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by paavoova 7y ago
My post is sarcasm, I just find it humorous that one's efforts to eliminate explicit memset doesn't stop the compiler from going one step backwards and embedding it just the same. If you replace the initialization with memset, it
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by paavoova 7y ago
Interestingly enough, Clang (but not GCC) appears to embed memset for you despite the code using initializers: https://godbolt.org/z/khJQLV The author of the article should file a bug report. After all, if they wanted
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by paavoova 7y ago
So if you're zeroing out a struct like so struct S {size_t a, void *p;}; foo = (struct S) {0}; Does the standard require the compiler to set any pointers to NULL, or will everything be implicitly zeroed leaving pointers possi
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by paavoova 7y ago
MT7621-based devices can all handle GbE and are supported by OpenWRT. Xiaomi among others sell routers based on this chipset, but personally I'd avoid them due to their locked-down bootloaders which complicate flashing. I myself purcha
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by paavoova 7y ago
It's not just ads, if you're concerned about privacy then DNS-level blocking won't cut it. For example, you can't block cookies or third-party scripts via DNS blocking. > So all in all, I don't see much benefit f
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by paavoova 7y ago
> $50 for a Pi starter kit And $35 for an OpenWRT router that does the same thing and also offers a web interface. Why pay more for a second standalone device?
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by paavoova 7y ago
You can do this by putting a phone in a faraday cage. A quick search shows various wallet-sized poaches available, but I can't vouch for their effectiveness. I wonder why they're not more popular, nor even mentioned, among all the
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by paavoova 7y ago
> moral flexibility It's not necessarily an issue of morals. Take cellular tracking [1], for example: avoiding carrying a phone around with you 24/7 is the only real way to address things like carriers from selling your realtim
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by paavoova 8y ago
Yes, by design, it's a package manager. Rather than bundle dependencies such as libraries, they're pulled in system-wide and dynamically linked. This preserves both flash and memory space on embedded systems, which with consumer r
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by paavoova 8y ago
What exactly differentiates "apps" here from regular programs you can install on routers? If your router runs a hosted system such as Linux and isn't locked down (e.g. OpenWRT), you can install/compile for any existing p
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by paavoova 8y ago
So if you block this Google JS, you cannot access said AMP page? Does AMP implicitly mandate users subscribe not only to said content provider but the third-party AMP host?
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by paavoova 8y ago
But here [1] it says "One of AMP's biggest user benefits has been the unique ability to instantly load AMP web pages that users click on in Google Search. Near-instant loading works by requesting content ahead of time". So AM
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by paavoova 8y ago
I don't understand why AMP is targeted at the "mobile web". What exactly makes browsing the web on mobile different than other platforms?
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by paavoova 8y ago
And the conclusion was, at least for me, is that this doesn't require Pi Hole if your router software supports ad-blocking (OpenWRT, pfSense do), and that DNS-level blocking cannot replace wide-spectrum content type blocking such as in
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by paavoova 8y ago
I used past tense, and the parent comment I replied to writes "just disable the telemetry", linking to the same FAQ the OP of the linked issue tried to follow to disable telemetry. The VSCodium docs (linked in an above comment) me
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by paavoova 8y ago
That comment is replying to another post by bsr203, not the OP.
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by paavoova 8y ago
GPS-related telemetry, say in modern cars or smartphones, is akin to being followed. The latter isn't even anonymized, e.g. recently police identified suspects by issuing a warrant to Google for devices in the vicinity, or Tesla having
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by paavoova 8y ago
> Telemetry helps improve products and opt-out Did you mean to write "opt-in", or are you suggesting it's OK for software to refuse the choice to opt out of data tracking? "Power users" simply do not use such sof
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by paavoova 8y ago
This has been an issue in the past: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131 Telemetry not being disabled I have disabled telemetry as described in the FAQ. I have set the following properties in the
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by paavoova 8y ago
Why would they do this? It's pure negligence. I don't even sign anything important and still worry about my keys.
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by paavoova 8y ago
Elliot Rodger posted on the Misc subforum. In retrospect, reading his posts is like a morbid dark comedy - the lack of social awareness, the insecurity, all shone through to the point of feeling insincere. It could very well have been a tro
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by paavoova 8y ago
Assuming the title is even provided in 4k/HD. For example, I checked right now and Bram Stoker's Dracula is 540p at a reported 838 kb/s, and picture quality is worse than the DVD, with horrible aliasing indicating poor encodi
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by paavoova 8y ago
Requests like what, updating extensions? Telemetry? There's quite a bit that ships on by default but that can be disabled in about:config. What proof do you have they're data mining besides FUD?
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by paavoova 8y ago
Society's purchasing power worries me. How environmentally sustainable is it to replace all the billions of cars with electric? And then decades later, perhaps even under a decade given how fast some technologies develop, how sustainab
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by paavoova 8y ago
My concerns are less about the vehicle technology but what gets implicitly bundled with it. Privacy, for example, being an issue, with newer cars being cellular equipped and having telemetry enabled and no way to opt out. Tesla is allowed a
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by paavoova 8y ago
I think it's a valid concern, look at how many originally open-source Android APIs and frameworks Google has pushed out in favor of their proprietary one's. Similar concerns I've seen voiced is there being a inseparable integ
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by paavoova 8y ago
How exactly does that work, what stops anyone from maintaining a 1:1 branch, the "fork", with upstream and claiming it's GPL?
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by paavoova 8y ago
But why do you require phone numbers instead of offering them as an option alongside email? What about people who don't have a mobile number?
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by paavoova 8y ago
Yes, but now if you do $ wc -l hello.txt, it will say 0. If a program is reading line by line, it won't get a full line if the last line is not terminated - this can lead to unwanted behavior, such as when you're matching end of l
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by paavoova 8y ago
Quality is still an issue for streaming. Anyone who's ever compared a blu-ray to what Netflix offers knows it's night and day, especially for grainy old films. Netflix so-called "1080p" frequently has compression artifac

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