josephcsible

> People rightly criticize all of the problems around vendor-lock-in and rent-seeking with platform app stores, but this is a good example that they do indeed provide some value in terms of filteri…

> I personally think the traditional *nix model has served us quite well It has the https://xkcd.com/1200/ problem on almost all end-user setups.…

The entire point of macOS's TCC was supposed to be to make that not the case anymore.

Coming soon: desktop online banking will only be possible in Chrome on Windows with TPM2 and Secure Boot enabled.

> Everything to do with LLM prompts reminds me of people doing regexes to try and sanitise input against SQL injections a few decades ago, just papering over the flaw but without any guarantees. Wi…

> Tesla remotely [...] stripped FSD entirely — reverting them to basic Autopilot. > owners who activated FSD through the hack received in-vehicle notifications that they were permanently banned …

The "integrity" you speak of is a bad thing. Microsoft should be making that harder to obtain, not easier.

Anti-cheat drivers are just as much of rootkits, and in practice, they have vulnerabilities that get a lot more hosts pwned than cheats do. Let's get Microsoft to stop loading their drivers.

Newsom signed a law that places those requirements on every operating system in California, and in practice, organizations tend to comply with California's terrible laws no matter where you are, …

Measured boot isn't any better. Look at Android phones, where it's technically possible to unlock your bootloader, but a ton of apps (e.g., McDonald's and most banking apps) use remote …

Hah, I submitted the same story here just a few hours before you posted that. I don't know whether that's actually an example of this particular problem or not, though, since I'm not su…

I meant that having a connection live that long isn't necessary to trigger this bug. I know that for some workloads, it can be important for connections to live that long.

Individual TCP connections don't need to live that long. Once a macOS system reaches 49.7 days of uptime, this bug starts affecting all TCP connections.

Hall of shame: * Reddit won't let you read "unreviewed" content on mobile web (but will on desktop web) * PayPal won't let you pick your 5% rewards category, or set up balance auto…

I wish this kind of behavior were punishable under the "reckless disregard for the truth" doctrine. (And also that perjury for lying on DMCAs was better enforced in general.)

That's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of extrajudicial processes like YouTube's Content ID: they don't give any court the opportunity to point things like that out.

IIUC, the fee is just to use their instance, and hosting your own instance is actually free. Also, it looks like the client side of it runs in a browser, so it will support pretty much any OS.

> OBS (what I used) seems to have stopped receiving updates :) No it hasn't: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/commits/master/ …

Does this have any advantages over OBS Studio?

It's unreasonable and unfair to ban low-level employees for things that their employer did. Imagine if Google had retaliated to Oracle's Java lawsuit by banning the personal Gmail accounts o…

IMO, "freedom to enter into contracts" isn't actual freedom, for the same reason that the MIT license isn't more free than the GPL despite it allowing more behaviors: in both cases…

But aren't those things rare enough that it's better to have people doing them rerun the installer, than to take up extra disk space for everyone that most people will never use?