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by alex7734 3y ago
I guess. But if the key stays private it could power a scraper or a proxy. Just wondering just how expensive it really is to rip the key out (or to have access to the tools to do it)
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by alex7734 3y ago
> You could also just emulate an entire windows OS + TPM and have the emulator do it it sounds like Yes, but your emulated TPM is not on the approved list. To impersonate an approved TPM you would need to pull the keys from a real TPM wh
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by alex7734 3y ago
> but you can just as easily mess with their memory space at runtime after the fact You can only do that because Windows lets you do that. That's something that can change. > It seems to me like you can only guarantee no tamperin
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by alex7734 3y ago
Right now you can change how websites are displayed on your device, block ads, automate internet browsing and download content to keep it without the consent of the website which Google doesn't like. With enough websites using this API
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by alex7734 3y ago
How expensive would it be to rip the signing keys off the TPM? People used to do it to get free satellite TV but I imagine it's way more expensive now with the smaller transistor sizes
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by alex7734 3y ago
Captchas only let you verify that the user is human, this API lets you do more: it lets you verify that your web application is going to run unmodified and that the user is going to see what you want him to see, _everything_ that you want h
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by alex7734 3y ago
That's nice to know, I'll give it a try soon then!
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by alex7734 3y ago
> uBlock Origin doesn't work on mobile Chrome. That's true, I was talking about desktop, I probably should have not mentioned the phone extension thing. In Android I use Bromite (a Chromium fork) which I should probably replace
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by alex7734 3y ago
> after all, Firefox is a perfectly viable alternative to Chrome that very few people use I don't use Firefox because it's slower than Chrome and because their behavior regarding limiting which extensions are available in phone
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by alex7734 3y ago
Sorry but I don't understand your point. ICE cars also need gas stations, also need to pay for their fuel and also get cold when it's cold yet we've managed to do just fine for a long time without screens or even smartphones.
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by alex7734 3y ago
Yet another externality that is not accounted for when people say nuclear as an alternative is the devil.
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by alex7734 3y ago
MasterCard can and does decide who can or cannot take payments and nobody gives a damn either
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by alex7734 3y ago
It's too good, as long as you don't need 4k, it still runs the newest games at full quality with more than acceptable performance. It has 11GB VRAM. And it's a 6 year old GPU.
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by alex7734 3y ago
Engineers have become experts in selecting components so that they fail right after the warranty period. Replaceable batteries just means they will make something else weaker instead, preferably something that fries the device once it fails
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by alex7734 3y ago
Isn't it already? The list of products killed is so long that most people have probably got burnt at least once by Google. https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by alex7734 3y ago
It's just a way of saying small used for "cute" stuff (cats, etc).
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by alex7734 3y ago
With all these protests and shutdowns it seems there's a decent chance of reddit dying very soon. It's a shame because adding "site:reddit.com" to my Google queries was the only way to avoid (most of the) SEO bullshit an
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by alex7734 3y ago
In Linus' video it was said that it reverses flow for a second to remove the dust from the filters
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by alex7734 3y ago
It's a legacy app
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by alex7734 3y ago
To do that you either need a structure that you update every time a pointer is created, copied, moved or deleted (too much overhead), or you need a way to scan the entire memory and get all the pointers. And at the point where you have a
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by alex7734 3y ago
If I recall correctly the kernel part of things would return an out of memory error which the user mode DLL translated to that weird error (sometimes, other times it would just say "out of system resources", it depended on what wi
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by alex7734 3y ago
Yes and no, it took me from 8am to 3am once we decided it needed to get fixed but really it sat on the app for years, it only happened on a background process that sent print jobs on a timer, since it used Windows GDI to compose the image w
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by alex7734 3y ago
> When we free memory, we should make sure that if the block we return to the free list is next to any other free blocks, we combine them together. This is called "coalescing." A little offtopic but the default Delphi 7 memory
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by alex7734 3y ago
You buy a printer that you _know_ worked with offbrand ink when purchased (because it did), then one day HP remotely updates _your_ printer that you paid for and now it doesn't (and of course you are not allowed to revert the update),
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by alex7734 3y ago
KeePass's userbase is negligible, banking apps didn't care about those that use rooted phones and won't care about KeePass users. My guess is that the big groups will lobby for this to be turned into a checkbox in some "
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by alex7734 3y ago
In some sectors software quality truly does not matter beyond a certain point (and the bar is really low). The customer very rarely has the resources or the time to try all the alternatives, especially if switching afterwards is expensive s
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by alex7734 3y ago
The general complaint is that Git's UI requires you to understand how it works internally to be able to use it (properly). IMHO Git is fine, and forcing the complexity on the user is not a big deal as Git is simple enough... as long as
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by alex7734 3y ago
I've used OVH for years. I only hear from them when it's time to pay up every year. Zero problems so far.
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by alex7734 3y ago
Seems like a perfect way to prevent software companies from quickly growing their engineer count. The question is, was this done on purpose?
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by alex7734 3y ago
The goal of the feature removal is obviously to hide (censor) the displeasure of the audience towards certain videos, so I disagree that it is unrelated.

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