ruthmarx

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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> My position is that you haven't demonstrated a practical example of SELinux being able to constrain a workload that AppArmor doesn't have parity with, i.e. you haven't responded to my initial question: I listed some of t
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> And no, we cannot just let applications do whatever they want in the shared config space without a way to trace things back to the original app. We don't have to let them, but we do for the most part. We could use sandboxing techn
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Often one and the same.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Windows 7 was pretty great.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> NT is why I like Windows so much and can't stand Unix-likes. It is object-oriented from top to bottom, This sounds like you are talking from a design perspective and the rest of your post seems to be from a usability perspective.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I have no issue with the concept, but in practice the Windows registry is a lot more obfuscated than it needs to be. There can be trees and trees of UUIDs or similar, and there is no need for it to be so user unfriendly. Part of this might
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> only about 1% of them actually remove all the cruft they originally stick in (or populated during use). The result is bloat, a larger surface area for corruption, and system slowdown. I think this is a myth partly spread by commercial
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It really was nice to be able to at least still use the system if the display driver is crashing. 800x600 at 16 bit or whatever it was is still better than nothing.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Still a minority of sysadmins though. Most seem to have embraced it to an extent that's honestly a little sad to see. I liked to think of the linux community as generally being a more technical community, and that was true for a long t
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Isn't ReactOS close enough?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I'd love if it Microsoft simply abandoned NT and threw their weight behind the Linux kernel Oh hell no! Diversity in operating systems is important, and the NT architecture has several advantages over the Linux approach. I definit
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I guess it all depends how picky we are about the definition of the term. To an extent, but if people are calling firing sexual abusers censorship I'd say that doesn't fit any definition.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Did it?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It’s funny, if you ask tech people, a lot fall into the “I have to have the latest and greatest” This is almost never a technical decision, but a 'showing off' decision IMO.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
That's true, but I don't think the US is any worse than this than say EU or Anglosphere countries, and indeed I'd still say it would be better than most countries just because of that particular freedom being more culturally
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
That's a good example, although is that really more prevalent in the US than in other countries? And it's not exactly censorship, it's people being fired as a consequence or de-platformed, but they can still state their opini
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Isn’t it too early to declare anti-US sentiment here? Maybe, but in my experience it's usually the dominating factor. Anti-US sentiment can be high, and a lot of people from western countries are skeptical that the US can be any m
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
CSAM, I would argue is an active harm so that's a little different from speech, although protected IP is a good example. I'd still say it's a little different and not exactly censorship, as it's not exactly 'speech&
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Well that's odd, since I don't see anyone 'wishing it away' so much as stating apps should respect OS settings and it's reasonable for that to be an expectation of well behaving programs.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> No it’s not. The US is consistently banning free speech - including are you rightly say banning books in schools. Some states are doing that at a state level in limited contexts. Individuals are still free to post or publish whatever t
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The US dismantling a company they allege was being used as a weapon by a hostile country is different from the government preventing access to content that whoever is in charge doesn't personally like.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
What would be some examples of voluntary censorship from large organizations due to business interests or cultural and societal pressure and not due to government censorship?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> This is silly and not well thought out. I'd say the same for this unnecessary ad hominem. > The knowledge of what ip address correlates to some hostname is just data like any other data. There is nothing magically specially dif
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Again, the point is it should be an OS level setting and apps should respect it. Just because apps can be hostile to user intentions doesn't mean we should allow or worse advocate for that.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
What point are you making with this link?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
A government dismantling a corporation being used as a weapon by a hostile country is not the same as a government blocking individuals access to websites they don't approve due to conservative values.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
That's simply not true.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The US runs the world and it's election season. It's always going to come up especially as a point of comparison in a topic like this.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Most countries have some sort of censorship. This is a notable area where the US is an exception, and is significantly more free than other western countries. No need to worry about art or materials being censored here, at least outsid
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The bigger issue is that it should be an OS level setting. Different apps having a different option isn't the issue, it's any app being able to trivially override a user choice, sometimes without notification.

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