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by f1refly 5y ago
> Most of the time the way key exchange is done in XMPP is very insecure. We have OMEMO now, key exchange is paranoia-level secure.
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by f1refly 5y ago
>and then people simply installed the actual, full version of Python they wanted. Which then wouldn't work for all the repository python programs. The repo's python is what everything is built and tested against, so there is no
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by f1refly 5y ago
I don't believe GPG has been cracked. Also, running your own crypto is in 99.9% of cases a terrible idea.
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by f1refly 5y ago
Biometrics are not passwords though, biometrics are usernames. They can be forged from something as simple as a regular photograph and you cannot change them.
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That is literally its definition
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by f1refly 5y ago
It's also possible to add beatport as a tag source, which is incredibly useful for more electronic collections since musicbrainz is always lacking in that niche.
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by f1refly 5y ago
Using lineageos without microg at least severely reduces the chance for an "oopsie daisy yes so our microphone really was listenig the whole time and we accidentally used that data for targeting but hey, we're veeery sorry and y
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by f1refly 5y ago
Who is "we"? How is checking for a licenso offline not drm? If there is no license key present the software still misbehaves in that case, no?
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by f1refly 5y ago
Actually it's pretty explicitly only about transferring data to providers which are under authoritan legislations.
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by f1refly 5y ago
If you'd have cared to actually check the linked projects, you'd have noticed that most of them avoid communicating with the service in question except when abosolutely necessary, which for most of them means the provider can&#x27
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by f1refly 5y ago
I get what you mean and I think the other guy was indeed misleading about this, but there really are lots of contexts where subscriptions are free. In the classic postal sense newsletters are mostly free (and yes, mostly spam), when a progr
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by f1refly 5y ago
> For example, I could use opensource internally, add features to it but I dont have to submit those changes back to the main source for others to use. Not only that who is going to police it? Its not like there is some magic open source
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by f1refly 5y ago
The typical user also doesn't want file picker thumbnails when you ask the Gnome devs ;)
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by f1refly 5y ago
No, my argument is essentially "poor people who struggle with conventional loans will use this and get themselfes in even deeper trouble out of desperation". This is not going against the people that use such features, it's g
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by f1refly 5y ago
Randall Munroes proposal was not in vain it seems: https://xkcd.com/1813/ https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%A4%AE+%F0%9F%A4%A0
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by f1refly 5y ago
I wasn't sure if this is supposed to be snarky, given the author said he has a background in functional programming and thus probably has a good understanding how closures are defined. The statement works both ways I suppose.
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by f1refly 5y ago
For the folks taking payday loans this is even worse. The whole feature is designed to make you spent more than you can afford, especially preying on the more desperate as opposed to the ones who could just afford the thing they where buyin
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by f1refly 5y ago
Honestly, I can't disagree with you on technical terms, because what you're saying makes sense and on other topics this discussion would be over. But in this case, I have Conversations on my phone and can say from experience that
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by f1refly 5y ago
Actually, it is an important feature for a lot of people, with virtually every popular messenger implementing it. Telegram and Whatsapp both go one step further and not only show when a user is at his keyboard, but also if he's current
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by f1refly 5y ago
I only lovecraft where here to witness this and possibly write even more stories about yuggoth and the eldritch things that might lurk on it
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by f1refly 5y ago
Google cares very much about what their users think, it's just that you're not a user, you're the product google sells.
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by f1refly 5y ago
> IMO the dislike count is useless for filtering out "bad" content I don't know what kind of content you consume on youtube, but this does not reflect my experience at all. I'm regularly researching repair/moddin
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by f1refly 5y ago
They can have contact covers no problem, it's just not in the plug standard. Every couple with kids I know installed socket safety protectors[0] in their power outlets if they wheren't int there already. Some built in ones just re
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by f1refly 5y ago
One machine is always the server and the other one the slave to it, it's like that with most transfer protocols, including scp and nfs
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by f1refly 5y ago
In my 10+ years playing league and 2 years playing overwatch I never heard someone refer to the current game as "server". People still have a vague image of what a server looks like and know that company hosted games typically don
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You may find this is illegal and thus not considered by the broad population
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The FSF could provide lawyers at most, but given their track record that might very well happen.
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Even this system would be a huge leap forward, because we'd go from a whitelist model controlled by a monopoly to a blacklist model controlled by a monopoly. The sheer effort of keeping up to maintain the absolute user abuse by apple a
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by f1refly 5y ago
I read that more like We're now at the point where a chat program that does nothing more than one from 1995 is using 300mb ram minimum, basic animations lag and no style mathes the other because nothing even tries to adhere to any cent
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by f1refly 5y ago
But, if I now had such a certificated piece of media, what would stop me from stripping that information, attaching my own and uploading the resulting re-certificated work that matches my cert store?

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