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by ale42 2y ago
Totally true that smartphones are useful. But people can decide they don't want one for many reasons, including not wanting to accept 20-pages-long T&C just to turn them on, and surrendering lots of personal data. If you're a
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by ale42 2y ago
A landline phone doesn't spy on you, and has often better audio quality (unless you're in an area with great cell coverage). And you can also use the mobile network with a "feature phone", like those that were around unt
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by ale42 2y ago
This is common in specifications and standards, ISO standards are expensive to get, and good luck if you try to get the HDMI 2.1 specification. Usually, people need that type of documentation if they are developing products they will later
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by ale42 2y ago
Yes but I guess that the message was meaning that browsers now detect homographs and display the punycode instead. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130241 ; at that time Firefox wasn't fixed, but in the m
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by ale42 2y ago
The thing is, you currently can't. Sure an AI can answer relatively complex technical questions, but sometimes doesn't do it properly. And when it fails, you don't know. I had cases where AI was clearly inventing calls to API
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by ale42 2y ago
Does it do vector graphics and custom fonts?
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by ale42 2y ago
PDFs work offline, and they are designed to represent printable pages, so if the end document has some use on paper, or if you want to allow users to fill it as a document and to do it completely offline, it make sense to use PDF.
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by ale42 2y ago
This is not breaking any sandboxing as far as I understand it. PDFs can contain JavaScript, JavaScript can emulate a processor and a processor can run Linux... but that Linux is not getting outside the boundaries of the PDF viewer.
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by ale42 2y ago
As a side note, Windows Server 2025 appears to share the OS base with Windows 11, but it doesn't seem to have the same requirements of CPU/TPM? Or am I wrong? (not that I'm suggesting to use Windows Server as a client OS, esp
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by ale42 2y ago
Many (maybe most) humans are not even aware of their own biases, though they are supposed to have "general" intelligence. When they are aware, sometimes they use various psychological strategies to live with them or justify them i
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by ale42 2y ago
Maybe if the AI is impartial. But who trains the AI? Who guarantees it has no biases, implicit (because it's trained on how things work today, which is maybe not what we want) or explicitly planted there (because of political plans of
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by ale42 2y ago
I think it's just a fancy description for service accounts, but possibly extended to any kind of access that is used for machine-to-machine interaction rather than for users; I guess tokens used by IoT devices to access an API would al
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by ale42 2y ago
Solved what? If someone forgets the final .uk on the flyer and don't want to reprint it, they will need to buy a domain in Colombia...
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by ale42 2y ago
That's why we have now 2FA enabled on most external access, VPN included.
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by ale42 2y ago
Observed the same, it's very annoying. I start a script to image the VM (which among others does disk cleanup before finally handing over to sysprep)... and sometimes I find the unattended VM hours later still waiting for me to move th
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by ale42 2y ago
I was hoping for one :-) Unfortunately not, no explanation about why this even happens... too bad.
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by ale42 2y ago
Yes, they decided to name it so after pushback from the Navajos for the CDC proposal: Initially, the CDC proposed to name the virus the Muerto Canyon virus after a location in the Navajo Reservation. The Navajo strongly opposed any
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1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ale42 2y ago
Of course not... as long as the code is actually running on my computer. If it need authentication, it's another story.
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by ale42 2y ago
I guess that in some cases you can host the service on the tested company's Intranet, so MS servers wont be able to connect to it (but nor would people in home office without VPN).
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by ale42 2y ago
Sure, but if everybody starts (ab)using this they'll change it again with something more complex. Or they will restrict it, like leaving it usable only by users logged in on their MS account.
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by ale42 2y ago
Didn't know what specific technique it used to do that, thanks for mentioning this! Btw for those who wonder where the name comes from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26633320
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by ale42 2y ago
Duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42610091
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by ale42 2y ago
I'm using molly-guard (htps://salsa.debian.org/debian/molly-guard, mentioned on Boulette's github btw as inspiration) since years for this after I've remotely shut down our file server thinking I was on an
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by ale42 2y ago
What about Bluetooth? I think it there are enough intentional and unintentional beacons around that it's possible to have some localization info with their MACs. Does this require permission?
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by ale42 2y ago
Being used to the more traditional "ā"/... for long vowels, I found it very weird when opening the page, I was first wondering if it was actual Latin or an artificial language based on it.
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by ale42 2y ago
Except that some people prefer to purge cookies when closing their browsers. And the session typically doesn't last forever, even if you keep the cookies.
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by ale42 2y ago
There are many options where such links are a reasonable option. I'm okay to receive such a link to validate my e-mail for an account creation, or to unsubscribe from a mailing list at a place I don't have an account at, or to dis
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by ale42 2y ago
AFAIK ECall uses a voice call with data encoded on the audio channel. This is not what telemetry does, it should be doable to leave the voice channel and disable any data connections. (But it's probably very hard to check for someone w
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by ale42 2y ago
My employer blocks all known VPN endpoints (as well as TOR exit nodes) with ingress filtering. Because many attacks come from there...

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