goodpoint

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goodpoint··on Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

DOS and brilliant in the same sentence...

goodpoint··on SecurityBaseline.eu

No.

goodpoint··on Debian must ship reproducible packages

No, reproducible builds make such backdoors more difficult to sneak in together with other checks.

goodpoint··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

No, Debian has its own security team and receives embargoed vulnerabilities and patches.

goodpoint··on Permacomputing Principles

"resilient and ecological use of computing" or of anything else is inherently political, like it or not.

goodpoint··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

I lost count at 50

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and...

goodpoint··on Bugs Rust won't catch

This is simply false. You can accept GPL contributions and clearly indicate the names of the contributors as required by MIT. There is no "incompatible fork".

goodpoint··on Bugs Rust won't catch

> its creation was neither ideologically motivated nor part of some nefarious GPL-erasure scheme

No, they openly refuse to accept any GPL code. And even have a strict policy of not even reading GPL code.

goodpoint··on Bugs Rust won't catch

"we cannot accept any changes based on the GNU source code" is false. They are choosing not to accept it.

goodpoint··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

No, plants, bacteria, mushrooms are obviously not sentient as they lack a brain.

goodpoint··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

It's not reasonable for a website to find out about my browser version, OS, keyboard layout and a zillion other things, fuck this.

All these things should be opt-in and like blocked by GDPR.

goodpoint··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

No, fingerprinting is a synonym of deanonymization.

goodpoint··on Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

Then avoid GrapheneOS

goodpoint··on Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

When you have to trust the OS images generated by the authors it becomes a massive issue.

goodpoint··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

It's just wrong.

goodpoint··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

It's the opposite, the economy of scale favors defense.

goodpoint··on Stop Using Ollama

The missing attribution pattern is nasty.

goodpoint··on What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical

Or Debian -> Ubuntu

goodpoint··on Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

It's not the winning game at all.

goodpoint··on LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

It's also pretty useless at career development.

goodpoint··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

"isolveproblems", really?

goodpoint··on Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries

we need a [slop] flag in the headlines

goodpoint··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

what?

goodpoint··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

It's what linux distributions do.

goodpoint··on LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life

not with an adblocker

goodpoint··on Desk for people who work at home with a cat

Pretty poor design all around.

goodpoint··on ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms

The conclusion that saving water is greenwashing is just wrong.

goodpoint··on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

No, it's extremely different. Like trusting a massive bank or a dude in an alley.

Plus, if NSA and the Mossad actively try to surveil you all bets are lost.

goodpoint··on Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'

Very likely.

goodpoint··on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

The guide is not mentioning that you have to 100% trust some pseudonymous guys on the internet that build the image.

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