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by blitmap 7y ago
That does not sound very user-friendly... but well within the realm of a package manager installing a distro's custom policies.json
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by blitmap 7y ago
I don't know how I've improved the situation going from Chrome to Firefox and then to Firefox Nightly: I wish Mozilla put efforts toward preserving settings and not reinstalling search providers one has purposefully removed. I un
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by blitmap 7y ago
Dude "earned" ~1.5 million exercising his stock options and acting on insider knowledge. He gained $500k and sold before the stock fell. He has to pay back about $175k and go to jail for 4 months. Am I reading this right? Keep d
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by blitmap 7y ago
Wonderful that we can do these things during peacetime.
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by blitmap 7y ago
I get annoyed when I remove most of the default search providers, and then an update brings Google back. I specifically removed some of those providers so my searches would not be predicted with those services.
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by blitmap 7y ago
The thing that absolutely pisses me off is how I try to be actively aware of what settings I disagree with and disable things I don't like - and then an unseen update resets things to default. HOW MANY TIMES MUST I UNCHECK WHAT TO SYNC
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by blitmap 7y ago
Merge DirectX into Vulcan (without killing it) and then I'll be convinced.
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by blitmap 7y ago
This probably doesn't contribute to the conversation but with the number of serious vulnerabilities that have popped up recently I'm not inspired to solve the truth table for the CPU vendor that leaves me the least exposed. As ot
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by blitmap 7y ago
I contend that while everything about the client cannot be hidden from the server, the number of things that can be identified is increasing.
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by blitmap 7y ago
It's frustrating to me that browsers lend themselves so willingly to being fingerprinted, and it's up to the user to stay aware of and keep ahead of these new avenues. I wish there were 4 modes: - Standard/light mode - Dark m
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by blitmap 7y ago
Very much appreciated, sir :-)
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by blitmap 7y ago
I wish I could find a good text that talks about how removed from 'directly executing on hardware' you are. Modern [x86] processors are (as described) executing very much out of order or calculating things in parallel. I wish I
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by blitmap 7y ago
I found his commentary constructive. I didn't realize we had gone through several periods of "this design is the most popular". I think he's expressing that people hop on bandwagons rather than understanding the concep
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by blitmap 7y ago
Okay - good riddance to him and the rest of the valley :-)
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by blitmap 7y ago
Well see that's the other thing: "Someday" they'll have to make these connections in case they are legally obligated to erase a data source and it's derivatives.
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by blitmap 7y ago
You know someday when we have consumer protection laws for things like this, a company will be forced to trace every piece of derived data on a user based off of what was unlawfully collected - and provably delete it. Instead of simply pay
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by blitmap 7y ago
I wish JS made it easier to sandbox itself with existing mechanics - like simply unreferencing a system API. I am looking forward to this.
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by blitmap 7y ago
Preface: I am not at all an expert on WiFi In WPA2 you can send deauthentication "frames" to clients to get them to disconnect from the access point. Later I was told these "control frames" can now be encrypted, with a
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by blitmap 7y ago
Google is in a position where they could have disallowed protocol downgrades, setting a standard without defining a standard.
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by blitmap 7y ago
I have not worked in C in a long while. Would you mark the assembly section as volatile to avoid the compiler & assembler doing anything to it? Is there any guarantee that the assembler will not aggressively re-optimize assembly-withi
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by blitmap 8y ago
I prefer this: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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by blitmap 8y ago
I think it was difficult to find understanding in an exchange broker, so we distrusted them. We wanted to change the world and build technologies befitting the 21st century, and could not see how they might grow into monsters. So many goo
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by blitmap 8y ago
I am IT support for an organization that does long-term disaster recovery work. I directly support coworkers that coordinate some form of mass-care (clothing, food, and alternate housing). And I live near San Francisco.
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by blitmap 8y ago
I guess this depends on what your definition of a first-world problem is. People die here because they can't afford care. People avoiding the larger milestones in life like owning a home and having children because it's untenable
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by blitmap 8y ago
- I am no security person myself. - I always liked this idea: https://krypt.co/ Basically using an entirely separate device to authorize your access. 2FA devices still connect to the computer requesting access, I liked th
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by blitmap 8y ago
So -- I am finding amusement in this -- but ethics is very labour intensive. I'm sure we all wish we could dream up new projects in a vacuum without real-world consequences (simply for the fun of it).
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by blitmap 8y ago
I have noticed this too. I've switched to DuckDuckGo for everything and I haven't changed my habits. Started getting more captchas a couple weeks ago and I know I answered several of them correctly (I'd get tested 3 times i
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by blitmap 8y ago
This is an impressive undertaking, and hands-down one of the coolest things I have ever seen. :-)
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by blitmap 8y ago
I had hoped we were moving toward that with Universal Windows Platform apps. :3
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by blitmap 8y ago
See, initially I thought this was going to be a debate about "well this is legal, but is it just?" +1 to you, sir. Having inmates train the voice recognition is (in my opinion) compelling an admission.

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