jake_the_third

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by jake_the_third 8y ago
This is very unfortunate. Despite the negative press snaps is getting, I was planning on releasing a commercial product as a snap. One of the key reasons for doing so was that users had control over what the app is allowed do (via plugging&
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
I expect that the reason why most people honor the first is the high likelihood of getting caught or seen. This deterrent does not exist for web tracking. I think it's more likely that most tracking companies ignore do not track.
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
The thing about rubber hose cryptoanalysis is that it doesn't scale. Even the most depraved of governments will have to purposefully and deliberately choose their victims rather than vacuum and process all data they have access to. Luc
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> FB fucked it up for everyone Nah, just for companies that trade personal information as if it was cattle feed. As an individual, I have no problem with the GDPR. If you won't handle my personal information with proper care, you sh
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
With all due respect, your view is biased to the point of delusion. Counterfeiting never was and never will be similar to robbery. Robbery results in someone being deprived of their property. No one has been deprived of their property. In f
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Your analogy makes no sense to me. When evaluating applicants, the only metrics used should be how well the applicant can do his or her job. Giving applicants preference for having some blessed sex or political leanings is generally a recip
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> backing up savegames This. I decided against buying a switch because I discovered that it prevents owners from backing up save files. I still don't plan to buy a switch until nintendo supports backing up save files officially like
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
Thank you for saying this. It had always disturbed me how people change the name of what is quite literally ending another human life to something else as a means to soften or discard the moral implication associated with said action. It&#x
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
> Google, they created their own Java with no regards to license, so yeah they got sued. You don't need a license to build a clone.. well, you didn't need one until recently thanks to Oracle. While not exactly the same thing,
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
>There is like a bajillion people out there running Oracle Java, MySql, Virtualbox and so on. All of them Oracle products, and with permissive licenses. Where is this "existential treat" thing coming from? Oracle. (see, I can b
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by jake_the_third 8y ago
This was the first thought that crossed my mind. If I have a choice between running our stack 50 times slower (and thereby 50 times the cost) or running anything Oracle, I know which choice is cheaper and doesn't come with an existenti
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
>Rather than a "small minority that can". I'd also like to add my voice as one of those who have used linux for over ten years with excellent out-of-the-box support for hardware. Often, linux will even offer a better exper
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
> The home computer market isn't even a market that exists in many parts of the world. That doesn't make GP's statement demonstrably wrong. The home computer market isn't a market that exists in many parts of the worl
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
Unfortunetly, it seems that the TV will still contact Samba.tv's servers regardless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16728720 The only way to be sure with untrustworthy devices like this is not to connect them to
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
This is the only reasonable way I can see going forward. I recall reading once that a person would need a lifetime's worth of time (50 years? 80?) just to read and understand the legal ramifications of the contracts and TOS he or she m
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
English is likely not the first language of the volunteer who wrote these docs. If you want better documentation, I encourage you to write it yourself. The project needs all the help it can get.
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
That's what EFF's HTTPS Everywhere plugin does when set to strict mode. On a related note, would strict mode thwart HSTS-based cookies? My current understanding of this technique is that it depends on the victim being able to conn
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
What your saying doesn't really address the issue marcosdumay raised: That is, the issue with allowing this kind of introspection is its susceptibility for abuse. That said, your use-case of intercepting secure connections in your priv
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
I'd also like to add my voice to those who like the current system. For me at lease, the flexibility it affords outweighed the initial difficulty I encountered learning it.
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
As much as I hate to admit it, I was android's useful idiot. I seem to have learned from my mistake though. I never bought into systems controlled by commercial entities afterwards. Unfortunately, the pool of useful idiots doesn't
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
When it comes to imposing your views on others, everything becomes a matter of morals; What you and I may find irredeemable is acceptable to others. There are many activities we engage in that have ruinous effects on others that are accepte
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by jake_the_third 9y ago
I don't think so. Everything would be a silo by that definition. A better way to think about it is that silo is something who's owner can cut you off. HTTP is a protocol where ownership does not apply.