kardos

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by kardos 10y ago
I agree it's only a modest infoleak. Depending on the nature of the exploit you may not have multiple attempts. Consider also that one can block updates by serving the client stale update lists/packages. The client sees "no u
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by kardos 10y ago
A followup on package update delivery would be quite interesting. While the updates are (probably) universally signed to prevent tampering, delivering them in the clear is still an infoleak -- attackers can monitor the update traffic to ide
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by kardos 10y ago
> If we are optimizing for the general well-being of humans We're a culture in a petri dish and we can see the end of the agar supply (resources/biodiversity). No cause for alarm because it's not exhausted yet?
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by kardos 10y ago
Sounds like the "content aware fill" algorithm [1], only for small scale features that are somehow stitched onto the low-resolution image [1] http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer
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by kardos 10y ago
The typical encoding/decoding rates are measured with a Xeon... my guess is that lower powered phones/netbooks will be considerably slower. I'd trade off a 20% longer sync time in exchange for not running my laptop battery do
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by kardos 10y ago
> there is no libre hardware if you want top performance, common architecture Performance is definitely a difficult sacrifice. Consider however that your general computing could be split into a privacy sensitive component: sending emails
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by kardos 10y ago
It's not at all discouraging to argue over the best encryption, it's plenty healthy to keep the research going so weak/defeated methods get deprecated and only the strongest remain in use. But you're right that endpoint
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by kardos 10y ago
The analogy is that non-free software is akin to censorship. Free speech for everybody is the ideal, in reality we have yet to achieve that (see for example China), and approving of censorship is a step backwards. Free software for everyone
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by kardos 10y ago
Think of it like free speech and see if you still disagree.
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by kardos 10y ago
So does this mean we can run Windows 10 in a VM and see what it's sending to the telemetry servers?
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by kardos 10y ago
Increase the constants at lines 18 and 19 a bit ...
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by kardos 10y ago
A valid point.... although that situation is in flux. If Google's data is any proxy for the rest of the world, the fraction of encrypted-in-transit email is getting pretty high [1], Google reports 84/75% out/inbound. [1] htt
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by kardos 10y ago
I posted that in part hoping that someone would chime in with a workaround/solution figured out in the 6-7 months since that discussion.
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by kardos 10y ago
This post [1,2] from last October discusses a major problem with hosting your own email, which is that the big email providers pretty much reject your messages until your "reputation" is good. The reputation concept is purportedly
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by kardos 10y ago
We can go back to using sails. Cheaper but slower, so it'll work for a portion of shipping
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by kardos 10y ago
So given this information, how can we poison the results that the trackers get?
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by kardos 10y ago
Not at all. People can opt-in and send their own photos, holding that data would be kosher. Holding photos of those who did not opt in, or those who explicitly opted out, would be where the liability comes in. If we can penalize people for
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by kardos 10y ago
That sounds a lot like security by obscurity, one blog post later and the world can distinguish the two. Cvdazzle is unlikey to be the answer, it's just today's CAPTCHA to slow down face recognition, tomorrow's recognition wi
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by kardos 10y ago
> it's always slippery slopes and fantastic nightmare scenarios It already is a nightmare scenario for some [1]. How bad should we let things get before we try to fix them? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11
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by kardos 10y ago
> Why should corporations and other people be denied the same access & privilege. Why should I be denied the option to keep my personal information private from said corporations/people?
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by kardos 10y ago
Sure, that's a good sign, but it's still undone by someone else who posts a photo or recording of you. If I recall correctly, facebook used to (maybe still does) solicit users to "report" anybody who is not using their r
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by kardos 10y ago
That's a really hard battle to fight, even for those of us who understand the full implications. The entire population is not going to drop facebook overnight, it does deliver some sort of value to them despite it's heavy privacy
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by kardos 10y ago
Nope, your lifelong discipline of not publishing a single self-photo online will be undone by someone else who snaps a photo of you and posts it online.
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by kardos 10y ago
Running "dnf" doesn't call any of that, same as running "yum" as did the OP
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by kardos 10y ago
Not really a fair comparison, yum is on the way out to make way for dnf # time dnf real 0m0.236s user 0m0.152s sys 0m0.070s
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by kardos 10y ago
That's just going to get your windows kicked out and an empty damaged car showing up at the station
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by kardos 10y ago
What we need is a GUI app for controlling git. Something that lets users drag and drop branches, and click undo, fix merge conflicts, etc, without having to use the command line. It would draw two commit trees, one local, one remote, and th
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by kardos 10y ago
> a chunk of silicon who never gets sick or tired, never overlooks the smallest detail We haven't successfully created bug-free software yet. How exactly is this mythical self-driving car going to pull that off? You did say 'e
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by kardos 10y ago
It could also play out that the risky poor drivers end up choosing self-driving cars and the low-risk drivers continue to drive as always. Although, a self-driving car would be convenient for overnight driving....
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by kardos 10y ago
> It's best to just stay off of Facebook if you care at all about privacy Anyone who cares about privacy already does not use facebook. It's the fact that facebook still gets your photos/info that is the problem. It's

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