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by akersten 6y ago
Those are all really good points. I'm interested in hearing more about the NTFS quirks - what kind of issues were cropping up? Now I'm really curious what filesystem Snowball wound up standardizing on, and how/if file metadat
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by akersten 6y ago
For real. Many of the anti-Google comments here are injecting their own fantasies for what this lawsuit could be about, celebrating it as some kind of victory towards user privacy - which, to be fair, is a discussion that needs to be had -
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by akersten 6y ago
This must be where all the traded-in Kindle screens are going. I was surprised Amazon was willing to pay me $25 for my 7-year-old Kindle, but I guess it's cheaper than manufacturing new eInk displays. Maybe I'm a germophobe, but i
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by akersten 6y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't say having a mechanical keyboard makes your code any higher quality - that'd be pretty silly. I think in general the thought is, if you care enough about your craft that you seek out refined tools, that care will
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by akersten 6y ago
It's interesting to see an argument against ClearType/font smoothing, but not anti-aliasing in general. They both change the font from what the designer intended, so why is font smoothing so much worse? I actually disable anti-ali
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by akersten 6y ago
> Sellers of guns and ammunition assumed they were protected from liability by the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. On that angle, why are the folks arguing "a few big tech companies have had immunity for too l
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by akersten 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the argument "if you invite someone into your house, you're responsible for their illegal actions" is plainly incorrect, but I'd be happy to see a citation of that statute.
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by akersten 6y ago
No, I really don't see the difference, because the service here is the product. The service is not a place of accommodation like a skate park. "Company makes thing, people do bad with thing, hold Company responsible" is a
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by akersten 6y ago
So if a gun manufacturer did keep control over their gun, like with an electronic targeting system making decisions on behalf of the user[0], by the control argument, wouldn't they then have a responsibility to make sure it's used
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by akersten 6y ago
Can someone who supports "let's hold internet platforms responsible for what their users do on their platform" explain how that's any different than "let's hold gun manufacturers responsible for what users do w
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by akersten 6y ago
Would this be considered anti-competitive today? Let's say you control a major internet browser (or have good knowledge to believe that your iPhone's Safari will become a major internet browser) and specifically exclude support fo
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by akersten 6y ago
You know what's funny is that Microsoft does a great job with what I call "community QA" on some of their other properties, like Minecraft. The Minecraft bug tracker[0] is readily accessible and the community around it tracks
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by akersten 6y ago
Happy to have helped. It was actually quite an ordeal when I first ran into this. I was printing something that I had actually inverted the colors on (a screenshot from Android of my WiFi QR code, where I use the dark theme on the phone,
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by akersten 6y ago
Not surprised. There's something in the water in the Windows print spooler. I have a Brother HL-L2380DW printer that worked "just fine," but then at some point after a Windows update, everything started printing inverted. Lik
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by akersten 6y ago
I'm confused about what the remedy is supposed to be, or what outcome the AGs are seeking. Actually, it sounds like they haven't made up their mind yet either: > And then the states are going to presumably file a complaint als
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by akersten 6y ago
Elevated privileges for a hardware blob is an even worse situation that unfortunately exists (Intel ME/AMD PSP). For me the issue is the blob itself. "Trusted" for the manufacturer is "trust us" for the end-user. My
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by akersten 6y ago
I'm comfortable with it on SmartCards or EMV chips, since those are tailored devices for a specific purpose and the trust model is understood by the participants. I'm not particularly upset that I can't root my credit card. M
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by akersten 6y ago
If they're getting rid of SGX on consumer devices, I consider that an absolute win, and am happy to tone down my rhetoric. However, I couldn't find anything to that effect with a quick search. Can you share where you saw that anno
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by akersten 6y ago
In my opinion, the idea there is the same as it's always been: don't trust the client.
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by akersten 6y ago
It has been part of the architecture since Skylake: > Most Desktop, Mobile (6th generation Core and up) and low-end Server processors (Xeon E3 v5 and up) released since Fall 2015 support SGX.[0] [0]: https://fortanix.com/
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by akersten 6y ago
I understand the implication here to be "how can you trust your own hardware anyway," and the answer is "of course in theory you can't." Even if you had SGX and wrote your algorithm or whatever to run in it, if your
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by akersten 6y ago
Maybe not widely yet. But here's[0] an Intel employee saying it's supported, which confirms that it's one of their visions for the module. [0]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-software-
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by akersten 6y ago
I'm not entirely against the concept of trusted computing, but it's hard to believe that "trusted computing" as we know it today is so innocuous when it's included on consumer CPUs. Why not keep it as a premium feat
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by akersten 6y ago
Yes, indeed here we go again, because I fundamentally disagree that "allowing the trusted execution of code" is any different than DRM. A rose by any other name. I believe a user should have full control over the hardware they o
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by akersten 6y ago
Remember, SGX is not a security feature. It is a DRM feature meant to take control away from the owner of the machine and give it to content owners. Happy to see every successful attack against this module, and hoping that Intel decides to
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by akersten 6y ago
Surprised it took this long. I've always thought those nouns seemed "off." It's interesting to see "blackbox" as a related bug though. That doesn't seem charged to me (in so far as "black-out curtains
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by akersten 6y ago
They're sending the full article and just putting an overlay on it, so reader mode or inspect element will clean it right up.
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by akersten 6y ago
(Not the author) I like Git for the decentralization and ease of someone backing it all up. Agree that there's a huge usability cliff for anyone outside our circle that wants to contribute. Maybe a good add-on project for someone is cr
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by akersten 6y ago
I vouched for this. In other threads, an attitude I've seen is "well I'm just a tech worker, what can I possibly do to help?" Projects like this are what you can do.
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by akersten 6y ago
I don't have any resources beyond recommending searching something like "linux command line basics" in your favorite search engine, but I do have some advice. You have to conceptualize it at a higher level than "shell co

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