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by arsome 6y ago
Just don't call it free software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."
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by arsome 6y ago
This is cool and I'm glad to see Apple reporting on it - but do they offer you a way to simply bypass it and achieve better privacy without breaking things? Like send fake location data, randomize a device ID per app, etc. XPrivacy di
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by arsome 6y ago
Just be careful with these solutions, I use the one in Bitwarden for a few things and while great for convenience, there's a significant security tradeoff when you go ahead and load all your TOTP tokens into memory on the same machine
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by arsome 6y ago
... or trivial number porting attacks like the one described in this exact article. Depends on your threat model, but unlike SIM swapping this may not be out of the reach of even a mildly technical angry ex.
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by arsome 6y ago
Windows itself does not, 3rd party firewall/HIDS software (ZoneAlarm, Outpost, etc) for Windows has done this by intercepting APIs to do things like call executables with internet access, OpenProcess calls, raw disk IO, registry writes
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by arsome 6y ago
Be careful with that one, this isn't as capable as the HIDS solutions available on Windows - it's not going to do things like detect exfiltration using other executables or modification of other files on your system. For example,
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by arsome 6y ago
I live in an area of Canada where home heat is pretty much provided exclusively by natural gas but electricity comes mainly from nuclear and hydroelectric sources. Interesting to think about, but by firing up a miner on my graphics card at
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by arsome 6y ago
It'd occupy your hands which kinda would defeat the purpose, unless you have a gearbox that's easy to control with your foot?
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by arsome 6y ago
I don't know, places like Switzerland certainly make me wish we had some of those aspects in my home country. For things with a lot of special interests like privacy legislation, it seems to get better results.
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by arsome 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure about any of this, I grew up with PC trackpads, used them on Linux all the time and other than a few annoyances with accidentally tripping the trackpad when typing, never had a problem with them. The Macbook actually
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by arsome 6y ago
> But food delivery? That worked just fine before those companies arrived. Depends where you live, for me, it worked for pizza and that's about it. I was unable to get pretty much anything else delivered locally, now I've got a
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by arsome 6y ago
> Just Eat comes to mind Just Eat is on the list of companies impacted by this in the article.
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by arsome 6y ago
I've got many users on it and 3 or 4 simultaneous streams is not an uncommon occurrence. Nvenc is artificially limited to 2 on consumer cards.
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by arsome 6y ago
https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch Basically just lets my Plex server transcode more streams at once without having a Quadro.
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by arsome 6y ago
It all depends on availability - if there are no more CMP cards available, but GeForce cards are still around and there's a known good cracked driver for them, this won't even be a question. Miners don't care about driver upd
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by arsome 6y ago
Sounds like it's time to crack some NVIDIA drivers. I already do it for the video encoding limitations, why not this too? Miners are willing to go to some really hacky extremes, reflashing firmwares, custom fan mods, extreme overclock
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by arsome 6y ago
I'm not sure, I agree it sounds like pop psych crap and you'll develop physical dependence of course, but I suspect there's a big difference between people who can pick up smoking weed on a weekly or monthly basis recreationa
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by arsome 6y ago
I've done this several times, I have a headache for 24-48 hours then pretty much back to normal. Tolerance takes longer to reset obviously and I'm sure I get more energetic in subtle ways I'm unaware of in there... but I don&
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by arsome 6y ago
> and it comes up right away I'd be a bit afraid of this. Secure key derivation takes time. Remember, you want to be able to defend against people with a few GPUs or the ability to configure a cheap FPGA at least and the ability to
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by arsome 6y ago
Yuck, I hate diesel exhaust but that slight unburnt fuel smell from a 2 stroke small engine is what I'm all about.
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by arsome 6y ago
Are those $2 Chinese modules really paying to license the patent?
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by arsome 6y ago
Yup, I write data analysis tooling but still one of the first things I get asked is "can I have all the raw data in a CSV?".
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by arsome 6y ago
There's some really cool stuff going on in the distributed storage space thanks to this - blockchains have provided a way to pay for, prove you've stored data and provide collateral should you fail to store it, establishing the wh
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by arsome 6y ago
"Just AES encrypted" is a pretty limited way of looking at things. AES offers plenty of ways to screw things up, off the top of my head with my limited cryptographic knowledge: how do you do random number generation? How do you de
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by arsome 6y ago
If you're a tinkerer, I'd seriously recommend using something like ACC (Advanced Charging Controller). It'll automatically cut your charge off at ~80% and slow the charging if it's heating up too much. Should greatly ext
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by arsome 6y ago
8chan did a rename but is indeed still going, https://8kun.top That link is now banned on Wikipedia even though...
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by arsome 6y ago
I'd highly suggest Syncthing over this solution - no need to rely on 3rd parties for your data storage, let alone trust them with unencrypted copies of your data, if someone malicious worked at DigitalOcean and wanted to compromise you
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by arsome 6y ago
As tarsnap is run by a single person, it seems hard to suggest it to serious businesses due to the inherent risks there as well as the extremely high storage costs and difficult cleanup procedures compared to competing tools. I tend to pref
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by arsome 6y ago
If I'm not mistaken, if you're using this with Signal you'd better be running the bridge yourself or your messages are unencrypted on someone else's server.
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by arsome 6y ago
That headline is certainly inflammatory, but I don't think the actual content of the post is nearly as bad - they're not suggesting web browser start flagging/blocking sites or anything similar like it initially made me think

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