shawnz

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by shawnz 5y ago
Not exactly, the "extra steps" are necessary to create separability so that the user can have their choice of institution to deal with.
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by shawnz 5y ago
It's nothing to do with locked bootloaders or root access, the determining factor is simply whether you can run arbitrary code or not (like you can on Android for example). Bootloader locking and root user permissions are arbitrary sys
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by shawnz 5y ago
One feature of Apache which Nginx annoyingly lacks is HTTP CONNECT support (there is a third-party module from Alibaba which implements it, but it only supports HTTP 1.x).
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by shawnz 5y ago
Placebos actually do work even if the patient knows they are placebos (source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... ), but regardless, how do you keep the patients from finding out that t
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by shawnz 5y ago
I'm a big believer in medical use of psychedelics, but if the effect is strictly due to placebo, then there are cheaper and safer placebos we can give.
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by shawnz 5y ago
> Anybody saying this is a response to recent anti-trust headlines doesn't understand how a company the size of Apple works. When an announcement like this is made, it means this program has been in the works for YEARS. It's li
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by shawnz 5y ago
I think it's wrong to say that technology can't affect societal problems. Isn't all encryption technology a workaround for the societal problem of maintaining privacy? As another specific (but admittedly contentious) example,
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by shawnz 5y ago
Then you run into the problem of deciding who is running the authoritative mirror when the existing one goes down. If there's no single authoritative mirror then you could potentially double-spend your money by spending it in different
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by shawnz 5y ago
I suspect if such a service was not hosted on a blockchain, it would be quickly shut down by regulators
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by shawnz 5y ago
I'm holding out for neutrino based communication: https://physicsworld.com/a/neutrino-based-communication-is-a...
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by shawnz 5y ago
That explains the initial implementation, but then why this new development of blocking third party applications from using it? That's obviously not an issue for IE11, right?
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by shawnz 5y ago
The same argument could be made to block any kind of third-party app that could replace a native feature. Why is it so unreasonable to expect a platform vendor to test compatibility with third party software running on their platform? It is
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by shawnz 5y ago
That was already the case -- the new behaviour being claimed here is that they have disabled previously known methods to intercept the Edge-specific calls. It should also be noted that almost every element of the windows UI which launches a
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by shawnz 5y ago
I haven't seen any conclusive evidence one way or the other.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Just because the author was intending to get across a certain point, doesn't mean the implementation details aren't worth discussing too. I don't think many people here would disagree with the central point, so what's th
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by shawnz 5y ago
When does a developer stop being a user? If I want to use an open source IDE to write some commercial software, is that user freedom or developer freedom? Is it within a user's freedoms to use a software for any kind of monetary benefi
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by shawnz 5y ago
If this was done as a reaction to changing public opinion and not genuine concern, then it will be a while before public opinion catches up with the new entity.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't see why maintaining past expectations is such an important design consideration as you're making it out to be. Expectations change as needs change. Do you still expect to be able to replace your BIOS flash chip, or the con
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by shawnz 5y ago
Is that worse than simply not being able to scale the other half of the apps that do work without kludges like this?
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by shawnz 5y ago
By using display mirroring (i.e. having all your displays show the same output) you can effectively use scaling settings determined applicable for the primary display that the OS wouldn't normally allow you to apply to the secondary di
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by shawnz 5y ago
> But somehow the idea took hold that nuclear would be built instead of solar, and not instead of coal. Nobody wants to admit they are still considering coal, but everyone wants to take credit for blocking nuclear and building renewables
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by shawnz 5y ago
It doesn't seem like a big deal to me. I never noticed any issues when using the ungrounded adapter. I think it is pretty conventional for most modern electronics to use a floating ground.
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by shawnz 5y ago
They are grounded if you use the "power adapter extension cable" (not shipped with the unit): https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MK122LL/A/power-adapte...
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by shawnz 5y ago
> Can't remember last time I saw this type of malware in the wild. That's exactly because widespread secure boot has made it impractical! As for niche Linux distros, it's been mandated since the beginning that you can inst
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by shawnz 5y ago
I'm sorry for your loss, but did your friend not have a right to privacy just because he had dementia? Should we be building dementia backdoors into all our platforms' encryption systems? What about cases where people are estrange
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by shawnz 5y ago
What about the scenario where your laptop is stolen and the attacker reads your data off the disk? All modern mobile devices protect against this scenario by default, but Windows devices required additional configuration to be protected. An
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by shawnz 5y ago
That seems like a stretch to me. If the hypothetical issue you are describing were caused by a bug in the system's media player software, would you say it's a security bug there too, just because it could be used to play security
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by shawnz 5y ago
The amount of coal necessary to replace nuclear fuel is about a million times greater. Do you trust those governments to handle 1000000x as much fossil fuel as nuclear? Especially consider the fact that such a large amount of coal has rough
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by shawnz 5y ago
OptionalLong is an object which optionally contains a value type (lowercase L) long. Optional<Long> is an object Optional which optionally contains an object Long.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Why not just chain the happy case by ignoring nulls, and let any potential NullPointerException bubble up to the point in the code where you would have had an "Optional.orElse" or whatever? Isn't that often just as easy? If y

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