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by sgc 1y ago
If I want to use an extension that needs full permissions on sensitive websites, I just download it and install it manually after looking at the source code. I rarely have to update them, and I'm not worried about future injections at
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by sgc 1y ago
Is that also running a router like opnsense, or do you have a dedicated box for that? Curious about specs for networking gear...
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by sgc 1y ago
Is there any political momentum to deal with this, for example allowing at least some level of endowments? I respect the purity of the ideal, but it sounds like it is backfiring right now.
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by sgc 1y ago
I don't use Android swipe gestures but I presume they would work in FF too. Nonetheless, we should avoid posting "it works in Chrome" as an answer to anything. I have a deep-seated hatred for Chrome-only devs - not least of w
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by sgc 1y ago
The 'develop' I mentioned is the name of their development branch. Regardless, one of their contributors made a couple sibling comments in this submission indicating there is more work going on than immediately visible by quickly
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by sgc 1y ago
Last update to master was last year, develop not much more going on. It looks like it was started 7 years ago.
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by sgc 1y ago
This specific case is about people who have no idea they are interested in the data today (likely because they don't yet know it exists), needing it for research tomorrow. It's about how we should go about archiving public data ra
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by sgc 1y ago
Can somebody explain to me how backdooring every app does not lead to the real risk of an entire population's bank accounts being emptied, or similar more hidden but widespread attacks that absolutely cripple any country doing this? Al
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by sgc 1y ago
Yes of course. I was trying to remain tangential to the current administration and stay on the level of the underlying problem they seem to intuit related to this one, very specific policy decision (hard to tell with them, that's for s
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by sgc 1y ago
There used to be a much stronger push for education in the US. Perhaps if companies could not "just hire from overseas" or "just outsource" there would be a longer term growth strategy that would focus more on the educ
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by sgc 1y ago
There have been several recent supply chain attacks that show attackers are taking advantage of this (previously sensible) mentality. So it is time to pivot and come up with better solutions before it spirals out of control.
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by sgc 1y ago
It's at best a mixed bag which makes it harder to fine-tune apps on your system and with limited security benefits (which again become harder to improve yourself). https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html#fla
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by sgc 1y ago
No, they make more than one recommendation - including which partitions to make and the sizes for each of them should you opt into their separate partition path in the installer. So they have defaults for multiple partitions and partition s
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by sgc 1y ago
For better control over permissions: ``` / / ext4 defaults 1 1 /home /home ext4 defaults,nosuid,noexec,nodev 1 2 /tmp /tmp ext4 d
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by sgc 1y ago
Ask the Debian maintainers. That was their recommendation, and I trusted them - presuming they would recommend something that would work more than two weeks on a rather standard laptop installation. I will have to re-partition within the ne
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by sgc 1y ago
That was what was insane to me. I expected a couple hundred mb each for my first couple of apps. Not a pleasure in itself, but I was blindsided by the 10gb. The apps were clearly also part of the problem - they should not have so many depen
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by sgc 1y ago
Absolutely. I should have verified partition sizing, and I should never have allowed even one flatpak. That doesn't make Debian default sizes and installation process anywhere close to good.
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by sgc 1y ago
I recently installed Debian 13 and went with the default partition sizes for /, /var, swap etc. I had two flatpaks installed and my entire /var partition was filled up with 10gb of flatpak data. Frankly very bad default parti
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by sgc 1y ago
I am sure you are right, my physics class was my hardest class in HS, but I took it my senior year. Regardless, her school is science and tech focused, and it was a hard class without materials to study for tests, and with minimal guidance.
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by sgc 1y ago
There is a thing called pedagogy, and biology > chemistry > physics is a perfectly healthy order of discovery. I am not sure why there needs to be a battle of the sexes in the middle of this.
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by sgc 1y ago
Most schools do biology > chemistry > physics, which is from funnest and easiest to most technical and hardest (plus digging in to the building blocks of the previous class). Physics first is very much throwing them in at the deep end
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by sgc 1y ago
My daughter had no textbook for Freshman physics, which is obviously the hardest class she is going to have in high school (or top 2). It was ridiculous. We wound up supplementing learning materials and paying a tutor, but it all felt like
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by sgc 1y ago
This does nothing for the case of receiving a fake coinbase sms with a fake contact phone number. I have had people attempt fraud in my work with live calls as follow up to emails and texts. I only caught it because it didn't pass the
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by sgc 1y ago
That is more a "who is controlling access to hardware drivers matters" problem. I wouldn't be surprised if macOS was still a tiny bit more efficient with a level playing field, but we will never know.
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by sgc 1y ago
The OS matters, and I would guess you were using two different OSes? I have no doubt macOS running on an m1 is more optimized than whatever you were using on the ryzen. I recently had to remove Windows completely from a few years old laptop
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by sgc 1y ago
That sounds like it would be a fun challenge - with the occasional extremely hairy day. Do you manage people's home networks, or small business, etc? I understand if that is not info for hn of course.
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by sgc 1y ago
Use headscale, and problem solved.
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by sgc 1y ago
I almost can't even blame him he is so off the deep end. I still do of course, he should have the self-awareness to have never accepted and it is his massive ego that keeps him doing crazy, dangerous things. But whenever this mentally
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by sgc 1y ago
I am just using adguard home as my dns server (installed as a plugin in opnsense). Am I naively doing something wrong, or is that a relatively decent choice as well?
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by sgc 1y ago
It seems like it would be relatively straightforward to make an sqlite based file format and just have users add a plugin if for some reason they couldn't upgrade their older version of LibreOffice etc. I agree with the other commenter

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