jeroenhd

31 ms·

691.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Google doesn't sell their list to you. They give it to you for free. Using their list costs them money. Pumping up numbers gains them nothing but the headache of PR issues when they get a false positive. Spyware filters used to boast a
692.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
These alternative domains are quite popular with the fediverse and other hobbyist-run groups. Affordable domains with somewhat recognisable names still available. Scam websites will use any TLD in my experience. Based on the ones that made
693.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
This is 100% on Radix, not on Google. Google and Microsoft can (and probably should) have a registry of known-abusive websites. False positives are inevitable, so these should be taken with a grain of salt, but in most cases they're co
694.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Laundering millions is a huge amount of work already. You need to hide your criminal activity from banks investigating fraud. Presuming the banks are doing their jobs right, at least, but if they don't, then that'd be the place to
695.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
When someone is getting scammed by "special agent John Smith of the Federal Banking Enforcement Commission", the name "John Smith" won't cause any suspicion. This trick only works if the general public is aware of w
696.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
So they'll have a lead time building up a set of verified developers. These scams are pulled by organized crime syndicates, using human trafficking and beatings to keep their call centers manned with complicit workers. Now they'll
697.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
The permission problem also affects normal apps. Things like KDE Connect quickly become useless without advanced permissions, for instance. No permission system can work as well as a proper solution (such as banks and governments getting th
698.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
What phone are you considering? Sailfish still doesn't seem very successful and mobile Linux barely boots on anything that performs better than a fifteen year old budget device. I'm kind of hoping Qualcomm's open sourcing wor
699.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
It's something apps that will soon break can point their users to so they know to blame Google and a bunch of incompetent governments. Google will not change their minds, they're too busy buying goodwill from governments by playin
700.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Developer registration doesn't prevent this problem. Stolen ID can be found for a lot less money than what a day in a scam farm's operation will bring in. A criminal with access to Google can sign and deploy a new version of their
701.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
I felt like the arguments behind my opinion were implicit. Consistently not showing bias makes for trustworthy lists. Nobody (well, nobody reasonable I'd argue) will trust an IP blacklist from a major hosting company that actively excl
702.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
I'd call it clean room if the AI wasn't trained on the open source drivers in the first place. The open source driver is in there, albeit in the form of lossy text compression with an external dictionary. Now one side is collectin
703.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?efivar and underlying APIs should be able to tweak some settings depending on how many variables are exported. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/536436&#x
704.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
If I were to design an OS from the ground up today, that's probably the approach I'd take. Separate risky drivers off into virtual machines with limited attack surface and a controlled I/O system so that a hacked driver can&#
705.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Someone else here suggested having an AI write a filter driver to intercept hardware communications on Windows and try to write a driver based on that, I presume macOS can also be coerced into loading such a driver? That approach could work
706.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
If Hetzner actually puts their own customers on their blacklist then that list becomes more trustworthy. They were right to blacklist you, they were right to complain to you, and they were right not to assume malice and kick you off their p
707.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
> Well, if all the doomers and gloomers were correct that this is the end of hardware at home, we'd see the price continue to increase, and suppliers trying to ramp up production, even if it'd take long time. Ramping up product
708.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
I just looked into that for this thread, but the highest-end Apple chips (M4 Max/M5) outperform the fastest normal Ryzens in both single core and multi core tests. They're awful for gaming, which most benchmarks online are run for
709.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Performance per watt isn't the same as performance. On the high end (think Threadripper), amd64 still wins most performance tests by having many high-performance cores working all at once (at the cost of single-core performance). I dis
710.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
amd64 definitely beats any aarch64 when it comes to performance, but the trick Apple (and if proper Linux driver support ever lands, Qualcomm) pull is that they get 80% of amd64 performance at 25% of the battery cost. Not a lot of people ar
711.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
It could be a donated account. I've noticed archive.whatever also bypasses some paywalls by using legitimate account logins but I doubt there's one person going around subscribing to every news outlet that gets any coverage. If ar
712.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe the EU's Cyber Resilience Act combined with the NIS2 Directive do task governments with setting up bodies to collaborate with security researchers and help deal with reports. The law seems written t
713.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
It's not necessarily just Germany. Lots of countries have laws that basically say "you cannot log in to systems that you (should) know you're not allowed to". Technical details such as "how difficult is the password
714.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Cops can arrest anyone for any reason. If it wasn't for speech, it'd be for public intoxication or accusations of being a paedophiles or for potentially possessing a weapon. Like the linked article states: the law doesn't per
715.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
What the law says and what law enforcement does are two different things. 90% of those arrests don't lead to conviction. The law isn't the problem here.
716.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
If you're spending 170 euros on coffee then you're either abnormally rich or abnormally bad with money for a Dutchman. Without the ability to upgrade either storage or RAM, a 256GB SSD with 16GB RAM is quite useless for a home ser
717.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Europeans don't generally use .gov so if the US tries to pull that, they'll just block whatever .gov their VPN is hosted on. Southern European countries are blocking whole Cloudflare IP ranges because of the massive grip on the go
718.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
Piracy is illegal in most countries. Unless you mean the American Library of Congress, but that's an American decision, not a European one.
719.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
rt.com loads just fine for me. If you want to do research into/get brainwashed by Russian propaganda, nothing is stopping you here.
720.
by jeroenhd 8mo ago
With the German border maybe 10 minutes to the east of me, I can open that website just fine. Seems like an exclusively German problem, not a European one. I don't think foreign propaganda was ever exempt from freedom of speech here in

More ›