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by the_biot 9mo ago
That's actually the name of a talk he used to give. Very well done, but it didn't actually come true the way he thought it would.
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by the_biot 10mo ago
It's fundamentally client-side security: the phone tells the server "no, I haven't been rooted" and the server believes it. Any security system that relies on any form of client-side security is going to have other probl
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by the_biot 10mo ago
True, and it doesn't get mentioned enough. These supposedly world-changing advanced tech companies sure look sloppy as hell from here. There is no need for any of this scraping.
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by the_biot 10mo ago
I have to wonder, who are you talking to?
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by the_biot 10mo ago
When you work for Amazon, your computer is monitored to the point they check your keyboard typing speed. Dystopian doesn't even begin to describe it.
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by the_biot 10mo ago
This just shows that censorship, once started, always runs out of control.
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by the_biot 10mo ago
> They invest the vast majority of their resources in Firefox. Says who? I have never seen figures that show this. It also doesn't excuse the gigantic amounts of money wasted on irrelevant things, or executive salaries. > And the
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by the_biot 10mo ago
That's a fair question. It's of course my opinion, not hard fact, but here goes: - They have for years been trying to add stuff to Firefox that nobody wants, and were privacy violations. The "marketing studies" come to
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by the_biot 10mo ago
You're assuming Mozilla would be successful at a privacy play because they are a trusted organization. I can't stress this enough: they are not.
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by the_biot 10mo ago
> we are hearing so many terrible stories about travellers being harassed or unwelcome when trying to enter the US There have been a few stories like that, but that is not a new thing. The US has been horrible to incoming tourists for a
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by the_biot 10mo ago
The article mentions suspiciously similar looking devices on Aliexpress for less than $10, but it looks like under $3 even. This seems like a very cool thing to hack on, for that price.
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by the_biot 10mo ago
That comparison shows "Deblobbed? Yes" for GrapheneOS. That implies they've replaced (most of) the blobs for wifi, bluetooth, 5g chips etc. Is that actually true? It's such a big deal, and I see little to no work being d
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by the_biot 10mo ago
This looks like just the thing to protect self-hosted git repos from the AI crawlers that are overwhelming open source projects right now.
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by the_biot 11mo ago
Or better yet, don't. That 6502 assembler syntax in there is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
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by the_biot 11mo ago
They had an outline of the story for several more seasons, and the showrunner has described how it would have gone. I am very, very grateful they decided to stop when they did -- they were about to ruin the show.
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by the_biot 11mo ago
Better at what though? Maybe he's just great at getting hired and promoted, without the benefit of actual skills or deep understanding of anything, and now finds himself in ignorance of all that he surveys. I've known many people
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by the_biot 11mo ago
I've had a hell of a time getting into embedded linux professionally. I don't have that specific job experience on my resume, but lots of related open source work, writings, kernel work etc -- I can do this, I just can't prov
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by the_biot 11mo ago
That's great, but it doesn't always turn out that way. Twice now I've started open source projects, got them to varying levels of success, handed over to another maintainer, and watched it turn to shit. Luck of the draw, I th
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by the_biot 11mo ago
Even before the Perl 6 insanity dropped, there was a serious underlying problem in the Perl ecosystem: CPAN. There was this module (I don't remember its name, or author) that was pretty important: you'd end up using it if you were
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by the_biot 11mo ago
There is no source, nor even a way to order one or find out more. It was abandoned 4 years ago.
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by the_biot 11mo ago
That's more like obfuscaton, you got lucky there! I've reverse engineered lots of things, but the one time I actually got paid for it (this is more a hobby to me), I got the exact opposite of what happened to you. I quoted some sm
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by the_biot 1y ago
> How much of your life will you "live" on autopilot? If you start doing it in school, presumably the rest of your life, since you'll have no skills or ability to learn.
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by the_biot 1y ago
Still better than the old style reports from tools like that. They're typically commercial, and evidently came with some kind of licensing restriction that you couldn't give out their output. So open source projects would get bug
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by the_biot 1y ago
The interesting thing here is not their policy -- it won't survive, since they've given themselves the task of judging random people's skills -- but the fact that they have an AI policy for their open source project. I think
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Mesa will allow AI-generated code if author understands it(phoronix.com)
2 points by the_biot 1y ago|2 comments
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by the_biot 1y ago
For me, the answer was always open source. Tech is endlessly interesting, and I love programming, but it's usually wasted in a corporate environment.
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by the_biot 1y ago
I thought I did. It worked fantastically well for email and the web, why not this? But it didn't for the reasons I stated (IMHO), and even worse -- even when twitter finally imploded it didn't take over at all.
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by the_biot 1y ago
That's the first I've heard of pfsense having a bad reputation, can you explain? (I haven't used it, genuinely want to know)
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by the_biot 1y ago
Yup. It's why this, and Mastodon, failed so hard IMHO. It's all on different domains, looks and feels totally different, so the user experience is just terrible.
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by the_biot 1y ago
Well, this kind of thing really belongs in a constitution, where it would block any attempt to pass creeping mass-surveillance laws like Chat Control.

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