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by didntcheck 2y ago
Not really. These were kernel modules authorized and installed by the system admin. Of course kernel code runs the risk of crashing your system. The same is true on Linux, and according to another commenter it already has happened with Cr
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by didntcheck 2y ago
What defaults would those be, and how would you change them?
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by didntcheck 2y ago
And Linux/BSD generally would not help here. Ransomeware is just ordinary file IO and is usually run "legitimately" by phished users rather than actual code execution exploits I have a similar disdain for security bloatware w
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Only if I grant them root, which I'd only do to a very small number of open source apps I instead have to use my desktop web browser, and desktop operating systems have a far worse security model than Android. No special permissions
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by didntcheck 2y ago
And unfortunately almost every bank forces me to use them, because their apps refuse to run on my rooted phone. Nice security win there!
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by didntcheck 2y ago
There's also the third branch of anti-capitalism-first, who only care about ecology insofar as they can use it as an excuse to get on their soapbox. I'm really not trying to be sardonic, but there certainly is a tribe of green act
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by didntcheck 2y ago
I've used ssh to localhost as a hack for a backup-to-external-drive script (using Borg iirc) where I wanted the source reading and backup writing to be done as different users. There may have been a more elegant solution but it worked
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Plus it's naive to think it's just legislature you need to worry about. In recent years VISA and MasterCard have been demonstrating their intent and ability to work as worldwide unelected morality police. And then there's the
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Similarly in 2019 John Bercow (then speaker of the British House of Commons) notably rebuffed the government when they attempted a third vote on what he considered to be basically the same motion https://www.bbc.co.uk/news&#
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by didntcheck 2y ago
This is why I can never take their current alleged passion for privacy fully seriously. Sure, I do appreciate some of the features they're coming out with, but I don't trust them to not eventually drop this marketing angle and pul
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Well we do have the Brain Fuck Scheduler Frankly I'd welcome more rejection of corporate safetyism. We're adults, not kids in a "Christian Minecraft server"
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Yeah. It's the same effect seen with Youtube videos (and amateur videos of a different type, actually). On one hand, production values are a lot higher and there is some very good content out there, but I feel that the overall SNR has
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by didntcheck 2y ago
I've also noticed this. On more than one occasion I've been left completely bemused by someone insisting that a teenager couldn't possibly have been seeking out sexual content themselves, and must have been groomed into it by
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Assuming that the party of the "Democrats" is the "Democrat Party" is a completely understandable mistake to make (doubly so if you're not from the US). Even if you have seen the correct name, it's easy to over
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by didntcheck 2y ago
So to clarify, "forwarding" here only refers to full automatic forwarding of one address to another, not manual Fw: right? I can't imagine they'd break the latter
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by didntcheck 2y ago
And know that virtually 100% of software will run on it, rather than having to hope there's an ARM build of it (which most major FOSS software does have, but there's still that slice that doesn't) And even if you want to ex
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by didntcheck 2y ago
I'm guessing this is also due to DisplayPort treating a turned off (or even sleeping) monitor the same as a disconnect, whereas HDMI does not. I'm unsure if software can detect the difference Perhaps things have improved, but this
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by didntcheck 2y ago
So basically JDBC? :) I think a similar approach is used with the crypto provider API and some others IIRC (in JDBC) you also used to have to do `Class.forName("name.of.it")` somewhere before trying to do any DB access, to ensur
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by didntcheck 3y ago
I can certainly remember mine from repeated use, but I can't say I've ever heard of someone erasing it
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by didntcheck 3y ago
Don't most phones only wipe on un lock? Also can Graphene still update if the bootloader is locked?
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by didntcheck 3y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately almost every bank here forces me to use this less secure option "for security" due to my rooted phone. Not one has just offered standard TOTP (perhaps because the pull-only nature of it means they can't
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by didntcheck 3y ago
A lot of this actually seems to have come from recent regulatory pressure for 2FA (which I support in principle, don't get me wrong). I don't even think most of them have given much thought to rooted phones, rather they're
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by didntcheck 3y ago
Also many "corporate" things, usually depending on your org's policy. E.g. I can't run OpsGenie (it may actually be the Microsoft SSO step failing, I'm not entirely sure, but the error definitely mentions my device
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by didntcheck 3y ago
Overall good, but > The expectation of immediate response is toxic. Flippantly referring to things as "toxic" is pretty "toxic" IMO. It can easily be interpreted as quite a personal attack rather than a criticism of a
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by didntcheck 3y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) Though for a second I thought you were going to talk about the mythical TV licensing detector v
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by didntcheck 3y ago
I guess it's analogous to the phenomenon of some people feeling "ripped off" when they pay a tradesman (or other worker) to do something that (appears) physically easy. As the apocryphal story goes "you're not payin
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by didntcheck 3y ago
In that case IA can write their own books
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by didntcheck 3y ago
Ordinary libraries can only lend as many copies as they have at a time, and eventually have to replace them (due to wear and tear or e-licensing conditions). In some countries the author also receives a dividend for every loan
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by didntcheck 3y ago
Putting aside the more sociological arguments about (non-)human nature for a second - roughly speaking, technological development = ability to wield greater amounts of energy. The easier it is to put a satellite in orbit, the easier it is l
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by didntcheck 3y ago
That would go against their mission to spend time and money on everything but the one product that anyone cares about

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