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by vntok 4y ago
Yeah, your program definitely should not do as many useless writes on the system it runs on, it's just bad behaviour. If every program did the same the disk would grind to a halt, SSD or not.
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by vntok 4y ago
> I don't think it's the FireFox' team's responsibility to be aware of and take into account arbitrary software intercepting system calls. Per the bug report, Firefox was generating up to ~14,000 calls where Chrome wa
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by vntok 4y ago
What a weird take. If this bug was engineered as an attack on Firefox, then it seems like the project has been infiltrated by bad actors, because the bug comes from Firefox's codebase. Indeed, the developers themselves contradict your
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by vntok 4y ago
Could you tell us how exactly you would convince the owners of 18k bitcoin nodes all over the world to just apply your line change and keep on?
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by vntok 4y ago
A very bad example.
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by vntok 4y ago
> To those saying "this is impossible in our society", there is a long history of scientific fields mutually agreeing to pause certain work until safety and regulations could be put in place. The Asilomar Conference is an examp
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by vntok 4y ago
How so?
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by vntok 4y ago
Nope. He made a donation, not a stock buy.
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by vntok 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure there are hosting services who can just take your site offline if you exceed your bandwidth quota Having my website instant-killable "for fun" by any bored script kiddy living in a country thousands of km
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by vntok 4y ago
A similar-enough alternative should exist in the first place, otherwise you're merely talking funny thoughts that have no bearing in the real world. Which is fine, it just needs to be explicitly conveyed. Why would you expect customers
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by vntok 4y ago
Things have changed quite a lot over the past 10 years.
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by vntok 4y ago
What alternative would you recommend to their security suite of tools? Note that the alternative has to "just work", be efficient, require minimal maintenance, and be free or close-to free to use (< $100/mo). Otherwise, it
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by vntok 4y ago
They moved slower, yes.
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by vntok 4y ago
If (1) you have acquired documents on both the DNC and the RNC, (2) they are both damaging and (3) you choose to only leak the ones about the DNC... well then it's not as clear cut and ethical as leaking both troves. Even if what you d
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by vntok 4y ago
With Privacy Pass they won't see more captchas, they will actually see fewer of them.
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by vntok 4y ago
Go full Cloud and you won't need to hire most of these roles ever, except in niche ultra-high performance cases. These roles will be externalized at AWS or Azure, super-paid to work for you 24/7.
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by vntok 4y ago
True, that's why you don't want to block the pageload on this signal alone, just use it to trigger a captcha.
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by vntok 4y ago
> websites nowadays forcing you to run their proprietary JavaScript just to identify and track you to ensure you are not a robot. Well yes, this is a good thing. The vast majority of human-made websites aim at serving humans, not unverif
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by vntok 4y ago
Win what?
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by vntok 4y ago
Surely you're writing this in jest? https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-e...
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by vntok 4y ago
From the linked xkcd, that seems like a tremendous waste of time..
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by vntok 4y ago
Have a look at the contributors graph, it's pretty self-explanatory: https://github.com/docker/compose/graphs/contributors Out of the 100 people listed, I counted maybe 8 tops who committed at least a fe
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by vntok 4y ago
Tracking is how many sites measure change on their quest to improve and become less annoying.
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by vntok 4y ago
Unplanned decentralized backup.
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by vntok 4y ago
France, virtually any major bank really: LCL, Boursorama, Societe Generale, etc.
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by vntok 4y ago
How do you mean? The meta ticket ( https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56009#comment:27 ) is pretty clear that all unit tests are passing, the only issues left being deprecation notices, not errors. Have you tried it
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by vntok 4y ago
> What? So if I'm an employee of the DNC, and I want to blow the whistle on what I see by leaking documents, I need to somehow get the corresponding RNC documents or else I'm a spy? No, that's not what the parent is saying
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by vntok 4y ago
You can prove you actually own how much you want to prove you actually own, without leaking any other information on your identity or current wealth. You can sign documents. You can mount complex escrow processes with it. You can send it wo
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by vntok 4y ago
It was explained in the paragraph immediately below the sentence you quoted. Here it is again: > Birdwatch assesses “different perspectives” entirely based on how people have rated notes in the past; Birdwatch does not ask about or use a
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by vntok 4y ago
The printer will not remove any spacing, and it will not fix word substitutions. However it will add almost invisible markings onto the paper itself, such that the page can be linked to the actual printer, exact timestamp and username of th

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