linuxandrew

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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Is it really cheating though? My computer, my rules. Copyright effectively gives YT an arguably illegitimate monopoly status on a lot of content which hasn't been uploaded elsewhere. Compared to, say, "modern" Usenet where fi
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Let's say this passes and the Signal Foundation and Matrix refuse to add surveillance features demanded by the UK. What effect would this have on technology as a whole? Personally I can see it going two ways. The Matrix.org Foundation
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
It's also a bit simplistic to say that Snowden is the reason for prevalent HTTPS. The share of encrypted web traffic rose after Firesheep, HTTPS Everywhere, the Snowden revelations, LetsEncrypt, HSTS and opportunistic encryption. There
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
I don't like companies collecting hundreds or thousands of data points on me. It's not just advertising, but trashy and addictive suggested content and potential for abuse by actors like Cambridge Analytica. > I understand hati
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Have you tried using Zoom in-browser? That worked last time I tried, and you avoid downloading a proprietary non-system package.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> I've seen many posts on Reddit where people think they should be able to use a service like YouTube for free without ads I should be able to control my computer and choose what is displayed to me. > YouTube isn't free to r
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> If for some reason you want to run an untrusted application, use a container. But building your whole house around the "untrusted" premise sounds ridiculous. I guess we should do away with memory protection as well. Filesyste
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Sorry, late reply. I don't care if my bank knows who I am, but I might care if my bank can learn about my online history/preferences via the many analytics platforms and third party cookies. That shit needs to get shut down.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
For homelab stuff Terraform/Terrafork will probably be OK for some time. The current TF version will get security updates until the end of the year and I expect others will keep it going after that. In the medium term I'd expect i
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
I can think of some good uses. Lots of websites block Tor, some websites (like your bank) may lock your account if you start logging in from random countries. Tor can also be a bit slow for some uses.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
HashiCorp makes its external contributors sign a CLA to basically hand over the copyright. However the MPL and licensing in general is irrevocable. They have irrevocably licensed Terraform 1.5.5 under the MPL and an enterprise license (dual
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
As a long-time Firefox user (or rather, LibreWolf and Mull now) the biggest problem as I see it is websites that no longer support it. Compatibility is constantly getting worse as Chrome/Blink monopolises web dev and testing. I'm
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Very disappointing if you ask me. I'll likely pin versions on Terraform and Vault to the last available MPL release, at least for a while and hold out for a fork or some sort of change. Edit: dup of https://news.ycombinator.
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HashiCorp Transitions to BSL(theregister.com)
1 points by linuxandrew 3y ago|1 comments
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
I'm not blocked so here you go - info@linuxiac.com
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping It sounds like Elon doesn't "get" the open web
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Different climate but I lived in two poorly maintained Queenslanders[1] which were a popular style of timber on piles here, both 50 years old and would easily last longer. One even had minor termite damage which was later treated. Many peop
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Copyright isn't really ownership and only applies to creative works, software and works that exceed the threshold of originality. It doesn't apply to metadata, location information, secrets and facts about people. Ownership as a c
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
My story is more of a facepalm since there was no known hack that came of it. My former employer had a helpdesk website that was written in Perl 4 in the '90s by some interns. The users' passwords were stored in plaintext in &#x
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
https://freeotp.github.io/ is yet another TOTP provider by Red Hat. It's the only app that I've used so far. Available from F-Droid plus the usual places. There's also a fork FreeOTP+ by some people who have
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Google/Blink consistently pushes for bad things like EME, FLoC and Topics API. They have a very different vision of the web where users live in a corporate playground and complex browser engines which only a few large corps can manage.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Mozilla abandoned work on Servo in 2020 (source: https://tildes.net/~tech/ra8/i_am_a_mozilla_employee_amaa ) shortly after Layout 2020 came about. Servo was in limbo for some time before recently being handed over
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Servo is now under the Linux Foundation umbrella. It's refreshing to finally see some more players in the browser engine space than the tri-opoly of Google (Blink), Apple (WebKit) and Gecko (Mozilla). LibWeb (Ladybird Browser) is anoth
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by linuxandrew 4y ago
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Hacker News is dying
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by linuxandrew 4y ago
Network transparency doesn't offer any tangible benefits for a lot of apps and desktop environments because they are drawn with bitmaps and textures rather than vectors. This topic has been done to death for the past decade. VNC and RD
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by linuxandrew 4y ago
> systemd (the attempt to turn Linux into Windows) systemd was actually inspired by launchd, not Windows. But I guess systemd, Windows and launchd do share one thing in common which is not having a bunch of bandaid shell scripts hanging
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by linuxandrew 4y ago
Exactly this. MSN Music screwed me over when they shut down and made the .m4p DRM music files unplayable. I redownloaded all of the music via BitTorrent and persisted to this day.
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by linuxandrew 4y ago
3. Prevent bit-rot w/ software RAID. Running ZFS, btrfs et al. on a single disk can detect bit-rot but not repair it.
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by linuxandrew 4y ago
I've heard crows have also learnt to eat cane toads (crows are known to be quite smart) - https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2018... Apparently other animals are eating them with varying
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by linuxandrew 4y ago
Whilst weapons of mass destruction have been a deterrant, I would argue that weapons of targeted destruction are just as useful, if not more so, like drones, missiles, anti-missile defense etc. They are also less bad for humanity if they ar

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