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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Is it possible those heuristics could accidentally trigger for browsers other than Chrome? I had an old account where I normally used the android app, then one day I logged in with Firefox on desktop (with adblocker) and my account was banned about a minute later.
At a business level, can you share why the ToS forbids third party clients at all? We all know that "trusting the client" is not a viable security plan, so why does it matter what client people use?
Comment · 4 years ago
You cut out a key word:
> Linux is really hurt here by the total lack of any unit testing or UI scripting standards.
> standards
I've been very impressed reading how the Rust developers handle this. They have a tool called crater[1], which runs regression tests for the compiler against all Rust code ever released on crates.io or GitHub. Every front-facing change that is even slightly risky must pass a crater run.
https://github.com/rust-lang/crater
Surely Microsoft has internal tools for Windows that do the same thing: run a battery of tests across popular apps and make sure changes in the OS don't break any user apps.
Where's the similar test harness for Linux you can run that tests hundreds of popular apps across Wayland/X11 and Gnome/KDE/XFCE and makes sure everything still works?
Comment · 4 years ago
Another similar site is https://www.rtings.com/. They do very scientific, thorough quality tests. I've only used them to buy monitors so far, but it looks like they're starting to branch out from tech -- they have new categories for blenders and vacuums.
Comment · 4 years ago
Seems to have collapsed, but archive.org has a snapshot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220811232234/https://reactos.a...
Comment · 4 years ago
This is an extremely personal question. The business that excites me would bore 99% of the world, and same goes for you. If you don't already have an idea what you're excited about, just put the money in VTSAX.
Comment · 4 years ago
> why does nobody have the decency to simply accept Bitcoin in their local farm as payment
Farmers do not accept payment in any currency on their farm. They sell futures on the commodity market before the growing season begins to lock in a price and hedge against volatility.
> you need to download a 400GB blockchain on your device
You can use light wallets such as Electrum without trusting a third party, and with no loss of security (though it potentially sacrifices privacy).
Even if that weren't true, a 512GB drive costs $10 these days. That shouldn't be a barrier for anyone.
> This means you will need a custodial solution like lightning
Lightning is not custodial. You do not need to trust any counterparty.
etc.
This entire comment is very misinformed.
Comment · 4 years ago
And tech support scammers use Apple gift cards, so obviously Apple is just a giant scam too
Comment · 4 years ago
The world is being destroyed, but at least for a few beautiful moments our nonstick pans were a few cents cheaper
Comment · 4 years ago
These days I would bet all internal/debugging features are gated behind asymmetric crypto-based challenge/response. And it's probably physically impossible to decap a <10nm chip and inspect visually. I don't see a way around it other than hoping for implementation bugs. It might be the end of the road for the hackers :(
Comment · 4 years ago
I can't wait until the Indian government tries to ban debian.org
Comment · 4 years ago
This attack sounds very similar to how the Super Game Boy boot ROM was dumped. https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Gameboy_Bootstrap_ROM
Some things never change.
Comment · 4 years ago
The 90s called, they want their OS fanboy flamebait back
Comment · 4 years ago
I agree they usually withhold details of the case. But I don't think they would flat-out lie about the charges being brought.
[1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-...