ruthmarx

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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Thus methods like UAC and sudo. UAC and Sudo are pretty different when you actually compare their implementations and not just purpose. Sudo is just a text prompt, UAC's design includes an entire isolated desktop to ensure fake pr
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Hey i stop here, You should, because it's not a good look for you. You're clearly speaking from ignorance. OS research has progressed a lot from what you learned 20 years ago or whatever.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Get an old $50 android on ebay, signup for ultra mobile which is like $2 month for 100 texts and 100mb of data, and then via software have it relay the message both your self and your wifes Android phone. You can leave the cheap phone plug
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I think the problem here is that government departments are not the only entities consuming the data. That's actually a really good point.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> _and_ data on their PC that requires wiping. All data requires wiping because no government has a right to it without a warrant or as part of an investigation, no matter what the data is.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> so I'm not sure what you're going on about IRT the Anglo-Sphere. Australia is worse than the US for this, and worse than any other anglo country. > The US only has privacy rights for Americans. Yes, and Australia doesn&#x2
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So far never, but it's the point they can request it and punish me if I refuse which is deeply concerning.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The only point being compared was the claim or attempt at global jurisdiction in a limited scope.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So piracy just gets boosted again. Nothing really changes here.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I wonder how the UK will deal with foreign companies that are allowed to have code in their name then?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Ensuring government employees are following best security practices and not being negligent, and thus not passing the buck to citizens is maybe a little bit more realistic.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> This fundamentally doesn't work because internet is not something existing in a vacuum - you need wires, fibers and servers to make it work, and those are located in somebodies jurisdiction. The reason it works is because there ar
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> What kind of thing do you have on your PC they’d care about? You get that's not the point, right?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Censoring isn't inherently an abuse of power. I didn't say it was, I said governments will abuse the power they do have. > The fact that people in Russia or Gaza can use bitcoin doesn't make them a great place to be r
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
This is one of those technologies that people shouldn't be using if they didn't take the time to learn it. It's not like say, nginx or a linux distro, where you don't need to know the ins and outs to get it up and runnin
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I wasn't talking about Wikipedia directly, but the net as a whole. I agree if you took wikipedia rogue it would take a nosedive, but what I would expect would happen is the rogue Wikipedia would not try to duplicate Wikipedia's ar
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I'm already annoyed I have to wipe my devices whenever I travel there or risk a $5000 fine and maybe jail time if they want the password and I don't give it up. Australia has to be the least free country in the anglosphere.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
While I agree with you, I think it's inevitable that governments, maybe eventually all, will abuse the power they have to censor the internet. It is important that fraud charges can be reversed and people like Alex Jones shut up, but i
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Neither does Europe, yet they still try.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Would it? It's not like Indians would stop accessing it. Then due to a stupid ruling they lost the ability to have any control over it at all.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Organizations like Wikipedia need to make sure they have no satellite offices, and just completely independent affiliates with sharing agreements. That way when a silly court tries to ban something worldwide they can be rebuked.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Australia is an especially bad country in this regard.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It's like the humans turned into cattle in the seventh season of Supernatural, except they are doing it to themselves.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> But some things give me pause, such as - and it's been a while so I don't quite remember - copying ssh key selection settings to a security policy file elsewhere such that those settings in the regular config would be ignored
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
We desperately need more work done on a separate internet that by design cannot and never can be censored. I know there are some projects toward that already, but my fear is they won't reach maturity before governments blocking any con
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Why solve problems when you can just outlaw the actions causing them? /s because sadly I feel it is needed here.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Oh yeah I got that mixed up. Thanks.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So is Ubuntu, so is any distro with systemd. The point though, was if you don't want to learn to use a complex system you shouldn't complain when you use it and don't understand it.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> As for people who seem to love it so much, they probably don’t have to deal with it all the time. Or they put in the time to learn it so they don't get frustrated when they get blocked by something, because they know how to resolv
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
You are being downvoted but this answer is exactly right. It's kind of like complaining about group policy in Windows.

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