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by foxfluff 5y ago
Secure boot doesn't preclude using any software you like.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yeah. Exploit mitigations or access controls can improve security in various circumstances, but they are not synonymous with security, and there are circumstances where such security features are just dead weight. Real security is more co
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by foxfluff 5y ago
There's about 500 kg of battery in the long range version of Tesla Model 3. ICE + transmission + all the related cruft (cooling, battery, starter motor, fuel & pump) easily weigh a few hundred kilos.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
No, you're not understanding it. Perf is a profiling tool. It's slow on Debian because reasons.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The other problem with RDRAND is that you just can't trust them to get it right. How about always returning 0xffffffff? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd... How about a bunch
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> But if the CPU RDRAND instruction is backdoored, couldn't the RNG instructions be intercepted and replaced so that RDRAND is the only seed? If the CPU is going to detect and subvert your soft PRNG, it can do that whether you use R
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Don't forget to check the errata for that switch and apply the recommended workarounds. That fixed some link stability issues I witnessed on boards with KSZ9567.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
https://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Legacy:BSP_Hole
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by foxfluff 5y ago
For comparison, Linux LTS releases have up to around 6 years of support.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
What does setting up your own server solve? Like you can trust your ISP? Chances are tracing your mailserver to you isn't any harder than tracing a protonmail account to you.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yes, they've partnered with Foxconn in the past and have had (now closed) factories in China. This is not what I was asking about. Fact is, they do manufacture phones in South Korea. Not all their phones, but they do manufacture them
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Are you saying that the $1K phones that Samsung manufactures in South Korea are made by Foxconn? If you are, then please present proof. If not, then you're missing the point. Same for Sony, LG, etcetra.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I just removed the bluetooth module from my car.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
If the existence of iCloud correlated with a surge in child abuse, maybe you'd have a point. Believe it or not, child abuse predates the iPhone. And "has nude pics" -> "is rapist" isn't exactly sound logic
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I'm pretty sure murica could make the same kind of phones that are built in Japan, South Korea, etc. without costing 10x the South Korean phones. And child labor isn't exactly endemic in all of SE Asia.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
And the sky is blue. Look, we're not talking about what you write out, we're talking about what the ML model generates for you and what Microsoft claims about the ownership of the generated output. At this point I don't fee
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Testing the fair use argument for training won't necessarily answer the question about copyright laundering. You could easily make the case that training is fair use, but that doesn't have to imply the model's output is non
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Sorry I haven't had the time to write a thoughtful reply. Are you talking about a state where cannabis was de-criminalized? I agree that ease of access does have an effect on people, but the effect of iCloud scanning is so marginal in
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> The issue is fundamentally a PR one, not a copyright one, since the responsibility for using or not using the code relies on the end-user. Copilot's FAQ says this (under heading Who owns the code GitHub Copilot helps me write? ):
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Verbatim output of inputs is not a problem So wait, was the obvious copyright elephant in the room solved somehow? > The issue is that Microsoft looks bad. The problem was solved by making Microsoft not look as bad. Depending on who
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Who's giving Google a pass? Just because people are criticizing Apple now doesn't mean they approve of what Google and the others do.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Detecting CSAM on a phone is not stopping exploitation of children. Just as detecting images of violence isn't stopping violence. Violence and abuse have existed before phones and cloud storage, and will continue to be ever after. An
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Does this not deprive the software makers of a bit of sales? I'd welcome a more neutral phrasing for this though. Yes, it may change people's behavior. But depriving someone of something sounds like something they had is
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I have read Facebook's report on this. It's not 20 million shares of kids getting raped by adults. https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/preventing-child-exploitat... "We found that more than 90%
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Are you objecting to the general concept of CSAM scanning, something every online storage provider does? Not really. I'm just saying it's laughable to think that CSAM scanning in its current form is critically important. Ma
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Regardless of the larger conversation, why do you think that adding friction wouldn't stop people from engaging in an activity? See war on drugs or piracy, or alcohol prohibition for instance. Now there's a million ways to sh
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Critically important? Really? A system that is trivial to circumvent and which only catches people sharing pics that have already been added to a database is not going to move the needle on actual physical abuse of children.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It threw a modal at me after enabling scripts and scrolling a bit. Yeah, not reading further.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Who's spinitch?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The other thing is that existing distros are rarely good for anything truly autonomous. Too many moving parts. There's always the expectation that someone with a display and a keyboard, or a sysadmin at the console, is ready to pick

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