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121.
by surround 6y ago
A rouge employee could steal a physical key left lying out, much like they can steal keys from computers.
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by surround 6y ago
So if I make a modification to add “competing app stores, free and open source apps/games, cool hardware features,” how does this violate DMCA?
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by surround 6y ago
I’m surprised that the article doesn’t mention that today is the same day, 24 years ago, that the existence of Dolly the sheep was revealed, the first adult mammal clone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
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by surround 6y ago
Why was the VideoLan Movie Creator (VLMC) abandoned? Will it ever be revived? It would be nice to have an open source video editor.
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by surround 6y ago
See also https://diep.io - original, abandoned https://arras.io - fan made sequel http://woomy-arras.io - sequel of sequel (None of these load as fast)
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by surround 6y ago
Firefox’s default anti-fingerprinting is just a blacklist of common fingerprinting scripts. It is incredibly difficult to make a browser fingerprint non-unique. Only the Tor browser has strict enough settings with a large enough user base t
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by surround 6y ago
Which valuable services? I’ve had 3rd party cookies entirely disabled for a while now, and I haven’t noticed any services break, not even cross domain logins.
128.
by surround 6y ago
Cookie auto delete is fairly useless. It can’t delete supercookies. Whereas temporary containers takes care of everything.
129.
by surround 6y ago
Every browser already has a unique fingerprint. uBlock origin does a ton to improve privacy, it’s foolish not to use it just to avoid fingerprinting.
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by surround 6y ago
The article references a 9to5Mac article, which in turn references this article by Forbes, which I think should be the submission url instead. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/01/03/whats
131.
by surround 6y ago
I’m not sure why this comment was downvoted. The use of certain content blockers can be detected, but it’s not a very consistent metric. Screen size, canvas, and user agent are use more often because they never change.
132.
by surround 6y ago
It would be nice to be able to expand/view posts without actually opening them.
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by surround 6y ago
> For the sum of 35,000 NOK (3,300 EUR / 4,000 USD), we got access to location data showing where tens of thousands of Norwegians had travelled in 2019. > One of them was 31-year-old Karl Bjarne Bernhardsen from Stavanger. The in
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by surround 6y ago
The submission url contains these tracking parameters: ?si=1Y4i7boAQc-jCc2IP_BGSw&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2020-12-02) Here’s the url with the tracking parameters removed: https:/&#x
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by surround 6y ago
Perhaps the issue is with email itself. GPG is just a hack to make email secure (and it can’t even encrypt metadata). GPG has such a small user base that we could ditch it at any time, but email is so ubiquitous that we might be stuck with
136.
by surround 6y ago
Downtime aside, could you elaborate on why you think it’s all fine? This is my thought process: Pros - convenience Cons - bad for privacy and security. I believe the cons outweigh the pros.
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by surround 6y ago
Check out Valetudo, it’s actively maintained and lets you control Xiaomi smart vacuums without the cloud. https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
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by surround 6y ago
Website down, somewhat ironically. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201127000008/https://eminetra....
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by surround 6y ago
Yes. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=isp+injecting+ads
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by surround 6y ago
Almost all of the users that Cloudflare shows captchas to are Tor users. Is there any reason why this couldn’t be done without Javascript?
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by surround 6y ago
Is the distinction important here, if both happen simultaneously?
142.
by surround 6y ago
There is nothing factually wrong with the current title. Nonetheless, it is misleading. Recent news surrounding WhatsApp has people worried that they’re going to start breaking encryption and violating people’s privacy. When I first read th
143.
by surround 6y ago
How about: “Users can now report a copy of recent messages to WhatsApp”
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by surround 6y ago
> I wouldn't have clicked it That’s exactly the point. The current title is clickbait. If you think the original title is boring, it’s because this is a boring piece of news. I wouldn’t be worried about “warning” people, since Whats
145.
by surround 6y ago
(Edit, for context: the original submission title was “WhatsApp can now read your recent messages when you report a user”) By selecting a specific part of the article to highlight in the title, you introduce your own bias before people even
146.
by surround 6y ago
Perhaps I’m mistaken, but I believe at one point in time, years ago, they required a card for the free registration. It certainly wasn’t my intent to spread misinformation. Now I’m wondering, how does Freenom make money?
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by surround 6y ago
Why get a domain, if you don’t need one? The free .tk domains are only free for 1 year. And even if you are only going to use it for a year, some people would rather not give out their credit card number for a free trial.
148.
by surround 6y ago
It says “no credit card required.” Can they stop people from making multiple accounts and getting unlimited certificates?
149.
by surround 6y ago
Unlike LetsEncrypt, it supports certificates for IP addresses, which is nice for hobbyists who don’t want to buy a domain.
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by surround 6y ago
Some onion websites use the certificate as an anti-phishing measure. Since onion domains are hard to remember, a certificate can verify that you are, indeed, connected to e.g. Facebook’s servers and not a phishing website.

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