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by lucb1e 7mo ago
I've already described above what the browser's behavior is. That your browser works differently is good for you; I'm not using a Google product as my main browser. There are also other downsides that this other behavior does
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Ah yes, getting access to your own data would be a massive problem, can you imagine such a world?! /s Such data should be put in (or encrypted by) the hardware-backed keystore. You get to have full access to what the OS does, including
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
> the most obvious, straightforward, user-friendly approach, and it was never even discussed Fwiw, it was "discussed" in the sense that the person we're arguing with meant upthread ("let's discuss a good solution
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
If there is literally "No amount of scary menus will work." then those people cannot use computers. So long as they can transfer money with it, or do another action that a scammer may want to do, then the scammer can tell them t
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
What public stance do you mean? Did they say somewhere that sharing statistics about Android is against their morals or what do you mean?
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Because we hear so many stories where the scammer directed their target to install an app so that their scam works I know a lot more people that install newpipe than people that got scammed by any means , and have never heard of anyone bei
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
my employer's choice of premium hosting provider
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
> i will get negative karma again "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Or another process will die at random instead, which might be your desktop environment, the main browser process, Signal (10% chance at corrupting message history each time), a large image you were working on in Gimp... Firefox has gotten v
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
AWS has a similar RAM consumption. I close Signal to make sure it doesn't crash and corrupt the message history when I need to open more than one browser tab with AWS in the work VM. I think after you click a few pages, one AWS tab was
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
> At least the info on Google Maps is publicly visible without logging in Ah yeah enjoy that while it lasts. https://9to5google.com/2026/02/18/google-maps-limited-view-s... found via https://twe
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Interesting approach. The fastest of the 4 presented compressors ("LSTM (small)") is 24 times slower than xz, and their best compressor ("LSTM (large1)") is 429 times slower than xz. Let alone gzip or, presumably, zstand
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
This is essentially already being done. The kernel will keep in RAM as much of the file that the system is operating on as will fit Code can care about cache locality and improve upon this default behavior, like if you find a heuristic wher
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
> Free software doesn't have a lot of trademarks Hence my saying "not trademarked (because open source freedom woohoo)". I understand bzip3 is legal , but my question is whether it's a dick move > the name is the
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
> > Pareto optimality is a situation where no […] preference criterion can be better off without making at least one […] preference criterion worse off […]. (Omissions theirs.) Wasn't that zstandard's stated goal? Not very s
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Huh? Only if it gets decompressed few times I would say, because it's so extremely slow at it Like a software installation that you do one time. I'd not even want it for updates if I need to update large data files. The only pur
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
> bzip2 and xz are extremely slow to compress This depends on the setting. At setting -19 (not even using --long or other tuning), Zstd is 10x slower to compress than bzip2, and 20x slower than xz, and it still gets a worse compression
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
It's good, but is it "the future" when it's extra work? Consider that you could hand-code an algorithm to recognize cats in images but we would rather let the machine just figure it out for itself. We're kind of ave
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Was the name used with permission? Even if not trademarked (because open source freedom woohoo), it's a bit weird to release, say, Windows 12 without permission from the authors of Windows 11 I tried looking it up myself but it doesn&#
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
This matches my experience compressing structured text btw. Bzip2 will beat every other tool out there, both on compression ratio and, sadly, decompression time OP says decompression time is so high because it has similar properties to a me
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Why? If the voltage spikes on the grid (that's what I understand a power surge to mean), wouldn't even more of it end up in your house (that is: the grid voltage spike even higher) if the neighbors have equipment that doesn't
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
How did you know it was a power surge? Not doubting your comment, just interested in knowing if this ever happened to me
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
The comment says "again". I'm not too surprised agreements like this are not the normal procedure and can get forgotten about (it shouldn't... but if this isn't automated, humans can make mistakes), but more than on
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Even if you only read the headline, you can work out the most likely story from logic. Someone else in this thread already said it: they're not gonna go to jail for you over a small subscription fee, of course they're complying
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
Nothing of that email is new to me, and I didn't read the login-walled part which was like the third paragraph onward or something (I think it said it's free to read once you sign up, so not a paywall, but yeah either way)
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by lucb1e 7mo ago
That seems quite irrelevant in the bigger picture. I'm not recommending a company that campaigns for an authoritarian party, not even to other people in that camp. It's just immoral
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by lucb1e 8mo ago
> unless the recipient is also using protonmail Or any similar service from another vendor? Or hosts their own email. If someone using Protonmail emails me, their data is also not getting sold for example, it's just stored on my lap
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by lucb1e 8mo ago
> unless all parties are using proton, email is inherently insecure and somebody can/will have a record of your communication regardless. That the person you're exchanging messages with, has your messages, is hardly a surprise.
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by lucb1e 8mo ago
What device identifier are you referring to, something like the MAC addresses of your network cards? How are they retrieving that via a browser?
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by lucb1e 8mo ago
In trying to check this claim (I thought Proton did sensible things), I found that the submitted news article is not new at all: > [Proton's] homepage touts that “With Proton, your data belongs to you, not tech companies, government

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