majorchord

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by majorchord 3mo ago
Why is it always a Lord of the Rings-named company that has some seemingly-evil authoritarian agenda? I've seen Palantir, Anduril, Rivendell, Durin, Sauron, Valar, Lembas, Ereborn, and multiple Mithrils.
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by majorchord 3mo ago
> sidestep any unpleasantness when they get a subpoena I'm curious as to how well (legally) this "we could modify the app to do it, but nah" approach actually works, and for how long.
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by majorchord 3mo ago
Right... it's one thing to for example, use a third-party MEGA client to upload files so that there's no chance of the company ever being able to see your key (unlike random javascript they might inject into the web version). But
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by majorchord 3mo ago
In the US at least, companies can and do receive secret demands from the government to add whatever kind of backdoor they want, and you're not allowed to disclose it in any way, they even order you to preserve any warrant canaries you
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by majorchord 3mo ago
Most Americans have been ignoring it and doing nothing. All the protests to date are still quite far away from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule
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by majorchord 3mo ago
Then in that case I think the previous statement of "end to end encryption means no CSAM scanning" would be false.
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by majorchord 3mo ago
Children cannot legally consent to most things in most places, especially until near the end of their teen years.
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by majorchord 3mo ago
> As sad as this is, end to end encryption means no CSAM scanning. I think it depends on your definition of e2ee and where the "end"s are. If the locally running application can decrypt the data, it could always do whatever it
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by majorchord 3mo ago
IMO "end-to-end encryption" simply isn't possible when the application is run by the same company as the servers the data sits on, is closed source, and can at any time, see the decrypted contents of data it downloads from th
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by majorchord 3mo ago
There are boatloads of gaps.
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by majorchord 3mo ago
> the Rust is confirmed safe keep in mind that rust: - does not prevent logic errors - does not prevent stack overflows - does not prevent out of memory errors - does not prevent bitflips caused by faulty hardware or cosmic rays - does n
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by majorchord 4mo ago
So if reddit just didn't have a frontpage, and you had to navigate to each subreddit manually, that would be enough somehow?
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by majorchord 4mo ago
This has got to be hands down the wildest take I've ever seen on this site.
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by majorchord 4mo ago
I can honestly say I have never heard of this hobby being a thing in all my long years.
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by majorchord 4mo ago
The title of the article is misleading, there will still be booms: > Several U.S. companies are working on a new generation of luxurious supersonic passenger aircraft with much quieter sonic booms and improved fuel efficiency
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by majorchord 4mo ago
For me the incentive is being able to own an identity that nobody can take away from me. And the assumption is that services will support this type of identity, so I don't have to make accounts on other systems that people can take awa
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by majorchord 4mo ago
Now if only they could master a name everyone can pronounce.
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by majorchord 4mo ago
> Port knocking is mostly a bad idea Hard disagree... there can be other valid perspectives. > If you don't consider it a security control I think it can be a security control depending on who/what you are trying to secure i
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by majorchord 4mo ago
Same, this whole thread is like the twilight zone for me... I can't tell if I'm losing my mind or all the people with this way of thinking are just being completely unreasonable but I've never seen several people at once agre
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by majorchord 4mo ago
> I don't grasp how anyone uses Chrome as their daily driver willingly The overwhelmingly vast majority of the world population uses Google Chrome with no adblocker, on Windows, and have no desire to change anything. Even if you act
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by majorchord 4mo ago
What other software have you stopped using because they added an optional feature you didn't use?
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by majorchord 4mo ago
By this logic, Linux does not support Wi-Fi, because all the driver modules are "dynamically loaded at run-time."
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by majorchord 4mo ago
I'm surprised you were using a proprietary browser in the first place
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by majorchord 4mo ago
> Musk wrote, “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!” I'm certainly not defending the man, but that comment to me is definitely not plainly seen as "advocating riots"... I'd call that a v
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by majorchord 4mo ago
> It only hallucinates if you use it wrong Sorry but this is demonstrably false. For starters, see the "R's in strawberry" meme.
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by majorchord 4mo ago
> no one is seriously calling for the elimination of automobiles. I think it is because they see cars as much more necessary than guns. IMO The reality is that both could benefit from more regulations and harsher penalties and enforcemen
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by majorchord 5mo ago
vibe-coded, and the github repo does not even contain the sources, just a single 'server.js' that is only for the documentation
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by majorchord 5mo ago
I'll be that guy I guess then... they stated on their page that credit cards are 0.8mm while the muxcard is 1mm and yet they still claim it is "literally the size of a credit card"... not to mention that they carved out an NF
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by majorchord 5mo ago
I misread it as OBFS the proxy protocol
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by majorchord 5mo ago
CF uses more than just WebGL to fingerprint users... LibreWolf isn't helping you as much as you think it is. https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

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