Comment on: Apple Issues Urgent iPhone Updates; None for Pegasus Zero-Day - The ream of bugs includes some remotely exploitable code execution flaws.
this is just Apple showing some love for the jailbreaking scene
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24 Jul 2021 01:34
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community
title is a bit clickbaity. **TLDR** the owner of Audacity (Muse Group) is trying to take down a Github project that allows people to pirate sheet music from their other platform, Muse Score. Some of this sheet music is licensed from companies like Disney, so Muse Group is basically obligated to go after the guy (anybody reminded of the attempted youtube-dl takedown?). But to Muse Group's credit, they held an open discussion with the project creator on Github for over a year to try and resolve the issue peacefully.
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22 Jul 2021 03:00
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: Tencent Deploys Facial Recognition to Detect Minors Gaming at Night
TLDR in 2019 china added a bunch of gaming restrictions on minors, eg no playing games between 10pm and 8am. Kids start posing as adults (think: the useless "i am over 13" checkbox"). So Tencent adds facial recognition between 10pm and 8am to check if they are actually adults. At least that's what they claim it's for...
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07 Jul 2021 21:36
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: The Webcrawling Robot Swarm War is On!
maybe it was somebody trying to archive the site. I think Wayback Machine also crawls and archives websites
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07 Jul 2021 21:29
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: Conservative social networks like Gettr and Parler keep making the same mistake
the article claims that Parler's problem was moderation when clearly the main problem was that it was removed from the Google and Apple app stores. Of course downloads went down lol. Google and Apple's moderation killed it. And it sounds like Gettr's issues are mainly technical, not moderation.
Nice try but we don't want another authoritarian platform, get outta here with that censorship bullshit
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07 Jul 2021 19:33
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: The FBI operated an 'encrypted' chat app for organized criminals
well even Signal is a third party, its up to you how much you trust the security researchers that claim the source code is secure
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08 Jun 2021 21:41
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: French regulator fines Google €220 million for abusing dominant market position
I hope they go after the rest of FAAMG as well
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08 Jun 2021 21:35
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: Twitch allowing sorting streamers by gender/race/nationality
you're assuming Twitch will add the "white" or "straight" tags. They probably won't. They'll probably only have tags for minorities, and and you'll only be allowed to search _for_ those tags, not exclude them (though somebody can always make an extension that excludes them)
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24 May 2021 08:50
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: NVIDIA cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
seems like they were only able to bypass the limiter because nvidia accidentally included an option to do so in one of their drivers. They have since removed the driver and will probably not make the same mistake. Software/hardware encryption is getting harder and harder to crack nowadays
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20 May 2021 00:39
u/gomugomu
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Comment on: Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
I find it weird that the article focuses completely on demanding AWS to change, instead of just telling people to look for alternatives. In fact the other services mentioned (Azure, GCP, even Oracle) don't even have an unlimited free tier like AWS. The author says it's not the student's responsibility to make sure they don't go over their limits, but according to this pricing model it absolutely is. And if the student is afraid of that responsibility, just find another free tier elsewhere.
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06 May 2021 21:24
u/gomugomu
in g/technology