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- Comment on Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs 2 months ago:
A completely new OS meant to supplant Android and Windows but the apps are written in JS and extended Typescript? Not off to a good start…
- Comment on OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says 2 months ago:
Maybe they should be forced to build the power generation along with it? After all the lobbying these rich fucks do to pay less taxes, maybe they should be forced to fund their own utilities with no subsidies.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
You’re still missing the fact that public chats can’t be adequately protected.
Depends what you mean by “adequately” 🤔 With perfect forward secrecy (which matrix and signal have), seeing past messages isn’t possible. Seizing the servers is also not very useful unless people are connecting directly to the server. Anonymous public chats running on overlay networks like I2P and TOR might not even need encryption (although I wouldn’t trust a server that didn’t).
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
Are you talking about encryption at rest? Regardless, encryption by the server is worthless. It’s exactly why admins can delete content in chat rooms.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 2 months ago:
adomic wedgie
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
Does anybody really use Telegram for “privacy”? People can’t seriously believe that thing is secure. Their FAQ indirectly states that group chats aren’t encrypted and explicitly states that “secret chats” are.
We support two layers of secure encryption. Server-client encryption is used in Cloud Chats (private and group chats), Secret Chats use an additional layer of client-client encryption. All data, regardless of type, is encrypted in the same way — be it text, media or files.
I have never recommended Telegram to anybody. It’s just like another facebook, AOL, ICQ, or whatever messenger. I actually don’t personally know a single telegram user who uses secret chats. They are quite useless. They don’t sync across devices.
- Comment on Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X's ban in Brazil 2 months ago:
- Comment on Ukraine bans Telegram messenger app on state-issued devices because of Russian security threat 2 months ago:
They don’t say in favor of what. I’m hoping matrix. Those guys desperately need funding!
- Comment on Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X's ban in Brazil 2 months ago:
Tumblr sees to be dying… From this article, it seems like it’ll be folded into WordPress, which is already fediverse compatible.
- Comment on German investigators successfully tracked suspects inside the Tor network 2 months ago:
We should be investing in I2P…
- Comment on DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial 2 months ago:
Break up the company already… Make them separate entities and introduce provisions to prevent them merging for a decade or more.
- Comment on Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users — in 2027 2 months ago:
Pretty late, but better than nothing! I’d love to be able to chat to people on WhatsApp from Signal, Matrix, or Telegram. It wouldn’t be completely private since backups to google aren’t encrypted, but it’ll be better than not talking to them or even using text messaging.
- Comment on The DOJ wants info on Google’s AI strategy to bust up its search monopoly 2 months ago:
Break them up and fine them enough for every infraction so that it hurts. Also assign a neutral (or maybe even anti-google) third party to monitor further compliance for 5-10 years. Any further infractions should cost them more than before. They’ll never learn otherwise.
- Comment on iFixit: The Samsung Galaxy Ring is $400 of 'disposable tech' 3 months ago:
Signed and shared with friends in the EU.
Here’s another one to sign publicmoneypubliccode.eu
- Comment on iFixit: The Samsung Galaxy Ring is $400 of 'disposable tech' 3 months ago:
I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: opensource after deprecation. The product isn’t supported, maintained, for any reason: open source the entire thing.
It should not be in a company’s interest to release products that just become bricks or junk without their input. It’s not in our interest either.
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- Comment on Agile is killing software innovation, says Moxie Marlinspike 3 months ago:
Abstraction is a problem now? OK… So startups are supposed to spend years understanding the market, then a few more years developing a possible product in assembly (remember, no abstractions), and somehow be successful at that.
We can’t all be funded by the NSA, my friend. Some of us don’t have 1B$ to lean on when developing our first product. Trust me, if I had that kind of money, nothing would be able to hurry me. But the unfortunate truth is that most of us have bills to pay without a war chest and while we spend our time deeply familiarising ourselves with something, that’s costing money, and it has to come from somewhere.
UBI would probably solve this, but until then, the majority cannot understand every layer they use - and most likely even most of us will have more fun making something that works.
Agile in corporate is shit, for damn sure. However just because you understand systems and can peel away abstractions, doesn’t mean you can and will make a great product. One does not forcibly mean the other. It can, but it doesn’t have to.
- Comment on People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than Humane can sell them, report says 3 months ago:
It’s still baffling how this idea even got past anybody sane. It must be like in academia where who’s giving the pitch is much more important than what’s in the pitch. They must’ve heard “I worked at Apple as a product designer” and were sold on the spot.
- Comment on Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault 3 months ago:
Thanks for clearing that up. Not exactly the best system…
- Comment on Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault 3 months ago:
Whether it’s true or not, I’m still a little bit surprised that they are allowed to reveal the names defendants. After the proceedings, sure, but during? With such accusations “innocent until proven guilty” usually doesn’t exist.
Are the defendants in all trials known in the US? (Well this is a pretrial, but still).
- Comment on Google loses DOJ’s big monopoly trial over search business 3 months ago:
So another decade of appeals (or a year, if Trump wins). Maye the EU will be invigorated by the ruling to take action and sue Google for being a monopoly too, but we’ll have to see.
But probably, in the next 5 years, we can expect no change whatsoever.
- Comment on Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work 3 months ago:
employees will now have to start delivering
Sure, they’ll have a sprint or whatever they use and have to estimate their work without security, because if they do include security in their estimates, they will told “takes too long, lower your estimate”. Just like testing and documentation.
And of course, they’ll have to deliver security without any training on security.
- Comment on Turkey blocks Instagram with no reason given 3 months ago:
Boss move right there. Didn’t India do something similar?
It’s a chance for a federated service like pixelfed to gain ground, but I bet the first step for most people will be getting a VPN or finding a way to circumvent the block.
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 4 months ago:
Huh? What did I miss?
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 4 months ago:
Isn’t rPi underpowered for anything media? Last one I tried to run even struggled just opening a browser, much less a video. rPi3 or something…
- Comment on Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline 4 months ago:
Nothing is perfect, nothing is absolute, and yes that’s an oxymoron but you get the point. Anyway, there are ways to minimize risk
- A/B testing
- gradual roll out
- monitored roll out
- rollback
And not only on the side of Crowdstrike, there are things that can be done by their customers:
- OS rollback from weekly or monthly snapshots of the boot drive or system drive (probably shouldn’t change that often)
- if that isn’t possible with that OS, use another OS
- automated deployment (again, probably possible to fallback to a last known good deployment)
- investment in sysadmins
- investment in security staff
Probably lots more, but I’m not a sysadmin. I bet you though, that the hospitals, rail, and other governmental institutions simply don’t have enough money to invest in that because of budget cuts and austerity measures. Some hospitals still have Windows XP running.
Companies and governments don’t think IT and security are important until they are. It’s not about creating a perfect system, it’s about creating a system that can bounce back quickly.
- Comment on Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline 4 months ago:
And what will happen once it’s resolved? Oh, a fine that can be written off? Sure, no problem. Just took out a few countries, governments, agencies and businesses worldwide, but don’t do it again 😉 Come contract renewal, you can increase the prices to pay off the fine and we’ll diligently sign it 😘
- Comment on Netflix is kicking US subscribers off its cheapest ad-free plan soon 4 months ago:
And they will get the new, more expensive plan instead of pirating or switching services 🤷 As long as people just take it, companies can keep doing these things.
- Comment on Epic Games calls out Apple for rejecting its Games Store in the EU 4 months ago:
The EU should definitely fine them for even having a say in it. Fine them until they understand.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 5 months ago:
🤣