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In practise, Flatpak packages have many more permissions than you might expect, and the sandbox feature gives a false sense of security. For example, the Obsidian Flatpak package […

I disagree that this kind of scheme is inevitable. We can "evit" it through thoughtful discussion, foresight, alternative mitigations, and even regulation. Certainly, Google can ch…

> On GNOME we already have a global shortcut for some emoji picker, I think it's Super + , or something Actually, on most distros, the default keyboard shortcut for the emoji picke…

The GPL would not have prevented the scenario that the top-level comment complained about. Nothing in the GPL requires rich downstream projects to send money to poor upstream proje…

Secrets tend to be randomly-generated tokens, chosen by the server, whereas passwords tend to be chosen by humans, easier to guess, and reused across different services and vendors…

To clear up any confusion, Git runs pre-commit hooks, and they can be written in any programming language. There's a completely separate and independent project that gave itself th…

Uppercase "B" stands for byte, and lowercase "b" stands for bit. But it's very common for people to miss the distinction, sadly, even professionals are sloppy.

> "why did you close my question as a duplicate of how to do X with a list? I clearly asked how to do it with a tuple!" (for values of X where you do it the same way.) This is a gr…

It's less meaningful than you think. Widespread prejudice does give you signal on public sentiment, but it doesn't give you much signal on whether the prejudice happens to coincide…

Google doesn't allow you to recover a Google account using only your recovery email address. Despite its name, the recovery email address is not used to recover Google accounts AFA…

The eBooks in Kobo's store are also locked down with DRM.

Can anyone find even one DRM-free ebook on Amazon Kindle?

Amazon made $56 billion just in advertising revenue in 2024.

I strongly disagree. Python 2 had no bytes type to get rid of. It had a string type that could not handle code points above U+00FF at all, and could not handle code points above U+…

If you're talking about free-as-in-freedom software, promoted by Richard Stallman and the FSF, then they have always been clear that Free software must not forbid commercial usage …

Does the library handle arguments that begin with a dash? Does this code print out the contents of the file named `--help`, or does it print the documentation for the `cat` command…

If you have uv installed, trying out Python 3.14 is as simple as running this command: $ uvx python@3.14 Python 3.14.0 (main, Oct 7 2025, 15:35:21) [Clang 20.1.4 ] on linux Type "h…

Even personalised advertising can be done without sharing personal data with 100+ third parties. For example, ask the user to fill out a survey about their interests, and then serv…

There are many ways to monetize free online websites. The most obvious way is advertising. Advertising can be privacy-respecting. The Guardian in particular is funded by a trust fu…

This article is on theguardian.com , and it has started to require a paid subscription for all readers who don't want to share their data with 131 third parties. There is no privac…

The Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne are no longer under copyright, that copyright expired. However, the Disney animations of Winnie the Pooh are still under copyright, and the…

Thank you for the explanation. And thank you for your important work making the ecosystem more secure, for the benefit of 5.5 billion Internet users.

How is the age of a package calculated? If the publishing date of a package is obtained from the package's metadata defined by the package author, (just like Git commit dates are d…

I can understand it. Ordinary users were getting locked out of their accounts when losing their phones. Some of those stories hit HN. Don't disable cloud sync unless you have a bac…