Sylos

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by Sylos 10y ago
You're not going to get much else than comments explaining how ineffective these measures are when you are asking how ineffective they are. That being said, let me explain how ineffective they are: Your law-abiding citizen will give up
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by Sylos 10y ago
Something somewhere went horrible wrong when simply deleting a person's artistic life is how you play it safe.
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by Sylos 10y ago
There's one problem with that. If your hosting provider throws you out, you may not lose your work, but your followership will still be dispersed.
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by Sylos 10y ago
I think, it's simply less of a hassle for Google to deal with this by way of their automated PR machinery than to get an actual human into their system. They just need to open-source one Parsey McParseface and poof, the entire world th
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by Sylos 10y ago
More similar to DX12 than it is to Vulkan? Because all three are APIs which try to provide a lot more control over the GPU to game developers. And I wouldn't know of any other similarities that DX12 and Metal share...
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by Sylos 10y ago
"Sewing machines" was already taken, so they had to come up with a different name...
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by Sylos 10y ago
I figure this link needs to stand here somewhere, even if it's just for someone trying to understand the political implications that this could have: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
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by Sylos 10y ago
Closeness to the original audio sample doesn't tell you anything, really. These codecs try to drop information in such ways that it's specifically as inaudible as possible to humans. So, you could easily have an encoding which sou
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by Sylos 10y ago
>>The GSM/LTE/whatever radio runs very closed source firmware. >This seems like a problem that could be fixed. The problem is that it's illegal to reflash the firmware, because the Radio Frequency Giveaway Committee*
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by Sylos 10y ago
So, do they not even notify you that you've agreed to some new ToS by logging in into a new service?
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by Sylos 10y ago
Wireshark is most commonly used for packet sniffing. https://www.wireshark.org/
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, but Openbox isn't suitable for new users, at least not on its own. As part of something like LXDE or LXQt, it's definitely workable, but without a deeper understanding of Openbox, those are pretty much as good as any other D
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by Sylos 10y ago
Right, I didn't expect someone to put my comment through their formal logic interpreter which doesn't make any assumptions about context and meaning whatsoever. What I meant was that any bullshit anti-Microsoft fairy tale stuff, w
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by Sylos 10y ago
As far as I understand it, there is no way to know what Microsoft sends, unless you work at Microsoft. As such, the "bullshit anti-Microsoft fairy tale stuff" is just as valid as whatever you believe that they send. Especially als
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by Sylos 10y ago
Switzerland is usually pretty good at it, and Germany tends to also care, because of their Stasi-history, but the recent trend of "Terrorists killed a handful of people, let's throw away the fundamental rights of our population.&q
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by Sylos 10y ago
For me their new privacy policy was already enough. A company, which actively worked with the NSA in the past, asking me to sign a document which would allow them to access any of my personal data whenever they have a "good faith belie
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by Sylos 10y ago
Who gives a fuck?
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by Sylos 10y ago
Do you get more than one peer? I seem to get only one when I disable media.peerconnection.enabled and I assume that one peer is just the server streaming the video directly.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Pretty much just too much work and ever-decreasing interest with the foreseeable death of Flash. This would have probably needed a dedicated team untangling and implementing the Flash-specification over many months to get it done before mos
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by Sylos 10y ago
The problem is that this is not easy at all. Mozilla had a project which tried to do pretty much exactly that, called Shumway [0], and development has been going on for a few years, but they didn't really get anywhere useful in all tha
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by Sylos 10y ago
The recent introduction of WebRTC to browsers could throw Skype off its throne. You pretty much just go on the webpage of such a WebRTC-service, start up a conversation, which generates you a link, then you send that link to your conversati
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by Sylos 10y ago
Alternatively, ask one of the thousands of developers that you employ, what they think could be improved. This isn't rocket science. It's just a dumb menu which collects settings into one place. You can send off an intern to ask a
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by Sylos 10y ago
> [Without telemetry] Do you have to rely on users asking for features then? How does telemetry affect that? I can see that you would maybe prioritize work on improving different features depending on what gets used most or what crashes
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by Sylos 10y ago
Doesn't sound to me like it's an inherent problem to the browsers, but rather that you'd just need to troubleshoot what's causing the RAM usage. I have no idea about Chrome, but in Firefox you can get a detailed breakdow
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by Sylos 10y ago
Anyone have an idea why they are catering to developers so much, when their treatment of users in general has become so much worse over the past year? I mean, I guess, developers are sort of the only demographic which could realistically sw
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, there are decentralized social networks. A few that I know of: https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://gnu.io/social/ http://friendica.com/ https://movim.eu/
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by Sylos 10y ago
Obvious fix: Count the length of the function without whitespace characters, so that both versions are equally slowed down by the optimization. Unfortunately, this sounds like one of those problems where a non-fix like that is still the bes
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, Mozilla found a solution. And that's the brute-force solution. Just throw human code-reviewers at the problem until it solves itself. I'm guessing Google would have more extensions to review than Mozilla and could not rely a
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by Sylos 10y ago
Uhm, Mozilla does a code review of every extension or update to an extension before it gets published on AMO, so it should hardly be possible for a malicious third party to do malicious things...
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by Sylos 10y ago
Are you sure you replied to the right comment? I can neither see false rhetoric nor any form of double standard in the parent. Otherwise, please do explain what you mean with that.

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