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by akersten 5y ago
The e-Waste part is what should collectively anger us, but I'm glad you're able to buy your card.
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by akersten 5y ago
> GPUs have been doing this forever though. This is exactly the same as some features being enabled on quadros that don’t exist on RTX/GTX/GT cards. No, I think this is the first time a GPU has been heuristically trying to dete
573.
by akersten 5y ago
If this works (spoiler: it won't, it will be cracked within a month), it will create more e-Waste as miners will toss their no-video-output-mining-only cards after they're no longer the latest tech, instead of being able to resell
574.
by akersten 5y ago
Yep, this enrages me. Deliberately introducing faults into a product to make it less appealing to one market segment in a desperate attempt to cover for their supply chain failure. Stinks to high heaven. In addition the detection is not mag
575.
by akersten 5y ago
> In years to come we will look down on current working conditions in the same way we currently do with 15hr factory shifts during the industrial revolution. Absolutely agreed. Working for someone else for 8 of the best hours of the day
576.
by akersten 5y ago
I really like this idea. It feels like weapons-grade TypeScript and could solve an entire class of logical error. If someone has a good method they're already using to encode strict typing like this I'd love to check it out.
577.
by akersten 5y ago
I think my initial reaction was too harsh; after thinking through it some more I agree and think there's an easy enough fix I posted in a sibling comment. As an aside, It's actually surprising the built-in popup blocker let so ma
578.
by akersten 5y ago
Yeah, that was the popup I was referencing - although it's much smaller for you than it was for me - maybe my low res laptop screen is a benefit there. It was noticable enough to clue me that something weird was afoot, but I'm sur
579.
by akersten 5y ago
I'm going to close a website as soon as I get an unprompted popup that says "Firefox is trying to open Slack." It's clever but somewhat obvious (in both a to-the-user-that-its-happening and a "well of course it&#x27
580.
by akersten 5y ago
> make a “private mode” that another division doesn’t respect. It is not a "private mode," it is a "don't save browser history to my local machine, and that's it." It clearly says that when one opens it. I
581.
by akersten 5y ago
This is absurd. Even if Snapchat had a banner on the speedometer that said "too fast too furious," is that not their First Amendment right to expression? Since when is encouraging reckless driving a crime? (They didn't do tha
582.
by akersten 5y ago
Yeah, JS is the only hairy part. I considered mentioning it, since I know it was going to come up. But luckily, all I've seen so far are basic demos (like leaky.page) that read data from a carefully-crafted array that the page itself p
583.
by akersten 5y ago
I've been saying this from the start: the well of issues is infinitely deep as soon as you decide that multiple tenants running on the same physical hardware inferring something about another is a vulnerability. I assert, but cannot ri
584.
by akersten 5y ago
Prenda Law tried that approach, it didn't turn out well for them
585.
by akersten 5y ago
Yeah, the first page of this book being "Everything is a File in Unix" is already so high-level and far above what I would call the "bottom-up" of computer science that this book should be renamed "Unix from the bot
586.
by akersten 5y ago
I haven't worked with GraphQL before, but looking at those code snippets and reading the description of the vulnerability, it seems like a mess. You're giving a client unfettered access to just... query your database? Of course yo
587.
by akersten 5y ago
We are talking about deliberate security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, a piece of critical infrastructure. Frankly, this is not the place to assume good faith.
588.
by akersten 5y ago
> , so url bar tells you you're on a website Is this even the case anymore? On Android, all my URL bars peel up into the top of the screen as I browse, and I'm pretty sure a website can capture the vertical swipe/arrange a
589.
by akersten 5y ago
What prevents a non-fullscreen site from just faking a keyboard with `position: fixed; bottom: 0;`? Really weird stance they're taking here. Kind of excludes an entire class of web applications (full screen games) from being usable on
590.
by akersten 6y ago
I really wish this went into more detail, or linked to a technical change log. What does this even mean: > Fewer interruptions: We’ve removed unnecessary alerts and messages. What messages were removed? What if they were useful to me? Al
591.
by akersten 6y ago
It doesn't make sense, it's word salad like the rest of the bill. It's specifically intended to get a rise out of his constituents.
592.
by akersten 6y ago
"of" has "f" though?
593.
by akersten 6y ago
For an encyclopedia that holds itself to high standards of integrity and information sourcing, disguising outbound-to-inbound tracking parameters by camouflaging them as "provenance" is pretty on the nose.
594.
by akersten 6y ago
I don't like loot boxes. But I'm not egotistical enough to say that just because I don't like something, it should be banned. This is the same moral panic that would have made arcades and baseball cards illegal. Those both fo
595.
by akersten 6y ago
> Those can at least hold value over time as you're buying something tangible that can be traded or sold. Ironically, that makes TCG even more like gambling, in contrast to loot boxes which do not provide a cash-value payout.
596.
by akersten 6y ago
It's speculation as I stated. But it's really not a "leap". The whistleblower's claim: > They were able to get cryptographic secrets for single sign-on cookies and remote access, full source code control contents
597.
by akersten 6y ago
That's fair - and I hope that is the case that it's just mining. But I also hope Ubiquiti performs a full audit (ideally by an expert 3rd party) to ensure the integrity of their build systems and reassure customers that the worst
598.
by akersten 6y ago
What I want to know is the likelihood that customer devices were compromised. Frankly, I could care less about whether my data/password/whatever were lost in the breach. Happens all the time, who cares. The problem with the Ubiqui
599.
by akersten 6y ago
Of course I can only speculate, but I see two primary reasons to suspect improvement: * It's a purposeful re-write: not just because it sounded like a fun idea, but because there are reasons to redo the stack. Memory security a main on
600.
by akersten 6y ago
This is great news. Hopefully it fixes a lot of the jank that I've always experienced with Android Bluetooth. I don't think I've ever had a smooth experience - even with a supposedly flagship device (Pixel 4a!) I've enco

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