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FizzyOrange

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  • New US Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

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  • Don't be naive and think they can't block this stuff because of encryption. They just go after the business entities. Eventually you'll only be left with super sketchy options that they'll try to block by IP.

    They probably won't totally succeed, but they can make things far shitter than they are.

  • Corsair launches gargantuan 3,000W power supply for $599.99 — comes with four native 12V‑2x6 600W GPU cables

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  • Expensive power supply, or cheap welder? 😄

  • The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice

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  • Not exactly. It is pretty similar though, true.

  • The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice

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  • Yeah it's obviously an improvement but I guess you can't really sell a distro on "it has a more logical filesystem layout which may cause some issues, and it's super super niche which will definitely cause some issues".

    Probably a lost cause. I imagine Flatpak will actually work properly before the Unix filesystem hierarchy is made sane.

  • Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track ever

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  • I would be fairly surprised if they actually did this for tracking purposes. This sounds like nonsense to me. They already have plenty of information about you and they literally sent the notification.

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • Ha-Ha -exactly

  • Briefing: VPNs and the Online Safety Act

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  • The majority of children in the 6–12 age group are highly unlikely to download, configure, or subscribe to VPNs without adult help.

    The naivety! It's like 5 clicks to download and use Proton VPN. You don't even need to register!

    Even if it were more difficult, children have friends. They talk to each other.

    Also grouping 6 and 12 year olds together is an interesting choice. Sure, a 6 year old is unlikely to do this, but why would a 6 year old even try?

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  • Cool. I feel like semihosting is almost cheating though.

  • Has anyone bought a USB wall charger from Aliexpress? What was your experience like?

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  • Of all the things to buy from AliExpress, this is definitely not one of them.

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • Yeah it was inspired by Powershell. But it also has syntax that isn't completely awful.

  • California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom

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  • Yeah but often their trick is to push through the idea. It's easier if people are just like "eh fine, I can just lie".

    Then later they say "it turns out lots of people have been lying! Lying is bad, so we need to stop them." - then they don't need to debate the idea of age verification because everyone has "agreed" to it already. They only need to argue that people must be honest, which is way easier.

  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • Most reasonable countries have capitalism and regulations to prevent unbounded exploitation of workers and the environment. Moderation, imagine that. Something a centrist might believe in...

  • Opening folder via SSH from VSCode Web

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  • No. Closest is probably Zed but it's still way way off from being a serious VSCode competitor. For example it has no settings GUI at all; just a JSON file. It can't edit large files. Font rendering is still hit and miss.

    Ask again in 5 years...

  • Opening folder via SSH from VSCode Web

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  • How "production" are we talking? Pretty bad idea if it's an important work server. "Sorry boss, nobody could connect today because VSCode's mojam.service hit one of its many many 100% CPU bugs".

    I think in theory there's no reason it isn't technically possible, but I doubt it's set up to allow it because that's a pretty odd thing to want to do.

    Edit: oh you want to access it via Android. That makes vaguely more sense.

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  • Erm because the centre never prevails? I agree capitalism is a centrist policy. I don't know why you think the things I said were incompatible with capitalism.

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  • The naivety to call this satire. Probably 5 years away at most.

  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • Well not nothing. Android apps are quite easy to reverse engineer so there would be a high risk of them getting caught which would be quite damaging for WhatsApp's brand.

    I wouldn't say it's a lot, but it isn't nothing.

    There is certainly nothing technical stopping them from doing it, but that's true of Signal too.

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  • Err no, that's the right. You might be suffering from being American.