ComodoHacker

If I remember correctly from reading those who tried, the problem with 'viable micropayments' is compliance. If you cut on it and make transactions cheap, your service will be heavily abused for fraud and laundering. Preventing that makes transactions cost nearly as much as traditional card payments, thus not viable.

Some US volunteers, instructors and engineers have died from Russian airstrike to some training facility IIRC.

Looks like it's intended to replace SSH but no reason why is given. Is there more to read?

Speaking of backups, how do you get consistent backup of a sharded DB? Not everything is sharded, some data are replicated and should be consistent.

Everything becomes fragile at the large end.

From a linked article[0], sandbox shares both memory pages and binaries with the host system. Which means it's always runs the exact same build as a host. Which means you can't use it to test Windows updates. Am I correct?

0. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

Imagine Google's next Big Thing: Google Advisor. It's an AI that rates all content you consume. It tells you whether it is AI-generated or human-generated, reliably. Web, forums, chats, SMS, e-mail, even billboards and other offline ads. Also images, sound and video, it's multimodal. All your phone calls, video calls, music you listen to, movies you watch. Anything you can point your camera to.

It's free, but you pay with your data, as always. What you consume, when, how and how much. Also in what mood and your emotional reactions to it, via accelerometer and other side channels. You can opt out of the latter two, the switch is buried somewhere deep in the settings.

The real product is ads that are clearly AI-generated but still acceptable by you. Sometimes even likable.

If you weren't allowed to make a single mistake in anything, you wouldn't be alive today to write this comment.

We should judge people and companies (which are ultimately also people) not by whether they make mistakes, but by whether they learn from them.

>something to do that our ancestors slept next to it since ~1 mio years

fire == safety

>Letting russia and china on the internet was a massive security mistake

Harm vs good assessment, anyone?

Does anyone really respect DNT though?

They are not widespread now, though. The government is keeping their communications under control, more or less. Only most educated criminals have good enough opsec. The gov can subpoena whatever service they use today and disrupt their communications without disrupting everyone else's. They don't have so called collateral privacy. The 'encrypted' part doesn't really add much harm.

With truly decentralized system things would be different.

>Anyone who is really into something illegal will use something alternative anyway.

That's the hard part, IMO.

Imagine that we really got that "decentralized system that cannot be controlled" going and everyone is using it. Everyone, including those who is into illegal things. And they don't get caught.

Now the government starts to push their "this decentralized shit is doing more harm than good" agenda. Whatever their motivation is, it would be easy to sway public opinion against surveillance-free communications, because the harm is real, not hypothetical, like it is now.

Actually it offers second choice if you read the text. Don't agree and lose some vertical space while using the site.

For me the solution is Cookie AutoDelete extension. It allows cookies but silently deletes them (and optionally other storage) after specified amount of time (5 hours for me). So the sites don't break and I don't have to close browser to clear cookies.

Isn't the need for extra text a sign of flawed design though?

the checkbox itself doesn't have to be as big as its hitbox.

Because it won't have as many years of rigorous testing and polishing as current back-end or PostgreSQL or whatever.

In some places, it's WeChat. In others, it's Telegram.

>always benchmark

…on real or at least representative data.

Or just waiting for thorough AV scan on boot.

TFA clearly says "database". They dropped the whole database.

No mention of AppLocker and SRP surprised me. Aren't they effective anymore?

Also, there wouldn't be cheap Android phones without Linux kernel, SQLite and other OSS. The empowerment is real.

This story speaks more of the lack of proper QA than anything else. And more broadly, lack of support for widely used FOSS.

You mean 756,864,000 seconds.

>SQL is used to reduce network roundtrips.

Actually, SQL is used to hide DBMS implementation complexity and diversity. It was a great abstraction when RDBMS tech progressed rapidly. Now it has matured to stability, and it makes sense to try a better language.

Large media filter in uBlock Origin helps immensely here. It's on by default.

Who said browser "standard" date picker must support each and every use case?

It also allows you not to give up on the last mile, when you still don't know it's the last mile.

They know people don't always update their profiles and use throwaway accounts. They nudge you to provide actual data.