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by yc12340 8y ago
> feel like this is demonstrably a false promise by looking at the billions of mobile devices never getting any updates Third-party firmware like CyanogenMod exists only because in-kernel GPL parts can be ported to new OS versions. With
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by yc12340 8y ago
> That sounds like you want to continue using APIs and OS from 1970s If possible, I'd prefer to keep using APIs from 1960 instead.
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by yc12340 8y ago
> they apparently want stability of drivers Strangely, the only Android drivers, that can be trivially ported between Android version, are those "unstable" bits in Linux kernel. Take any postmarket smartphone firmware — if some
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by yc12340 8y ago
By using secure networks? PPP is older than SSL and have been in widespread use for longer time. SSL is largely irrelevant to banking security anyway. Actual security is built upon charge-back system. The underlying security model was desig
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by yc12340 8y ago
> It’s more like the government saying, you can’t discriminate against people who demand that their food is cooked in a kitchen that isn’t filled with cockroaches What?! Are you seriously speaking of prohibiting cockroaches? Cockroaches
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by yc12340 8y ago
> I remember reading articles like this years ago. >... Except that they were lamenting the rise of GUI operating systems and how those eliminated the easy on-ramps that command line OSes had where you could write a simple BASIC progr
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by yc12340 8y ago
> the kids know all of their data is being tracked for money ( and presumably are happy with it) Yes, and? Kids (and some adults) frequently send demeaning nude videos of themselves to public web forums (and promptly get harassed IRL).
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by yc12340 8y ago
> So Microsoft provides Speaking of "scary things"... Don't they default to decentralized updates in Windows 10? Sounds like simply joining the swarm will disclose anyone, what update packages you download and when. Does t
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by yc12340 8y ago
You are assuming, that all packages are equally interesting (and your math does not account for package dependencies). In practice, attacker either does not care about your packages, in which case hiding that information gains you nothing,
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by yc12340 8y ago
> once you download more than 2 packages, identifying which you installed is impossible. Not impossible, just marginally harder (if timing attacks can be though of as "hard"). Keeping your specific packages of choice in secret
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by yc12340 8y ago
> Package repositories don’t support monetization and there’s no pool of volunteers associated with the repository itself to take up maintenance of what otherwise would have been abandoned. Your statement contradicts itself: there is a p
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by yc12340 8y ago
Those companies aren't hiring , they are just sifting market for rock starts. I have seen this in numerous places already — when a company has enough product leaders, but still enough money/time to hire a couple more, they begin