gjsman-1000

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by gjsman-1000 6mo ago
The entirety of GrapheneOS is about 200K downloads per update. Malicious use therefore is roughly 5-1. > You don’t need firmware access to install malware on Android, so how many of stalkerware victims actually would have been saved by a
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by gjsman-1000 6mo ago
On Android, according to the Coalition Against Stalkerware, there are over 1 million victims of deliberately placed spyware on an unlocked device by a malicious user close to the victim every year. #2 is WAY more likely than #1. And that&
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by gjsman-1000 6mo ago
Tradeoffs. Which is more likely here? 1. A customer wants to run their own firmware, or 2. Someone malicious close to the customer, an angry ex, tampers with their device, and uses the lack of Secure Boot to modify the OS to hide all trace
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Windows is an open platform for developers... if you ignore all of the security checks and Windows Defender and the stagnant platform which is about 2 decades behind everyone else, across the board, in terms of native tooling (e.g. which UI
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
I find it interesting that all the way back in 1985, in Atari vs NES, we had proof that consumers preferred walled gardens. The walled garden exploded from a completely dead market, while the already-existing open system killed itself. Appl
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> I do think there needs to be more strict adherence by developers to standards like XDG but I don’t know how it could be enforced. It can't be enforced. Developers can and will always do whatever they want with the tools available.
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> Do you really not see scripted editing of shared system-wide text files as a step back compared to the general containerization that app development has moved towards? Sir, this is Windows. This is not Android, this is not iOS, this is
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
If you're worried about device fingerprinting, Adobe has far more reliable ways to do it already. Canvas fingerprinting, IP tracking, cookies. A hosts entry tells them almost nothing they couldn't get elsewhere, provides them with
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> This is not an approach any other app on any platform has historically used, and it doesn't seem sustainable if every app you install has to modify your hosts file to use a hack like this to detect whether it should handle files o
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
The hosts file is not sacred on Windows. Anyone who is administrator can just edit it. I've done it to add domain names to localhost. For anyone hand-wringing over this, this used to be normal . The hosts file was invented a decade be
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
You can't detect whether a URL handler worked correctly in a browser; otherwise Windows will appear with a "Select an app to open YOURPROTOCOLHERE://" which is completely nonsensical to the user. As for option 2; as
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> Reason is OK, the execution is controversial. And even then, only controversial to nerds with opinions. Nothing else about it is controversial. If anything, knowing whether the app is installed or not is kinda important? If you open a
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> “we are self-preferencing, and the FTC should really take a look at us, even if we're technically not a monopoly right now” That is not calling out that they are “absolutely not a monopoly by the law” in any way, shape, or form. Y
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> Oh, give me a break. I know the law around this incredibly well. Then don’t make BS up like implying Anthropic is a monopolist for the crime of competence. > tell me you don't understand how a small quantitative gap can result
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> we are self-preferencing, and the FTC should really take a look at us, even if we're technically not a monopoly right now Tell me you have zero clue what a monopoly is or what the law is, without telling me. Monopoly law relies on
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> Am I too idealistic? Open source developers are wildly idealistic. In the rest of the world, I have finally internalized... 1. Most people say they care about privacy... but won't spend even $1 for it. They care about their privac
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Then to put it bluntly; you lied to your audience. > "I don't care how you define intelligence -- that one's hard to brush off." If your audience conceived it as possibly being a merely repeated phrase that the resear
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> Dr. Irene Pepperberg studied an African grey parrot named Alex for 30 years. Alex could identify objects, colours, shapes, and numbers. He understood abstract concepts like "same" and "different." His vocabulary exc
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
And if you are a professional photographer, Darktable falls short by a thousand cuts. It is not even close to Lightroom, let alone Photoshop.
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Your problem is that you see "demonic" as an aesthetic choice; but Marina and others like her completely believe what they are doing is real and has weight. The people accused of engaging in the occult are frequently offended by t
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Mindless "it's dumb" when she's literally posing with decapitated goat heads, fully aware of their centuries-old symbolism? My reaction to your response is that your moral compass has the sensitivity of a glass thermomet
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
A video of Abramovic preparing for one event shows her smearing pig blood on walls while writing cryptic instructions, including, “Mix fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk, drink on earthquake nights.” In one photo, Abramovic holds a blo
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
The fact that there is no newer bug ticket for it in 12 years shows is this a purely academic feature nobody wanted. And why should they? Most Blu-ray players support the old format (SRT); converting it to PGS gains almost none of the upsid
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
We've already been through this when people a decade ago thought voice was the future of the computer. When that completely didn't work, we thought that augmented reality was the future of the computer, which also didn't
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> They're saying all the right things here. They are not saying "we will remove the mandate to use a Microsoft Account." By itself, that shows their "care" is purely corporate, likely driven to calm down furious
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
That's obviously hardware failure, loose solder connections, or RAM failure, not bugs. For that matter, I was talking very specifically about kernel security bugs in context, not any bugs someone could experience . That's like
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
The shorting two pins is a heavy oversimplification of what happened. The two pins were installed by design from Nintendo to activate the Tegra RCM mode. RCM mode meanwhile has a USB buffer overflow which is the real bug. In modern NVIDIA c
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
I've seen this argument, but I strongly suspect that it's a cope argument. "We couldn't get in... because... we didn't care to! Even though we've hacked literally every other object on the planet just because.&
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> I should not need to work for free, give my data, and god knows what to play a game. The game is free, with doing so being the price. If you don't like that price, you can always pay $80 for a traditional Pokemon game. As such, I
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
I hate two sentence headlines. I hate AI generated articles even more.

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