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601.
by swiley 5y ago
It's always surprising when people screw up forms. Unless you have some special object you want to write a local editor for JS almost always makes them worse.
602.
by swiley 5y ago
We're about to find out aren't we? I'm glad to not be part of that experiment.
603.
by swiley 5y ago
So is extensa support although probably not for this one specifically.
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by swiley 5y ago
That's why you should be using dynamic linking, something these closed mobile OSes effectively prohibit.
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by swiley 5y ago
>Just because it's FOSS doesn't mean it's secure. Right, but it does mean you won't be forced to do things the wrong way because it makes Apple money. >hardware embedded key manager This means keeping copies of key
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by swiley 5y ago
Man I tried so hard to do that with my galaxy S3 which had an unlocked bootloader (I don't think it even needed an exploit.) Despite it's popularity though the ROM quality was extremely poor later in its life. I actually built my
607.
by swiley 5y ago
You didn't vote with your wallet, you already bought the shield. Then you bought another device with closed firmware from another company with their own ad service.
608.
by swiley 5y ago
I installed it from guix, the package maintainers are aware of the issue and will not distribute updates containing telemetry.
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by swiley 5y ago
>Perfectly secure computers are an oxymoron. They don’t exist. Absolutely, but creating a platform the encourages or forces users to do the wrong thing is a regression from where we were ten years ago. >iOS is the least worst mobile
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by swiley 5y ago
This is what I do. Many streaming services artificially degrade the quality and sometimes refuse to work at all when I do this.
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by swiley 5y ago
It makes checking the hygiene of apps you use impossible, building them from source artificially difficult and expensive and pushes users towards services with serious flaws like icloud backup.
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by swiley 5y ago
My copy of Audacity hasn't auto-updated to include any of that crap and it looks like future updates will come from a fork where it's stripped (if muse group even bothers to continue) so I'd say that's an example of it w
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by swiley 5y ago
Apparently Apple's terms aren't that great for some users.
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by swiley 5y ago
You could do far better than iOS. Worse though is that it encourages very poor infosec because when it's profitable for Apple and often makes doing things correctly difficult or impossible.
615.
by swiley 5y ago
Pushing people to use "apps" instead of the web where poor behavior just makes your own product crappier.
616.
by swiley 5y ago
Children should be able to learn remotely at will if for nothing more than safety and teaching them not to put up with arbitrary BS.
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by swiley 5y ago
>but there's just no escaping it in this day and age. Yes there is. Absolutely no closed software ever. That's the rule you use. Even the modem on the phone I'm typing this on is running FOSS firmware. Don't compromis
618.
by swiley 5y ago
No, then you use gpg email or xmpp.
619.
by swiley 5y ago
Apple really doesn't help them. the marketing (lying) that iOS is secure is pretty intense.
620.
by swiley 5y ago
Yes, That's why most people are against the use of military equipment by police even if they're not against defunding them.
621.
by swiley 5y ago
I'm sure the affected people are glad to know other people won't have their secrets divulged.
622.
by swiley 5y ago
Usually its made by Qualcomm.
623.
by swiley 5y ago
We've flown planes into the ground, killed people with Xrays, rigged elections, shut down oil delivery to sections of the east cost of the US. If anything we have bridge collapses constantly and special news anchors that report on whic
624.
by swiley 5y ago
All they have to do is convince everyone to do what their phone says, they've already done that with video.
625.
by swiley 5y ago
At that point you might as well just hook everything up to etherium; the judge is redundant.
626.
by swiley 5y ago
They absolutely would if it made them money.
627.
by swiley 5y ago
"generally do this in specific cases."
628.
by swiley 5y ago
I have a k380 which is about the same size, I stopped bringing it because it's just another thing to deal with.
629.
by swiley 5y ago
People deciding what to share and who to vote for are equivalent. You effectively don't get one without the other.
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by swiley 5y ago
Why doesn't it make you trust Apple significantly less? They took it down. They're another profit seeking organization not some natural phenomenon.

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