rightos

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by rightos 8y ago
Any Android One device is probably worth a look. Maybe used iPhones too - though given Apple's slowdown with old batteries and attitude towards right to repair I'd be quite hesitant to seriously suggest that these days.
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by rightos 8y ago
Think I found the full text of the original article hosted on another site too. Archived mirror here: https://archive.is/QxQtZ
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by rightos 8y ago
Nothing about that sounds substantially addiction producing. Just flashy and designed, like anything else in a video game. Is there a proper study on that being a substantial addiction causing effect compared to card games and such? I'
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by rightos 8y ago
> addiction triggering Sorry, but virtual flames shooting out of a box and a "here, you lost" screen doesn't exactly stimulate a dopamine response.
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by rightos 8y ago
What the hell is going on here? Doesn't Microsoft offer similar for free download from their own website? I seem to remember their media creation tool not prompting for a key until install time. Why on earth would they fight this?
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by rightos 8y ago
Restrictions on the export of cryptographic technology is definitely something that can be argued makes us less free. Fortunately many die hards have put massive effort into exporting cryptography and have effectively won at this point.
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by rightos 8y ago
Little Snitch is all you need.
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by rightos 8y ago
I generally agree with you here actually, I wouldn't want any of this to be used to completely suppress speech, but I don't think it's unreasonable to hide by default communities which are higher friction to some degree. I ca
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by rightos 8y ago
Yes, I'll admit to that to some extent, but it's a toxic environment when a subreddit like that regularly appears on the front page yet disallows any sort of significant discussion. For similar toxicity reasons they hid The_Donald
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by rightos 8y ago
They literally delete anything that questions straight up communist views. Read their sidebar. I don't think that's exactly "in the eye of the beholder".
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by rightos 8y ago
I agree wholeheartedly, but I also think it should be called into question if something like that belongs on the front page. Admins have added specific rules banning right leaning subreddits from appearing, but not even the most extreme lef
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by rightos 8y ago
You're right, censored discussion is probably a better way to put it. They delete anything questioning their viewpoint, not just spam, hate speech, harassment etc.
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by rightos 8y ago
Admins do nothing to prevent extreme moderation as occurs on there from deleting any comment with an alternative viewpoint. Yet it appears quite consistently on the front page with only agreement in its comments section.
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by rightos 9y ago
Yeah, I do the same - I plugged in Postfix, Dovecot and SpamAssassin and haven't had to touch it other than occasionally confirming backup scripts and automatic security updates are working.
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by rightos 9y ago
> act like "dude just get more servers" is the answer. The biggest problem here is that it largely used to be a distributed system. You used to just be able run your own dedicated server on whatever provider you liked. The dev
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by rightos 9y ago
If you need this on a regular basis, check out Emby or Plex. They do transcoding on the fly for your entire media collection and fetch metadata online automatically for a really nice browsing experience. I certainly wouldn't describe e
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by rightos 9y ago
> is cryptographically inferior to WireGuard Would you say this is true even if you configured openssh to only use the more modern options? In recent years they've added a chacha20+poly1305 option as well as Curve25519 for key excha
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by rightos 9y ago
You still need to worry about it being found in the pure software case - there's far higher odds of me seeing some suspicious traffic than a small custom bit of RF gear inside. If someone's taking the thing apart and sees your phy
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by rightos 9y ago
But it'd be trivial for them to slip an extra bit of hardware, wire it to the existing mic and use that to do all the actions they wish. At the point where someone has physical access to the device the game is over. This is not an atta
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by rightos 9y ago
Yes, not just experience is important, but experimental experience. I learn so much less at work than I do on personal projects simply because I don't experiment as much. Unfortunately the realities of time and effort have caught up wi
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by rightos 9y ago
Yeah, I pretty much just recently learned enough electronics to feel comfortable doing something like that and I still haven't done it on my hardware for fear of bricking it. I'm just hoping for a 100% software exploit that will d
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by rightos 9y ago
The reason you need to buy some Siacoin in order to become a host is simple - you need collateral in case you fail to fulfill your hosting contracts - collateral of more than the value of those hosting contacts themselves. Turn off or not,
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by rightos 9y ago
Maybe at startups, but most enterprises self-host things - including Skype for Business (formerly Lync).
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by rightos 9y ago
Yes, the #1 rule of IoT - if it doesn't have a solid LAN-only protocol, don't buy it. Anything relying on a single cloud service isn't worth your time or money. If you have LAN-only access it means not only that you'll h
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by rightos 9y ago
It's interesting to see many of Filecoins promises realized already in alternatives like Sia or Storj, but Filecoin still takes the hype, despite not having anything released, let alone anything superior... I guess because it's by
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by rightos 9y ago
I do hope they'll keep maintaining it - I've been working with an ESP32 lately and the stuff Espressif has been able to build using FreeRTOS as a base is nothing short of incredible. $7 for wifi and bluetooth on a development boar
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by rightos 9y ago
Worse still - on iOS there's no way to block this kind of stuff. On Android there's both VPN and hosts file based blockers as well as extremely capable tools like XPrivacy for those who really want to get down and dirty. Try launc
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by rightos 9y ago
You can get a lot of uMatrix's functionality just by enabling the "I am an advanced user" checkbox in uBlock Origin. I actually find it a better interface, but that's a personal preference.
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by rightos 9y ago
> (you need to log in to try it out) I was expecting you meant login to eBay... nope, you need a facebook account to muck with that.
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by rightos 9y ago
I've never seen one of these (well, minus the really stupid AIM and Skype spam bots), where do you find them? Are they on the sites that constantly nag you to click through to live support on every page? The few of those that I have us

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