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by no_time 5y ago
Let's pretend there is no financial interest in restricting computer access. I think the best and safest option would be to manufacture all PCs with a similar mechanism to chromebooks write protect screw that you have to remove to unlo
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by no_time 5y ago
That's so weird. No idea why they restricted that but not the other ways of setting a window to always stay on top. Like whatever Firefox's picture-in-picutre uses. EDIT: I guess they want to prevent you from doing interesting thi
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by no_time 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the rest but how is Always-on-top locked away? Its such a basic thing and a lot of programs are using it.
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by no_time 5y ago
I like how the author acknowledges that some people claim that TPMs are evil but doesn't actually refute it. As long as I can't extract the Endorsement Keys from a TPM I legally own you are not convincing me otherwise.
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by no_time 5y ago
I have a theory that this seismic shift is the result a demographic shift of PC users. It gradually went from engineers, businessmen and hackers to a much wider audience including younger people who have trouble grasping concepts such as fo
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by no_time 5y ago
Correct. It's one thing that the general population doesn't know what a TPM is but I just can't fathom how do governments deal with the fact that their entire nation's computing is about to be run under lock and key cont
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by no_time 5y ago
The water is getting so hot the frog is having problems breathing from all the steam. "Crazy conspiracy!" He yells between two heavy gasps for air.
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by no_time 5y ago
Americans have their fair share of nationalistic names. The original Xbox was codenamed Midway for obvious reasons. :^)
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by no_time 5y ago
Calling it anti piracy is a bit of a stretch. It's just that companies realized that the printing of the physical media is no longer the point of no return from a development standpoint.
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by no_time 5y ago
Oh boy I can't wait to not being able to open certain websites because I am using software that American big tech doesn't like. This is treachery on a chip and the fact that a sizable portion of people who are perfectly aware of h
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by no_time 5y ago
Because it's not his name. Imagine you are John but you had to make do with Yohn because the people designing you software didn't need the letter J...
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by no_time 5y ago
It was roughly 3-4 years ago the last time I tried it. Happy to hear they made good progress since then.
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by no_time 5y ago
>High-quality gdb/lldb debug information with source stepping, type information etc Very nice. Last time I experimented with Nim the lack of this was the single biggest dealbreaker.
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by no_time 5y ago
God damn, Where do I sign up? Saying goodbye is the least of my worries. But a move like this would most likely upset the US enough to flex it's imperialistic muscles. After all, they are the biggest beneficiaries of this cross border
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by no_time 5y ago
Looks like grandparent mode is enabled by default with all the whitespace and even lower information density. What's the endgame? In 20 years only a single letter at a time on the screen? >Any information processed in Private Comput
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by no_time 5y ago
thanks for this unusually positive/hopeful take. Instead of crashing the party again with some negativity I'm gonna leave it at this :^)
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by no_time 5y ago
As the complexity of our every day devices increase, less and less people are capable of contributing anything meaningful to an OS like Linux, let alone in their free time. It also doesn't help that the abundance of high level language
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by no_time 5y ago
This is so gut wrenchingly dystopian I gave up reading half way in. If this is the world we are heading towards, i'm rooting for climate change.
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by no_time 5y ago
It's probably a similar infra to root CAs that sign TLS keys. I don't recall a root CA compromise in recent memory.
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by no_time 5y ago
Does not work like that. The keys are signed by the vendor of the hardware. You are essentially paying for the hardware AND the signed keys within it. The server can choose to only trust vendor signed keys.
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by no_time 5y ago
I am almost certain the MS store built into the Win11 will be this antichrist of consumer control. They have all the pieces. They just need to put them together in the coming years.
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by no_time 5y ago
What's the point of a "secure cryptoprocessor" in a controller when you can de-solder the buttons and trigger them via another MCU? Do you make them like POS terminals that self destruct when they are opened? I can just use a
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by no_time 5y ago
Did you remove edge by chance? I had an update some time ago that rolled itself back because edge not being present on the system was not a handled edge case.
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by no_time 5y ago
Now I'm curious about their stance on the McD's logo. Edit: same as the Flash logo. Didn't expect that...
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by no_time 5y ago
Playwright's layout selectors might help the next time you encounter this. https://playwright.dev/docs/selectors#selecting-elements-bas...
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by no_time 5y ago
I bought a super cheap Goke SoC based security camera unware that it does not function without big brother connections to some chinese ip. A bit of looking around late it turns out someone cracked the password of the telnet server and some
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by no_time 5y ago
This is the exact opposite of undermining property rights. You sold a thing to me. Your control over that thing ends when I hand over the money. I may be forbidden from patching in a new logo and reselling it, but you that's about all
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by no_time 5y ago
The constant schisms in the linux desktop community mean that it's in a perpetual state of various levels of broken. SerenityOS is breath of fresh air if you've ever tried to put a pixel on a screen without relying on an ever incr
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by no_time 5y ago
Saying community is in constant decline is such an internet thing. A certain other website with a blue background and trumpets has been full of messages like this for the last 20 years, yet it's still a fun place to lurk. HN is one of
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by no_time 5y ago
Interesting article but its rich as fuck coming from a company whose sole product is weaponizing the ever increasing scope of browsers against users

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