jonathanstrange

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by jonathanstrange 4mo ago
IMHO, models by US companies are the biggest security risk so I'm fine with using models on this "blacklist."
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by jonathanstrange 4mo ago
A dying country that doesn't want small business to continue, that's not something I had in my 2026 bingo card collection. Be that as it may, I would just close down the business and incorporate elsewhere. Let them sort out their
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by jonathanstrange 4mo ago
US companies cannot comply with the GDPR because of the CLOUD Act. The two frameworks are fundamentally in conflict with each other and it seems to me that everybody in the EU knows about it, yet this is somehow swept under the carpet and i
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
The point is that without copyright you can' do it professionally. Someone will just sell whatever you created for you and you will not get a cent from it.
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
It's worth pointing out that some people under some circumstances need to use VPNs. For example, timestamp.apple.com stalls when I call it from my machine, so I cannot sign any executables for macOS. When I use a VPN that changes my
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
I'm always interested in how they pay their bills. Unless I know how they make a living, the advice is worthless. Of course, you can give away things for free if you're a rich aristocrat in a society of slave holders, like many a
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
Not everyone has that luxury, some people need to earn money. That's why I sell software instead of giving it away for free. It's fine if you want to get everything for free, you're just not one of my customers then.
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
I find keyboards fascinating because they have many anachronistic elements and design flaws, yet nobody outside of elitist mechanical keyboard circles seems to be willing to fix them. Everybody seems to just think "whatever, gotta live
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
"websites subject to the state's age verification law will be legally barred from explaining how to use a VPN to get around age restrictions" I thought the US has free speech?
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
Nobody said that everyone has to be a CS graduate.
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
Unfortunately, they're not even good at it. Setting up a custom CI chain today as a brand-new member of the Apple Developer program, I found out that they have at least 9 different certificates to generate with no explanation which one
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
What is a "pass" in that context?
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
That invariably leads to bitrot and low maintainability. It's one among many reasons why I don't use Rust.
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
It's a number of false choices. Google has complete control over Android and they could easily implement 1, 2, and 3 if they wanted. It's not as if they couldn't provide the means for certified secure enclave apps in addition
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
One thing is sure, they don't have international law in mind...
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
We're discussing this in the context of Altman's project, which is a project by a US company. You're welcome to find examples from other countries but the OP didn't mention any of them. The fact is that currently no othe
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by jonathanstrange 5mo ago
True, but it also happens to be the provably the shittiest form of garbage collection that was already outdated in the 90s.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
A digital ID not based on EU hardware should be taken down with prejudice. It's a direct threat to national security. US companies and, by extension, US government authorities have control over every popular endpoint (mobile phones, de
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
That's possible but would be completely and highly illegal, the EU regularly fines companies violating GDPR, and those fines are not trivial at all, they can be quite hefty.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
In the same way as the "UK Biobank" software accesses it.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
Access to the server gives you access to the encryption keys, unless the server is just storing end-to-end encrypted material for someone else and doesn't do anything with the data.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
IANAL but what you state seems to literally fall under the STOCK Act of 2012. It is one kind of insider trading.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
The attacker will then simply use the decryption key to decrypt it.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
Fingerprinting is done by servers, not by browsers, and it is already illegal in the EU when it is done without explicit user consent and according to the GDPR data handling requirements. The GDPR covers all of this, it doesn't matter
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
When I said "groundbreaking" I only meant it as "being perceived as groundbreaking." If it isn't perceived as a disruptive technology, then it won't spark widespread protests. People protest against it because
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
This is a normal reaction to ground breaking technology but these reactions never had any noteworthy effect in history. There used to be Maschinenstürmer during the 19th Century industrial revolution. There were also violent enemies of cars
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
I think you're plain wrong. I have never talked to anyone in my life about phones who didn't want replaceable batteries and wasn't annoyed by the throwaway culture. It's a top priority for the people I know, though by fa
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
Out of curiosity, how does "Axios" know what the NSA is using?
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
I'm not one of those people but want to point out that there isn't much of a contradiction there. I don't know if hospitals, universities, train tracks, roads, and libraries technically speaking count as utilities but they ov
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
It's not free at all. If you buy Windows through the official channels it's quite expensive. If you buy it on the grey market, it's dirt cheap, though.

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