Sylos

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by Sylos 8y ago
Right, how did I forget about those? That even is exactly the type of data that will allow identifying specific devices underneath one public IP.
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by Sylos 8y ago
I don't know Google's privacy policy too well and I'm not a lawyer, but I think, this is still kind of uncharted legal territory. No end user ever gets to see Google's privacy policy before their data is submitted to Goo
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by Sylos 8y ago
To elaborate on how Google can track your users: The user's browser downloads the font off of Google's server, which gives Google their IP address, and the browser also tells Google's server what webpage it's currently v
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by Sylos 8y ago
I can see a few reasons: 1. It's a full-featured, widely tested desktop environment. If a user can't figure out how to enable Bluetooth in LXQt or there's screen tearing in Xfce, then they might blame your hardware. You espec
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by Sylos 8y ago
Happens on Firefox for Android, too...
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by Sylos 8y ago
I once was at a dev meetup and the speaker asked who in the room used FOSS. About 25% raised their hands. So, in other words, about 75% did not know what FOSS means or have no clue what software they're using. I was about to say that,
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by Sylos 8y ago
I'm especially curious how they plan to do that in the EU. The GDPR requires that you separate your requests for consent for ads from the consent for stuff which is actually necessary to be provided the service. If customers don't
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by Sylos 8y ago
Which I think is a dangerous train to be getting on. The GDPR is likely only the first such law, other countries will also enact some form of privacy laws. And the first round of lawsuits from the GDPR are still underway. Once those have go
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by Sylos 8y ago
Firefox has more than two process classes. I'm probably missing some still, but it separates at least into main process, content processes (tabs), NPAPI plugin process and extension processes (at the time of his writing, I believe this
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by Sylos 8y ago
I love the linked /r/chrome thread. Normally it goes "Chromium is open-source, and the telemetry in Chrome isn't actually that bad". (Which it probably isn't, but Chrome Sync is bad.) And now someone points out
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by Sylos 8y ago
> Is there a Facebook smear campaign going on or people just love to pile on Zuckerberg? Facebook fucked up twice, leaking user data. First Cambridge Analytica and about a month ago an even bigger leak.
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by Sylos 8y ago
If the guy is high enough up in the hierarchy, there's a good chance that he can sign off on even illegal things. Looking at how Google is handling the GDPR, for example, there's just as well plenty obvious violations that someone
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by Sylos 8y ago
As has already been said JavaScript, Flash and such are the biggest risk. Browser vendors have tried to mitigate the attacks, but last I heard, only Mozilla's mitigation was actually effective at preventing attacks. I'd also perso
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by Sylos 8y ago
They are completely intransparent about what they collect and legal systems around the world also fail catastrophically at regulating this in any way. What if they send the data contained in the text files that I open with that text editor?
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by Sylos 8y ago
Microsoft does a ton of lobbying to prevent that.
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by Sylos 8y ago
> KDE has some nice features but under the shiny screenshot it's still a disorganised and inconsistent jumble. I'm not too deep into GNOME's architecture, but I don't see that at all. KDE is the KF5 Frameworks on top
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by Sylos 8y ago
This page may also answer some of your questions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components
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by Sylos 8y ago
I do think so, yes, but I also think that they still could not actually escape. That they'd go bankrupt within a year, or at least that they'd have to shrink their operation to only cover the Chinese market, which doesn't hav
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by Sylos 8y ago
I was thinking of openSUSE and Ubuntu, but you're right that openSUSE still has 32-bit libraries around. In the openSUSE Leap 15.0 standard repos, there's 6554 packages named "lib..." and 1368 named "lib...32bit&quo
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by Sylos 8y ago
Flatpak and Snap are new package formats, which allow bundling software with all the libraries that it needs. Advantage is that developers can package exactly those versions of the libraries that they tested with and know to be working. Dis
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by Sylos 8y ago
It's not 2018 and Linux still has issues with this, rather it's 2018 and Linux is starting to have real issues with this. Windows is the only desktop OS where 32-bit is still commonly used. On Linux, you nowadays generally don&#x2
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by Sylos 8y ago
Since Windows 8, Windows uses a form of hibernation internally. When there's no updates to install, it doesn't actually shut down in the classic sense. Instead, it closes any applications, then hibernates the OS. So, it writes the
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by Sylos 8y ago
The original reasoning for Valve's Linux push was the shock from how terrible Windows 8 was and for the most part still is. At that point, they realised that if Microsoft is being stupid, there's nothing they can do against it. Al
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by Sylos 8y ago
That's optimistic... Google exerts a lot of power over Android. The EU did recently punish Google for that, so theoretically Google now has to stop with it, but up until this point, they forced manufacturers to only ever preinstall the
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by Sylos 8y ago
The official version is that Gabe Newell thought Windows 8 to be a catastrophe, presumably due to the horrible UI. That Microsoft would single-handedly crash the PC market and take down Steam with it. So, they wanted to become less dependen
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by Sylos 8y ago
Apple doesn't allow other browser engines than WebKit in its App Store, so Chrome on iOS uses WebKit, not Blink, and the problem is probably actually WebKit-specific.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Lawsuit for that is on its way. Filed by NOYB in the night that the GDPR took effect.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Sure, there exists some amount X, but you can hardly remedy a complete temporay ban with money. Because it means that users have to look at alternatives. They might find that they prefer them in the long run, and it might even just incentiv
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by Sylos 8y ago
Antitrust does not require a monopoly, it just requires enough of a market dominance that hurting the market is feasible for you, and then exploiting this position to actually hurt the market. Basically, all you have to do, is hurt the mark
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by Sylos 8y ago
It was sarcasm, as the monopolies that the USA have shielded for so long, have basically killed off the IT market everywhere. There obviously are European tech companies, but even those are often owned by those US-American megacorps.

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