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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Why is this being downvoted?
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
My bank (in the EU) has a fully functional website where I can identify myself using an offline 2fa device.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I never defended the authoritarianism of the CCP. I only said it makes sense to block foreign platforms, regardless if the state is a tyranny or not. Framing it as if it's some kind of tactic to help keep the populous indoctrinated is
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Say what you will about the CCP, it's naive to let a foreign nation have this much impact on your subjects. The amount of poison and political manipulation that are imported from these platform is astronomical.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Edward Snowden reported that some NSA officers were routinely watching and sharing people's private nudes. It's more than just "snooping occationally". Government officials are at the end of the day strangers, and it&#x2
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
No shit.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Jia Tan was the alias of the hacker(s) who infiltrated xz to plant a backdoor. He/They were in the project for 2 years I believe, and so had "significant experience" "maintaining" open source software.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I have a feeling forking Android is less cumbersome than creating a Linux phone from scratch, and you get to keep compatibility with existing apps.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. If the GUI stack is vulnerable, then those sandboxes could be broken out of. The idea behind not allowing an app to access root is to remove the attack surface introduced by the GUI stack. An altern
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I've heard Ceph is expensive to run. But maybe that's not true?
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I think most people would find automatic feeding of arbitrary private information from their devices to an external server to be problematic. If the AI is running offline and is non-destructive/safe then that's a different story.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Sure, I understand that. I just think we need to remember that some content is simply undesirable, especially for kids. An alternative method to protect society from harmful content would perhaps be more readily available and advanced firew
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
>So much engineering time has been wasted on reverse-engineering internal details of things It feels that this true for proprietary software in general.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I wouldn't mention 4chan and libgen in the same sentence.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
This is what happened with the Qt app dev framework. The Qt Company delayed releases of LTS updates to non-paying users by 1 year, while not properly dealing with the steady stream of regressions that were affecting normal releases. I quit
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Another gem: >Figure 1. >Household penetration rate of electric bidet toilets and the number of these units owned.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Wrong. Excessive data collection should be banned.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I can't say I have any sympathy when all they did was hammering Libgen and other community driven projects with requests, likely causing them financial losses, for profit. You can't host a public website online without feeling the
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Bugs
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
This works as long as the data is "small" and you have no ACL for it. Assuming you mean automatic downloads. Devdocs does something similar, but there you request to download the payload manually, and the data is still browsable o
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
It's very nice that the option is available though.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Huawei isn't much better in terms of user freedom.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
No, people pay for more than just "metal". We pay to access services which society expects us to have access to, a society which is increasingly becoming more unhospitable to those who lack that access. There is no moral obligatio
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Is that what you think of yourself?
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
Residential VPNs, but try to find ones that are ran ethically.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
That's not the only issue here. Publicly funded papers should be freely available.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
The US does espionage more overtly where they offer you some value before they take your data. That's the gambit being played to avoid diplomatic issues. They also lobby politicians to betray their own nations in favour of US (corporat
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I've been to Celenity's homepage and he seems like a privacy-conscious guy, and that's more than fine. From a user's perspective, the dilemma remains though. When it comes to Chinese nationals, you can't expect them
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
I'd say this is an issue anytime accountability cannot be expected.
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by yupyupyups 1y ago
>IronFox Judging by the commit logs, the main two maintainers are one anonymous guy (nothing linking his profile to a real person) and some Chinese guy (is he a Chinese national or not?) Although these may be perfectly well-meaning peopl

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