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by user3939382 6y ago
> The question is, what will we do? IMHO the time to ask that question was when Congress reversed the rules allowing them to trade stocks. Or when it was decided it was okay for Wall St to spy on limits and front run the trades of retail
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by user3939382 6y ago
That's one out of about 6 or 7, which is clear from the request path
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by user3939382 6y ago
If I could afford the time to learn Rust, the frameworks used by Firefox, the associated toolchain, and the Firefox codebase, and the time to maintain a fork, I would love to do that.
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by user3939382 6y ago
> First of all, all of these things can be turned off; They cannot. Reporting off, telemetry off, automatic updates off, every related setting in about:config off -- Firefox still transacts data with not one but several Mozilla domains u
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by user3939382 6y ago
Even with all reporting and telemetry disabled Firefox sends network requests to Mozilla’s domains upon launch, providing Mozilla with usage tracking data. It would be nice if users who care about this could get Mozilla to honor its privacy
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by user3939382 6y ago
I’m reminded of an xkcd alt text, “ There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone curre
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by user3939382 6y ago
From what I understand (someone correct me if I'm wrong) part of the problem is that baseband hardware and firmware requires expensive FCC approvals that's more compatible with the profitability of closed-source intellectual prope
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by user3939382 6y ago
I get the impression that these headlines are often treated as a writing prompt by commenters, independent of the linked content. Thanks for the quality analysis.
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by user3939382 6y ago
I register my domains through hover.com to support Tucows. It happens to be an excellent registrar.
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by user3939382 6y ago
Here's a writeup on how to address that (slightly out of date but gets you most of the way there) https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/how-to-disable-bloa...
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by user3939382 6y ago
Yeah, Adobe actually sticks their numerous config files and background executables in about 6 different places in macOS, so true uninstall is only within reach of the technical and dedicated.
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by user3939382 6y ago
Every major institution in our society is plagued with corruption: municipal, state, and federal politics, corporate media, private industry, peer-reviewed science, religion, you name it. We know that, and yet when one of these corrupt inst
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by user3939382 6y ago
The original observer of the tic tac defeats Mick West's ideas based on his expert knowledge of the equipment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&t=9001s
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by user3939382 6y ago
The way to accomplish the change is to propose upgraded versions of SMTP, IMAP, et al that are backwards compatible with existing protocol versions. This way the infrastructure can update incrementally. If both clients in an email exchange
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by user3939382 6y ago
Your comment reminds me of the first 30 seconds of this scene from The Third Man https://youtu.be/vSc-91F5Wiw
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by user3939382 6y ago
I appreciate giving people the benefit of the doubt, but this feels overly charitable to me. I doubt they’re worried about accidentally misconfigured /etc/hosts files. Much more likely is that they were aware of outbound firewalls
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by user3939382 6y ago
The longer the better. What a neverending nightmare it was.
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by user3939382 6y ago
I disabled IPv6 altogether, and Apple’s processes are still finding a way to resolve their real IPs after my DNS and /etc/hosts resolved their domains to 0.0.0.0. DNS should be enough, I shouldn’t have to black hole Apple’s entire
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by user3939382 6y ago
If you proxy macOS connections overnight with no apps running and the computer idle you get about 15 hosts from 7-8 Apple processes phoning home, a handful of them resort last to IPv6 after ignoring your DNS and /etc/hosts The scr
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by user3939382 6y ago
Why are they ignoring /etc/hosts if this is good behavior?
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by user3939382 6y ago
So does this mean we won’t be seeing the behavior I just documented the other day on here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25746007 In sum, they’re intentionally circumventing DNS, /etc/hosts, and even IPv4 b
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by user3939382 6y ago
I recently learned that even blackholing the entire /8 block of Apple's IPs at the router, after they bypass your provided DNS servers, after they bypass your /etc/hosts file, macOS then tries to phone home using IPv6. T