majorchord

Protect itself from what? They're not responsible for what their users do online.

> lol it's an obvious backdoor in your opinion

Most setups only have the key stored in the TPM, so all you need to get it back is a signed/trusted bootloader. Ideally you'd want that key to be further protected with a password or some ot…

> Why do so many vocal people in the Open Source world have a much more extreme worldview than even an OSI cofounder? In my experience talking with many such people over decades... it's usuall…

"you can literally drive as fast as you want on the highway"

How on Earth did you find a wife who codes? Asking for a friend.

I wish they could just raise the fees to account for the chargebacks so at least it's not banned entirely.

How do you define the difference between explicit content and porn?

I assume they are referring to the large number of open source users and developers that are particularly bad at people skills and acting calm and rational. Or maybe they mean there aren't good c…

You might not get the answer you were hoping for there.

> Are you comfortable with anybody being able to ring up the hospital and say "yo, it's majorchord, how are my gonnorhea results?" No, that's why we have safety protocols in pla…

Sorry to hear that. What did people do before computers then?

Entropy is not a requirement in the UUID spec.

The spec doesn't require the use of actually random numbers though.

> I'm not going to give up reading the test results from my doctor You could just call them.

You mean all the AI "slop" that's finding and writing new kernel exploits every day? And submitting hundreds of previously-unknown security bugs in critical software?

AI is happening.

It's not so much forcing people to Chrome/chromium for specific features, but trying to increase market share through more subtle means, like paying to have their search engine featured, adv…

> what does it mean that "Chromium is a monopoly" As someone else said earlier, it is a monopoly by extending the internet in ways that force users into using their browser engine. Due to…

Do you actually think the majority of everyone else is being just as pedantic (or cares) about Google Chrome vs chromium-based? For most, for the purposes of market share (the type of "monopoly&q…

Friends don't let friends perpetuate harmful dogmatic FUD that lacks nuance and perspective.

Couldn't one argue that a password is also obscurity? It's only secure until someone figures it out, just like a secret URL on a website.

None of my banks or credit cards support them... not sure how widespread it really is.

Can't squid do this?

There is also ForgeFed/vervis

No need to reboot: sync && echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

A most logical and rational reaction.