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faangsticle··on Reddit Strike Has Started
Reddit has for years and years, and built their shoddy little website on that fact.
faangsticle··on The Dutch government wants automatic permission to target victims of hackers
This blog is written by someone who used to work for such an oversight committee, but left after being ignored.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/vertrek-tib/

faangsticle··on The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security
Its better because it gets rid of crap layout
faangsticle··on Why aren't black box flight recorders better?
Why was he able to? Isn't the black box supposed to be a black box?
faangsticle··on A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list
Sure, that's easy. The answer is 21. You don't get to write versioning rules for other projects and there is no golden standard.
faangsticle··on A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list
If you consider sharing the browsing habits of all of your visitors with Cloudflare to be free, then yes.
faangsticle··on Arrested for using Linux and encryption in France [video]
When hunting for probable cause this is a feature not a bug.
faangsticle··on Ask HN: Advice on starting a YouTube channel?
Thanks, I thought it was an odd quote.
faangsticle··on Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin
The thing is that if they want to operate in the EU then this will have to be solved. The right to be forgotten exists, and saying "it's federated lol" is not an excuse.
faangsticle··on GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations
Too late, the AI bros already did.
faangsticle··on Desktop Linux is insecure
Yes, that's because the window managers implemented this themselves because Wayland didn't. So that means most window managers use wlroots to provide the functionality, and a few (KDE/Gnome) are doing their own thing. This also means that if you want to interoperate with them it's different for each window manager (that doesn't use wlroots).

Things are somewhat usable now thanks to this, but far from ideal.

faangsticle··on Gravitational Machines
Like I said, you can't.
faangsticle··on Desktop Linux is insecure
> Wayland "features" some protections too - apps can't access the global clipboard, or move themselves, screen-record, whatever. And nobody likes it! Because the inconvenience far outweighs the benefits.

The problem is that apps can't request these permissions either, while they are absolutely critical for a select for apps so that a desktop environment can be used for actual work. It's just "use wlroots and figure it out yourself or tough luck"

faangsticle··on Gravitational Machines
> "Thought experiment" does not mean you can make up whatever you want.

The only thing we can agree on is that "thought agreement" means that you can't make up whatever you want :-)

faangsticle··on OpenMW: Open-source TES3: Morrowind reimplementation
I didn't even realize there was an alternate path, but heard about people say the game was intentionally difficult. Banged my head on the graveyard for a few hours, then gave up.
faangsticle··on Addressing the community about changes to our API
Or you could parent your children instead of relying on Big Tech to do it for you.
faangsticle··on Gravitational Machines
Yes, that's what a thought experiment is. A cat can't be alive and death at the same time, either.
faangsticle··on OpenMW: Open-source TES3: Morrowind reimplementation
Oh, that explains why i abandoned the game. Terrible design. It doesn't even tell you what's going on.
faangsticle··on Gravitational Machines
Now take off your nitpick hat and ignore that detail. Its what makes it a thought experiment.
faangsticle··on OpenMW: Open-source TES3: Morrowind reimplementation
Open open source engine would be absolutely huge for stability & moddability. Stock Skyrim SE mostly runs fine, but is still prone to crashing, corrupting save files, etc.

Many of those can be addressed by mods such as the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch and various mods aimed at overhauling the save system but an open source engine would be really great.

faangsticle··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
YCombinator, the parent of HN, does business in the EU.
faangsticle··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
HN doesn't allow you to delete comments anyway. You can try emailing dang and he'll give you some excuse about how he doesn't need to care about GDPR and data protection laws.
faangsticle··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
I did the same, and reddit actually chain banned ("suspended" as they call it) the remainder of my accounts and started banning any account as I made it, until I made sure to wipe their tracking cookies & switch to a new IP.
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