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by vertex-four 6y ago
I don't know where you live or what your internet setup is like, but I can't stream 4k at ridiculously high bitrates consistently, and apparently many of Netflix's customers can't either: "The number of rebuffers pe
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by vertex-four 6y ago
I must admit that I have not read Greta Thunberg's book, but if it has a solution to capitalism's demand that we make sacrifices to our personal morals or starve in the specific instance of the tooling we need to perform our work,
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by vertex-four 6y ago
And so we get incredibly far away from the very laudable goal of protecting Internet users - the majority of who primarily use a web browser - by default from malicious DNS servers.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
There is no way to say in /etc/resolv.conf that you want to use a DNS-over-HTTPS server.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
There isn't one today, aside from running your own DNS server, and you can run your own DNS-over-HTTPS server. My understanding is that Firefox still respects /etc/hosts in DNS-over-HTTPS mode, too. I'm unaware of any su
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by vertex-four 6y ago
I mean, for most of us on here, it's either use goods made at least partially in China or switch career - you're never going to get a computer with no Chinese-made components, especially not at a price which I can afford. Good luc
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Most DNS resolution libraries will read the libc resolver configuration (/ets/nsswitch.conf) and attempt to parse it into something they understand, and potentially fall back to it (for example, if you're doing non-DNS resolu
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by vertex-four 6y ago
ESNI is not supported by common software yet. Can you tell me your alternative to SNI in this configuration: [nix-shell:~]$ nslookup redbot.org Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Na
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Web browser DNS resolution hasn't gone through libc in a long time.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
It requires a more modern browser to operate securely; it says nothing about whether it is perfectly secure against all threat models, and this particular website is hosted on the same IP as at least one other so requires SNI to operate sec
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by vertex-four 6y ago
In practice, I reckon you might be the only person in the world - or maybe one of a dozen - who has this problem. And in that context that's not snark at all, it's an accurate description of what is most likely the cause of the er
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by vertex-four 6y ago
You, uhh, you realise that we're stuck with restrictions on what we can do in significantly more important sectors than serving tracking cookies because of the US - like the financial industry - right? There's not a world power in
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The trick to Interrail is that you avoid Spain, France, and Italy - reservations are generally free or cheap outside of those countries. It's also handy if you need to get from somewhere aside from London in the UK into Europe - UK tra
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by vertex-four 6y ago
In situations where this could be used and the author would have the opportunity to create and enforce the use of such a "quiz", the author (or the collective of people the author associates with) has already chosen to give the co
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Ehh, once you get to a certain point you wind up poking things under /sys and /proc that are a little different per-architecture, or building snippets of C code that make syscalls which behave differently per-architecture. Not to
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by vertex-four 6y ago
> Unless you pointed a gun or knife at your coworker, no it's not. Technically, yes, it is in most states if the judge wanted to throw the book at you (for example, if you've ever committed a crime before) - https://
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The decision of whether or not to administer any drug should always be in the hands of someone who knows what they’re doing, and if that decision is not made by the person receiving the drug it should be made by somebody sufficiently detach
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Can a screenreader user use an app written with this library? That’s a major thing Qt and pretty much no other cross-platform UI system get right.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
And because a part of renting your next place often involves a letter saying you were a model tenant from your last place, asserting your rights can lead to severe difficulties and potentially homelessness.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Or, y’know, like everywhere else, criminals likely wouldn’t carry guns and certainly wouldn’t shoot people because “hey, I got caught” is not usually an imminent life and death situation and they’d risk a significantly higher sentence. Of c
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Would you say of someone poisoned, "their physical state was not compatible with self preservation"? What if it was just a little poison that a perfectly healthy person could manage? Yes, a lot of people are harmed by the same sys
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The alleged crime should not have been a crime; hence the post we're commenting on. State actors are, indeed, immune from criminal charges by definition, but that does not mean they are not culpable in the broader ethical sense. And ev
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The thing that broke the camel's back was something that should never have happened in the first place . You don't get away without having committed a crime if you "prank" someone by feeding them something they're
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Governments, when using threat of violence against people, at least have a responsibility to ensure that they are not committing undue harm, and certainly not before a conviction - we can argue all day about exactly how much harm is ok, b
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by vertex-four 6y ago
I'll point out that the EU Government has poured an incredible amount of money into the problem of "privacy and enhancing trust" and related topics - if you're in the EU, even as an individual developer you can likely ge
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by vertex-four 6y ago
That's ok - if the company can't convince the user that it'd be good for them to opt in to all 200 "partners" they'd like to share data with, the user can click the big shiny "fuck off" button that&#x
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by vertex-four 6y ago
A significant part of the GDPR - and in fact the bit most software people complain about - is forcing the companies in question to educate the public on what their data is being used for.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
> And who is best to decide what is best for the application but the developer who created it? Probably a UX researcher.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The UK's ICO also has a reasonable plain-English guide for anyone interested in collecting or processing data - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The way the EU usually works is that they say "we are concerned about X, Y and Z's effect on our citizens" to industry, and industry responds "we'll self-regulate to ensure X, Y and Z do not have the effect you&#x27

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