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by haswell 2y ago
I wouldn't argue that Linux on the desktop is the pinnacle of user experience, but it's pretty good these days. I personally run Xfce as I have since the 00's, and over the years it's become rock solid. It's also si
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by haswell 2y ago
I was on Game Pass for awhile, and at some point realized I was playing a small subset of the games, and that keeping an eye on Steam sales and buying them outright was usually cheaper in the long run. But obviously this will depend on how
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by haswell 2y ago
If you’re doing winforms work, you’re probably going to want/need Windows if for no other reason to run whatever it is you’re building. I’d personally use a VM in that scenario.
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by haswell 2y ago
Desktop Linux market share continues to grow, and I suspect the recent feelings towards Microsoft are going to continue to drive that growth. For anyone who’s been thinking about doing this, it’s a golden age of Linux Desktop computing. I h
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by haswell 2y ago
Desktop Linux market share continues to grow and as a part of that group, I rely on 1Password because I can use it across all of my systems. The other major password managers are on Linux, and Apple will need to support Linux for this new o
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by haswell 2y ago
If so, that's a problem. It might explain why this happened, but that doesn't mean it's an acceptable practice, especially after recently claiming that security is a primary focus for all project teams. Security requirements
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by haswell 2y ago
They clearly did not consider the larger security implications. That is both the point and the problem. This points to structural issues at Microsoft.
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by haswell 2y ago
> It's possible this was the intention all along ... to get feedback If they're relying on public feedback to realize how completely unacceptable the initial rollout was, that again points to deep problems at Microsoft and is
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by haswell 2y ago
"Old" is a bit of a stretch here ;) But I'm glad to hear they've committed to making changes. Given the misrepresentations they made regarding the initial rollout plan (the target of most criticism, mine included), Micro
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by haswell 2y ago
Microsoft has made misleading statements regarding encryption [0] and it doesn’t help much. Encryption at rest doesn’t much matter if the user being logged in is enough for the data to be decrypted. This is the context malware runs in. htt
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by haswell 2y ago
Your auth cookie expires. The username/password you type in next time it expires is far more valuable. And it might not even be necessary to obtain cookies or credentials if I can just see whatever you could see when you’re logged into
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by haswell 2y ago
If I knew that the data could be absolutely kept safe and private to me, I’d love a feature like this. Keeping track of my work over time would be so much easier. The natural next step is to have a local model trained on everything I’ve eve
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by haswell 2y ago
Cookies are of relatively low value compared to a database of everything the user has typed and seen.
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by haswell 2y ago
> I think the thought is proportional to the amount of thought a non-tech customer will put into it. Part of me wonders if this is the consequence of how accessible tech has become, and the prevalence of increasingly non-technical prod
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by haswell 2y ago
And based on initial estimates, the actual data stored by Recall is pretty small on a daily basis, making exfiltration a potentially very fast process. One researcher was able to use existing info stealer malware to exfiltrate the entire da
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by haswell 2y ago
The point was that it’s unnecessary for a user to explicitly change the permissions of the home directory as you had described for the data to be at risk. I agree with your last paragraph, and that is exactly what makes Recall such a big p
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by haswell 2y ago
The point is that the user doesn’t need to do either of the things you mentioned. Privilege escalation is common and how malware often works. The impact of such escalation just went up significantly. You seem to be looking at this from the
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by haswell 2y ago
This is missing the point, and I'd strongly recommend reading Kevin Beaumont's findings presented as a Q&A style post about Recall [0]. This kind of poorly controlled local access makes it significantly more dangerous to use a
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by haswell 2y ago
The easy response to someone feeling this way is to point them to the origin of DRY: The Pragmatic Programmer . In the book, the authors explicitly call out that many people took the wrong idea from the original writing. They clarify that
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by haswell 2y ago
Yeah, here's the quote from the later editions addressing this: > Let’s get something out of the way up-front. In the first edition of this book we did a poor job of explaining just what we meant by Don’t Repeat Yourself. Many peop
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by haswell 2y ago
I've always seen "Premature Optimization" as an umbrella that covers a variety of cross-cutting concerns, ranging from: - Performance - Code structure / abstraction - Data structure - Team organization / org stru
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by haswell 2y ago
One of the #1 issues I’ve seen with DRY over the years seems to stem from a misunderstanding of what it means. DRY is not just about code duplication, it’s about information / knowledge duplication, and code happens to be one repre
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by haswell 2y ago
The presumption is that these sufficiently advanced models are able to help close the gaps in execution. Think 20 years of advancement in both model complexity and manufacturing tech.
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by haswell 2y ago
That is current generation (very early) tech. The hypothetical model the bill is worried about is significantly more advanced.
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by haswell 2y ago
As a thought experiment, I think it’s useful to try steel manning this bill, and assume for a minute that the potential risk of a sufficiently advanced and “unsafe” model is real and severe. It seems reasonable to regulate specific aspects
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by haswell 2y ago
Hypothetically, let’s say all private car locations were tracked and visible to everyone. “Take public transit: problem solved” does not alleviate the privacy concern.
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by haswell 2y ago
The necessity of private jets is beside the point. At issue is whether or not tracking private travel should be accessible to everyone with an internet connection. Most people would not be ok with tracking private vehicles, and it’s uncle
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by haswell 2y ago
As a non-rich person, I would find it highly problematic if everyone could track my whereabouts, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s a privacy problem more broadly. This is more about principles of privacy and reasonable expectations tha
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by haswell 2y ago
Content like this is aimed at: - New FreeBSD users - People who find themselves in a FreeBSD environment but just want to get VS Code up and running vs. learning the particulars of the OS The simplicity here also highlights that you don’t n
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by haswell 2y ago
2.5% of deaths caused by flu is not the same as a 2.5% chance of dying of the flu, though.

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