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by problems 9y ago
Sure, but you can do a lot. If you pay a dedicated server or colocation provider to host hardware you own, they have a lot less access to your stuff than if you say, use a cloud VM provider, which is in itself at least better than using an
422.
by problems 9y ago
HDMI-CEC allows similar on most modern TVs. As for not being tied to where you have a TV, for $200 you can buy a 40"+ 1080p TV, for $100 you can have a really nice IPS 22" 1080p monitor. Probably better than this tiny thing.
423.
by problems 9y ago
To be fair you can't exactly call the current system in the US free market. There are ridiculous restrictions on hospitals and insurance companies that prevent proper competition from occurring in many cases. While single payer is ofte
424.
by problems 9y ago
IPFS isn't designed for anonymity, it's designed for performance. If you want a similar tool designed for anonymity, Freenet is it.
425.
by problems 9y ago
It's a good bet. Many of those popular SaaS companies are run like absolute shit and don't even try to optimize their pricing. If you can do it at a fraction of the overhead, I'd say go for it as long as you have a way out if
426.
by problems 9y ago
At some point it becomes unethical not to publish it too, given that the entire time it's exploitable risks someone else running into it and using it.
427.
by problems 9y ago
There already exists a much better solution for 2FA - the OATH protocol's TOTP and HOTP. It uses a local token to hash a counter or the current time with no need for anyone else to have your current token or communicate it directly in
428.
by problems 9y ago
This is sort of ridiculous, they can't seriously be expected to be held responsible for every video served on their platform. Nor should there be anything inherently worse about live-streaming of violence than that violence occurring i
429.
by problems 9y ago
Try to use VSCode or Atom on Windows on a 4k display - blurry text, text that random switches between blurry and not blurry. Seriously, I had it so every even scroll was crisp and clear but every odd scroll was blurry and awful on VSCode fo
430.
by problems 9y ago
It's easy money for them - they pay the big ISPs to secure their monopolies for them. No upstart can ever threaten to compete again.
431.
by problems 9y ago
Ugly, bloated, poorly integrated and weird UI bugs, like scaling randomly failing on high DPI displays. Only useful for web-only teams who have no desktop experience whatsoever. If you can afford to hire a desktop team, do it.
432.
by problems 9y ago
I didn't say anything about it not being a useful abstraction, just that it is essentially just an abstraction.
433.
by problems 9y ago
You're right, crypto bugs are discovered in software all the time. However, many of these bugs rely on highly active attacks, oracles, etc. Very few allow offline decryption, For that you'd have to do something incredibly stupid a
434.
by problems 9y ago
Yeah, honestly, I think I didn't "get it" until I read about vtables and the use of ecx as the "this" pointer while learning reverse engineering. I think I struggle to learn a lot of functional programming concepts
435.
by problems 9y ago
Yes. There aren't to my knowledge any CPUs with special instructions for complex numbers, they're implemented as wrappers ontop of the standard stuff.
436.
by problems 9y ago
Yeah, a total amateur can learn enough to pick the locks on most homes and padlocks with a grand total of about $3 worth of tools and an hour or two of experimentation. Now, some businesses use better stuff - Abloy or Medeco stuff, but many
437.
by problems 9y ago
So let's just clarify quick here, you're on a tech focused startup oriented site, making comments saying that you genuinely think that one the most common tech startup business models is immoral in its entirety and that people don
438.
by problems 9y ago
It's not private information, it's information they gave me in exchange for a service.
439.
by problems 9y ago
Comparing a very common business practice today to an abusive relationship? Really? Merely to call it "taking advantage of" is highly questionable - often it's just part of the deal - you get a free service, that's how y
440.
by problems 9y ago
Both situations are different - they're losing something that they didn't give you - their money.
441.
by problems 9y ago
It's not really taking advantage if they gave it to you consensually. You're not taking anything from them, they're not losing anything, they gave you info voluntarily, you're just selling it.
442.
by problems 9y ago
I'm not sure that's a great example, if you're in the position to sell data to the highest bidder that means people were stupid enough to give you that data and you're free to do what you like with it. Then again, maybe
443.
by problems 9y ago
Cellebrite sells phone exploits and "forensics tools" (read: exploits + data gathering) if I recall correctly.
444.
by problems 9y ago
I doubt it works as claimed. My phone when plugged in goes into charge only mode by default, there's not exactly much to exploit there when the data pins are turned off. They mention the tech is glitchy, I'm guessing because their
445.
by problems 9y ago
Isn't that incredibly obvious though? I thought the author was sort of trying to push back against our instinct to be interested in problems - which I don't agree with. I'll gladly break the law for an interesting enough prob
446.
by problems 9y ago
Sometimes surveillance tools are really interesting to build though. I made a tool that injects into the winlogon session and keylogs it, so you can steal passwords before the user ever logs in. For one reason or another I'm deeply mot
447.
by problems 9y ago
This may be because their OS X version hasn't reached the same yet. So they have 2, essentially completely separate products with at least mostly separate codebases, "SourceTree for Windows" and "SourceTree for OS X&quot
448.
by problems 9y ago
> Of course, that also means it'll kill any competitors not willing or able to pay the same extortion, so in the end you'll have less choice, but at least you'll have saved money. You might save a few bucks in the short ru
449.
by problems 9y ago
> The U.K. does a good job balancing the interests. There is a single, regulated monopoly that owns most of the last mile (BT Openreach), but the regulations are designed so that the monopoly is actually very profitable. Yeah, the situat
450.
by problems 9y ago
Depends what you need - you can pick up older gen Xeon chips for cheap and the performance often isn't that much worse than modern consumer grade stuff. If you're looking to build a consumer-level NAS or home server, Avoton is pre

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