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> Key is in memory at all times after boot on all of those.

I would think it would have to be while the device is mounted and OS locked, but surely if you dismount a secondary disk/container the key is purged?

What kind of GPU would you need to run this locally? (the training I mean)

While that applies to World War II it seems like medieval castles or WWI trenches were pretty effective.

I don't believe it is technically true, perhaps with Win 11 home? But the process is full of dark patterns and opaque enough that you could argue it is effectively true.

No, but security can provide privacy and privacy may provide security.

Yeah, this is a strange take to me. Akin to catching the fox guarding your hen house eating the hens and reacting by having the fox install and monitor a security camera for the hen house. The problem is still the fox and he'll just turn the camera off when he wants the hens.

They're only overblown in that I haven't seen anything to suggest it is any worse than Windows 10, which was already horrible from a privacy perspective.

I have no opinion on njalla but every VPN I've used will give you OpenVPN configuration files to use, I actually think it is pretty common.

> I think the ads are encrypted end-to-end from amazon-ad server to stick, using likely the same channels as the regular video content

I don't think they even need to encrypt them. IIRC pihole is just a DNS blocker essentially. All they have to do is serve them up from the same domain and you can't separate the wheat from the chaff any longer with this method.

I use linux mint which is still ubuntu based and doesn't use snaps.

Around here the just went into the dealership and cut them off the new cars in the lot. Then brazenly did it with another dealership a few days later!

I was under the impression most car thefts were already to chop them up for parts anyway so this doesn't seem like a new incentive.

Thanks for the clarification. That is what I thought as well. I've heard of people being able to use Google Voice or other VoIP from 2FA even when it would normally be rejected by using a cellular number that they then port to Google Voice.

Based on what I've read, some video games are able to determine if you're using a prepaid plan or post paid. I suppose they might just look up the carrier to determine that since it doesn't seem like that level of granularity is available. And the port trick may work there as well.

I guess this explains why spam calls to my home phone do an immediate retry.

> Every time you place a phone call in US or Canada, the originating carrier does a lookup against the Neustar-NPAC database (also called a "dip") to determine the routing destination for your call.

Is this able to determine if the phone is connected through wifi calling? (There was a discussion yesterday where some one suggested SMS may not be sent to a phone connected to wifi only if the sender did not wish to but I could not see a mechanism that would allow that determination.)

> It does not work universally. It won't take long to find a bank / FAANG / service provider that refuses to accept anything but a bona fide mobile SIM talking to a base station.

How does a SMS sender know this? Is there some mechanism in SMS to only deliver if by certain criteria?

Why do you need to submit driver's license photos to contest a ban?

That is my experience as well, second or third time I'm vastly improved (not as good or as fast as a pro still, but upgraded to 'acceptable') since I've learned from the largest mistakes. Too bad I have to live with those mistakes though since I did them to my house!

IIRC even after shipping went pretty much whole hog on fossil fuel transport there were some odd duck ships called windjammers, made with modern components like steel hulls and masts but still powered by sail. For awhile they filled a niche of transporting some types of non-time sensitive goods for a very low cost.

Yeah, they definitely did something like this. I recall you could return the DVDs to their stores to speed up the turnaround. And they eventually started a short price war with Netflix. But IIRC they had a lot of debt to begin with and combined with much higher overheard from all the stores it ended predictably.

Yeah, I remember this from my compliance training because it was so ridiculous. It is just a type of bribe, but since it has a special name and a carve out it is potentially not a problem!

This happened to me with paypal which had a max password length for some reason at one time. When entering the two masked passwords it just discarded anything I typed beyond 20 characters instead of throwing an error "password to long" when I hit submit.

Does this mean if your motherboard lacks an Intel NIC (or if you use an add on card instead) that it cannot communicate?

Knowing Intel, if this functionality was actually desired by hardware owners it would only be available on high end chipsets and i7+ processors.

Facebook already used 2FA gathered numbers for ads in the past so I'm not sure why there is so much doubt in this story.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...

Support is a lot more of a nebulous concept than it used to be. I recall AMD stopped releasing new drivers for Windows 8 at least a couple years ago, even though it is still supported by Microsoft. At the same time they were still releasing Windows 7 drivers even though MS stopped support in 2020.

Not the OP but I've had this thought as well. Microsoft has an almost unassailable position on desktop even still. If they had a solid position in mobile they could probably expel Android/iOS from enterprise with the same bundling tactics they use to push out different software on Windows with their own (often but not always) inferior offerings. From there the consumer space would be weaker and enterprise may start to ignore iOS/Android altogether. iOS and Android may well be to entrenched at this point for this to be a realistic fear, but based on how aggressively Google reacted to Windows phone (The youtube app fiasco) I think they at least worry about it a great deal.

Ideally, we'd have 3 or more fairly evenly matched and interoperable OS choices on mobile and desktop but that doesn't seem likely to happen. Trapping the monopoly inside it's own castle may be the best we can get.

I feel similarly about people calling for Apple to open iOS up to different browser engines. Idealistically that is what I believe should happen, but realistically I think it would just result in Chrome being even more dominate. For the same reason I lament the death of IE and even the original Edge. I don't personally use IE or Safari but I benefited from them existing and having decent market share.

> Would you rather have an expensive device that you barely control or a cheaper device that spies on you?

It is unclear to me if modern Windows actually still spies on you any less than Google at this point. My feeling is if still does, it isn't by much.

I recently flew across country with jetblue and since I haven't flown in over 10 years I appreciated the wifi. However, I found I couldn't stream a music video on my phone without buffering. Fortunately if I turned off the video the music played fine. It was OK for reading hacker news and the like.

On the return flight it just didn't even work. Fortunately, I'd had newpipe download some content before we left.

This kind of shocks me honestly. Maybe it is because wifi is shit as you say but I wouldn't have thought hundreds of kilometers was possible, much less with one target moving.

I've been looking into a way to get a wifi link between a couple locations maybe 500ft apart and wasn't sure if even that was possible.

My understanding is that when the firefox 57 was released (I believe that was the version that dropped the old XUL add-on model) they did do some work to allow the add-on developer to port it to the new model.

Why exactly they still haven't implemented an easy way to hide the redundant top tab bar I can't explain though!