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by foxfluff 5y ago
I would try to raise a stink with local authorities because that is almost definitely illegal.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Maybe the post is too nuanced.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Sad if true. Outright irresponsible, I would say. Knowing which domain you're talking to is such a basic security requirement; TLS and the whole CA model is worth nothing if you're being lied about what domain you're navigat
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Absolute full anonymity is sometimes the only defense against tyranny.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think regulatory capture is a risk (and a real problem in some fields), but I'm not convinced it's a big risk as far as right to repair is concerned. Of course we can only speculate at this point since we don't know which
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Ah, same old power asymmetry. I can't blame Google for power tripping; I, too, would terminate Google if I had the power to do so.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
If you're using org-provided hardware and their network, assume they know everything you do.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> How helpful could zoom level possibly be towards fingerprinting a user It's just another bit of information. Collect enough bits and eventually you'll have a likely-unique id. It doesn't matter what that information is
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> It would be very interesting to develop a modern web based purely on declarative content (modern HTML/CSS). For sure. I think some scripting could also potentially be implementable without massive fingerprinting / privacy
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> that clearly listed the destination URL as homedepot.com Does anyone have an explanation for this? I've heard such claims before, but I'd like to see it to believe it. I could perhaps imagine yet another unicode "featu
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I got a VPS from Hetzner last year but they decided to block my home IP. After reading some anecdotes on the internet, I had to conclude they're exactly the kind of company I want to avoid (large, opaque, they employ weird algorithms&
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It's kind of ironic reading this comment given that at the time you posted it, I was screaming at gcc's stupid code generator for wasting bytes recreating constants that were already there in that very register! That code needs
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think the problem is that outdated competition laws stem from an era where a potato is a potato and it doesn't particularly matter whose potato it is that you buy. It completely fails to account for the relatively recent platform loc
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> While the revenue comes from Hardware, Driver is actually the centre of value. And IME it is the proprietary drivers that usually offer least value and most problems. That sways buying decisions.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Sweden recently made it illegal to throw small pieces of litter like cigs on the ground. Is that true? Then I'm surprised littering wasn't illegal before. (Or this this a case of "oh no, people are doing [something ill
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Just don't hope for that or you might get flagged :D
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by foxfluff 5y ago
And then you occasionally have people who know a thing or two but their hands are tied because organizations are dysfunctional and people have no autonomy.. or worse yet, are punished for sticking their nose into things that weren't on
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Unless you're saying that "the web" is "too large and complex" (because that's the cause of those forks becoming insecure and outdated) - in which case yes, I think that you can make a case for that. That
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Well I heard smokers in some parts of the world carry a little jar in their pocket where they store their butts. I don't think you can blame the cities for citizen laziness? Seems more of a cultural problem.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I don't know if such a thing is feasible to build. The other problem with cigarette filters is that they fill up with toxic chemicals. And unfortunately most "biodegradable" things still take a long time to degrade. It doe
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I hope that once the crows have cleaned up the ground, they will also attack any smokers in public and take the cigs from their hands :P
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by foxfluff 5y ago
What is the point though? Yes, in theory it is possible to make yet another broken implementation of broken technology. Going all pedantic on Devault and armchairing "no but acshually" isn't really contributing to the discu
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by foxfluff 5y ago
My first item has everything to do with the web technology, which browsers are intimately related to. Outdated and insecure firefox forks and their bitter users who complain about the web being broken when they browse it on their Firefox f
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I find that usually there's just one person (or a very small group) with a vision, motivation, and the skills required to take the project in a good direction and keep maintaining it. Contributions from others tend to be fixes and fea
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by foxfluff 5y ago
http://man.openbsd.org/pledge
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> It's weird how a forum full of technologists, free software believers and millionaire entrepreneurs have decided that browser technology is so hard and complex that it would literally be more feasible to rebuild the entire web Hav
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> It does feel dangerous, somehow, doesn't it, to have the web of technology be so complex? Yes, and it is disappointing that it is being constantly made mode complex even for the functions that our technology has been capable of pe
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by foxfluff 5y ago
NXP claims 15 years of longevity for their i.MX8 family. That's not bad, although I don't know what it means in practice (there are many chips that are effectively obsolete but you could still buy them as long as your order quant
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by foxfluff 5y ago
There's irony in the man page telling you not to despair. There's an xkcd about it: https://xkcd.com/1343/ By comparison, the manual to doas.conf is pretty short: https://man.openbsd.org/doas
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Finland.

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