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by paavoova 8y ago
Some, such as Google developers, have said these vulnerabilities can't be fixed in software: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/google-software-is-n... And it's ridiculous to give credence to t
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by paavoova 8y ago
> for whatever reason Chrome on Linux installs a google.chrome repository, uses the distro package manager Because that's the proper way to do things instead of each application bypassing the package manager and downloading updates
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by paavoova 8y ago
As others may have mentioned, it's because the binaries are overwritten. But Ubuntu used to ship a plugin with their builds, xul-ext-ubufox, that would detect this and prompt for restart on upgrade, but for some reason it's disabl
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by paavoova 8y ago
Look at what Apple is doing to native integration [1]: Because it uses these deep integration APIs, we're only allowed to distribute the application using the macOS App Store (whose rejections, appeals, and eventual acceptance made fo
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by paavoova 8y ago
That's fine - I don't care about the App Store and what it offers, I just want some way to give users access to my app. Now what? Apple says "Fall in line if you want to access to our platform", I say "Thanks, but I
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by paavoova 8y ago
> I would hate for Apple to allow downloading apps through websites This is such an extreme stance compared to what you're allowed to do on the desktop. Regardless of what Apple allows or not, shouldn't the user, the owner of t
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by paavoova 8y ago
It's not a personal grudge to be against forcing proprietary formats instead of an open, standardized format for no reason other than keeping a foothold over competitors and monopolizing the market. If Office used standardized formats,
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by paavoova 8y ago
So this would be hashing the pointer? In which case it doesn't support keys, like strings, etc. I'm now wondering if this is the more common use case for hash tables, where you just need a reference to a unique object rather than
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by paavoova 8y ago
> You know what I spend my efforts worrying about? Her getting hit by a car. Drowning. You know, real things. Privacy is a real thing, and worrying about it isn't mutually exclusive with any other concerns. I'll be honest and s
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by paavoova 8y ago
I think more interesting is that it, and presumably many others, survived so long in the wild of all places. Many species are known to have significantly extended lifespans in captivity compared to the wild, so that alone isn't unusual
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by paavoova 8y ago
The problem is doing that ensures your mobile device is useless as, well, a real-time communications device. No immediate calls, no SMS, no internet and associated apps without wifi around - how many people are going to enable this? The ans
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by paavoova 8y ago
The only way to address GPS and cellular tracking is to avoid any device with a baseband. So in fact it is either-or in this case.
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by paavoova 8y ago
The "3G" model is not the model you linked. The 3G model requires you to flash proprietary firmware and then associate the router with a Xiaomi account using mobile apps for God only knows what convoluted reason. I would not trust
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by paavoova 8y ago
This does not appear to be officially supported. On top of that, it appears to require one to use Xiaomi mobile software and accounts to set up the router initially prior to any flashing.
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by paavoova 8y ago
You can run stock Android without any Play Store and no/minimal/neutered Google services by installing custom ROMs. Apple doesn't allow this with its hardware. More importantly, you can bypass any centralized app store and in
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by paavoova 8y ago
> Workstations need to be totally user-controlled, but phones don't And why this extreme generalization, exactly? Don't you suppose you could have privacy, security, and perhaps even simplicity and ease-of-use with a totally fr
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by paavoova 8y ago
Google is purportedly aware of ME and working on removing it: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-removing-minix-mana... But yeah, good luck convincing anyone that it's a good idea to run me_cleaner on produc
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by paavoova 8y ago
and it can play 1080p video in real-time I'm skeptical of this claim given my X220 (Sandy Bridge) has trouble decoding 1080p with any medium/high quality playback options. Enabling debanding algorithms, for example, which is def
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by paavoova 8y ago
So this only blocks/matches known domains? That isn't nearly as useful as to what uMatrix/uBlock allow, such as filtering by resource type. E.g. you may want to disable all JS by default, which uBlock allows.
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by paavoova 8y ago
The downside of objects is performance due to the e.g. increased overhead a file object carries. Plus the exact same can be argued with everything being bytes/text on Unix, in that it make everything simple but versatile. > get some
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by paavoova 8y ago
Do any such services not engage in similar practices? Including LinkedIn? I'm kind of dismayed at the state of the modern application process, where you typically have to give your info to one or more third parties instead of being abl
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by paavoova 8y ago
As far as I understand, all excess amino acids (that is, not used for protein synthesis), are indiscriminately metabolized for energy, diet doesn't factor into it. Your body cannot readily store amino acids outside of those free floati
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by paavoova 8y ago
I don't quite follow your analogy. I think everyone understands that the more you drive a car, the more fuel it consumes, and this being analogous to biological functions. > That's a necessary condition And addiction isn't
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by paavoova 8y ago
> vegan then you don't get as much variety I simply fail to see how it's possible to eat vegan low-carb. Everything vegan, be it legumes, vegetables, or fruits, have carbs. Legumes are 2/3 carbs, so they're out of the
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by paavoova 8y ago
This doesn't change the fact that the underlying mechanism of weight gain is a net caloric surplus over a given period of time, which is (hypothetically, at least) addressable without addiction ever coming into the discussion. But if s
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by paavoova 8y ago
It's interesting to see how this discussion steers towards privacy. Some distributions, like Ubuntu for example, are far less conservative. Besides the NTP tracking mentioned in the article, there's the Amazon fiasco of past, and
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by paavoova 8y ago
Related: many of the components of sunscreen break down into free radicals in the process of absorbing UV, which are in effect (but perhaps not in practice) more damaging than UV exposure itself. Quick source I dug up, but there's many
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by paavoova 8y ago
And people literally call me crazy for not carrying a phone around 24/7.
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by paavoova 8y ago
That's exactly what made me think it's staged. Despite stating contrary, he seemed incredibly eager to drive to an unknown location, and hop out of his car without scouting the direct vicinity. How could he have known the thief wa
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by paavoova 8y ago
Not mentioned under quirks/syntax: - Special-snowflake, verbose ternary syntax (expr if cond else expr) - (De)evolution of language features over time, such as format strings (from "%s" % val to "{}".format(val), an

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