy and Software Freedom Law Centers are perhaps best known for copyleft enforcement, particularly regarding Busybox. They serve as copyright enforcers to well-known projects such as Git, GNOME, QEMU, Boost, Sel
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I'd imagine that portability along with avoiding the need to add a significant dependency to the kernel's core toolchain (rustc, llvm) are two reasons. Rust's involvement in the kernel is mostly relegated to less-essential mo
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> And how prevalent is the practice of ISPs injecting packets into non-HTTPS traffic? Is there anything preventing page alteration on unencrypted connections? There's certainly an incentive to do so.
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Do you think a complaint from all three customers in your area who understand the issue is going to change anything, especially when options are limited and your only choices of ISP are engaging in the same behavior? On unencrypted connecti
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by Seirdy 5y ago
You are correct. My point was that you can still build an audience without being locked into a silo or megacorp the exact same way you would for a normal blog. My point was not that doing so is easier. If your content is good, it should su
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Hardware: not necessarily. Firmware: yes.
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> I agree FLoC is tracking (though not at the individual level). FLoC significantly increases the entropy in a user's fingerprint (typically by 15 bits iirc). This improves existing individual tracking mechanisms that use a fingerpr
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Unfortunately it uses cryptocurrency/blockchain nonsense. A better alternative is PeerTube, which is part of the Fediverse; people can share videos, comment, and post across Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and others seamlessly. Plus, yo
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> how will I get others to see my content? This service gives you a website, so I'd imagine you'd get an audience the same way you normally should on a typical blog: - Make good content - Judiciously share that content and coll
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Many hyperscalar server setups use POWER8/POWER9 CPUs. 4 logical processes per core (and 8 with the upcoming 15-core POWER10 configurations) are pretty useful when measuring perf-per-watt. The Talos is currently the only fully libre co
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Semi-coherent and very subjective thoughts about my favorite book follow. Sorry, I just have to gush. Eh, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was more about empathy, the meaning of humanity, how we justify segregation, etc; its perspectiv
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> assuming that "because privacy" is not an argument that will sway me, can you explain why i should default to the less-useful option just for the sake of appeasing the people most likely to change the defaults? No, I can&#x27
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Lots of people in the Free Software community think that programs should exist only to help the user, and should just do exactly what the user tells them to do and nothing else. I am one of those people. Showing ads, making network requests
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by Seirdy 5y ago
How do users know if that's all the data that's submitted? Auditing every program to see exactly what gets sent (and repeating the process for every update) is way too much work; it's safer to just opt-out by default. Now tha
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by Seirdy 5y ago
> How and why do authoritarian regimes topple? Multiple overlapping reasons, some of which include: - the military overthrows the rest of the executive/legislative powers - Gross incompetence resulting in the government's self-
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by Seirdy 5y ago
You can sandbox native apps as well, without buying into all the complexity and unplanned obsolescence (have you tried browsing on an old 32bit computer?) that web browsers come with. Also, sandboxing web apps is incredibly limited; how do
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Initial setup takes some skill (installing software) but after that it's dead simple. 1. Install a media player that supports Youtube-DL; most mpv-based players (like SMPlayer/SMTube) support this. 2. Install an "open in MPV&
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by Seirdy 5y ago
The master branch of beets is still getting regular commits.
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You can't capture the nuance of my form fields(drewdevault.com)
3 points by Seirdy 5y ago|0 comments
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Tor's hidden services and the Yggdrasil network are examples of decentralized alternatives to the DNS system.
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There shouldn't even be a $YEAR cut-off. Computers are machines, not groceries. The battery life may worsen, but they shouldn't be any slower after N years. ppc64 and 32-bit x86 computers still work. Developers should meet user ne
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Relevant xkcd: "Video Content" https://xkcd.com/1804/ A/B and telemetry-worship reminds me of something I posted on Fedi earlier. Pasting it below: --- "Guys, I have an idea. Let's make a brows
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OpenSSL 3.0 Release Candidate(openssl.org)
2 points by Seirdy 5y ago|0 comments
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That makes a bit more sense; I just read the blog posts. I'm concerned about the effects of optimizing against Google (namely, the extremely similar results); I don't think I understand the point of an alternative if it tries to r
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by Seirdy 5y ago
You can get a list of the most recent websites with a score of 120 or higher on Mozilla's HTTP Observatory in JSON format: https://http-observatory.security.mozilla.org/api/v1/getRece... All those sites have
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Some queries do actually return independent results, but the vast majority (in my experience) do not.
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I'm testing on Firefox and the Tor browser right now, JS disabled. I also disabled cookies in Firefox. Searches for "Seirdy", "Neovim", "gccgo", and others return results identical to Google, Startpage,
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by Seirdy 5y ago
This has not been my experience. Comparing results with Google, Startpage, and a Searx instance with only Google enabled reveals that the results are almost always from Google. Sometimes they merge multiple results that share a domain. I de

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