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by ccouzens 4y ago
Celebrating Unix certification feels dated to me. Once upon a time our production servers might have also been Unix. And developing from a Unix system was therefore desirable. But these days our production services are almost certainly runn
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by ccouzens 4y ago
There is a third option :)
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Sounds like Samsung dex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX > Then if I do want a laptop I could buy a chassis with a battery, keyboard, trackpad, screen, etc, etc to dock my device above in to. https:/&
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by ccouzens 5y ago
My first Mac was the first Intel iMac. OSX Tiger was better than Windows XP. Expose felt better than the alt tab of xp- and more fun. And Tiger pushed to have windows take up the space of their contents rather than the whole screen, so most
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by ccouzens 5y ago
But when you change one, the other changes :(
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by ccouzens 5y ago
I made one too https://github.com/ccouzens/dns-packet The differences: I followed this guide rather than the RFCs https://github.com/EmilHernvall/dnsguide/blob/master/chapter... Min
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by ccouzens 5y ago
End to end encryption has become a buzzword. It prevents identifying who an air tag is identifying its location to. It prevents identifying what air tags you're searching for. It is unclear to me how either property is useful to protec
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Apps can't redirect Twitter/Facebook links without Twitter/Facebook's co-operation. This is a key feature stopping 3rd party apps being competitive. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode&#x
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by ccouzens 5y ago
> seeing when an app is reading from the clipboard I expect that to be a operating system feature that works regardless of how the application was developed or installed.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Just about anything that can connect to the internet is a potential privacy nightmare. I assume that by specifying "webapps" you're making a comparison to native apps. Configure your browser to block 3rd party cookies and you
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by ccouzens 5y ago
> So when you go into your laptop which has no GPS, the WiFi which you connect now has a real location association with it. The phone can associate the SSID with a physical location. Maybe also a MAC address? From a web browser on the la
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Anecdotal evidence but I use plenty of websites where native apps are available. EG Social Media, Google search, news websites, Youtube. > web apps on Chrome on Android I don't bother installing the web apps, but access them as we
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by ccouzens 5y ago
I think about phone updates as layers in a stack. At the lowest level of the stack we have software written in literal ROM. As such, it can't be updated without switching out the hardware. For an example of a vulnerability here search
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by ccouzens 5y ago
But it doesn't work so well if you prefer to use a conventional external mouse. I was stuck using the shortcuts (ctrl + left or right arrow key), or clicking the Mission Control button I had to pin to the Dock.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
And for completeness, on the command line gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-windows "['<Alt>Tab']" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-windows-backward "['<Shift&g
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Here's how to fix it in Gnome :) Settings -> Keyboard -> View and Customize Shortcuts -> Switch windows -> Alt + Tab
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by ccouzens 5y ago
I was responding to a specific comment about prices. You're right that the price doesn't fully correlate with security. It will reflect supply (security and interest of researchers) and demand (how much there is to be gained by br
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by ccouzens 5y ago
> Put a different way, is there any device with a high monthly active user count that has a higher cost to purchase a black market exploit than the iPhone? I'm going to answer about operating system rather than device. The selling p
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by ccouzens 5y ago
> Is there a way to fool Windows into thinking it's a normal SATA hard-drive attached to the motherboard and not a USB one? After the first part of the installation is done (the copying files from the ISO image/DVD/USB sti
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by ccouzens 5y ago
I've done the same to install Windows 10 to an external SSD (I don't want to divide my laptop's internal drive up between two different operating systems). This is the guide I used for making the SSD look like an internal har
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Interesting. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. It sounds like the differences are unlikely to be encountered in conventional config files, especially those written by hand. From that link I understand the source of problems to be: O
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by ccouzens 5y ago
YAML is a superset of JSON. Which means anything that accepts YAML accepts JSON. So you can write your Github action code in JSON (with a yml file extension).
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by ccouzens 5y ago
It will depend on which MacOS dropped them. Mojave for example dropped all Macs with GPUs incompatible with their Metal API. https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/09/macos-10-14-mojave-... The arstechnica Mac
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Those show about 8 years. My 2011 iMac was dropped by Mojave (7 years). Modern computers should last a lot longer than that, especially if you can pass them on to users with less demanding requirements. And fortunately Macs do last longer t
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by ccouzens 5y ago
The problem is they don't allow the latest MacOS on not very old hardware. If they allowed the latest OS there would be less call to keep the older versions patched. > Name me one widely deployed OS that promises its users patches a
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by ccouzens 5y ago
> I'm assuming displays have detectable ids of some sort? Yes, the EDID information uniquely identifies a screen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identificat... > Why can't linux do thi
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by ccouzens 5y ago
In this (sample size of 1!) experiment, microUSB failed at 8000 insertions device side. USB C lasted beyond 8000 insertions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqtNleXhTRE This isn't the first time I've heard someone
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Apple likes to upsell their users on additional Apple products. If you're not running their software, you're not in their ecosystem and they can't upsell you.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
I think they're all iPhones because they have a reliable way of detecting it on iPhones (perform a backup and look at the backup on a computer). But at one point side loading was how the Android version was installed https:/&#x2F
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by ccouzens 5y ago
It's tiresome seeing the same falsehood repeated in these forums. If people want a catchy snippet perhaps: Google collects too much of your data, or Google profits from your data.

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