jake_the_third

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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Tell that to my father who still uses decades-old software. I agree with the gp, Windows Home users need this feature the most. Folks who don't mind Windows S would already be using android/ios.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Thank you! Although this information is out their, compiling the people involved into a list like this makes for much easier research.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> The only user-hostile behavior I mostly agree with his forced, frequent updates. .. by default. An owner should always have the final say in what his machine does. If they choose to disable automatic updates, then that's their p
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I am having a very hard time believing this statement is in any way true. If you have a link to details, now is the time to provide it.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
>166 Yikes! Does anyone know where I can get an overview of the entirety of rocket's dependency graph. Crates.io only lists 11 direct dependencies.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> I get about 2 wrong every time on purpose. I do the same, but actually get google to accept bad data as good. The trick is to get the system to trust you (e.g. by supplying one honest answer), then selecting answers that the system is
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I don't think it's defending chinese companies as much as it is highlighting that companies on both sides are susceptible to more or less the same type of government control. I personally think it's something worth mentioning
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Then again, at the end of the day, you have companies with strong links to an adversarial government and which has been proven to have conducted economic espionage for the benefit of domestic companies, regularly violated (and violates) hu
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
All I and others are asking for is some hard evidence. Either the company is engaged in unsavory behavior or it is not. You can't be ambiguous about this and expect people to play along. Given how easy it should be for a capable govern
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I fail to see how this ties into your original point.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
From where I'm sitting, both are not transparent and accountable.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Then we shouldn't deal with Cisco, Juniper, and pretty much every other network equipment manufacturer. What kind of logic is that?
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> is there any hard evidence that huawei is a legitimate security concern? As someone with a lot of huawei in their infrastructure, this is what I really want to know as well. The US government has lost a lot of credibility over the last
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
What is JAB's patent situation like? One of QR-codes most important attributes (for us, at least) is that patent threats are relatively low. Has research been done to see how safe implementations are from infringing on currently-valid
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I've just skimmed over the both specifications and haven't noticed anything that would indicate that this is a "weekend project". In fact, I'm impressed enough that I might work on an implementation in my preferred
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Depending on LD_PRELOAD is extremely fragile and finicky. Not only can a process sidestep libc entirely by calling the `open`(2) syscall, but there are often many ways of combining function calls to achieve the same outcome. This method wil
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Seeing that there was a vulnerability in python just a couple days ago, I'd consider getting security updates a benefit. Most people will stop running python 2 when malware targeting it becomes rampant. So people being able to run your
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Unless they allow the same kind of control a user can get with normal x86 machines or better, I can't see this being taken seriously by developers. I can't see developers jumping on a closed, locked-down platform other than apple&
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> Devs tend to install upstream tools instead of the out of date RHEL tools too. and system administrators tend to install packaged tools instead of upstream tools that aren't tested to play well with the rest of the system. Perhaps
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I agree that my claim was unsubstantiated and redact it. What I was trying to convey is that I would expect people who don't understand or care enough about their personal privacy would use more popular and mainstream messengers. Wheth
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Those users do not use it a secure messaging platform. The see it as a way to get around SMS fees. The majority of Signal users are likely privacy- and security-focused, and chose to use signal because of the features it provides on those f
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Then if we take this 0.2% as representative (and 6 million out of three billion users probably is), it would be fair to say that this 50% split would scale if more people learned about javascript. Google will be in hot water if humanity eve
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I don't see how. Could you explain?
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I was under the impression that the wasm emscripten target was deprecated in favor of the rust-specific wasm target. Am I wrong?
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Yes. More precisely, I stopped when I discovered that I couldn't decouple the signal user from my phone number. More importantly, I'm still very interested in seeing the data behind your vocal-minority assertion.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> A small but vocal minority of Signal's user base wants non-phone-number identification. Have you done a survey before arriving to this conclusion. If so, I'd love to take a look at it, if possible. Otherwise, I can't see
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Is there documentation on Rust+WebAssembly that is presented more like a conventional book or tutorial? I don't do well with example-driven documentation like these. Resources like the original rust book are excellent though.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
And the BSDs have mostly moved passed the era of legal ambiguity that plagued them early in their development. For better or worse, timing and initial impressions count.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Now for the benefits: * Better feature stability, * Robust and well-defined standards, * improved security, * better debugging options, * and most importantly competitive pressure. Just look at how LLVM pressured GCC into shape. I'm
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
The critical faults with D that prevented it from displacing C* were that it relied on a GC by default and that it wasn't open source. Things might have played out much differently had they addressed these issues early on. * aside from

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