Sophira

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by Sophira 1y ago
While I understand (and agree with) the general sentiment of what you're saying, you are not correct in saying that this is end-to-end encryption, and HTTPS itself does not guarantee that end-to-end encryption is in use. In this case,
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by Sophira 1y ago
It looks like the headline may have changed as well since the HN submission, assuming that the title here was the original headline. Now the headline seems to be "Suspect in Palisades fire allegedly used ChatGPT to generate images of b
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by Sophira 1y ago
While I don't disagree that Google are going to be targetting GrapheneOS and other OSes, the decree you're referring to only applies to "certified Android devices" - devices which run a Google-vetted version of Android a
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by Sophira 1y ago
Does Ars Technica regularly publish things like this? It's the first time I've seen a non-tech-related article from them. (I'm not complaining, mind you - I did find it very interesting to read. It just doesn't strike me
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by Sophira 1y ago
There used to be an unwritten rule in fansubbing that you should only fansub anime that didn't have a licensed release - but of course that was during the time when barely any anime got licensed. Still, though, I wonder if that mindset
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by Sophira 1y ago
At leaat one country also celebrate the opposite - Guy Fawkes' Night in the UK is a celebration of the thwarting of an attempt to overthrow the government. (I do agree with your position; I just wanted to throw that out there.)
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by Sophira 1y ago
Until management realises they can skip the checks and come out $20 on top each time, with no complaints from advertisers.
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by Sophira 1y ago
This article makes it seem like the whole thing is over and nothing came of it, but The People's Letters have a X account that they're doing updates on[0], and the new location opens on October 1st (this Wednesday)[1]. I'm no
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by Sophira 1y ago
Genuine question: Why do you feel optional TLS is better?
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by Sophira 1y ago
This looks like an attempt to reinvent HTTP and HTML, but I'm not entirely certain that I grok why it's useful. It feels like a developer-centric approach. I'm reminded of another project called Gemini[0], which aims to sol
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by Sophira 1y ago
It feels to me like a lot of people who don't like codes of conduct have similar views.
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by Sophira 1y ago
It also establishes that the project is a meritocracy, which is not necessarily something that every project wants. (And from a personal point of view, many meritocracies seem pretty toxic to me.)
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by Sophira 1y ago
A lot of these arguments also apply to newsgroups (Usenet), however. It has the same features of being able to use whatever client you want, and can be archived. Archives can be searched fairly easily, although admittedly most will be incom
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by Sophira 1y ago
https://www.rightreading.com/blog/language/translation/googl... is an interesting blog post from the time (October 2007) which compares Babelfish (by that point owned by Yahoo!) and Google Translate.
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by Sophira 1y ago
> I was surprised by how many people seemed to think there's no legitimate reason to ever want to do so. Sounds like it's as legitimate as running the sync command - ie. ideally you should never need to do it, but in practice y
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by Sophira 1y ago
AFWall+ on Android is an example of this - even if an app is blocked, as long as it has Internet permission it can still make DNS requests, allowing for two-way communication despite the firewall.
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by Sophira 1y ago
You might find https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/ to be helpful! It was posted before on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228481
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by Sophira 1y ago
> (mostly, I've never had a download NOT work, on the rare occasion I grab one) A lot of the reason for that is because yt-dlp explicitly makes it easy for you to update it, so I would imagine that many frontends will do so automati
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by Sophira 1y ago
And VPN providers who ask you to install a CA root cert. (I don't think PureVPN does this from a casual search, but there are VPN providers that do.)
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by Sophira 1y ago
Perl and CPAN are still a thing, much as people would like to think otherwise.
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by Sophira 1y ago
Given what you said about not using it for anything sensitive, I'm assuming you're not actually logging into your bank... right?
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by Sophira 1y ago
> For your case, however, they have aliases. "US/Pacific" is an alias to America/Los_Angeles", as is "PST8PDT". Set and forget. Except when you can't forget, as in the original case for this blog p
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by Sophira 1y ago
True; I should have said "most people refer to their local timezone in that way". (The reason I didn't was because at the time, I was referring to those specific timezones, not because I was picking on Americans.)
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by Sophira 1y ago
This absolutely would happen. Most Americans I know refer to their timezone as EST/CST/MST/PST even after March.
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by Sophira 1y ago
I realise the license doesn't bind the original copyright owner. That's not what I was arguing. I'm saying that if the original licensor (ie. the copyright owner) offers software that they fully own to people under the terms
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by Sophira 1y ago
My understanding is that the GPL specifies that any further redistribution of binary code (by the licensee) has to come with an offer to be able to receive the source code, which they can then modify and redistribute under the original lice
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by Sophira 1y ago
Sounds like the work of architecture astronauts: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
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by Sophira 1y ago
I personally would be careful about that sort of thing. I would imagine that few people would want to run a proxy on their home computer that can be accessed by others - and if they did, they'd probably have a specific reason for it,
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by Sophira 1y ago
That's potentially different, to be fair. Websites are generally made with the intention of making them public, and unless you're digging through stuff that hasn't been made public, there's nothing wrong with browsing yo
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by Sophira 1y ago
I'm so sorry you're getting this kind of response. Your input is valuable and I'm learning a lot.

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