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by alerighi 5y ago
To me a PC is a device that runs whatever software you need, and that you can program to do the stuff that you need. iOS imposes limitations on that, you cannot run third party applications that are not on the store, you can't write yo
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by alerighi 5y ago
> You're being disingenuous. End-to-end encrypting every 1:1 chat by default, as well as end-to-end encrypting <1000 member groups have already been shown to be possible by Signal, WhatsApp, Wire, Element etc. All these applicati
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by alerighi 5y ago
Me. I don't want to install a FTP client for the 2 times at year that I go to a site to download something (typically drivers for some obsolete device) and the download is from an FTP server. And yes, if I have the URL I can use curl t
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by alerighi 5y ago
This fix to me reduces the performance for nothing. In Linux (or most general on any UNIX system that I saw) a path should not be longer (total) than PATH_MAX, that is typically defined to 4096 bytes. What is the point on allocating somethi
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by alerighi 5y ago
It's not a mistake. Allocating that string on the stack it is not a bad idea. Most of the time the string will be short, and thus an allocation on the stack is faster. Consider that in Linux a path is defined to be a maximum length of
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by alerighi 5y ago
SFTP is mainly a *NIX thing. And it's a terrible hack built on top of a protocol meant to be something really different. Also, while in theory SFTP can be as secure as FTPS, in practice it's not. How many people really check that
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by alerighi 5y ago
Not everyone has a FTP client installed in the system, or a FTP client that can be launched with the server to open (Windows explorer can open FTP servers but I don't think you could with a link. But I'm not sure). A lot of sites,
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by alerighi 5y ago
> can't use it across multiple devices The reason is that. You have to choose between something you can use from whatever device you want, that you can simply log in into a web interface on whatever computer, or end2end encryption.
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by alerighi 5y ago
Just don't give your children internet access till they are old enough that they can be responsible enough to use it correctly? Why this is not an option? I got a PC that was all mine and an ADSL internet connection at 16 years old, be
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by alerighi 5y ago
> If you are in IT support, it isn't your job to treat every colleague like a child who needs to learn. It's your job to serve others and remove any IT-related barriers to their productivity. No, it isn't. If you do so, cl
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by alerighi 5y ago
Nowadays at least in my country is difficult to find music legally to download and burn on a CD. My car stereo only has CD, and I don't want to change a very good stereo (it sounds far better than the built in stereo of most new cars)
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by alerighi 5y ago
Copying/pasting code from open source projects it's considered fair use. Come on, who doesn't do that? I mean, sure you don't copy an entire file, but you tend to copy a snippet, or in the end you look at how is done and
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by alerighi 5y ago
Can you copy 10 lines of code from a open source project in your software? Yes you an, it's considered fair use. Nobody will ever sue for that. If it was, websites like StackOverflouw where developers post code probably taken by projec
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by alerighi 5y ago
Have you ever worked with a complex project? Upgrading isn't easy if you have a moderate number of dependencies, also you risk introducing bugs for fixing a problem that really doesn't impact you. It doesn't make much sense t
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by alerighi 5y ago
That is exactly the point of the article. Every JS developer knows that these numbers are stupid and doesn't look at them. However a beginner that doesn't know what impact they have of course is scared if when installing a library
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by alerighi 5y ago
For no reason at all. The main requisite of the GPL license is that if you do some modifications to a GPL licensed software you must give back that changes to the community, i.e. publish the modified source code (only of the GPL licensed pa
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by alerighi 5y ago
Ubuntu is not Linux. On other distributions secure boot doesn't work out of the box and requires some manual tweaking, like generating a CA, signing kernel and stuff, installing the CA key in the firmware, etc. I don't like Ubuntu
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by alerighi 5y ago
A lot of distributions doesn't support secure boot, or it's difficult to setup, look at the guide to setup secure boot on ArchLinux. A lot of distributions supports secure boot trough generating your CA, using it to sign the bootl
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by alerighi 5y ago
Depends on the manufacturer, on a lot of phones getting root access is not that difficult. The problem is that a lot of applications started to check for root access and will refuse to work if they detect it. So in practice you will loose s
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by alerighi 5y ago
I don't think that is the case of any smartphone SOC. Even for questions about power management you tend to implement radio function with a dedicated hardware, so that for example the CPU can go to sleep and be waked up when a phone ca
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by alerighi 5y ago
Yes, they made thinner phones but they made more huge and heavy. Nowadays it's nearly impossible to find a phone that has a screen smaller than 6". I mean, to me it's too much, it can even fit in some of my pockets! Give me b
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by alerighi 5y ago
Not something I would install to my grandma. Really, she doesn't of course have internet, just the old analog landline phones, doesn't know how to use a computer or a smartphone or anything like that, I want a TV that is simple, j
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by alerighi 5y ago
Monitors have other purposes of TVs, the things that are important on a monitor are not the same on a TV, and a good monitor doesn't necessary mean that it's a good TV or vice versa. See the same difference in the audio world: the
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by alerighi 5y ago
They are not. Smart TVs are slow as hell. I don't want a TV that has "to boot" and takes time to turn on because it has to load a full Android OS, takes 10 seconds to load the channel guide, have a ton of buttons that you did
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by alerighi 5y ago
So I can install Windows 11 previews, then when the definitive version comes out I would need to downgrade if I don't have a TPM hardware (or if I don't want to enable it for not loosing the possibility to dual boot Linux)? It&#x2
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by alerighi 5y ago
I don't trust storing keys in the hardware. The hardware can fail and you loose everything, or the hardware can have backdoor. It's not difficult to make and memorize a strong password in the end to use it for disk encryption.
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by alerighi 5y ago
Yes the radio can be on the same physical chip, but still they are two different systems. Unlocking the bootloader you get the ability to run an unsigned kernel on the main CPU, but still it doesn't give you access to the radio part, t
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by alerighi 5y ago
The radio firmware is something that is at another level. Even if you end up unlocking the bootloader, that doesn't give you access to the radio firmware, that is proprietary and needs to be signed, and cannot be modified. It's ba
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by alerighi 5y ago
In theory, wouldn't make sense to run all the code that runs as the root user as ring zero? The root user still can access read/write the whole memory of the system anyway via /dev/mem, load kernel modules, and do practi
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by alerighi 5y ago
I don't get why inventing some other ways of storing dates that are not RFC 3339 strings.

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