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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
Who does the proxying? Does it expose all your traffic to yet another entity?
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
This is not a USB-C problem. Manufacturers treating users as stupid is the problem. USB-C is only one aspect. If you look at specs from Apple, Nintendo and random-knock of brands from aliba.com, you will see that they only mention the ports
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
This is already what happens. Just like the web (W3C?) was a front for microsoft taking over from Netscape, and now Google taking over from everyone else, the linux foundation et al are just fronts for Google et al to have whatever they wan
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
> US companies committing censorship Can't the EFF and ACLU team up on this?
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
"i don't work here. I just volunteer several hours of my day creating engaging content to a billion dollar company for free"
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
And you can be part of the solution! Isn't this nice?
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
The same reason they believe their guns should not be taken away, or that immigrants are taking their jobs, etc. Because it is a well paid campaign by some big shadow super PAC. Anything else is controlled opposition, probably planted by th
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
had to use this recently. `nmap` is (surprisingly) more portable and have a more complete output.
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
I am saying opaque, closed and proprietary tech stacks are the danger. See the other reply for a better discussion on what is happening. Basically Microsoft* is very well known for taking open source projects, extending them a little in a n
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
VS Code, the text editor, is a trojan horse. Microsoft is selling you into the IDE, in small portions. This is similar to the IBM approach with JAVA last decade(s?). You install a "text editor" for simple things, like code complet
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
So, just like their version of good American FIPS?
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
Linux distros/brew/npm/maven/etc are federated software distribution.
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
> "If you want to make a revolution, you've got to raise the lowest common denominator in every single machine," [...] "You can not use features that are not built into every computer." * Looks around. See the en
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
How do you separate closed source hardware that only works with closed source software from each other?
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
NO! I've played VI 6 after it was free on Epic store. It is the worst game experience i have ever had! You can play in full 3D (lame as hell) map, or strategic (2d map). Both of them give you a really bad view of the map, no matter wha
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
that site has great personal branding. recall seeing other articles from lexi halle on the feediverse some time ago and immediately recognized it. great content too.
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
you ignored my argument that the warning is valid, not scary.
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
it's funny how we have two hundred dozen squared projects claiming their goal is mesh networking to fight the police state du jour, while on the other hand we have a bunch of badly known full scale GSM AGPL platforms. :/
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
Javascript ecosystem in a nutshell
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
those things are completely disconnected
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
So, just like the Apple AppStore?
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
Firefox should just stop tiptoeing and absorbing useful addons regularly. Starting with uBlockOrigin and youtube enhancer. Make adblock be a first class feature that you enabled/whitelist in the main browser option screen.
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
What's so bad about reminding people to "Make sure you trust it before installing"?
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
> neat attack, but practical risk is very small that's what Intel said! sorry. i will see myself out...
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
the probability of a "value between 0 and 1" to be an actual probability is very close to 1.
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
You realize all that has a huge IF you are a native english speaker, right? the glob stuff is a case of power vs convenience. but you can do very similar with bash [] or {} syntax. not being apologist, but I like unix approach of blurring t
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
never understood why so many people complain about the short commands, but nobody contributes a central list of aliases with verbose names to them. alias copy_files_from_one_place_to_another=cp this tells me short names aren't a proble
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
remember https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131217/08341625587/bloom...
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
"Probability". This question would have a single word answer if it was posted on math.stackexchange.com. literally copy/pasted from wikipedia: > A probability is a way of assigning every event a value between zero and one,
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by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
> I freaked the hell out and nuked the whole installation when something so bad and rare is used as scapegoat for so many unrelated things as part of a fascist power grab, that everyone rather run away than to report when the actual crim

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