dethos

> What's the point of copy notification if apps can just read all your emails and steal all your files anyway.

We are discussing "paste" notifications. Knowing that an "app" is constantly pasting(fetching) the contents of the clipboard seems suspicious behavior and I as a user would like to be made aware of it.

As far as I'm aware, there isn't. And it would be a nice tool to have available, I suspect this could be integrated into existing clipboard managers.

> You definitely can. Search for _NET_WM_PID. Now this being X11, this is again just a convention, and a client could put any information it wants in that property.

That was the reason I mentioned that "it is not possible to know", perhaps "for sure" is missing at the end of the sentence.

> Really, it doesn't.

As a user (at least in my opinion) it does.

> If these programs want to share information, they already can. If these programs want to spy on each other's memory contents, they already can. Unless you are running these programs as different users and with different home directories, which is not usual right now in desktop GNU/Linux (but is on Android).

The point is, when the user copies a piece of information he has a clear target for that information (clipboard is the tool he uses do copy from one window to another), why would all other apps have access to it?

It is the user that wants to share information not the apps.

Even taking account all those capabilities, many pieces of malware rely on detecting and replacing information on the clipboard, that is a clear indication that some sort of isolation is missing here, or at least, and indication regarding that the information was changed/accessed.

> Windows could certainly tighten the security by optionally only allowing foreground/focused apps to access, or notifying the user when apps read the clipboard without being in focus or sent any input first.

Author here, yes, this is indeed the point of the article. Desktop operating systems could/should have implemented such a feature a long time ago, it is clearly a security "blind spot" at the moment.

I've never stopped using RSS, since it is so useful for many use cases. I've even recently built a tool, as an experiment, using it (https://github.com/dethos/worker-planet). Who remembers what a "planet" software is?

Fortunately we can still find many websites and services that provide RSS feeds (probably because the tool/framework they are built with, automatically provides that feature). Implementing it is not hard, but in the end I think the most important aspect of that list is `5.`, not a website in particular but creating awareness that this tech/tool exists and in what cases it can be useful.

If I have to pick only one: "How Asia Works" by Joe Studwell.

Is a bit old, but was super interesting.

That is a complete nonsense. RSS is one of the most useful tools for those that don't have "social media" accounts.

Don't expect people to keep coming back to your website/blog just to check if there is new content/news. If it doesn't provide a feed (Atom or RSS), the most probable scenario is that I will not remember to comeback any time soon.

This makes me sick. LG seems to do the same.

At this day and age, it's getting harder and harder to buy a TV, that is just a that, a TV. Now you have to agree to ToS and as soon as you connect it to the internet to access any service you subscribe, your data is sent to the manufacturer so it can be sold or monetized through ads.

Not everyone is able to block this (with a PiHole or with other tools). Does anyone know of a brand that sells quality displays but doesn't have this kind of "crap"?

I agree. Very unlikely that I will find a meaningful discussion on discord, about a subject or problem when I'm searching for it on Google/DDG/etc.

If i cannot find it, I won't be able to participate.

A web forum is very different from a chat program, they sit at different levels and have different purposes. Even Discord's support uses a forum like system and not a chat room [1].

[1]https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/topics

Is this a joke, right?

    Do you really need unbounded computation for your boring web app?

Because everyone using python is working on web application. Also because all web applications have the same type of business logic.

I do like linters, the best ones help avoiding mistakes and ensure some consistency in the codebase, but this article goes a bit too far.

So many good memories. Excellent game.

Windows 7 was the last windows version that I used regularly. Glad I made the switch back then.

The current trend is making "personal computers" less personal.

> Even if Lightning worked (it doesn't)

That hasn't been my experience. I agree it is a "complex" system and has its own limitations, but when I took some time to test it, it worked well.

Is it a good time to move chat to a federated setup? Something like Matrix.

I still prefer text-only emails. I block as much external content as possible and usually those marketing and elaborate designs are all broken. It is very rare that I allow exceptions.

That being said, I can see the usefulness of this tool for developers, I just wish people would rely more on plain text.

This gentleman deserves all the respect in the world.

The tech behind this new "coin" they are using seems to be based on Monero. Even their book [1] says the following:

> ‘Mechanics of MobileCoin: First Edition’ is an adaptation of ‘Zero to Monero: Second Edition’, published in April 2020.

[1] https://github.com/UkoeHB/Mechanics-of-MobileCoin/blob/maste...

Interesting, it seems to work very similarly to Firefox Send.

For communications in the other direction, such as when you want to make sure the other person sends you the content securely, there is https://github.com/whitesmith/hawkpost (disclaimer, this was an hackathon project I participated some years ago). Hawkpost doesn't even store the encrypted content.

I wonder if there is a solution that would correctly deal with both situations (never requiring the other end to sign up or know anything about encryption).

This is awesome, has the same "spirit" of the Fairphone. I think this is the direction the industry should be moving. However it will not be easy to break this vicious and wasteful cycle that feeds many companies nowadays.

I think the first two statements would still stand:

> This is sensationalist. > It's based on net worth, not income. But net worth of billionaires is incredibly inflated by the way we measure it.

That being said, I also think that this inequality increase is a problem for the society as a whole. However I haven't heard yet about a concrete and satisfactory solution/measure to tackle it and that would be effective.

Newsblur, which is a very good feed reader, has this feature built-in which is super handy to keep all this stuff in one place.

Happy new year for everyone. Lets hope 2021 can bring us more joy than the last couple years.

> The desktop might be less trendy, but only because it’s harder to sell useless crap here.

There is some truth in this sentence.

Very good documentary. An unnecessary tragedy.

indeed

indeed. Focusing only on the newcomer and more precisely the person using it for the first time is just a fraction of the "problem".

But do they sell that software/technology? As far as I can tell they sell taxi rides, software "just" helps/supports their core business.

If it does the job, the experience is good and ends up reducing the complexity for the development team, looks like a good solution for that particular kind of product/service.

Thanks. This should be turned on by default.

> $people not knowing stuff should not mean that everyone should get dumber to match $people.

Exactly. We should push on the opposite direction (educate people and make the concepts clearer).