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by ancarda 6y ago
Can those customers not install ClamAV? Does that not count as anti-virus?
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by ancarda 6y ago
I think it depends if it's free (GPL/MIT/etc) software or not. Then it's truly a gift, rather than a black box Though I have a hunch this won't be free software and will have all kinds of telemetry you can't di
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by ancarda 6y ago
Is it open source? I can't find a GitHub link so I'm guessing it's not
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by ancarda 6y ago
I think the majority of people would prefer if encryption weren't a thing - as they believe it's primarily or exclusively used by criminals to evade law enforcement. If most people want X, and our elected officials are working on
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by ancarda 6y ago
Oh I see, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope things will improve for you soon. It's understandable you would be focused on more important things. Lately I have been wondering if more people would get into open source if they didn&#x27
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by ancarda 6y ago
>Wish you didn't have to worry about being poor. What? Are you suggesting I don't use iOS and macOS because I can't afford Apple's hardware? I have multiple Macs and iPhones in the house - I recently switched because
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by ancarda 6y ago
I've never met anyone who uses OSM. I have just shy of 500 edits on OSM because I kept going to use it, finding it didn't have what I was looking for, and making improvements. It would be nice if there was a viable alternative to
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by ancarda 6y ago
So this is what people mean by "following the letter of the law instead of the spirit of the law"?
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by ancarda 6y ago
I get something like this with Music.app -- it seems to randomly open. I suspect it's some kind of keystroke (i.e. hitting the play button) but I haven't figured out exactly why it's happening or how to stop it. I'm pret
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by ancarda 6y ago
>Every single day I run across webpages with custom fonts that I literally struggle to read. Have you considered turning off custom fonts? Firefox lets you do this -- Preferences > General > Fonts and Colors section > Advanced &
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by ancarda 6y ago
But why? Re-creating Flash makes sense to me because of the sheer amount of content, but the only thing I can think of that used Silverlight was Netflix ... years ago. Is Silverlight really a game changer such that it's worth bringing
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by ancarda 6y ago
Somewhat off-topic, tinyprojects.dev and netflix.soy both have DNSSEC, is this required for some of the newer TLDs (like how .dev has mandatory HTTPS preloading)? Just it's rare to see it in the wild.
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by ancarda 6y ago
I know I first came across BLNS about 5 years ago because I was 20 years old when I first saw that. Suffice to say it scared the shit out of me!
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by ancarda 6y ago
Yeah, I bought something similar to that. The entire machine can run off the Linux kernel with zero proprietary drivers. Unfortunately even that didn't help me with my bad luck so far. I have decided to give up trying Linux, at-least f
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by ancarda 6y ago
I mean, sound not working is pretty user hostile too. But yeah, I have come to the conclusion Linux isn't right for me. Sadly neither is Windows, and macOS is rapidly getting worse. Do you remember when computers were fun?
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by ancarda 6y ago
Sure, though I am describing my latest attempt in like 15 years of using Linux on and off. At some point "every OS has its problems" just stopped being true for me. Linux really sucks for anything other than servers. I hate to say
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by ancarda 6y ago
I've never used that before, but it sounds a bit like Docker? As in, it's got a VM in the background and I can interact with it?
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by ancarda 6y ago
If only moving to Linux were an option for everyone. The other day I tried for the 100th time to move to Linux. I installed a recent build of a maintained, popular distribution (no it doesn't matter which one - I have tried them all),
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by ancarda 6y ago
Hell, I live in the UK and I can't stand 24-hour time ("military time"). I have to convert in my head every single time by subtracting 12 to figure out what the time actually is. I hate 24 hour time so much. I won't use
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by ancarda 6y ago
And this is why I gave up some time ago when it comes to privacy/security. It just became exhausting to keep up with all the vulnerabilities. But of course, giving up isn't the solution. So now I am working on it again...
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by ancarda 6y ago
>7. I use my own local dns resolver. Does that provide a usable amount of privacy? It doesn't seem like it would given your local BIND instance would have to talk to DNS servers on the Internet -- over plaintext -- and so would reve
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by ancarda 6y ago
Wait how is this easy on macOS? Do you mean with Little Snitch? Or is there something built into the OS?
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by ancarda 6y ago
>Nevertheless, many older applications need to be modernized, for example, to create a modern web or GUI interface instead of the ubiquitous green screen interface common for older mainframe applications. Why do they "need" thi
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by ancarda 6y ago
America isn't a totalitarian regime though. Evidence of racism isn't relevant for that definition - it's a label that applies based on government structure.
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by ancarda 6y ago
This thread seems mostly negative towards Facebook (good - fuck em') but your comment seems to suggest you think there's some bias here. Are people on HN being too positive about Facebook?
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by ancarda 6y ago
Perhaps it would be possible to send the blueprints to a factory to be manufactured? I don't really know. I think in some ways the same concern exists for software but it's much, much cheaper so you never see it. If you don't
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by ancarda 6y ago
Oh it's a shame to see this domain (openhardware.org) isn't up anymore. Does anyone know what happened? We have been pretty successful in having free/open software, but it seems there's virtually nothing in the free&#x2F
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by ancarda 6y ago
>new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store Wait a sec, does this affect F-Droid as well?
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by ancarda 6y ago
Seems Firefox doesn't remember the CSS you have selected (i.e. per page? per domain?) I can think of some uses for this if it were sticky - high contrast and dark mode versions for websites
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by ancarda 6y ago
Eh, sounds like every other website to me. Wouldn't people say ACM are out of touch if they don't adopt all the common junk you see on websites? Their website is so out of date it doesn't have a cookie banner! Best I get my i

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