josephcsible

This is not my understanding of the DMCA. Can you back this up?

If you self-hosted, they could have just gone for your ISP or colocation provider.

Even if you keep all of your proprietary applications, switching from Windows to Linux still means your system is less proprietary than before, so it's still a step in the right direction.

I think the point was that their real goal was to kill youtube-dl entirely, and the tests just happened to give them something to complain about to do so.

Why? GitHub didn't do anything wrong. They took this down because they were required to by law. It would have been the same story with anyone else.

The point is that it won't brick unless the sysadmin does something. Windows will occasionally brick itself with no user interaction.

> > Astronomically lower probability of catching a virus. > Yes because nobody uses consumer desktop Linux. With higher market share the malware will come. Linux has a higher server market sh…

I acknowledge that they don't make this easy, but at least there is a way to do it: by downloading a snap manually and then sideloading it from the local file, it won't ever automatically up…

> Linux is now the least secure desktop OS available [citation needed] > limited sandboxing seccomp? Namespaces? What exactly do you want Linux to be able to sandbox that it can't? > no …

Saying Ubuntu has telemetry like Windows is shaky at best. Ubuntu asks you whether you want it, doesn't mandate it for people who don't buy enterprise licenses, and doesn't sneak in new…

GitHub is just a mirror for Linux. We're discussing projects that use GitHub as their primary repository.

I can't agree more. It's like the CADT model ( https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ) but on steroids.…

This really has nothing to do with Facebook. They just happen to be the website that got used to set the precedent. This can now happen on any of those hundreds of millions of websites that have any p…

Maybe, but remember that nonconstructive proofs exist, and aren't uncommon in mathematics.

Thanks. Clarified.

Discussion about when this originally surfaced, but was thought to only affect Apple apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816 …

> I never asked them to do that in the first place, so I'll be blocking it from now on. Apple's working on making sure you can't block it. They already keep you from blocking their o…

> Note: It is recommended to use the versioned C runtime when and where possible; this script is only provided for the convenience of developers familiar with the pitfalls and caveats that come wit…

If your bank account balance is wrong, you can tell for sure that it's wrong and then explain it to the bank and get it fixed. If your vote was counted wrong, you'd never know. For them to b…

Deaths were low, then we locked down, then deaths were high. You're saying that's evidence that lockdowns can't possibly be contributing to deaths?

Mandatory OCSP that fails open when you're offline is security theater.

https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/ doesn't mention anything about what doesn't work with it. It just says "With the introduction of Rosetta 2, M1 and macOS Big Sur…

> I'd assume that those deaths couldn't have been lockdown deaths since, you know, no lockdown yet. I'm confused. Lockdown happened first, and the plateau of deaths happened second.…

Because Apple would like us to believe that Rosetta is a panacea that makes everything work.

My understanding is that if you're offline, it skips this check and everything works fine. The reason this is a big deal is that the problem's on their end, so you're not offline, so it…

What state/region and specific timeframe do you have in mind? Weren't lockdowns instituted in most places before recorded deaths got really high?

> Do you have the numbers for the "not high risk" category? If I'm looking at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... right, out of 15,2…

> Covid has a much higher mortality rate. Only if you're high-risk. If you're not, its mortality rate is much lower than the flu. The problem that most people have with the lockdowns is t…

If this is what our decision-makers believe, then why isn't there a lockdown every winter to stop flu deaths?