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josephcsible
28,560karma·8,511submissions·May 26, 2020
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Isn't the normal convention to ship all the language files in the installer, but for it to only install the ones that are actually used on the system?
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Isn't https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324684 the same scam as these?
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If it's just as easy to spoof being Chrome as it is to spoof being Firefox, then it is indeed fair to blame Cloudflare if they give Firefox users more CAPTCHAs than Chrome users.
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I don't see any actual security benefits here. The only things that seem to actually benefit from this are Treacherous Computing and tivoization. Why are so many Linux maintainers doing stuff lik…
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This is fine as long as everything actually stays FOSS, rather than becoming fauxpen source. The best way to do this is to license everything under AGPLv3+, which the megacorps are all allergic to, an…
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Middlebox operators aren't known for making reasonable or logical decisions.
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This seems to be exactly the bad thing that https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/opposing-drm.html warned us about: > If we allow companies to use our software to restrict us, this …
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Having the option of working from the office is a good thing. It's only being unnecessarily forced to do so that's bad.
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This seems like it would cause the https://xkcd.com/989/ effect.
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That's a parody/satire account.
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That doesn't solve it. If the hardware itself is backdoored, none of those other things being open source will save you.
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tl;dr: PayPal support doesn't understand and can't be convinced that gmail.com email addresses that differ only in "."s belong to the same account.
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