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by anjbe 5y ago
That’s not true. Signal does provide an Android version without Google Play Services. https://signal.org/android/apk/ I’ve used it for a long time on a GrapheneOS phone with zero Google software installed at all.
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by anjbe 5y ago
Since hardware vendors by and large ignore RYF certification and the FSF’s opinions in general, it’s hardly “yielding” for the FSF to change its policies if the existing policies are harmful to the free software community. The people who ar
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by anjbe 5y ago
I’ve had two Kindles (a Voyage and a first‐gen Oasis) and never tied either one to an Amazon account. I’ve always kept them in airplane mode and sideloaded books over USB. It’s unfortunate that Kindle doesn’t support EPUB but it’s easy enou
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by anjbe 5y ago
No, irrespective of GCC’s license, Stallman intentionally hampered GCC’s output to be difficult to use with other free software, in hopes that it would also be difficult to use with proprietary software. See this thread: https:/&#x2
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by anjbe 5y ago
OpenBSD does have dt(4) which is similar: https://man.openbsd.org/dt.4 https://man.openbsd.org/bt.5
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by anjbe 5y ago
The classic counterexample is GCC, which so contorted its design to prevent being embedded in proprietary software, that it allowed LLVM to take off as a powerful competitor not only due to its friendly license but also by virtue of being a
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by anjbe 5y ago
Signal’s primary defense against that is disappearing messages. Beyond that, what can you really do against what is essentially an untrusted endpoint? Education and awareness, and hope that it sticks.
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by anjbe 5y ago
I concur, Worsley’s account of the voyage is excellent and highly worth reading.
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by anjbe 5y ago
The journey of Shackleton and his crew is one of the most exciting stories of survival and leadership I’ve ever encountered. Shackleton himself wrote an autobiographical account, and its copyright has expired, so it’s now in the public doma
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by anjbe 5y ago
Nintendo used, or attempted to use, various hardware/software, legal, and economic techniques to force publishers to use their cartridges, for which they took a significant cut of sales. The hardware‐enforced logo mentioned in another
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by anjbe 5y ago
> it does spread the idea that the CIA is incredibly capable That’s hardly in dispute, is it? > and individuals can sway overall policy Certainly not the impression I got from at least the first three films. The Bourne Identity ends
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by anjbe 5y ago
That’s about as facile as the Pollyanna view that America nuked Japan reluctantly and purely out of necessity. The reality is that it was a complicated decision and there were many factors that went into it and many subsequent interpretatio
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by anjbe 5y ago
> I don't recycle passwords That’s good. I think you’re probably in the minority though. There are other ways unique passwords can be compromised. I see passwords accidentally entered into IRC windows about once a month. And even if
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by anjbe 5y ago
I’ve seen a compromised machine whose sshd had been replaced with a trojan that saved all passwords entered into it. Some investigation revealed that sshd modification to be part of a standard script kiddie toolkit. Are you 100% sure that e
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by anjbe 5y ago
I switched to SSH certificates on all my personal machines nearly four years ago. Compared to plain keys, there are three main differences I’ve noticed in practice. First, I started giving certificates expiration dates, so a compromised key
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by anjbe 5y ago
Why? Putting SSH behind a WireGuard VPN provides stronger security guarantees than port knocking and is built into the OS on both my server and my clients.
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by anjbe 5y ago
> a password-protected SSH key is also two factors Not really. By default SSH keys are kept in a private subdirectory of $HOME. An attacker who has access to it is very likely able to modify the user’s $PATH, trojan the passphrase prompt
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by anjbe 5y ago
> it reduces heat and power and disk wear. Measurably?
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by anjbe 5y ago
One real‐world example of this is Ulysses S. Grant’s autobiography[1], which he wrote while dying of throat cancer, specifically to provide for his wife. He died five days after finishing the final manuscript. It’s a great read and I’m glad
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by anjbe 5y ago
With respect to 1, it cuts both ways. Sometimes an author can change a work for the worse, and then use his monopoly to (largely) erase the original. Remember the Star Wars Special Editions? All the fan restorations and rescans floating aro
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by anjbe 5y ago
I agree that tying copyrights to lifetimes doesn’t make sense, because it’s logical for copyrights to be inherited and the law shouldn’t benefit long‐lived authors over short‐lived authors. I’m not fond of the reasoning in your comment thou
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by anjbe 5y ago
> I am of the camp, ultimately, that wants to see the U.S. Constitution's original copyright terms restored The Constitution doesn’t specify copyright terms; it only grants Congress the ability to set them. You probably mean that yo
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by anjbe 5y ago
> Nothing changed in these versions though. There’s no guarantee of that, and definitely no guarantee it won’t happen in the future. One example: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/arts/television&#x
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by anjbe 5y ago
The point is that sales don’t factor into it in the first place. An infringing work could increase sales, and the copyright holder would still have just the same rights. Think of anime fansubs—which effectively brought Japanese anime to m
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by anjbe 5y ago
Disney has options even if copyright legislation doesn’t change. For over a decade now, Disney has used clips of Steamboat Willie in their logo. Even after Willie ’s copyright indisputably expires in 2024, they may attempt to litigate un
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by anjbe 5y ago
You would be able to use only those elements whose copyright had expired, meaning only what’s in the original book. (See, for example, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies .) You wouldn’t be able to use Tigger, because that character was introd
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by anjbe 5y ago
> aaaand your sales go down. Whatever valid arguments might exist to restrict speech through copyright, sales going down is not one of them. Otherwise you could lawfully prohibit negative reviews.
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by anjbe 5y ago
Yes, last year—erm, I mean in 2020—the Doyle estate sued Netflix for creating a movie in which Holmes shows emotion… they claimed: “Among other copied elements, the Springer novels [on which Netflix’s film is based] make extensive infringin
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by anjbe 5y ago
One potentially interesting point of discussion here is to compare GitHub to PGP keyservers. Both provide a means of sharing someone’s keys with a wide audience. GitHub probably has gotten more people actively using SSH keys than are active
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by anjbe 5y ago
The point of bringing up Schenck is that reasonable ideas can be and have been used to justify great wrongs, and thus that we shouldn’t rush into action whenever we see a problem, even if there’s a principle that rings true. “We must do s

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