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1. 721.▲
   by zb3 2y ago

   Yeah, that's a good question.. If it was philantrophy, wouldn't the one funding it want at least some publicity? When I see companies that are "magically funded" like this there's always one thing that comes to my m
2. 722.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   You can turn it off - just move to the EU :)
3. 723.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   But we must disallow this too, because it allows the (advanced) user to have fun, and as I understand these safety measures, having fun is strictly prohibited. Using the model is allowed for boring things only.
4. 724.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   but it seems it's for CTEs, I was asking aboyt materialized views where their result is physically stored all the time
5. 725.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   Are there materialized views in sqlite?
6. 726.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   To everyone pushing for a different 2FA method - what if I lose the 2FA device? Would it mean I won't be able to get into my bank account anymore? If not, then the method I could use to get my account back in that case could be the met
7. 727.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   Is this another (possibly sponsored) bullshit article about "AI Safety"?
8. 728.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   I seriously hope it doesn't work, please don't turn internet into shit...
9. 729.▲
   by zb3 3y ago

   This is how websites might be built in the future with the goal of making ad blocking / tracking protection much harder...
10. 730.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Blocking ad-blockers
11. 731.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Windows = Adware
12. 732.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    These are white-label though, you don't buy a "XiongMai" product, you buy a product that you think is made by your local manufacturer, except it has Chinese firmware inside..
13. 733.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Windows sends data to Microsoft and Microsoft shares the data with the government. This is official and mandated by the law. But XiongMai plants backdoors in their CCTV firmware so that data is shared with anyone interested, all around the
14. 734.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    I've personally analysed various Chinese CCTV firmware vendors and backdoors planted there were obvious, here's an example: https://github.com/zb3/tiandy-research , but a better example was XiongMai which acti
15. 735.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    > I hope they can create some good You mean backdoors? Don't forget these are not optional in China
16. 736.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Alternative name: BackdoorOS
17. 737.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    I've recently successfully talked someone out of buying a HP printer precisely because of shady practices like this. I believe more people should do the same
18. 738.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Where are the examples?
19. 739.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Could we somehow search for such takeovers done in the past?
20. 740.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Also I see this PR: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/pull/64
21. 741.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Also I saw this hans jansen user pushing for merging the 5.6.1 update in debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708
22. 742.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    But my point is that people living in China might be "forced" to do such things, so we unfortunately can't ignore the country. Of course, practically this is problematic since the country can be faked
23. 743.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    But I see the "strerror" call is added
24. 744.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Why do you exclude the possibility that this person was forced to add this at gunpoint?
25. 745.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Not sure why are people downvoting you... it's pretty unlikely that various Chinese IoT companies would just decide it's cool to add a backdoor, which clearly implies that no matter how good their intentions are, they simply might
26. 746.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    Yeah, now imagine they succeeded and it didn't cause any performance issues... Can we even be sure no such successful attempt has already been made?
27. 747.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    I'm not sure you know what "extinction" refers to, but yes, I could be the first - what I'd want is to make this process (that will inevitably happen sooner or later) to be as painless as possible.
28. 748.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    To my knowledge, Windows source code is not legally available, Microsoft didn't open source it (except for Windows 1.0 I guess)
29. 749.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    We should take this opportunity to do a voluntary extinction, otherwise an involuntary one will come sooner or later.
30. 750.▲
    by zb3 3y ago

    So you mean there will be no water shortage?