madez

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721.
by madez 9y ago
You can have arbitrary exceptions to ensure coherency. There is no reasonable need to have a position without exceptions. Reality isn't that simple.
722.
by madez 9y ago
DRM is harmful. Its prerequisite is that users do not control their hardware. This has far reaching consequences that go well beyond media consumption and entertainment.
723.
by madez 9y ago
English has many heteronyms. I think that property is horrible and should be avoided whenever possible. Why is it accepted by english-speaking people?
724.
by madez 9y ago
Why would you restrict this to iDevices?
725.
by madez 9y ago
But the attacker model for WLan is different than the attacker model for the modem. WLan attacks are usually more targeted and not as suitable for mass surveillance than modem based attacks/tracking. Having the modem activated let&#x27
726.
by madez 9y ago
I use quite a silent phone since years. It's permanently in airplane mode with wifi activated. I can still chat, browse, navigate and so on. It's pretty useful. Since we cannot secure the silicon, we need other technical means to
727.
by madez 9y ago
That isn't very difficult. Choose a prime, say 2. Now pick a sufficiently large number of digits to get a high enough resolution. Pick a number that graphically spells out 2. Replace the least significant bit of the number with a zero.
728.
by madez 9y ago
This is why data protection laws are needed. Data about a person needs to belong to the person. This would prevent these large collections without consent.
729.
by madez 9y ago
Why did you switch away from btrfs?
730.
by madez 9y ago
Why couldn't there be a law requiring all computers sold in the EU to have full documentation and complete controls for the user? I don't think this is impossible or surreal. I think there are ways to check for certain things, if
731.
by madez 9y ago
I hope for european authorities to force Intel and AMD to offer chips without ME and consorts and providing guaranteed complete documentation and control to the users. Food is regularly sampled and controlled. I think the same for electroni
732.
by madez 9y ago
How is internet not a utility?! Some day people will look back at today and shake their head.
733.
by madez 9y ago
The point of your post or the intention you had with the post? Reading your post again, I still see scaremongering in it.
734.
by madez 9y ago
Of course you use different keys for the different layers. One uses layering not to compete directly with the underlying cipher but to add a fall-back security. This immediately demands that one must not reuse the key. Since this is simple
735.
by madez 9y ago
I suggested on HN recently to try a layering approach to incorporate self-made cryptography, but was downvoted to hell for it. This made me aware that even people in tech can be dogmatic.
736.
by madez 9y ago
Some companies rely on distros. Do these companies make sure to fund the distributions?
737.
by madez 9y ago
Physics has many unanswered questions, and we can't rule out the possibility to generate energy equivalent to the death of a small star. My point is not just a formal nitpick. Everything, all the stars, all the matter, all the energy i
738.
by madez 9y ago
For example for families that don't want their girls to take part in physical education including swimming. Another example is animal slaughter according to tradition that would be illegal due to cruelty without religious excuse. Yet a
739.
by madez 9y ago
Germany as a whole has a pathetic relationship towards cultures and religions. Due to the excessive guilt-culture it is political suicide to openly criticize some obvious problems. There is also widespread over-tolerance and leniency with r
740.
by madez 9y ago
First, because of undisclosed design and patents it is difficult for competition to compete in the x86 market. Second, competition is exactly what we need to get rid of hardware backdoors and unwanted features. If I had the coice to buy a P
741.
by madez 9y ago
I care, and I'm not alone. The problem and it's consequences aren't widely known outside of the tech community.
742.
by madez 9y ago
Too bad that these AMD CPU's also contain convenient capabilities through PSP to add a hardware backdoor to a computer which one cannot detect from the OS. @Phoronix: RISC-V-based and other open processors and computers are much more i
743.
by madez 9y ago
A blast door protects against explosions – a very unlikely scenario, that will happen to practically nobody. ECC protects against bit flips in RAM which happen significantly often ( https://www.cnet.com/news/google-comp
744.
by madez 9y ago
If VW is forced to make all regulations-breaching cars to be compliant and compensate the owner for down-time and loss in fuel-efficiency or performance, that might mean the end to VW. VW is touched softly, just like Intel, for example. I t
745.
by madez 9y ago
> If you kill a couple of people you go to jail or might even get executed. If you kill 1200+ you get early retired on a comfy stipend. This falsely looks like a good point. Cars kill a lot of people by virtue of accidents. Does that mea
746.
by madez 9y ago
I found his story entertaining to hear.
747.
by madez 9y ago
Then I realize Firefox is not a browser made for me. I don't care about the marketshare of my browser. I want it to to make my browsing easier and faster, while never compromising on security and privacy. _Any_ outgoing connection with
748.
by madez 9y ago
Ask for it. Don't just collect the data. Ffs, what has the team behind FireFox become? I need a new browser.
749.
by madez 9y ago
Why would FireFox be on a dead spiral for not tracking it's users? If they want browsing data, then can use their own.
750.
by madez 9y ago
Is the lack of a secure door to your property something that would hold you back? I doubt that. Still, secure doors are important.

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