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Compared to illegal mass surveillance programs that remain running to this day, and a witty intelligence head who remains free after lying under oath, this is a shinning success that should be celebrated.

Hopefully other nations follow their lead one day.

Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:33PM (#22144250)
I don't know much about macOS development, but I am a linux developer by trade. Can you elaborate further on how linux doesn't do long-term healthy platform maintenance?

I also don't understand how long-term maintenance can be a factor when games don't run correctly on launch day. I would appreciate an explanation for this as well.

The same with Samsung printers division which is actually owned by HP. I think punishing a company for selling their trademark so that other companies can mislead their customers is a good thing.

In my eyes, GE is just as guilty as Haier & KKR.

Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:42PM (#22134903)
Linux and macOS game development in a nutshell - spend $200K to make a buggy mess that doesn't work, get surprised when paying customers are upset"
The solution to leaking private information has been known for a very long time: Don't collect beyond the bare minimum required to render a service.

Microsoft should not have collected anything beyond an email and a password. Payment information should only be held temporarily.

Personal information is a toxic asset. It baffles me why companies willingly hoard it.

What about those messages before the signal protocol was adopted?
Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:50PM (#22114116)
Has there been any weakness found in Telegram's encryption?
Re:A Sad Day for Rust on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:29AM (#22076062)
No demand for work is being made here. I'm simply saying a project that isn't a toy project will be criticized if it doesn't behave according to community standards.

I'd consider it to be social norms. It certainly isn't entitlement.

Re:A Sad Day for Rust on Friday January 17, 2020 @10:13AM (#22075239)
I don't know how to word this so I'll say it bluntly (and probably bear the blunt of this community as a consequence): If you're a developer of a project that is used in a security-sensitive context, you either be receptive to security concerns or you clearly label your project as a toy project.

No one expects you to write perfect code, but we do expect you to fix flaws when you learn about them.

Of course, you could do neither, but don't be surprised when people call you out on it.

Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:56AM (#22044720)
That's why I never use my real google account with my phone. Android phones offer too little control over what is perhaps one of the most important digital asset I own: my google account.
what about amazon?
Re:C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf] on Friday January 03, 2020 @09:44AM (#21946246)
It's amazing what credible competition can do. If only C had the same kind of pressure.
Re:BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop on Friday January 03, 2020 @09:39AM (#21946206)
> you've also just communicated murderous intent.

No I have not. It's your bias that colored it that way. Reread my comment. I never said I want kill a thief for stealing. I simply stated that I will take back what is mine. If, and only if, the thief tries to kill me will I respond in kind.

Again, it has nothing to do with grandeur and everything to d with doing what is right. I will take back what is mine, and threatening my life wont stop me.

Re:BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:46PM (#21942196)
> I’m just assuming the above is not in good faith

Not GP, but your assumption is wrong.

It's not about the laptop. It's about standing up for yourself and doing your part towards society. You obviously don't agree with this stance and that's fine, but it's not your place to dictate what values are worth standing up for and what aren't.

I, like GP, fully intend to go after a thief. If he goes after my life, then I go after his. Either he gives up the laptop, or one of us gets killed.

It's as simple as that.

Exactly. I've never considered voice assistants because I don't want recordings of me or my family being used for who knows what.

I've just looked over the docs. I'll probably be playing with this very soon.

Re:Linux doesn't have Photoshop on Sunday December 29, 2019 @08:24PM (#21909976)
> If you need Photoshop, you'll stay on platforms where it's supported.

Sure, but your customers will resent you for it and search for alternatives. Vendor lock-in is not a good long term strategy. Competition will eventually catch up.

> If you don't, you'll probably not pay for it anyway.

This is speculation on your part.

Re:Linux doesn't have Photoshop on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:49PM (#21903573)
Adobe moved to a subscription model. They lose revenue as they lose customers.
Re:Linux doesn't have Photoshop on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:32PM (#21903214)
zero demand for a PAID Photoshop? If that's what the study really concluded then it completely failed to take into account current customers who want to switch to linux.

I would love to read more about that study.

Re:BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5) on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:42PM (#21896686)
This is what drove me to use Debian. I used to spend quite a but of time hunting down telemetry and other canonical-serving crap, but I eventually got tired of it.

With this crap and others (e.g. aggressive snapping), Canonical is eroding trust in its most important market. Inertia will only take them so far.

If I suspect that there is any chance my family's private information is going to get leaked, then I will not touch it. Appliances should never have internet access. Software updates, if required, should be delivered one-way through open trusted auditable software (something like ofw).

Big tech have already tricked me into supporting them with their "open platform" bait-and-switch before (android), that trick wont work on me twice.

Re:Still Why No HTTPS? on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:50PM (#21821027)
>(Exception being if you use the dns challenge)

Exactly. DNS challenges don't suffer from this issue.

Re:Still Why No HTTPS? on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:43PM (#21820988)
> Rooting won't help most of these devices. They just don't have the horsepower.

If a device can "display" webpages then it's extremely likely that it can handle tls.

> Moreover, they don't run Linux

That has never stopped people before.

Re:France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:32PM (#21820938)
Even if the number of boards was small, there should be some form of tangible proof instead of them just going off statements of unverified "sources".

I haven't read a single bloomberg article since they published that story. Journalistic integrity is very important to me.

Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:23AM (#21781769)
Probably less impactful since we have alternatives that can more or less do the same thing. I think reddit is more impactful bdue to the network effect.
Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:45PM (#21778437)
> What do you mean remote agents?

Sorry. I meant running an agent on a machine that is separate from the machine running huginn. The machine running the agent is not accessible publicly but has internet access (doesn't accept connections but can initiate them). huginn would be accessible publicly.

Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:21PM (#21778299)
How well does it support:

- support remote agents and remote reporting?

- dead-man triggers for missing reports?

- is remote reporting properly secured? (encrypted/signed)

> I think Google is absolutely not at fault here.

Well I do.

If they had narrowed what information they collected to the absolute minimum and deleted it as soon as it was no longer required, then they wouldn't have any information to give.

Information is a "toxic" liability. Google chose to hoard it. They are absolutely liable.

Re:Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:59AM (#21753643)
Doesn't that carry a risk for Apple? I thought CA had some legislation specifically to deter lawsuits like this.
Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC on Sunday December 08, 2019 @10:00AM (#21736163)
GCC still supports more architectures even if AVR support is removed.
Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:55AM (#21736130)
>And here are plenty that support the converse

Could you site sources please?

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