mcpackieh

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by mcpackieh 3y ago
This hasn't been implemented because none of the people who value Linux and have the technical skills to implement this care about fingerprint readers, nor care to support people who do. If you don't like that, then do it yourse
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Simply put: The intersection of "values Linux", "has the technical chops to implement it" and "thinks using fingerprints is actually a good idea" is an empty set. Maybe some people in this thread think they&#x
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I thought it was green bubbles which are shunned. In any case, it seems like a good way to get vain and vapid people to self-select their way out of your life. Would you really want to be friends with the sort of people who exclude others
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Playing deliberately obnoxious music to a captive audience? Yeah that's a CIA torture technique. Unironically.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Istagram is an American country, so it should probably be considered to be counter to the national interests of any country other than America and maybe America's close strategic allies. Particularly, if you're the leader of a
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Probably they're interpreting your first question as "would it be reasonable for me to offer this for sale for $5?" They may not be personally interested in buying it but can still tell you whether a price seems fair or no
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> USPS package texts Try reporting it directly to the US Postal Inspector. From: https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/smishing-package-tra... > Have you received unsolicited mobile text messages with an
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
If all the other contributors had signed over their copyright to the original author, then the author or whoever he sells the copyright to could release future versions under a different license. Copyright assignment is often done (for i
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
The packages from F-Droid are signed with F-Droid's keys, so AFAIK the Play Store can't overwrite them without prompting the user to remove and replace the F-Droid versions. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this point.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Have fun trying to sue an Israeli malware company into compliance. The reason so many malware companies operate out of Israel is because the Israeli government shields them from consequences.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
From what I gather, the author isn't re-licensing the code but is selling their copyright and brand (trademark?) to Zipo, who in turn will probably try to re-license it (without permission from other contributors) or will simply choose
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Your links suggest that the attribution of the discovery of this phenomenon to a Cambridge researcher is an urban legend. But l33tman's comment doesn't make that claim, he only says that words scrambled in this way are easy to r
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
You're missing a big part of the equation: the leopard exists in places where developers can push updates directly to users with minimal if any oversight from commercially independent reviewers. Debian and F-Droid build packages from
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
F-Droid works like the Debian repos: F-Droid builds are not built by the developer, they are built by F-Droid volunteers from source. They don't accept pre-built applications.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Somehow this leopard only exists on systems like Android and Google Play Store or web browser extension stores, but notably not in places like F-Droid or the repos of any common GNU/Linux distribution. "Leopard eats face" i
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> They even secretly had nuclear warheads on the Nike Atlas missiles there to take out incoming bombers where the missiles were less accurate. I think you mean Nike Ajax, although Ajax missiles adapted for nuclear warheads were actuall
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
"Yeah there's a lot of smoke, but I'm not going to evacuate until I see flames" The writing is on the wall, why are you so keen to wait til the last minute?
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I don't think either of these are examples of websites that might plausibly be holding Firefox back from mainstream adoption. I was expecting something like "[popular feature] of facebook or youtube doesn't work"
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Trezor is... a crypto hardware wallet? I can't imagine this sort of thing is popular enough to block firefox from mainstream adoption. The pixel repair site is an interesting example, but AFAIK, Pixel phones have about 2% of the US m
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
5. Too much ego to admit they've been wrong for years when they told Firefox advocates that there was nothing wrong with using Chrome, that the advertising corporation with monopoly power was actually benevolent and wouldn't abuse
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Can you defend the proposition that Firefox isn't a viable browser for lack of these APIs by listing popular websites that won't work without them? Serious question, because I can't think of any.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> What on earth are you on about? The UK's libel laws scared off journalists who wanted to blow the whistle on Jimmy Savile. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/28/jimmy-savile... ht
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
If they've learned anything, they haven't put those lessons into practice. Wealthy abusers continue to use the UK's accuser-biased libel laws to silence those who speak out (falsely accusing them of libel in a system that i
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I invited him to clarify his remarks and he has not chosen to do so. Being deliberately vague when criticizing democracy is a bad look but whatever he really believes is evidently even worse.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
What then? A non-democratic republic, e.g. a dictatorship of a committee? A monarchy, which is little more than a dictatorship crossed with religion/tradition?
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Yes, if only we made you dictator and subjected ourselves to your capricious whims, you would surely rule over us benevolently and somehow stop the foreign scammers from conning our grandmothers. Sounds like a great plan!
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
bcachefs's caching (foreground_target, promote_target, background_target) seems more straight forward than ZFS's ZIL/L2ARC stuff since with bcachefs you can use the same device for accelerating writes and reads of frequently
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
The idea isn't to pander to the majority, but to include facts that at least a substantial minority believe are relevant even if most people think those facts aren't relevant. This would not make the majority feel pandered to,
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I have been more than satisfied with single-drive Btrfs with OpenSUSE so far, but nevertheless I can't wait for bcachefs to prove itself. On paper at least, bcachefs seems like the most attractive of the three.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I think it's because on an individual basis, attributing cancers to a particular cause is very difficult. It's only when you're dealing with large populations that statistical trends become damning (as happened with cigarette

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