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by aftbit 2y ago
You're not wrong, but I would have a hard time as a jury member convicting them of a CFAA violation or whatever for creating a user named "Test TestOnly" with a bright pink image instead of a photo. If they had added themselv
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by aftbit 2y ago
What I meant by that statement is that whatever you're asking about is actually coming from you. I don't think the simple statement in the comment actually contains any connotation. Just like the old programmer joke - there are 10
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah I get it, if one wants to make money off one's software, one shouldn't give it away for free, right? I'm just highlighting why I do not recommend Tarsnap professionally. It's great if you're going to be storing
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by aftbit 2y ago
Agreed. Honestly, I really wish the Tarsnap server was open source. I imagine it has not been released as such because that would probably hurt the business a lot, especially given that the costs per GB are currently approximately 50 times
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by aftbit 2y ago
I think you're reading the connotation into this. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with being a higher level engineer. There's plenty of work "above the fold" so to speak. For example, I think it behooves every soft
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by aftbit 2y ago
I'm personally interested in them but I'm not sure there's a good technical reason. I just think offline local sensing is cool.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I never understood the Dual-EC backdoor. What was the point? Who would be dumb enough to use that as their CSPRNG when so many simpler, faster, and less sus options were available? I supposed they did (allegedly) pay RSA Security to make th
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by aftbit 2y ago
Manifest v2 is a bit tricky, because there are really three changes overlapping with each other: - Manifest v3 site permissions changes - Removal of protected APIs (like the blocking version of chrome.webRequest) - Chrome Store code review
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by aftbit 2y ago
Mostly for anti-fingerprinting features, but also just because I like to control the browser, since I spend all day in it.
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by aftbit 2y ago
One might be avoid mass traffic interception due to malicious or corrupt BGP rules, either by accident or on purpose by a nation-state or telco. Another might be avoiding interception by your own ISP for various purposes.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I'd buy one. It'll never be a good "daily driver" just because of input devices alone, but it seems like a fun little low distractions "electronic note pad" to use when out and about.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I dunno, I've maintained a personal fork since around Chrome 100 or so. I am only targeting builds on Linux, I don't care about branding, and my patches are limited to about 300 lines total. The initial fork and figuring out the b
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by aftbit 2y ago
That used to be the norm! My personal favorite story along those lines was how they proposed changes to DES S-boxes without any detailed explanation. The open community was skeptical but it later turned out that the changes they proposed pr
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah you can?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Even myself from the 2000s would be amazed by the bandwidth that we can muster today. I am just old enough to remember waiting all day to download an IE update over dial up, and I'm definitely old enough to remember a 700MB torrent tak
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by aftbit 2y ago
Latency and peering are huge. I'm amazed at how poor internet latency constantly is. Assuming fiber optics have a speed of light around 0.6c, one would expect that Cincinnati to Chicago (~450 km) is around 2.5 light-milliseconds one wa
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by aftbit 2y ago
Is this less relative to broad historical trends, or less compared to the boom of 2020 and 2021, when people were flush with cash and suddenly spending a lot more time in their houses? And even if it's less relative to more typical tim
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by aftbit 2y ago
I've seen this on YouTube, especially around the Ukrainian conflict. Many creators are saying things like "became KIA" instead of "were killed" or even more euphemistically "loud noises were heard at XYZ locati
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah supply chain stuff is scary and still very open. This ranges from the easy stuff like typo-squatting pip packages or hacktavists changing their npm packages to wreck all computers in Russia up to the advanced backdoors like the xz hack
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by aftbit 2y ago
Ah but what if you bundle both your application binary and some (unmodified) AGPL software into a single Docker container? Do you then need to provide source code for your entire application?
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by aftbit 2y ago
How much money and how deferred? If you're willing to wait until after I'm dead, we can talk.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Even if you control everything about your crypto setup from the atomic level to the software, unless you have a way to live self-sufficiently, you are still subject to outside control. There are many ways to apply pressure in the meat-space
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by aftbit 2y ago
I solved this problem for free with storage on B2 and a Cloudflare worker which offers free egress from B2. I don't know if they'd still offer it for free at 10k rps though!
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by aftbit 2y ago
If you keep the extensions updated, they could still have control sold to malicious actors and be updated to do malicious things without you noticing. Google's review process is not strong enough to protect from this. Besides, Google c
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by aftbit 2y ago
>militantly anti-advertisting >I see [ads] when I open a new, fresh tab These two things don't seem to go together. I open a new tab >100 times a day. I'm not willing to even see recent sites there, let alone ads! My Fire
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by aftbit 2y ago
Could you do more than one patient in ten minutes if they were lined up outside your door and shuffled on and off the machine by spare staff?
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by aftbit 2y ago
What struck me was how the author was able to identify choke points and make decisions to deviate from procedure to fix them. In many organizations, adherence to procedure is more important than getting good results. It is interesting to se
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by aftbit 2y ago
As a per-creation consumer, yearly billing seems worse to me. Now I need to decide once a year if I am still comfortable supporting each channel, and I can't revise that based on whether the channel has decided to go totally idle throu
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by aftbit 2y ago
Ah okay, that's fine then. I'll just keep using the per-creation model. I don't use Apple hardware so I won't even notice the change.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I would prefer to see them forced by legislation (like the Digital Markets Act) to allow some sort of fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing on the App Store. Ideally they would be required to allow third-party marketplaces and

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