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by alerighi 9y ago
And you still call your country a democracy! If this doesn't change, I will never consider to move or even go on vacation to the USA, I might live in a state that has a lot of problems (Italy), but at least I have the right of privacy,
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by alerighi 9y ago
That is entirely subjective. I am more comfortable reasoning with bits than with object. I also think optimization matters, if you can reduce the memory consumption with a simple and elegant solution, why not ?
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by alerighi 9y ago
I use truecaller to automatically block spam calls, it works very well.
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by alerighi 9y ago
50$ to emulate a x86 application on an ARM system ? When you have x86 single boards that are a lot more powerful than a RPI for under 100$ ?
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by alerighi 9y ago
No, because the firmware is in some part written in a ROM inside the CPU (for security reason, at least the part that has to verify and load the rest of the firmware from the external flash memory), so there is no way to replace it or even
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by alerighi 9y ago
When I hear people say that backdoors are a good thing, I say to them: so you wouldn't mind either if an agent breaks into your home without permission, reads and copies all your mail and documents, installs microphones and cameras in
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by alerighi 10y ago
So don't buy music from Apple, or from anyone else that sells it in non-free formats
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by alerighi 10y ago
Yes, and if for some reason then you clear the CMOS (BIOS configuration error, discharged battery, or whatever) you can no longer boot your PC because the boot information regarding the parameters to pass to the kernel is lost...
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by alerighi 10y ago
Unfortunately in most countries yes, you are responsible for the traffic that exits from you IP, even if you have a public WiFi for example. Then you have to prove in a court that the traffic wasn't effectively generated by you, and go