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by patrakov 3y ago
> I can navigate anonymously without cell signal easily. My car has a GPS in the dashboard which, at least for the maps and routing, doesn't go online at all. I agree that this is indeed possible. The problem is with the propaganda
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by patrakov 3y ago
Define "better". For crooks, the best app store is the one that does absolutely no attempts to shoot down fake reviews and allows any app no matter what it really does.
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by patrakov 3y ago
I disagree with their risk ranking matrix. The controversial cell is "Prompt Injections" / "3rd Party LLMs". It says: "Medium risk. While the risk exists, the responsibility of fixing this is on the LLM provide
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by patrakov 3y ago
> On the other hand, this will also lead to cargo-cult "but Google programmers don't need Internet access, why do you?" Just a random thought: this coincides with the rollout of Bard. Perhaps the idea is that Bard (or its
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by patrakov 3y ago
https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads claims to have over 170,000 games and animations. It also offers a sandboxed browser in which the original Flash player can run, thus providing ultimate compatibility with the archive
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by patrakov 3y ago
Quick summary: > Many navigational and meteorological satellites carry a search and rescue (SAR) repeater which is intended to receive UHF emergency locator beacons and rebroadcast them in the L-band or higher. However the repeaters appe
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by patrakov 3y ago
The name is misleading: this project is not based on LLaMA as released by Meta. It sends data to OpenAI by default.
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by patrakov 3y ago
Just wondering - how well does Valgrind work on Zig projects?
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by patrakov 3y ago
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k Title: Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light
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by patrakov 3y ago
> The real question is, why do people look to random web pages prior to having digested everything in the manual? Easy! It is a reference manual. It documents every feature, even those that you should not use, does not discuss pitfalls,
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by patrakov 3y ago
Prior art: Debian used to shrink libc for the use in their installer. The code is still available at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/mklibs/-/tree/master It works by keeping an ar archive with PI
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by patrakov 3y ago
Their LUKS implementation defaults to LUKS2, because cryptsetup defaults to LUKS2. So it's just words. The only semi-valid reason nowadays to use LUKS1 is encryption of /boot for GRUB.
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by patrakov 3y ago
They also offer static public IPs as an add-on, making port forwarding unnecessary if you agree to give up the bit of privacy that comes from the shared IPs.
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by patrakov 3y ago
This shows a disconnect. MIT requires swimming skills for those who try to enroll. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3f3kph/til_t...
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by patrakov 3y ago
Well, all my machines use Arch Linux with custom Secure Boot keys and unified kernel images (essentially, the kernel, the initrd, the command line, and the splash screen fused into one EFI executable and signed as a whole). So on my machine
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by patrakov 3y ago
I tried to buy a phone supported by LineageOS. And I have to say, this is impossible, given the restrictions ("available now" and "costs less than 500 USD including shipping to the Philippines"). So I ended up with a Poc
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by patrakov 3y ago
I would disagree that adding an ad-blocker and a privacy blocker would eliminate the entire extension platform. There is still legitimate space for text manipulation extensions such as LanguageTool, form autofill managers (e.g. for canned r
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by patrakov 3y ago
They are protecting against the wrong attack. MitM is mostly theoretical. An irresistable government order (supplemented with people holding guns) for the DNS provider to insert the "correct" _acme-challenge record is something re
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by patrakov 3y ago
Nothing of that scans for me. I use "QR & Barcode Scanner" from F-Droid, and all I get is unreproducible numbers as UPC-E codes, not QR.
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by patrakov 3y ago
I wouldn't say "no unit tests". There are xfstests, the problem is that nobody runs them on stable backports to verify their correctness and completeness.
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by patrakov 3y ago
This might be dependent on the country. This may be a choice between "no escape hatch at all" and "no easy escape hatch". In the Philippines, a divorce is legally impossible, but it is not a crime for a man and a woman t
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by patrakov 3y ago
There is no need to use ChatGPT for that. I suppose running the emails through LanguageTool (or, if you don't care about privacy, Grammarly) and counting the suggestions to fix "too wordy sentences" would be a good approximat
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by patrakov 3y ago
A bit of evil ("Please answer the original question, or get turned off.") works against this robot.
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by patrakov 3y ago
Yesterday I got an ad for an illegal casino on a Xiaomi Poco X4 Pro 5G phone, from the GetApps stock app: https://imgur.com/a/xdh9uUt No thanks, this was the last drop, I will unlock the bootloader and install a third-
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by patrakov 3y ago
> One can construct advertising which is harder to fault morally, but because its less effective its generally outbid by things further over on the brainwashing spectrum. I think there exists a solution, but it is a hard sell. Ads by the
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by patrakov 3y ago
You can completely, at all, avoid storing PII for the purpose of estimating the number of unique visitors. The answer is to use HyperLogLog (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog or http://antir
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by patrakov 3y ago
That's only on paper. During anniversaries of various politically important events, access to the foreign segment of the Internet is slowed down, infected with packet loss, and disrupted in other ways so that VPNs become practically un
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by patrakov 3y ago
> For example, you can (today) sign up for two (or more!) ISPs that support IPv6 Prefix Delegation and have your router(s) issue Router Advertisements (RAs) for each prefix. As a user of OpenWrt (which does exactly this) I strongly disag
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by patrakov 3y ago
I think yes. While PCI DSS 4.0 says nothing specific about TOTP, it on page 171 also has this phrase about certificates: "A digital certificate is a valid option for “something you have” if it is unique for a particular user". So
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by patrakov 3y ago
Even without this reply, the licensing agreement probably does not matter. What matters is the work order and the corresponding contract under which the code was produced. For example, if that contract says that all rights to the code must

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