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Comment Re:Cant compete... litigate (Score 1) 239

It's the RDF. People gave that name to the positive (for Apple) effect on some people that made them buy Apple products, but it has an equal-and-opposite effect that makes people switch off their goddamn minds before speaking or writing. Just look at any article written about them in the last 25 or so years.

Comment Re:Philosophy is nice and all... (Score 1) 815

So this project doesn't work at all? I cant speak to its effectiveness, as I find Android as distasteful as iOS, but a protocol is still just a protocol - if you can read and write bytes on the wire, you can implement it.

That's what I mean when I say the designers didn't necessarily make something as simple as you'd like, but that doesn't mean they made it impossible.

Comment Re:Philosophy is nice and all... (Score 1) 815

On the Mac, things are very easy when you do what the OS designers planned you to do, but then they can become impossible when you want to do something else.

People always say this, but they never give any reasonable examples. You are aware that a Mac is still a general purpose computing device, right? It has a CPU, RAM, storage. It executes instructions upon your request, it doesn't check with the OS designers whether it's within their vision.

The designers picked certain tasks and optimised for them, that doesn't suddenly make other tasks impossible. Perhaps you have to fight with the security model at times, but that's true in Linux too.

Comment Re:No the complaining will start... (Score 1) 369

If I visit blort.com, and they include a reference to ads.blort.com (an alias for ads.mfers.com), will the browser still happily include that cookie in requests to ads.blurble.com (another alias for ads.mfers.com)? If it does, that seems a blatant and obvious hole to plug in the browser.

If not, then the difference between third and first party cookies in this case means nothing. The data that mfers.com aggregates via that cookie is entirely from blort.com, and they have no idea that I even visit blurble.com.

Comment Re:Brilliant idea (Score 1) 480

What is the name of this alternative method? I looked at the features on the Keepass website, and the only thing that sounds close is AutoType.

Luckily the source is available, and checking the source for 2.20.1 shows that the Linux version of AutoType uses xdotool, and the Windows version uses the SendInput functions. I'll be surprised if these are somehow invulnerable to keyloggers.

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