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by tremon 8mo ago
No. You seem to be implicitly arguing that that unsigned apps are inherently less trustworthy than PlayStore apps. That's a claim that needs to be proven first. And based on the huge amount of documented data exfiltration performed by
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by tremon 8mo ago
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometime
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by tremon 8mo ago
Hamas is not a military since Palestine is not a state (courtesy of Israel itself), so what they're doing can't be classified as war crimes. If you want to accuse Hamas of war crimes, you first need to recognize Palestine as an in
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by tremon 8mo ago
I always used ess-cue-ell to refer to the language, and sequel to refer to the Microsoft product. It would never occur to me to pronounce the Open Source alternative as postgressequel either, that's also invariably called post-gress-cu
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by tremon 8mo ago
> You don't think you'd get real teachers if there was a higher budget to pay them well? Budget goes beyond teacher salary. It's also for giving teachers the tools they need, giving students the support they need, and scho
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by tremon 8mo ago
I'm not even convinced that the first one has been decommissioned yet.
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by tremon 8mo ago
Do you have any examples of tooling like that, providing the monorepo tiling on top of git's porcelain so to speak? I had assumed that most of such tooling is bespoke, internal to each company. But if there's generic tooling out t
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by tremon 8mo ago
That's true, but git also doesn't have tags that apply to a subset of the repository tree. You can easily check out `project-b/v1.2.0` and build project-a from that tree. Of course, the answer to that is "don't do t
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by tremon 8mo ago
I think that Microsoft would rather not acknowledge that one. It's much easier to hide behind a simple "bug" than to admit to such a massive security breach.
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by tremon 8mo ago
There's a very good reason to package these things together on the same machine: you can rely on local machine authentication to bootstrap the network authentication service. If the Kerberos secret store and the LDAP principal store ar
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by tremon 8mo ago
"Driving into a wall" is still a positive outcome. It's just as likely to drive into a crowd.
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by tremon 8mo ago
Exactly. As soon as you're working with multiple active releases, the branching model becomes a distinction without a difference. You will always be working with multiple (tagged) release branches, a default branch on which developers
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by tremon 8mo ago
Except they didn't say signal-to-noise, they said noise-to-signal. And if the NSR is unacceptably high, that means the SNR is unacceptably low. Two inverses do make a right, it seems.
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by tremon 8mo ago
https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/ > Consent is presumed not to be freely given [..] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent no
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by tremon 8mo ago
You already had resilience that was very hard to undo: three independent branches of government, indirect elections via the electoral college, separation of church and state, strong protections for freedom of speech, independent journalis
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by tremon 8mo ago
Forcing companies to add backdoors in secret has been precedented for nearly a decade now. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/australia-thr... > Technical Capability Notices (TCNs): TCNs a
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by tremon 8mo ago
And one in a million odds of trouble in itself isn't normally considered wildly irresponsible. For humans that are roughly capable of perhaps a few dozen significant actions per day, that may be true. But if that same rate of one i
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by tremon 8mo ago
The parent said service provider, not manufacturer. You are effectively claiming that hitmen should not be prosecuted, only the person that hired them.
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by tremon 8mo ago
Yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Origi... > a DCO is an affirmation that a certain person confirms that it is (s)he who holds legal liability for the act of sending of the code
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by tremon 8mo ago
Luckily, 95% of Linux devices actually have touchscreens. The sad bit is where you realize that GNOME is typically only found on the other 5%.
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by tremon 8mo ago
Can we name the operator of the AI Agent, please? Do we even know who pays the inference and/or electricity bills? We need more accountability for those who operate bots. Apart from the accountability part, knowing the operator is esse
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by tremon 8mo ago
Replace Honest Guy with local hospital or care home and bad guy with vulture capital, and you will find that this happens all too often; any time there's an established and captive audience, you will find vultures circling all around i
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by tremon 8mo ago
The alpha stage is the best time to test if it also works via Wine or Proton -- while you can still give feedback to the devs about it.
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by tremon 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
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by tremon 8mo ago
They had the same joke in the sound setup program. If you kept clicking "test sound", you would get "it doesn't get any better than this!" in that same annoyed footman voice. But my favourite was the orc destroyer i
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by tremon 8mo ago
It's usually not tied to the debit card, but plenty of banks offer ad-hoc travel insurance as part of an options package with their checking accounts.
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by tremon 8mo ago
> they know 70% of the value comes from the advertising So, you are aware that advertising is in large part responsible for shaping what is perceived as high-value status signals in society. You're also aware that for certain produc
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by tremon 8mo ago
So, in order to put a more neutral spin on this practice, you immediately reduce all people to "consumers"? Aren't you just confirming the GP's characterization that all platform users are seen as prey?
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by tremon 8mo ago
And the result of that decision is that Europe is now moving away from both companies, so they will get 0% commission. Real genius move there.
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by tremon 8mo ago
We don't use any cards for online shopping, what do you mean? In most European countries online shopping uses a payment API that takes you to your bank's payment portal where you can review the transaction amount before confirming

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