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by neop1x 5y ago
It may not be helping child abuse enough if it does not detect newly-taken child pornography. Couple of years fast forward and machine learning will be scanning all the photos you take and watch. A little bit forward and it will be forbidd
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by neop1x 5y ago
They announced CSAM scanning but would you trust there is no scanning if they said they reversed their decision and eventually gave you E2E? Considering how big the firmware size is and that all images are processed by their APIs and they c
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by neop1x 5y ago
End-to-end encryption sometimes leaking raw content to a "trusted party". What a joke.
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by neop1x 5y ago
As Stallmain said - people are trading privacy and freedom for convenience.
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by neop1x 5y ago
I have been using LineageOS on Xperia XZ2 Compact for about a year with a smaller bundle of official Google Play Services. Almost everything works fine! Some apps didn't like it or detected root but Magisk + MagiskHide helped to hide r
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by neop1x 5y ago
>> Who audits these databases? Maybe pedophiles working for those companies.
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by neop1x 5y ago
I have been self-hosting email for 7 years successfully. But it required a physical server in a reputable datacenter, setting up Dovecot, Exim, SpamAssasin, reverse-DNS, SPF, DKIM. It took a bit of time to gain IP reputation but then it has
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by neop1x 5y ago
Maybe Apple will decrease child abuse cases but increase cases of child suicides..
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by neop1x 5y ago
The next day Apple phones could periodically listen to the environment via the internal microphone. The next day Apple phones could take and upload photos of the environment by itself.
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by neop1x 5y ago
First you should configure some kind of authentication. It is fun to remember this 3 years old Tesla example [1]: Publicly accessible Kubernetes Dashboard. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/tesla-systems-used-by-hackers
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by neop1x 5y ago
>> My job isn’t to use git, it’s to write specialist software. It's like a plumber complaining that his job isn't driving with a car and that he wants customers to pick him up or wait for him until he comes on foot or via pu
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by neop1x 5y ago
Maybe also KiCAD but that is more ECAD/EDA. Great tool though!
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by neop1x 5y ago
Scaleway - egress free
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by neop1x 5y ago
Yes, most people think about Azure/GCP/AWS/Alibaba only. But there are many others, smaller and bigger providers. For example: Scaleway (small, in Europe) is like DO: Egress cost is part of the instance price Oracle cloud: Eg
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by neop1x 5y ago
Almost everything is BGA now, including RAM and data flash chips. Just bios flash chips are still often (not always) SOIC. BGA soldering is possible with more expensive IR or convection-based stations and a bit of skill too. But yes, parts
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by neop1x 5y ago
I never had a need for water-proof phone. I am not diving or bathing with the phone...
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by neop1x 5y ago
I love MariaDB/MySQL. I had only like 2 crashes and 1 broken migration over the decade of it in production. It very powerful if you design tables and indices right. Postgres may be great too but I started with MySQL and I don't wa
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by neop1x 5y ago
Do you happen to know any tips for good online resources for virt-manager and features like this other than tedious reading of manual pages and trial & error?
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by neop1x 5y ago
Your choice but be aware that self-hosting probably reduces collaboration with community. GitHub and GitLab makes it easy to contribute a pull request. Hundreds of private cgit web frontends make it hard to contribute and it is often imposs
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by neop1x 5y ago
Yes, I had a first-hand experience with this. Cheap VPS was blackholed right away at Yahoo and any attempt to unblock it was not successful. It makes sense though. Then I set up my own bare metal server and put it into a real datacenter ser
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by neop1x 5y ago
and now you will just watch more ads :( no easy escape
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by neop1x 5y ago
I tried to create an Instagram account to be able to see some photos. The first attempt stopped at "unexpected error" just after selecting a login name. The second attempt with different email address in a different browser ended
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by neop1x 5y ago
>> by far it's the easiest way to backup my data lol... until they lose your data (like Canon cloud service), until they increase subscription cost heavily or block access to your account (e.g. due to "ToS violation". G
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by neop1x 5y ago
He is probably not talking about Macbooks
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by neop1x 5y ago
I have a small "normal pc-like" box with up-to date Linux. It required some initial setup but it will be supported forever and almost any software can be installed there.
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by neop1x 5y ago
I tried fish for a short while too and quickly realized everything depends on bash/dash. I then switched to zsh which is mostly compatible. I installed Oh My Zsh and a fish-inspired theme with line autocompletion and coloring and never
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by neop1x 5y ago
Lots of people from Czechia use alza.cz for purchasing electronics and computer stuff. Surprisingly it also ships to many Europe countries and have English site at https://www.alzashop.com/ . It doesn't list as huge va
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by neop1x 5y ago
I bought an industrial microwave without the rotating plate many years ago and it still works perfectly to this day and heats evenly enough. :) I would never buy a cheap, retail microwave. Not always but sometimes "I am not wealthy eno
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by neop1x 5y ago
Avoiding DDoSability of your app (removing bottlenecks, scaling up replicas, implementing rate-limiting, etc). There are probably some rare cases where captcha is useful, though. For example some account creations where you wish to have mor
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by neop1x 5y ago
There are still people having 7+ years old Macbooks with easily replaceable HDD and sometimes RAM. And people buying new devices every release. Maybe attitude of society towards right to repair and Apple fanaticism will change over time as

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