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I think the classic "shareware demo" model is a good one, have some free stuff to introduce the user and make sure they like the game, then give them a wall and tell them to pay if they want more. It's fair to them and fair to you. It doesn't violate their privacy, it makes sure your customers actually want to be your customers (reducing chargebacks because the game has an issue for someone) and you get paid without polluting your art.

On Android there's a great Xposed module called XPrivacy that can do this - produce an empty contact list, block network connections, zero out location, etc.

Yes, but you still can't guarantee anything about the host the docker container has to run on, so you're still impacted by host configuration and therefore still need to provide a good base environment for running your containers. This is fairly simple with most providers, but in such a case, using Ansible or similar to deploy directly to the host has similar results.

> Then you would have a system dependent on the volatile state you configured by hand, meaning the system configuration is not declarative or reproducible.

If you're using Ansible as the author already was, you essentially have this already. I can do a one command deploy to cloud servers, dedicated servers and colo boxes with just Ansible. Docker gets you a slightly more guaranteed environment and an additional layer of abstraction (which has its own set of pros and cons), but that's about it.

Even worse when you consider that their biggest competitor gives SSL away to free tier customers.

I wish there was a way to just get a wildcard and use it to issue "sub certificates" of some sort. ie: *.internal.mycompany.com could be used to issue valid certs for git.internal.mycompany.com...

Yeah, researchers are known to do this kind of thing to get more publicity for their research, they have career goals too after all.

It's research clickbait basically.

You might want to try updating Firefox if you think it's an order of magnitude slower.

Honestly, I'd be happy with that - the biggest problem with ads today is that they're a major source of tracking and malware.

What's this from? I have definitely seen it before but I can't put my finger on it and a quick search doesn't turn it up like the others on here - VLK for more recent version of Windows perhaps?

If I recall correctly this image helped make it famous: https://marco.org/2007/06/18/wow-fckgw-has-its-own-wikipedia...

> based on Linux kernel syscall (still the weakest point)

The Berkley sockets API is pretty well supported on all major operating systems via C libraries with only slight differences and even if it dies out will likely have shims available for a long time to come. Why use a direct syscall interface over this?

Click fraud is typically only used when you're the one receiving profits from the fake clicks. In which case fraud seems pretty appropriate.

So did they ban comments as the headline indicates or just default disable them. Default disable seems much more reasonable to me, let creators decide if they want to moderate comments but keep them default off so family videos don't have to deal with that.

Yeah it's very much a don't ask, don't tell sort of thing. Check out some of the location images for scihub users and they very much paint a different story.

> less sprawl

> no private company will do this.

Many cities are blocking developers from buying up homes in old neighborhoods to build apartments and condos which could house far more people closer to their jobs. Often this boils down to NIMBYs lobbying city councils while those who would buy said apartments aren't exactly in a place to do that.

There's a lot of low hanging fruit like this where trivial policy fixes could go a long way without the political challenges of massive public spending, but we can't even get these set up properly. A simple shift from allowing developers to build more suburbs to more apartments and condos would do a lot of good in many cities.

For good reason! There's many online services where you can put in a wifi MAC and pretty much know within 100M where someone is.

Yeah, the message could be made clearer about what's actually being allowed, but in the end I'm glad it's there. Maybe a generic system for when you request a permission being able to provide an explanation string or something. I know some apps made a pop-up before the prompt but I found that rather verbose especially when it was incredibly obvious why they needed the permission.

> Public content is a bit more dangerous to leave unchecked in 2019 than in 2009.

What sort of advances have happened since 2009 that would explain this?

Because you just touched your pelvic region which has tons more bacteria than urine itself does. Urine will have some, especially some from the urethra on the way out, so definitely shouldn't be considered sterile, but wash your hands if you're touching your pelvic region in general please.

Attempting to control such a thing would be even more frivolous than the War on Drugs, governments ability to control things is quite limited without taking extremely draconian measures. We don't need a War on Software.

Your stance against so called "dangerous knowledge" worries me - would you encourage banning books about cryptography and software development?

What do you think about Tor? Bittorrent? Bitcoin? How about things like IDA Pro? Many pretty amazing technologies have pretty destructive popular if not primary uses.

I feel these tools are worth having on their own and it seems widely accepted at this point that the tools themselves aren't at fault for their user's actions, even if those actions are the most popular use of the tools.

Personally I'm much more concerned about the ethical actions of internet advertisers and social media giants - those who are making direct ethical decisions that impact their users privacy and access to information.

I wonder if this might actually have some benefits for victims of revenge or leaked porn, including celebrities in the long run - "oh, that's photoshopped" seems an easy way to put something to bed.

I honestly think it's incredibly important for tools like this to be publicly available for this exact reason.

If they're not and they're hoarded by tech companies or intelligence agencies then we'll just have a lopsided system where people aren't aware of how capable such technologies are, what their limitations are, how to analyze them to spot issues, etc.

Imagine if only nationstates knew about these sorts of technologies and used them for war or if only certain elites in tech had access to them and used them to implicate competitors in crimes? The technology is out there now - at this point, public knowledge is our best defense - people always question if a contentious image is photoshopped, we want that same level of questioning to happen for videos.

In terms of this being used as an excuse to get someone out a criminal charge, it might make us take a better look at the chain of custody on video evidence but I don't think it would invalidate it completely.

Basically, this is all possible using existing technologies, it's just labour intensive.

As such, tools like this just prove the conclusion: No one should trust video.

I'm not so sure this is a great idea, quite commonly when reverse engineering something I need a good reliable implementation of a dated cipher. MD4 is still used in NTLM, RIPEMD160 is still used in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, etc.

Systems exist outside of the Go ecosystem and not all systems are new. Compatibility is important. It's great to flag these as not recommend for new designs, but it's quite another to remove them entirely and prevent people from easily implementing compatible software. Seems more like something that should be in the documentation or spit a compiler warning if that isn't deemed loud enough.

MD5 is similarly broken but I'm assuming they don't want to remove it because it's still quite popular in some use cases - what exactly is their standard for that popularity?

If you're that interested, putting "Inspire magazine" into Google will reveal PDFs of a big terrorist propaganda magazine that's readily available in English.

Heavy.com and gore sites often have copies of the ISIS videos too - I went hunting for their grenade drone video once out of morbid curiosity...

Both the magazine and videos are surprisingly well edited from a technical standpoint, they have some people who at least know the basics pretty well. Higher production values than local news at least.

The weirdest part of this to me is that this is worse than thought crime in some ways - I've viewed this material for reasons other than planning to commit crime, yet my actions would be made illegal.

Don't worry, they own some Lyft too.

Last I heard AMD drivers, both proprietary and open have severe stability issues on Linux. Is that no longer the case?

Originally, yes, in recent years however that changed. Look at the cards used for ZCash, Monero, etc.

> Last year's GPUs will run next year's games at max specs.

If you want to run at 1080p@60hz perhaps, but many people now are going to 1440p, 2160p, 144hz or some combination there of which can easily strain even the latest GPUs.