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by kobalsky 5y ago
I don't think ad-blocking is immoral, on the contrary I think it's necessary, and I despise the amount of ads thrown at us. My computers and phones have every form of adblocker/sponsorblocker available. That being said, I can
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by kobalsky 5y ago
There may be situations where a mistake is understandable because it was a who-would-have-thought situation, but on this scenario an effort is required to shoot yourself in the foot. Apple can't be seriously using an insecure-by-defaul
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by kobalsky 5y ago
what kind of IOT devices are we talking about? linux embedded or is wireguard available for something like nodemcu?
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> I don't understand why people care about the CPython GIL 1. pypy has a GIL 2. not every python program is compatible with pypy. 3. not everyone can program in C. 4. it would be a free speed up for troves of multithreaded code. tha
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by kobalsky 5y ago
I think it's a fair doubt. In this case, I don't know if sophistication could mean an evil maid attack with a breadboard and $15 worth of electronic components (which was required to break the tpm 1), or something better than what
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> If your attacker is both sophisticated and able to access your hardware directly, the game is over; nothing we can do can currently avoid this. I think with blanket statements like this it's important to define sophisticated. For
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> This title seems a bit over-broad. The attack is based on using the built-in chrome credential manager I'm reading the white paper[and from what I understand the password manager attack is just a sample. The vulnerability exposes
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by kobalsky 5y ago
samsung will probably have an arrangement with comcast to connect to any xfinity hotspot for ads and telemetry or something like twilio’s super sim
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> Imagine making the argument for welfare on a company that is worth a trillion dollars You are not doing delivering some sort of poetic justice, you are just showing your lack of self-preservation instinct. For your own welfare, just
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by kobalsky 5y ago
that strawman conveniently ignored my point about taking an active role in the education of people close to you. when someone I knew got hit by ransomware I felt responsible so I offered people close to me help understanding basic computer
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by kobalsky 5y ago
preventing your grandma from using whatsapp through technological friction must be one of the worst ways to handle it. this extremely selfish, I've seen whatsapp let old people enjoy internet like we did as kids. if you want to be a re
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by kobalsky 5y ago
it's literally easier to move your money overseas to an international broker than to try to operate here, which is what people with enough money do. we tried to invest some backup cash we had in a company here a couple a years ago and
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by kobalsky 5y ago
To add to what xtracto said, I live in Argentina and our currency has an annual inflation rate of 50% (it's actually higher, but I'll stick to official numbers). Banks here have a bad history of keeping your foreign currency depos
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> but who uses bitcoin for something different than transfering illegal funds and speculation? A lot of people. You just have to NOT live in a country that uses a currency that could be considered a global reserve to find us.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
my experience with their customer service is abysmal. they took months to answer a ticket with a canned non-solution reply.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
what song is this?
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by kobalsky 5y ago
It was so sad seeing this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20010118202800/http://www.3dfx.c... I wonder why they were doing so bad comercially since in our microcosm voodoo cards were the best. It was a
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by kobalsky 5y ago
https://github.com/cperciva/ec2-boot-bench/blob/master/ec2-b... C is an interesting choice of laguange for this task. They even implemented a rustic XML parser in there.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
the power density of AA batteries may not have changed much because AA batteries need to be disposable in ordinary trash but if you have used a notebook in the 90s and one now, how can you say that capacity hasn't improved?
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by kobalsky 5y ago
maybe ISPs are misreporting IP blocks as residential addresses while selling them on the side to some VPN providers?
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by kobalsky 5y ago
The problem is that it means that any compromised app, container or chroot can now be escalated to a full fleet takeover unless you have the mentioned mitigations in place.
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> 48-bit static IP addresses a static IP per device is google and facebook's wet dream. yeah apple, keep your IDFA for yourself. also, imagine getting banned and not being to use google anymore, at all. asking your kids to google so
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by kobalsky 5y ago
The gig economy industry has managed to steal back decades worth of workers rights, and the worst thing is that this will take decades to undo. Almost everyone has been groomed to defend these corporate behemots' rights to stomp on our
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by kobalsky 5y ago
what a pathetic and desperate cash grab. good thing that the container space is getting de-dockerized, these guys are folding. when is oracle buying these guys?
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by kobalsky 5y ago
the wire transfer was made to someone. why isn't that person / company on fire?
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by kobalsky 5y ago
Do you think that the rich people financing the scientific communities of yore, that had no immediate benefit for them, made a mistake? The work of many important scientists and artists in the past only was possible because some rich benefa
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by kobalsky 5y ago
> It's the transaction fees that get distributed to all the other coin holders that makes it a pyramid or MLM scheme. This is embarrasing. I will give you more info in case you are geniunely wrong and not playing dumb. This is the l
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Liking one specific generation of technology is just being a modern amish. I'm pretty your old truck is an abomination for some old timer. New tech will be tested and bad ideas will be eventually abandoned down the road, this is how it
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by kobalsky 6y ago
https://www.lavoz.com.ar/politica/estaciones-de-servicio-ya-...
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by kobalsky 6y ago
My opinion is that many missed out and take a moral stance as a compensation mechanism, and some live in privileged situations and just don't see the need for it. No wonder you don't see the benefits if you live in a superpower wi

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