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by pbasista 5y ago
Getting access to a regular web app would be sufficient to perform that kind of abuse. It just would be more difficult to automate. It seems to me that the difficulty of getting the victim to grant access to the attacker remains the same fo
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by pbasista 5y ago
> if you grant access to just anyone, then you’ve created an instant fraudster’s paradise. I believe that everyone might get access to their own data and to performing actions on their own account. Could you clarify how is that suppo
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by pbasista 5y ago
> your own, trusty iPhone iPhone runs software which is in full control of Apple. They take active measures to stop general public from auditing its behavior (i.e. no source code, no API specifications, etc). In my opinion, such a device
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by pbasista 5y ago
My first impression was similar. I thought that perhaps Google would publish their ideas of ergonomic, healthy, efficient and friendly workplace as some proposed standard that would be open to collaborations and continuous improvements. App
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by pbasista 5y ago
> Not sure how people imagine production costs can be covered without ads?! It is the producers' job to figure this out and find ethical ways to finance their work. If they make a decision of having ads on their content, they must b
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by pbasista 6y ago
> they have great service Apple typically does not perform component-level repairs. They tend to replace larger parts like motherboards, display assemblies or cases piece for piece, which is cheap and quick for them and expensive for the
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by pbasista 6y ago
> The concept that you should be able to repair it with a screwdriver and a 6-pack is outdated. I agree. But no one asks for that. It is my understanding that the "right to repair" initiative, as presented by Louis Rossmann, on
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by pbasista 6y ago
> proprietary software is the only option What do you mean by "proprietary" in this context? I believe that the availability of the software's source code to its users is unrelated to the fact of whether the actual develop
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by pbasista 6y ago
This announcement is posted in the "Google in Europe" topic. Also, one of its paragraphs states: > That’s why our engineers at the Google Safety Engineering Center in Europe developed Privacy Checkup as an easy way to review ke
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by pbasista 6y ago
In the article, Linus Torvalds is quoted saying: "I’ve been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time. The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS. And I don’t have the time to tinker with it, or the incli
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by pbasista 6y ago
Business model may favor such a behavior but in my opinion its ethics should be considered as well. For example, many cars generate some air pollution. But there are some, typically more expensive ones, which produce less or no air pollutio
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by pbasista 6y ago
Not long ago Google has automatically enabled mid-roll ads for all videos longer than a certain length [0]. Most likely, its net effect is that more ads are played and as a result, YouTube's ad revenue has increased. Now they implement
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by pbasista 6y ago
Fair enough. I suppose that the experience depends heavily on the particular MacBook model and its age. For example, I have used a 13 inch MacBook Air (Early 2015) for almost 4 years now exclusively with Linux and I have had a very good exp
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by pbasista 6y ago
You can run Linux on a Macbook.
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by pbasista 6y ago
> videoconferencing software/apps limits Those are, I believe, rather simple to adjust.
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by pbasista 6y ago
> Apple should be forced to I think that the authorities cannot be expected to solve every problem in society there is. A better approach may be to educate people about the alternatives. What Apple primarily wants, in my opinion, is to k
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by pbasista 6y ago
I agree that presenting a vision and facing it with reality of what is currently possible is great because it may motivate people to try to achieve something better than they would normally think of. But misrepresenting the reality as if it
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by pbasista 6y ago
This is merely a demonstration of what it is capable of in ideal conditions. Perhaps the driving engine was manually pre-trained for this particular stretch of road. Maybe what we see in the video is one successful run out of 100s that have
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by pbasista 6y ago
Yes, that would help in theory. But in practice it would only change the way how the people inducing the pressure would verify that the votes have in fact been cast according to their preferences. For instance, if voting multiple times is a
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by pbasista 6y ago
The difference is small in theory. But in practice, the availability of postal voting is limited. For instance, in my country you can only vote via mail in country-wide elections that do not have the second round. The reason is that it woul
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by pbasista 6y ago
I agree that designing an objectively reliable online voting system is very difficult. But at the same time I think that in principle it can be done. However, in my opinion the current unavailability of such a reliable system is not the lar
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by pbasista 6y ago
I believe that Google has evaluated it very carefully from all the possible perspectives and the net outcome for them was positive, so they went with it. I assume that they care more about blurring the line between the "Google"-se
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by pbasista 6y ago
I have tried it in Firefox 77 on Linux running on a Core i7 CPU and the experience was mediocre. Low fps, delayed sound and imprecise mouse movement.
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by pbasista 6y ago
From what I was able to see on YouTube and read in the repository's clone, the author of the original repository did not use the calculator's electronics or software at all. They only slightly modified its hardware by removing the
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by pbasista 6y ago
Keybase uses a very similar approach for keeping its autostart enabled. It is necessary to explicitly turn it off in the application's settings, otherwise it would always try to overwrite the autostart file.
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by pbasista 7y ago
> I don’t consider this in any way to be a dealbreaker. Fair enough. But for some people it might be. It is much more comfortable to perform video calls via laptop than via phone because a phone typically needs to be held in position man
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by pbasista 7y ago
Such a patent seems to be owned by Google: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2012148617A3/en
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by pbasista 7y ago
Related: I have recently watched a video by Louis Rossmann whose title suggests that it is about eliminating procrastination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOdFzPTH4 In the video he analyzes why people procrastinate and
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by pbasista 7y ago
> I'm not really sure what changes could be made that would encourage users to explore. Could you elaborate? Any good site needs to get the visitors' attention from the first moments after they open it. I do not mean to steal t
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by pbasista 7y ago
> There's a reason that essentially zero websites default to a dark theme. Yes, it seems like there is. I am wondering what that reason may be. My preference for dark themes is based on my current typical viewing conditions, which a

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