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amfsnon As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)

Cops in the US are out there to hurt you or kill you? Talk about delusional.

amfsnon “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

Then PayPal has the data and LE can follow the trail. Because it's about LE being able to tell who actually bought the certificate, telling me end users can't do that is kinda moving the goalposts.

amfsnon “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

Unless you're implying educated people don't use search, ad, mail, video, etc?

amfsnon Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

NYT has an anti-tech agenda in general because tech is killing newspapers.

It's also a contrarian position because most people love their tech, and contrarian positions and outrage drive clicks.

amfsnon “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

Of course they did. When you paid with your card they knew your identity. Unless you were carding which is a pretty serious crime.

amfsnon “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

That's what they wanted when they pushed Let's Encrypt. https meant something before, since a certificate was expensive and required proof of identity. Yes, those methods weren't infallible, but they were good enough. Now we've lost that with free https.

amfsnon 'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp

Cynical and correct observation, which I know will get downvoted because it goes against the mantra of this website:

Being able to read whatsapp would help us catch many more stupid bad guys.

Smart bad guys will always be able to get away with it. That doesn't mean we should stop trying to catch stupid bad guys.

amfsnon 'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp

You'd be surprised to learn how fucking stupid most bad guys are.

amfsnon 'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp

People generally don't care about LE reading what they say, so no. People used whatsapp before e2e and will keep using it after e2e.

amfsnon Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

https://www.collabora.com/assets/images/blog/xrdesktop/xrdes...

Oh god... where's your anisotropic filtering? That looks like a screenshot from Doom.

amfsnon Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

That's not a "full disclosure", that's spam.

amfsnon Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

One of many basic cultural differences between the UK and the EU. In the EU you must give up your biometrics (fingerprint) by law. Doesn't surprise me that they are leaving.

amfsnon Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

$700 for this? It's gonna flop really hard.

amfsnon YouTube faces creator backlash

That happened to me too. Min payment was 120€ or so, and when I had amassed that amount (it took me like one year), bam, banned a few days before I could cash out. Obviously on purpose. That was ten years ago or so I think.

amfsnon Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail

Does using warez slang automatically make software less secure and slower?

amfsnon Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival

I don't believe VR could ever reproduce what you feel during an actual suicide, so no

amfsnon Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR

Eugenics were crushed with violence, they weren't actually disproved.

amfsnon Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

34 kilograms

amfsnon Adblocking: How about Nah?

It's simply better to go to the options of your browser and disable third-party cookies altogether. And at that point why not keep using Chrome, which is faster, heh

amfsnon “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”

It's the time of China, I doubt this would work anymore.

amfsnon Valonia ventricosa

Heh. So it's like a regular cell but everything inside of it is full of padding? What is it padded of, water?

amfsnon Valonia ventricosa

Thank you!

amfsnon YouTube isn’t for kids, but kids videos are among its most popular

I agree. Example: Facebook. Journalists keep shitting on Facebook. Facebook doesn't care. Facebook (with WhatsApp and Instagram) keeps winning. Caving to the blackmailing would've probably left them in a worse position, like having to axe features that are popular for their users.

amfsnon Valonia ventricosa

If we leave glycogen in our mouth for seconds/minutes, would the acids in our mouth decompose it into glucose which would taste sweet? Yes, I have no knowledge about chemistry.

amfsnon Valonia ventricosa

What does this look in the inside?

amfsnon Europe’s Cities Weren’t Built for This Kind of Heat

Thank the Lord it's just a matter of buying air conditioners.

I'm sure next year we'll read the same news: "people are boiling!". Okay, why didn't you buy an air conditioner last year, eh?