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by ldarby 8y ago
Easter eggs are generally hidden and take users doing something special to find out about it. You calling this an easter egg had me confused as to what the hell this thread was about, searching for "firefox easter egg" shows nothi
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by ldarby 8y ago
See the cryptsetup FAQ 5.2 ( https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/FrequentlyAsk... ): "This means that if you have a large set of random-looking data, they can already lock you up." In the U
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by ldarby 8y ago
There is a risk of them looking at the raw data of the drive and asking what all the random data at the end of it is. The beatings will continue until you decrypt it. Hopefully you can and it's not actually just random data...
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by ldarby 8y ago
If it's about using only Google's services, then yes I agree, but the point is if lots of random sites all decide to use Google for captchas. This has already happened with tor and Cloudflare, but at least that changed for the bet
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by ldarby 8y ago
That is pretty terrible if the web is being split into "google knows who you are and approves of you visiting this website" vs not being tracked by google and being treated as a second class user.
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by ldarby 8y ago
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvapy4/man-fined-... (There are lots of other articles about that case, that one sums it up mostly in the url)
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by ldarby 8y ago
Thanks, Vivaldi is literally the only "proprietary" software I use and had looked for the source before, can't believe I didn't know about this...
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by ldarby 8y ago
Tarballs?
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by ldarby 8y ago
That only indicates you have a competent hiring process, that can filter out the people without degrees who don't have that drive.
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by ldarby 8y ago
I use Vivaldi because the CEO is Jon von Tetzchner. Here's a quote from him from a recent interview: Q: Other browser companies tell us that too many options and features confuse users, and they remove or limit functionality based on
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by ldarby 8y ago
That's not what the fix was. Disable JS on the site, that should prevent the pdf running JS as well. (although it might prevent the pdf loading in the first place...). As kodablah pointed out, it's not a useful fix. edit to cl
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by ldarby 8y ago
Ok, anyway I agree with that completely, which is why I disabled PDFs opening automatically and have to click to open (via a standlone reader, not browser plugin). It's basically the same situation as the bad old days of having Flash
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by ldarby 8y ago
You seem to be in favour of some JS running but not other JS - how can software tell the difference? What do you mean by "nuanced ad block extension"? Do they just have a massive blacklist of bad actors to block?
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by ldarby 8y ago
My browser can also disable js (per site as well) with out any plugins, but doing it globally breaks too much and whitelisting those sites (and 3rd party they rely on) is way too much effort. Worst case that happened to me is a payment tha
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by ldarby 8y ago
There is a popup. Remember when browsers added popup blockers? They've worked around them now with JS & CSS...
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by ldarby 8y ago
Walls? When I jump over the 1 inch high wall and visit random sites, I'm risking getting spammed with modal popups and tracked and other shit. Yes I should use some script blocker, but they're too much effort to setup to avoid
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by ldarby 10y ago
I had a similar question a while ago: how many decimal digits does it take to represent the smallest possible 80 bit float. The answer is ~16000: #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { unsigned long lon
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by ldarby 11y ago
Ok, thanks for clarifying that, you're right I was thinking that free = copyleft. This came from thinking that open source = non-copyleft + copyleft, and that it doesn't care at all about copyleft, while FS does, so FS = OS - non-
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by ldarby 11y ago
Open Source includes BSD style licenses, which allow distribution in binary form only. Free Software doesn't, that's the difference and I think that difference is large enough to make them not synonyms.
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by ldarby 11y ago
> Open source is a synonym for free software False, I suggest you read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.e...
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by ldarby 11y ago
Have a look at http://www.tuffmail.com .
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by ldarby 11y ago
That PDF suggests Zulip died after being acquired by Dropbox, but that's not the case, they opensourced it: zulip.org
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by ldarby 11y ago
At least one cause I know of is applications creating an anonymous mmap() region. IIRC that's counted by the nr_active_anon field in /proc/vmstat
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by ldarby 11y ago
I think (at least hope) people do care about freedom, but they're just not even aware that freedom is an option. So we should at least try to educate them about the option of freedom. I believe a lot of people aren't aware that
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by ldarby 11y ago
This might be of interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139817
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by ldarby 11y ago
Still there: <div class="inset external-content-inset"> <div class="embedded iframe"> <iframe class="iframe-embed" src=" http://on
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by ldarby 11y ago
I hope they find something, but if not, there's a space mission planned for 2034 I'm looking forward to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_Laser_Interferometer_S...
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by ldarby 11y ago
This is a great idea, but where's the solution to those web pages that put links in javascript that do stuff like window.open("url") that forces a new window, or do_postback("url"), that prevents you choosing to ope
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by ldarby 11y ago
The post says: "Indeed, the processes grew from their initial size of 100MB, slowly, all the way up to 1GB before we killed them." The important part is that they manually killed the processes before they let it start swapping.
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by ldarby 11y ago
There are in fact bad outcomes of continued memory growth - firstly there is a catastrophic performance degradation when processes start getting swapped to disk, then when swap space runs out Linux's OOM killer starts killing processes

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