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by feanaro 4y ago
You're wrong because the bootloader is more often locked than not, and there are various other nefarious controls in place that prevent you from doing it without voiding your warranty, such as one-time fuses. In theory, yes, you could
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by feanaro 4y ago
So, putting it all together, someone should choose and restrict which OS can be installed on your PC, so that you can feel safe in the thought that everyone has the same restriction? At least that's how I managed to understand your c
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by feanaro 4y ago
This doesn't follow at all. Those other parties cannot authenticate as me.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Mostly the spying on people against their wishes part, then exploiting this data in commercial purposes. Even if you aren't a member, Facebook keeps a shadow profile on you, so it's next level surveillance.
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by feanaro 4y ago
As the other poster said, I meant Manifest v3 (can't edit anymore). To answer the poster's curiosity, I messed it up by pressing the neighbouring key by accident and not checking sufficiently. :-P
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by feanaro 4y ago
This works both ways, and I'm warning of generalizing in the other direction based on an assumption of what is "normal among normal people".
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by feanaro 4y ago
That's a pretty big assumption. I'd say my motivation is exactly the reverse of that.
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by feanaro 4y ago
But with Manifest v2 will be crippled.
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by feanaro 4y ago
It's a bad term in the sense that it's not self-explanatory. Hearing just the term itself is likely to give you the wrong idea about what it means. Learning a name -> feature mapping isn't a problem in itself, but the fact
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by feanaro 4y ago
The "don't roll your own crypto" is a mantra mostly useful for deciding what to put into production, not as a general ban on even touching the stuff before you become some kind of mythical, long-bearded, tome-possessing wizar
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by feanaro 4y ago
We shouldn't allow to inch towards this kind of situation if for nothing else than for not sliding the Overton window in the wrong direction. It's either a neutral organization signing certs which you then have to accept by defa
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by feanaro 4y ago
So of the three major SQL implementations, you have one of them following the results of the settled debate, one of them being an exception and one of them huffling glue (whatever that means). In addition, there's a language exception
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by feanaro 4y ago
Modern sync (sliding sync, v3 sync) only helps with non-encrypted rooms. For encrypted rooms, it degrades to essentially the old sync v2 performance.
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by feanaro 4y ago
> And before you ask, no, the browser can't reliably distinguish internal from external IP addresses. Why can't it?
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by feanaro 4y ago
If they're not going to buy a sub either way, what's the downside of letting them test it, and then perhaps telling their friends about it?
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by feanaro 4y ago
> All this was kicked off by a conversation on HN, a center/hub for conversations. This isn't a good argument for centralization. Yes, obviously we need to meet in the same "place" for this to happen, but this "p
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by feanaro 4y ago
I never find this. Isn't it quite weird to spend time thinking about which words should or should not be censored? How about we just leave people to speak their minds instead of slowly but surely meandering into newspeak?
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by feanaro 4y ago
See my [other response]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31913649 ). The claim is certainly you cannot get a DRM-style test "right". Just because someone somewhere gets it right, that doesn't mean you can
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by feanaro 4y ago
Well, congratulations, you're the odd one out then. It's certainly not logically impossible for a particular human to be less susceptible to false memory than others. It does nothing to dispel the fact that human memory is still f
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by feanaro 4y ago
> I did mean Libet, thanks for the references. And quickly skimming through the linked paper, their suggested mechanism changes the "decision" to simply be a result of stochastic fluctuation in neural activity. So it resolves s
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by feanaro 4y ago
> It seems to me to require a decent amount of faith in the idea that only matter exists to conclude that consciousness and free will must be illusory. Why only matter ? My default position (of which I'm not entirely convinced of!)
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by feanaro 4y ago
No need to start out antagonistically if you expect a real answer. You might as well assume I had no bad intentions. Perhaps we just misunderstood each other? > Why, if they certainly happen, is their appearance in the consciousness and
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by feanaro 4y ago
> Matrix doesn’t report daily active users It does, if you opt in.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Nope, it's Matrix. IRC is dying.
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by feanaro 4y ago
The conscious filtering and the actions are an illusion. They certainly happen on some level, since humans are clearly adaptable and reactive systems, but they are not likely to be conscious as we conceive of them. We usually feel like th
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by feanaro 4y ago
You can prove the limitations of your memory quite easily to yourself -- but don't cheat! Find a so-called DRM word list (acronym originating from the researchers' names Deese, Roediger and McDermott) and have someone test you: T
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by feanaro 4y ago
I don't think so. Thimbleweed Park was released just a few years ago and it does produce the same feeling due to the atmosphere and art style.
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by feanaro 4y ago
I think techniques based on observation and acceptance might have a better chance of working than trying to forcefully extinguish or fight it.
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by feanaro 4y ago
It's not like being born is some great prize that is fundamentally worth acquiring. That's your evolutionary reflexes speaking.
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by feanaro 4y ago
I think paying once for a tool is outstanding and I fully support it. Prices can even be a lot higher, from my point of view. The trouble is that everyone wants to be a landlord these days by charging rent instead of allowing you to buy a c

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