dustyharddrive

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1. 31.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   If Google's Widevine authorizes a high-quality stream ;)
2. 32.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   I wonder if Snapchat notification content is encrypted before it's sent to Apple/Google.
3. 33.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   That’s an Android ROM and can’t provide the longevity of mainline Linux.
4. 34.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   Nitpick: iPhone 7 never got iOS 16 or 17, which means it won’t be fully patched ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-secu... ). Soon you can also expect Apple to stop providing both service
5. 35.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   I’d question whether our techie peers can be bothered to care about these principles. IME most are too complacent.
6. 36.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   IIUC Secure Scuttlebutt works a bit like this.
7. 37.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   Thanks PaLM 2!
8. 38.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   > Users don't want to get owned. I can assure you most people don't think about their tech choices long enough to conclude anything like this.
9. 39.▲
   by dustyharddrive 3y ago

   > With the permisivity of the protocol, Meta (and anyone) can consume any ActivityPub data they want. This is the common case but AFAIK doesn’t have to be true. Mastodon lets users make their AP outboxes private. Followers can be screene
10. 40.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    I’m spooked by this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34434995
11. 41.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Is there anything like this for Linux aside from Qubes?
12. 42.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    > No binaries There are so many binary packaging formats available, almost to a fault.
13. 43.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    If you have the time, will, and ability, audit the latest release and turn off auto update. That’s counter productive when the extension has its own attack surface of course. I also haven’t read anything concerning about Mozilla’s Recommend
14. 44.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    I don’t think cloning products is illegal, and can’t find any patents held by Reddit.
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    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Am I correct in assuming that after an answer to a novel prompt is posted, it doesn't work as a reasoning test of LLM deployments that search the web? Edit: an incorrect answer could degrade its performance too.
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    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Found this in a press release ( https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-announces-power... ): > New protections encompass safer wireless connectivity defaults, media handling, media sharing defaults, sa
17. 47.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    I wish we had more details on this ( https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-17-preview/ ): > The expanded Lockdown Mode increases security to help protect against sophisticated cyber attacks. No support article updates or
18. 48.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Why do these attacks ever use WiFi? Or plaintext DNS?
19. 49.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Did you ever identify the iOS malware? I wonder if it was a misbehaving app or had persistent root.
20. 50.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Aside from its inexplicably captivated US user base, what does iMessage have over Signal and its derivatives? Or Matrix, SimpleX, and XMPP?
21. 51.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    IIRC Pop kernels are upgraded at a faster pace than Ubuntu. That could explain the compatibility improvements.
22. 52.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Bard isn’t self-aware and can’t know what it’s capable of except for what’s in an initial prompt.
23. 53.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    I don’t think we should give fingerprinting scripts another bit of entropy.
24. 54.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    They’re making up for the fact that the history of every transaction input is public, something no other payment system even attempts to do.
25. 55.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Apple’s nearly there.
26. 56.▲
    by dustyharddrive 3y ago

    Most cryptocurrencies make dragnet surveillance super easy, barely an inconvenience.
27. 57.▲
    by dustyharddrive 4y ago

    Guides on running macOS VMs always seem to involve downloading some EFI build with opaque origins. Is there a safer option?
28. 58.▲
    by dustyharddrive 4y ago

    GPT output isn’t deterministic though?
29. 59.▲
    by dustyharddrive 4y ago

    I don’t think so? This only talks about the anti-circumvention clause: https://archive.org/about/dmca.php
30. 60.▲
    by dustyharddrive 4y ago

    How’s the build quality?