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by gjsman-1000 1y ago
If can receive a firmware update over the internet; you bet it can be bricked remotely, or otherwise upgraded to be capable of remote bricking. That applies to any and all devices, including those already sold. For that matter, I've lo
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> Web Environment Integrity API Dead proposal, two years ago. > Blocks sign-ins from 'embedded browsers' I would too; browser automation tools are a spam farm's favorite tool. > Encrypted Media Extensions API along w
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In that case, we've never even showed up to the battle, there's been copy protection and ROM encryption since arcade cabinets. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24481/whi... We're a
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> Without limitation, you agree that you may not (a) publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services; (b
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by gjsman-1000 1y ago
> Nintendo being able to brick your Switch remotely. This was wildly exaggerated; Switches cannot be bricked remotely. Nintendo can ban you from online services, but that has been around... for decades. The warning in the Terms of Servic
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That’s called a shipping accident, from which Framework is hardly immune.
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How often have you needed to repair a MacBook? The enhanced repairability is basically insurance in case of a fault. Compared to a MacBook, or insurance for a MacBook, this insurance is overpriced. As for the environment, the power consumpt
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by gjsman-1000 1y ago
> Apple Silicon is built upon ARM64 which is apparently core to such great battery life. Not really, actually. ARM isn’t terribly more efficient to decode than x86, and both are converted into micro-operations that are internal to the CP
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The problem there though is that data completely breaks down for anything historical, philosophical, cultural, religious, miraculous, or otherwise requiring “faith.” Anything that is not a repeatable event under a microscope has no “data” a
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> To use a computer, especially for programming, is the purest form of creation that man has ever dreamed up. Literature? Poetry? Sonnets? Film? Romance? Brewing? This is an incredibly uncultured take. Reminder that only programmers, b
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If you wouldn’t do it with any other widely believed religious figure, it passes the definition, so I can and will call it out.
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That just sounds like Linux packages; also not a system known for security of desktop apps and scripts especially compared to MacOS, shoot me.
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Correct. He didn't use a legal framework, and did it anyway. They even convinced Twitter to ban retweeting an unfavorable New York Post article that turned out true! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news
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by gjsman-1000 1y ago
They stood for free speech; but judging by the downvotes here, the left didn't care about their free speech. If it did, my post above wouldn't be at -4, while the inflammatory answer above is still in the black. The left instead
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by gjsman-1000 1y ago
Simple. The Republicans remember when they were cancelled for not wanting to take a vaccination that was just invented months earlier; when they were deplatformed from Twitter constantly; when Reddit rejoiced at the death of one of th
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We also found out that Kimmel was planning a second attack on MAGA when the executives at ABC were already on-edge about the timing causing a backlash; simultaneously when Kimmel's ratings have dropped 43% since January to under 1.1M,
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What was once a prank... https://hackaday.com/2021/01/01/a-fresh-linux-for-the-most-u...
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I don't know what you mean. I don't know in what world you could say half the things that were on BlueSky, post-assassination, without riot police being called and people getting arrested, assuming they were physically present and
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The government isn't worried about control , but economics . Google verifying developer identities but not controlling distribution, satisfies all relevant economic considerations. If it was about not letting Google control Android,
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I recently put my finger on what has been changing lately, especially after the assassination: We used to say, that online speech, is not the same as in-person speech. Online , you can yell horrible things, imply that somebody should &quot
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This is generally seen as mythologizing, as Snow Leopard had mountains of bugs at launch. Everybody just fell in love with 10.6.8.
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I'm not disputing it; but the downvoters missed my point. My point is that voters know that if a mere coffee mug costs that much, who knows what else stupid is going on. It's a smoke signal saying there's waste of unprece
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The idea behind DOGE made a mountain of sense, even if the execution was all over the place. Americans get sympathetic when they hear about the Air Force $1280 coffee mug. They don't forget that, even half a decade later, when they hea
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macOS is a Unix by pedigree; Linux is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_systems#/media/Fi... I have to dig out this chart when people complain about macOS's "non-standard utilities.&qu
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by gjsman-1000 1y ago
All you had to do was look at Reddit or BlueSky after the shooting; and I think they popped a nerve. In the meantime, the CEOs of Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and Steam have been casually "invited" to Congress to have a little chat th
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GWSC Three Factor Authentication RFC - the missing factor in NPM security(gwsc-3fa.org)
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Who is to say they were mentally ill? Major left wing streamers openly were calling for violence before it happened. TechDirt's position conveniently ignores this. Kirk being a charlatan, even if that were true, is small potatoes. htt
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- According to an unapologetically left wing perspective on what happened. That doesn't mean even a word of that is true, any more than a word of what Kirk said was true. Who is to say whether the college student's positions were
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TechDirt is unapologetically, wildly left wing, so of course calling the opposition "trolls" who "weaponize" the "marketplace of ideas" is nothing but a theatrical self-righteous take; at best a pot calling the
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by gjsman-1000 1y ago
My above example is end to end encryption compatible, it's just that you don't get to pick the end it might go to. However, the connections between ends are still encrypted. As such, it passes the technical mathematical defini

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