Comment Re:not on reddit.. (Score 1) 66
On my Firefox Nightly I have an extension to set Yandex as an allowed default search engine. Makes it easier to pop up another browser for a session.
Somebody fix that extension to work on mobile, eh?
On my Firefox Nightly I have an extension to set Yandex as an allowed default search engine. Makes it easier to pop up another browser for a session.
Somebody fix that extension to work on mobile, eh?
They don't - something like this needs an Act or Congress.
SCOTUS made up some BS "Chevron Deference" in the 80's which has been abused like this since.
The current
We may like the FTC proposal on this one but with that kind of power and no representation it's only counting the days until they do something we absolutely detest. And then there's no effective recourse.
Weren't the founders and top management of Google citizens of Israel?
It dozen't seem all surprising from that perspective.
These protesters should have gone back to writing code to surveil Americans, I guess?
Sometimes a Good paperback at ThriftBooks is $1 less than a new one at Amazon so I just get the new one.
Weird market!
PS unless the recent printings have been Trust & Safety'ed.
This is nonsense. Cryptography and secret codes have been around for as long as communication. One-time pads were first used on the telegraph in 1882.
I didn't say possible. I said practical. Strong crypto is hard. Secure key exchange is hard.
Governments have been breaking codes for as long as we have had codes.
LK
Even the most professional of officers would be tempted if he was was cheating on him or if someone delivered a credible threat to the safety of his children.
The best way to prevent this kind of abuse is to make it impossible.
LK
I don't see it. For example, cell phone records are only recorded and accessible via warrant, and by presenting that warrant to a provider directly. Same could be done with E2EE data if forced through the cell phone provider's networks.
That would mean an end to E2EE APIs on cell phones and other devices, which may be practically impossible at this point.
Edward Snowden showed that this is not as true as you seem to think it is.
LK
Oh dear lord, the hyperbole. We allow law enforcement access to all other forms of communication with a lawful warrant. So should this particular technology be exempt from that?
Then, let them serve the warrant.
What is different is that for the first time in human history, it's not only possible but it's practical to have encrypted communications that no one can access except for the intended recipient.
All of "the most heinous of crimes" take place in the real world, there is some physical action that can be detected and punished. I don't care if this makes the job of law enforcement harder. I want law enforcement to be a difficult and time consuming job. Idle and bored cops tend to find ways to fill their time and it's never good.
LK
I've been thinking about adding solar panels to my house. I would love if I could get a federal subsidy to do it. However, just like with my student loan forgiveness, I'm NOT giving Biden my vote in exchange.
LK
Good flick if you want to get a feel for how Pharma sales work.
I'm surprised it hasn't be Pfbanned yet based on who it highlights.
...need to be brought against both the principal studios and against the subcontractors. They're not supposed to allow this to occur. If their own supply-chains are so poorly documented that this occurs on any sort of large scale then it's reasonable to pursue penalties on even if on simple negligence.
They always rant about Wayland, systemd, Pulse/Pipewire, devops, dkms, quic, zfs, etc.
I used to wonder why they don't just not upgrade their os, but then I realized they are lazy and want somebody else to maintain their old system for them.
I mean, even compiling gentoo with the right use set is too hard for these bellyachers.
Yet the humility never occurs to them that the non-lazy people who actually build distros are embracing the newer technology.
Instead the Old Farts case aspersions and ad-hominems at these hard workers. It's pathetic.
I'm done with their BS and won't help them understand anymore - the arguments are almost universally in bad faith.
Because otherwise they would just not upgrade. I have some Infomagic Slackware CD's from 1993 they might be interested in. Yeah, my first Linux box was over 30 years ago and I competently run all those technologies now. I don't fear change even though understanding new tech takes work and I can't just rest on my laurels.
I don't know about real Macs, but I have a Hackintosh that's
If a version of OSX however-many-years-old is that bad with 8GB, I can't imagine current-OSX being pleasant.
Here's a llama there's a llama,
and another little llama,
Fuzzy llama, Funny llama,
llama, llama, Duck.
My guess is that the rise of the cell phone has helped a bit, it has meant that developers were getting used to writing for lower-powered devices again and not everything was simple bloatware.
I still have sitting on a shelf a first-generation 64 bit AMD laptop running Windows XP Media Center Edition with a beautiful screen and keyboard, that has only 1.5GB RAM because that is all that it supports at the chipset level. I had 1.5GB RAM on a desktop computer first in 1999 or so and that the first 64 bit intel-compatible units couldn't do more than that was an insult, but I needed a new laptop when I bought it and it didn't occur to me that it was going to be a problem only a short time later. Oh well.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
