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by mzajc 2y ago
Alas, the pricey e-waste reaches its unsurprising end of life.
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by mzajc 2y ago
Works from Europe, might be something else.
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by mzajc 2y ago
This is purely security by obscurity. I don't see why someone with motivation and capability to forge evidence wouldn't be able to forge these signatures, considering the private keys presumably come with the camera you buy.
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by mzajc 2y ago
OP bought a camera, and the camera can be used as a webcam - but deliberately not with standard protocols. Pretending the limitation is of technical nature rather than a result of corporate greed is both delusional and harmful to consumer r
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by mzajc 2y ago
I am not a lawyer so I can't say with certainty, but judging by the exchange between Richard Stallman and Bruno Haible, the author of CLISP, it may well be required: https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/clisp/
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by mzajc 2y ago
I like this a lot, and the rule editor is able to create some very powerful workflows. My mouse has two side buttons, and I bind one of them plus scrollwheel to virtual desktop switching. Unfortunately this takes complete control of your sc
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by mzajc 2y ago
> This post started as a Twitter long-post. I decided to throw it at O1 Pro to turn it into a blog post. lmk what you think of the result I think it would've been nice if this disclaimer were placed at the top, not at the very botto
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by mzajc 2y ago
Just like "No" has been replaced with "Remind me later," dropping bad ideas entirely has been replaced with delaying them. Way to go, Microsoft!
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by mzajc 2y ago
I've taken a deeper look into the listed issues since writing my comment, and you're absolutely right: - the named scandals occurred in 2012, 2005, and 2007 respectively, so more then a decade ago. For reference, the linked Ibis p
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by mzajc 2y ago
Wikipedia generally avoids resolving disputes democratically, instead opting to establish consensus based on sources where possible. With voting systems you end up walking the tightrope between making your system susceptible to Sybil attack
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by mzajc 2y ago
I think this works much better for social media than it would for an encyclopedia - while a Mastodon user I'm interested in is likely on a single instance, a topic an encyclopedia would cover might be present on many instances, each ho
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by mzajc 2y ago
This points out several valid issues with Wikipedia, but does not explain how the replacement addresses them. Centralized moderation, for instance, is replaced by moderating every instance separately. But doesn't that simply shift the
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by mzajc 2y ago
I'm in the same boat. I think it's unfortunate that MediaWiki doesn't accept a theme header or cookie, which would be very easy to set with extensions. User sessions don't persist for very long and don't work in pri
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by mzajc 2y ago
Personally, I feel like the bold statements about encryption should be removed until this is implemented to avoid misleading users. Out of curiosity, is the data encrypted with a client-provided secret (eg. a password hash, or something tha
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by mzajc 2y ago
I have given your service a try, and while the UX was impressive, I was bothered by an apparent lack of encryption. The landing page, the privacy policy, and your mission statement all make many mentions of encryption and security, yet (bes
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by mzajc 2y ago
Tangential, but rclone[1] supports this kind of workflow with the `copy` subcommand, if you don't mind spending both download and upload bandwidth at once. [1]: https://rclone.org/
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by mzajc 2y ago
Not the original commenter, but "Own back your data & software" to me reads as if self-hosting is supported, at minimum. There doesn't seem to be an option to download the server software, however.
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by mzajc 2y ago
coveryourtracks.eff.org is a great service, but it has a few limitations that apply here: - The website judges your fingerprint based on how unique it is, but assumes that it's otherwise persistent. Randomizing my User-Agent serves the
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by mzajc 2y ago
This is horrifying. What happened to simply displaying a "Your browser is outdated, consider upgrading" banner on the website?
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by mzajc 2y ago
I use the Random User-Agent Switcher[1] extension on Firefox. It does pick real agents, but some of them might show a really outdated browser (eg. Firefox 5X), which I assume is the reason I'm getting blocked. [1]: https://a
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by mzajc 2y ago
I randomize my User-Agent header and many websites outright block me, most often with no captcha and no useless error message. The most egregious is Microsoft (just about every Microsoft service/page, really), where all you get is a &q
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by mzajc 2y ago
Well written! I can relate to most of the article. However, I find that > To focus on one thing deeply, to give it your full attention, is to experience it fully. And when we do this, something remarkable happens. Time, which so often fe
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by mzajc 2y ago
It breaks on suspend-to-memory for my system with a nVIDIA GPU. I assume that's a driver problem, though.
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by mzajc 2y ago
youtube-dl is still under development (last commit at the time of writing was 2 weeks ago), but there are forks with more features, such as yt-dlp.[1] [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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by mzajc 2y ago
This website never mentions quantum attacks or Shor's algorithm, so I doubt it accounts for them.
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by mzajc 2y ago
> Currently the only way is that the sellers of the adverts you read give money to fund Firefox. According to Wikipedia[1], most of Mozilla is funded by Google, for setting them as the default search engine, rather than by more conventio
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by mzajc 2y ago
I was rather shocked when the author implied, on two occasions, that Notepad++ has the potential of wiping your computer. Is there some context I am missing, or is this based entirely on N++'s codenames and release notes?
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by mzajc 2y ago
Another argument I hear often is that "they have no reason to surveil boring ordinary individuals." Sure nobody might have bothered to look into your private exchanges past aggregable metadata until half a decade or so ago, but wi
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by mzajc 2y ago
Thanks for letting me know. Seems like it's a paid feature, however, and I'd rather not pay a monthly subscription for a service I no longer want to use - that was the primary reason I needed automatic forwarding anyway. But I do
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by mzajc 2y ago
Indeed, and as far as I understand, even PGP-encrypted mail can be automatically forwarded and viewed easily, provided I have the correct PGP key installed in my client.

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