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by rrix2 9y ago
By decoupling the baseband from the CPU so that it can't directly access the OS's memory+busses and securing communication on the wire (defaulting to secure messaging over Matrix, and using SSL everywhere) so that it can't be
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by rrix2 9y ago
Anecdata: I only chose to back it after they reached the 1mm mark.
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by rrix2 9y ago
> For example, if there was a device that focused on running progressive web apps well, there would be a market today than compared to the past when horsepower wasn't at the level it is at now. How does that explain the failure of F
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by rrix2 9y ago
Which google drones? Can you point to particular names or is this just a random theory?
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by rrix2 9y ago
> Trust is not transitive. So you only browse sites whose SSL cert was issued by Mozilla? Or do you trust the SSL root Store provided by Mozilla and your OS and, transitively, everyone they trust?
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by rrix2 9y ago
Even more: Excel is purely functional programming for the vast majority of functions that people use in Excel.
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by rrix2 9y ago
(replying to sibling comment) > Well that is an exception to the rule rather than the norm. It is? I've literally never given my ID on SFBART or Amtrak, what modes of travel besides being the driver of a car have you had to have a
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by rrix2 9y ago
The T440 was probably the least pleasurable hardware I've used in a long time. Bad screen, bad touchpad (no dedicated buttons, disabling the trackpad disabled the buttons, the trackpad tracking was garbage), fragile keyboard. Waiting f
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by rrix2 9y ago
Free Scenario: I install a photo sharing app. I use it to only post photos that I take while going on hikes or of my food. Those are always in an Album called "foodpics" or similar, and every time I open their app, I select the &q
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by rrix2 9y ago
Previously, Purism announced they'd be working with Matrix.org to provide the telephony/messaging infrastructure, with focus on building out bridges to other messaging solutions. Especially if they spend some time making a decent
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by rrix2 9y ago
I think the point of doing this in SCC is that the cost of defending against small-claims is usually greater than the cost of just settling the SCC. Lawyers aren't cheap, and folks going to SCC are banking on them being more expensive
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by rrix2 9y ago
WebKit was originall a fork of KHTML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins
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by rrix2 9y ago
I grew up in a middle class suburb on the edge of the Phoenix sprawl. Your comment is a little ... unreasonable? How much time have you spent in either suburbs or slums? Or do you usually just fly over them?
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by rrix2 9y ago
don't forget the microphone, and the speakers (ultrasonic exfiltration) and the display (ISTR a fairly reproducable van eck attack in the last few years?) and the cpu (various research on elliptic curve extraction by monitoring CPU pow
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by rrix2 9y ago
Given the Intel ME has a High Assurance Program mode in it... probably Intel chips?
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by rrix2 9y ago
Cars are just computers with wheels, and are bound by similar restrictions. So let's amend the scenario: The car you bought gets in to a car accident because of software running on the car, which is licensed to you in similarly revocab
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by rrix2 9y ago
Duplicity can backup to Backblaze's B2 service, which is an S3-alike where you only pay for storage and download, not upload. 40$ to restore backup in the case of a failed disk, and a few bucks a month (literally) for storage.
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by rrix2 9y ago
We (I work at Uber) dealt with insane growth in a toxic fashion and are now paying down the debt of letting toxicity rule us for the last three years. I'm still of the opinion that we are doing that, even if it's only to enable th
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by rrix2 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that copying semantics could still be argued as creating a derivative work. This is what e.g. Whisper Systems claimed before publishing an axolotl spec, that anyone implementing the spec was doi
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by rrix2 9y ago
If I own two devices, logged in to a chat service on the same account, and they have different chat histories and contact lists because there's no account sync, I will throw that chat service in the trash can.
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by rrix2 9y ago
The default umode of /tmp is usually world-writeable, so files created like this could be manipulated by bad actors on the same system. Not so critical in this case, but it can be seen as "code smell"
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by rrix2 9y ago
More and more, I'm recommending that friends and family get a Mooltipass[1]. It's open source, it works on any platform that supports USB HID (including mobile devices using an OTG cable), it's got multiple browser plugins, a
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by rrix2 9y ago
This sort of scoring is why it's nearly impossible to run your own email in 2017, though. Reputation can't be the deciding factor on whether a site can be secure on the internet as it implies centralization.
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by rrix2 9y ago
That's exactly what happened though and no one bothered mentioning this to this reporter. I was in the post mortem for this event, the alert for database disk space was piled in to 500 other alerts incorrectly assigned to a rotation no
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by rrix2 9y ago
I'm in the process of uploading 2TB of backups to B2, it's ridiculously cheap, and they don't charge for upload BW, just storage and download
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by rrix2 9y ago
Your parent's explicit usecase is "sometimes people make ad-hoc plans with me through messenger", and ignoring those for weeks on end sort of defeats the purpose and encourages those folks to not make plans with them...
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by rrix2 9y ago
When the coding sample isn't integrated at all in to their stack and is a standalone toy application? Come on.
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by rrix2 10y ago
then all those signup forms with bad regular expressions can ruin your afternoon. I maintain an obscure .com only because the various gTLDs i could use regularly fail these naive validations. Some sites dont even properly handle ccTLDs
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by rrix2 10y ago
You're sacrificing composability, one of the biggest things that makes GNU/Linux so powerful in my mind. Right now, I'm running AwesomeWM embedded in a KDE session. As a result, I have a lean tiling window manager which I can
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by rrix2 10y ago
I'm especially worried about harassment, honestly. The fact that your domain can be marked up in a browser with no moderation capabilities is just going to lead to worse gamergate style brigading and harassment. https://ella

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