lc5G · HackerTrans

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

How can I learn about which ISPs have better peering and net neutrality etc? Are there websites that keep track of this and compare it?

lc5G

11 tháng trướcdiscuss

How can I enable root?

lc5G

11 tháng trướcdiscuss

This is the best critique of VP.net's approach in this thread. The purpose of the enclave approach is that you can be sure they're not logging your traffic. This is an advantage over competitors. But, as you say, this does not actually work. When you connect to the VPN, you don't know whether your traffic really gets mixed with other people's traffic. If it doesn't get mixed, then no matter what the trusted enclave code does, they still know all the input and output traffic belongs to you.

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2 năm trướcdiscuss

I would pay for youtube if they provided an official API to download videos and stream videos in a client of my choice.

I prefer to watch youtube with a custom player (mpv+yt-dlp on desktop, newpipe on android). I do not want to watch youtube on the youtube website or official youtube android app. The custom clients I am using are unofficial. They reverse engineer youtube to make it work. They often break when youtube changes something.

lc5G

3 năm trướcdiscuss

I can confirm the experience that sometimes searches for quoted terms yield pages that do not contain the quoted term exactly. I don't have a specific example from the top of my head.

lc5G

4 năm trướcdiscuss

Could you give some examples of hardware bugs that CPU vendors are not going to fix and would break this security model?

lc5G

4 năm trướcdiscuss

Sorry, I should have clarified what part I was replying to. I was asking about the choice of detergent. You say it must be a wool detergent with lanolin while they say it doesn't matter.

I'd like to follow this up with the store too if you convince me that the detergent matters.

I appreciate your response.

lc5G

4 năm trướcdiscuss

On the website of a big merino wool clothing store they write [1]:

> Unbound Merino clothing can be washed in a regular washing machine at a normal or cool temperature setting. You can use regular detergent, and avoid fabric softener or products with bleach.

According to you this is wrong which is surprising because they should know what they're talking about. Could you clarify? Do you have other sources?

[1] https://unboundmerino.com/blogs/help-center/when-i-do-wash-m...

lc5G

4 năm trướcdiscuss

I do not know about this specific case and I have not used XPrivacy but I want to chime in here and say

Thank you, Marcel Bokhorst

Your NetGuard (https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard) and FairEmail (https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail) apps are great. They are high quality, open source and contain none of the dark patterns that mobile is plagued with. They are available to download from Github, F-Droid and the Playstore. There are paid premium features to support you but if I wanted to I could still compile the app myself to unlock them.

lc5G

5 năm trướcdiscuss

This at most technically right and definitely wrong in practice. I am unsure if there is an existing exact definition of DRM (free) or you're using an uncommon definition of "license" but in practice services like GoG advertising DRM free and people buying DRM free all mean that there is no licensing check whatsoever.

A GoG game comes with a single installer executable (single as in it is the same for everyone, no built in license) that and the resulting game it installs can be freely copied and used on as many machines as you like without any requirements. For example you do not need to have an internet connection or be running the GoG store application.

So if you have downloaded and backed up the installer of the game you bought on GoG then for all intents and purposes you own this game. It does not matter what GoG does from this point on. You will always be able to use it.

lc5G

6 năm trướcdiscuss

Could you explain why i2p works better than tor for the type of attacks from the article?

lc5G

6 năm trướcdiscuss

> They will somewhat know what you're talking about, and have a massive list of bad things your country has done/is still doing, and you won't be happy

Ignoring the "at work" part, you can then both realize that you should acknowledge and fight against any country doing bad things and that these bad things are not excused because other countries (or people) are also doing bad things. Two wrongs don't make a right.

(I'm aware you did not claim that they did.)

lc5G

6 năm trướcdiscuss

  for crate in $(ls */Cargo.toml | xargs dirname); do
     cargo build

Why do this instead of

  cargo --workspace build

Is it so you can time the individual crates?

lc5G

7 năm trướcdiscuss

I have had the same impression regarding their work on dota. They got a lot of publicity with it but their work is not open at all. They have released neither their code which runs the bots on dota2 nor their training code nor the final model. All we have is video recordings of a few games against humans.

lc5G

8 năm trướcdiscuss

I tried drinking that much water but it made me wake up once or twice a night having to urinate even if I reduce water intake before bed. I felt that this disrupted my sleep too much to be worth it.

Do you have the same problem? Is there anything I can do about it? For a while I thought I just had a small bladder measuring the amount I urinate showed normal values of roughly 500-600 ml when waking up with a stronge urge to pee. This does make sense to me because the 3 to 4 liters from drinking plus the extra water from food has to go somewhere after all, so I am wondering why other people do not have this problem.

lc5G

9 năm trướcdiscuss

While algorithms can be biased intentionally or unintentionally, it is not true that ALL algorithms HAVE to be biased because they are created by people.

In machine learning it might be easier to unintentionally create biased algorithms. On the other hand there are domains where I would trust algorithms to be less biased than people.

lc5G

9 năm trướcdiscuss

Could you link the tab unloader addon you are using, and is it compatible with new firefox?

I have exactly the same problem as the one you replied to.

It seems like some resources never get cleaned up, so if I in the span of a day open 100 tabs and close them then I will not end up with much higher memory usage than initially.

I have investigated this with about:memory and while not seeing something conclusive I did sometimes see domains taking up memory which were not loaded in any tab (ghost windows) or high amounts of memory used for "media".

I will try disabling the handful of addons I use beside uBlock Origin which is too essential to disable.

lc5G

9 năm trướcdiscuss

You write "Margarine, like pretty much any vegetable oil other than olive/avocado/coconut, is really bad for you."

Do you have sources for that? Which vegetables oils are healthy and which are unhealthy and why?

The only relevant knowledge I have is that saturated and trans fats are bad and that unsaturated are good. One source for that is for example https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you... .

If this is what you are refering to then margarine is indeed bad because it often contains high amounts of trans fat but for example coconut oil isnt good either for its high saturated fat content. Plenty of other vegetable oils should be fine judging by their fat contents rather than "really bad".

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