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by curt15 7mo ago
>'then we'll just ship your machine production' Minus the kernel of course. What is one to do for workloads requiring special kernel features or modules?
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by curt15 7mo ago
Iran with nukes can't hold a candle to the threat posed by the USSR. Your logic would have turned the Cold War into a shooting war.
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by curt15 7mo ago
North Korea engages in no less saber-rattling. Why is the US not attacking Kim Jong Un?
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by curt15 7mo ago
>Anyways, it feels like all sides of the political spectrum are trying to strip away any semblance of anonymity or privacy online both in the US and abroad. No one should have to provide any personal details to use any general computing
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by curt15 7mo ago
Welcome to CCP China!
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by curt15 7mo ago
>For instance my bank has become entirely dependent of their app as the glue between all their functions and authorisation That sounds horrible. What are users to do if their smartphone breaks?
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by curt15 8mo ago
That's what Altman tweeted. Did it actually happen?
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by curt15 8mo ago
Tech solutions are toothless without laws to prevent authorities from detaining people indefinitely until they surrender access to their data. Efforts to prevent authoritarianism need to think more from the perspective of autocrats.
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by curt15 8mo ago
Does gtk2 still have Debian maintainers? Whatever is in Debian's official repository is effectively endorsed by Debian. If they don't have enough capacity it's wiser to drop support than to sign off on something of unknown qu
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by curt15 8mo ago
What recourse does one have if Google simply revokes the permission it granted?
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by curt15 8mo ago
checksums + tarballs don't help with runtime integrity verification. You'll need additional technologies for that like dm-verity or fs-verity; see composefs.
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by curt15 8mo ago
Red Hat obviously wants to change people's vocabulary but "Dockerfile" is basically an industry-standard generic term by this point.
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by curt15 8mo ago
It's a distraction only if people let themselves be distracted.
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by curt15 8mo ago
>Most of us are going to start transferring skills to more of a prompt programming and coordinator role. Human code reviews and in-depth understanding of architecture remain important even for codebases with comprehensive test suites bec
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by curt15 8mo ago
It's not the federal government's job to police ideology. That's the stuff of Communist China's cultural revolution. There's nothing stopping people from creating their own university teaching "correct" id
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by curt15 9mo ago
Brew got one thing right that no Linux package manager seems to emulate: it doesn't require root for normal operations and even goes so far as to error out if running as root ( https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ#why-does-homebrew-
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by curt15 9mo ago
>To many users, an app seems to be perceived as the blessed way to access the web. While on a mobile, they are mostly a way to organize symlinks or bookmarks. Except, off course a web browser does its best to protect the user while most
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by curt15 9mo ago
>if I want e2e attestation of the software stack on my own devices, isn't this a good thing for me? The building blocks are already there for a sufficiently motivated user to build their own verified OS image. Google has been doing
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by curt15 9mo ago
> At the end of the day, as long as the owner of the hardware gets to control the keys, this seems like fantastic tech. The problem is that there are powerful corporate and government interests who would love nothing more than to prevent
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by curt15 9mo ago
> The models we have in mind for attestation are very much based on users having full control of their keys. If user control of keys becomes the linchpin for retaining full control over one's own computer, doesn't it become eas
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by curt15 9mo ago
You left out a pretty important detail. Your "insurgents" in America aren't shooting people or planting IEDs. Communicating and protesting, on the other hand, are sacrosanct rights in the US.
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by curt15 9mo ago
And once you remove the friction for requiring cryptographic verification of each component, all it takes is one well-resourced lobby to pass a law either banning user-controlled signing keys outright or relegating them to second-class stat
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by curt15 9mo ago
Compare what is required to learn about the Tiananmen Square massacre from inside and outside the Great Firewall.
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by curt15 9mo ago
Fascism takes hold in stages; Nazi Germany didn't go from 0 to 100 in one day. You have to nip it in the bud before it grows up. Right now, ICE goes out of their way to beat and arrest protestors and steal their cameras. They're n
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by curt15 9mo ago
>Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird they all happens to gravitate to Apple. People get satisfaction from solving challenging problems.
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by curt15 9mo ago
>And today this is.. not sufficient. What we require today is to run software protected from each other. For quite some time I tried to use Unix permissions for this (one user per application I run), but it's totally unworkable. You
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by curt15 9mo ago
Are the governments also coercing Microsoft to restrict Windows users to the Windows app store?
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by curt15 9mo ago
>but that doesn't mean no such distinction exists right now A distinction only exists if people parrot the verbiage coined by corporations with a business interest in creating artificial moats. They have no obligation to, especially
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by curt15 9mo ago
> Specifically it means installing from a non-first party source What "first-party" source? Apple invented out of thin air the notion of a "first-party" software source or that computer users can only install software
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by curt15 9mo ago
And why are those not sufficient for Android?

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