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j16sdiz··on I use zip bombs to protect my server
The vanilla one is so much longer.
j16sdiz··on Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
ugh?

Huawei sell both. Not in the same market, but they sell both.

j16sdiz··on Don't make it "like Google"
Google search is literally the first search engine doing that.

Gmail is the first email client that arranges conversations like that

j16sdiz··on Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
it was not obvious, thanks
j16sdiz··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA) have lots of control over those.
j16sdiz··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
almost always because your adblocking extensions. They plants cookies and checks for that, and they never have to obverse gpdr.

They do cross domain requests to keep those trackers around.

adblocking extension hates cross-domain tracking.

j16sdiz··on Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
Many NFC chip don't allow setting uid either, and none of the EMV card require cloning uid
j16sdiz··on Anubis Works
It is not bringing down your server, but they are taking 80%+ of your bandwidth budget. Does this count as abuse?
j16sdiz··on Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
> if you call emergency services they cannot see your location unlike with a regular phone.

Are you sure? I think the GSM triangulation thing is mostly in the baseband modem. GraphrneOS doesn't do the lookup thing, but it don't stop the modem sending the timing information

j16sdiz··on A Year of Rust in ClickHouse
Those github pr linked from the blog don't give me much confident:

Links to "Better C++" is a PR for removing c++ template for build time. Unwinding stack in a "funny" way. PR comment saying something shouldn't be public and go on merging anyway.

j16sdiz··on Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
Given how much power they alte already have , they can just setup their own "small cap fund". Create shell companies that fits the criteria, etc.

If we can't trust the lawmakers, something has fucked up already.

I think we need more transparency, not more restrictions. Trust and Verify.

j16sdiz··on Let's Ban Billboards
Does public service announcement get exemption?

How about health ad ("Smoking kills") ?

How about mentioning a product in health ad (Smoking kills. Nicotine patches help you quit smoking)?

Traditionally, the government setup some regulatory body to oversee these kind of exemptions. These body often corrupt over time. Is a corrupted regulatory body better than no exemptions allowed?

Do we want the legal text cover all cases and become so dense that nobody can comprehend? Or do we want some simple rules and live with the possible unintended consequences?

and the most important question : People hate changes and some industries need to rethink their own business. How could we get people agrees on this in a democratic setting?

j16sdiz··on Let's Ban Billboards
> convince someone with an audience to feature you without paying them to do it.

It takes time and effort to feature a product, how could they make a living?

I can imagine 4 different possible outcomes:

- People just find new loophole and behave exactly as before

- Large media company only features products from their friends and families. Monopoly.

- Only the government and a few selected individuals get the incentive. They gain from controlling the information.

- Only local businesses can survive.

They are very different outcome. You can't just ban one undesirable behaviour and hope for the best. You need to focus on what outcome you desire and how each and every side effects.

-- While we are banning monetary gain for ad, can we stop political lobbying too?

j16sdiz··on Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings
> Does resetting a phone to factory defaults erase data, or is it still recoverable?

This is a easy one.

Both ios and android does the same thing -- the filesystem is always encrypted, factory reset discards the decryption key.

On macOS and windows, that's encryption by default. (yes, bitlocker is the default now)

This is pretty standard nowadays.

Linux, otoh, don't usually do the encrpytion.

j16sdiz··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
"Net Worth" can be misleading.

Wikipedia say Musk has repeatedly described himself as "cash poor" -- most of his worth are not in cash.

How much of his net worth are in $TSLA?

j16sdiz··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
Public perception do not reflect actual corruption, but it affects how likely people try to start a new business.

IMO, this is more important.

j16sdiz··on Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle
I think German and Hong Kong have them.
j16sdiz··on IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
I thought RDP is highly coupled with GDI. How could it translate native wayland to GDI?
j16sdiz··on IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
don't feed the trolls
j16sdiz··on 'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists
According to the article, this new discovery(?) actually go _against_ their interest.

Either that, or lots of missing links and details...

j16sdiz··on 'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists
Wait, is this oxygen source "political"?

Any related news / article on this topic?

j16sdiz··on Zlib-rs is faster than C
Chromium supports brotli and zstd
j16sdiz··on A look at Firefox forks
Mozilla do more then just the code base -- There are larger eco-system for HTTP, HTML5, CSS, Certificate Authority, etc.

The effort for entry is quite high for those...

j16sdiz··on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
WhatsApp is installed on >80% of phone in india.
j16sdiz··on Experts warn about the 'crumbling infrastructure' of federal government data
From the page you linked:

  > "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any," Trump asserted.
  >
  > Earlier in the day, the president, on social media, called “testing a double-edged sword” that makes the country “look bad” but is “good to have.”
It's hard to get what he really want from that snippet .
j16sdiz··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
> - Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status.

Actually, this is hardly healthy. Firefox feel this single source of can be deprived anytime that they tried many other alternative -- like VPN, partnership with pockets, some sponsor ad on tab selection, and even selling some data

Other browsers go even further..

j16sdiz··on Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
What else could you expect? It is their sole product.

Accept the responsibility and declare bankruptcy? No, if they care s little bit, they would have done that 10+years ago

j16sdiz··on MS Paint IDE
Or nuclear reactor
j16sdiz··on Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet
Many turbine are running in extreme high pressure (for efficiency). There are no much margin for "build up higher than normal".

Of course we can build something less efficient to allow "pressure build up", but that's another trade off.

j16sdiz··on I'm done with coding
> Almost all company,... have surveillance...

If i understand correctly, OP was working on surveillance-enabling AI technology. Unlike traditional surveillance, it can actually scales.

and no, how high the false rate the AI is doesn't really matter. What really matters is is the fear of being constantly watched

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