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by ronsor 9mo ago
The problem is that general purpose computing platforms are not supposed to be secured against the user. That's a WONTFIX.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Exposing the age-old truth of "commenters and voters don't read articles" I see
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Well, they can try to enforce the rules; that's perfectly fair. At the same time, there are many methods of "trying" which I would not consider valid or acceptable ones. "Enforcing the rules" does not give a carte b
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by ronsor 9mo ago
They'd put Widevine or PlayReady DRM on the website if they could, I'm sure.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
An ideal implementation of the same origin policy would make it impossible for a site (through a fetch call or otherwise) to determine whether an extension resource exists/is installed or the site simply lacks permission to access it
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by ronsor 9mo ago
I think they framed it this way because they don't consider scraping abuse (to be fair, neither do I, as long as it doesn't overload the site). Botting accounts for spam is clear abuse, however, so that's fair game.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
This is a security vulnerability and should be patched. Sorry, LinkedIn. (Alternatively extension developers can modify their extensions to block these requests!)
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by ronsor 9mo ago
As opposed to other companies which are smart enough not to report outages.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Desire, convenience, and price are always in tension. Someone may desire to watch something, but it's too inconvenient. It may also be that there is not enough convenience for the price being paid. We see this issue regularly with DRM.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
To be fair, why would you care if your internal organization or company chat is decentralized?
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by ronsor 9mo ago
That's because the output isn't a derivative work of the licensed software.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
> No embedded Java This is a great feature!
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by ronsor 9mo ago
You're implying that France is going to become a terrorist state? Because suspicious accidents do not sound like rule of law.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
These days many tech company offices have a "panic button" for raids that will erase data. Uber is perhaps the most notorious example.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Yes, that's how bootstrapping works. C is still easier to bootstrap than Rust, because it's simpler to implement and requires fewer steps. Of course, you trade off other features for that simplicity. Bootstrapping Rust would invol
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by ronsor 9mo ago
C is special because it's possible to relatively easily implement a good-enough C compiler for bootstrapping if needed. It would be under 15,000 lines of code in most languages. C++ certainly isn't that special. It's a pain t
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Thanks. I never knew how much I needed Weather Premium until now.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
It's better when the auto-playing video automatically reopens itself in case you accidentally close it.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
This does more than remove shine. It makes every building look like it's in the UK!
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by ronsor 9mo ago
> PHD LEVEL It is PhD level. Most PhD students write awful code that's worse than AI.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
> the UK has no aspirations towards authoritarianism I would say they're aiming more for a boring authoritarian dystopia than a bombastic one.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
If we removed DMCA section 1201 and the "anti-circumvention" nonsense, this would be a non-issue: people would legally reverse engineer the licensing system.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Finally an appropriate time to use cowsay !
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Apparently it's like Claude Code but for everything. One can imagine the prompt injection horrors possible with this.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
The real reason: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, [...]. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. From the guidelines linked at the bottom of the page.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
I remember my first project posted to HN was hosted on a router with 32MB of RAM and a puny MIPS CPU; despite hitting the front page, it did not crash. At this point, I have to assume that most software is too inefficient to be exposed to t
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by ronsor 9mo ago
They did build a browser; it may not be a very compliant or complete browser, or even a useful one, but neither was IE6!
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by ronsor 9mo ago
Going from 30 lines to 300 lines is a big leap!
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by ronsor 9mo ago
I think the simplest way to fix the DMCA system is to make it so that if you send too many false takedowns, you lose the right to use it entirely.
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by ronsor 9mo ago
I've got to stop doing Windows Updates

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