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> How is it NSA/DHS negligence? By mandating backdoors.

> Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Oh, so that's why my neighbour, Vasile, drills day and night. He hopes to discover a new life form. /s

> Despite newer security measures mandated in Windows 11 computers keep getting pwned by cyber-criminals Those are "OS security measures" used to protect the OS from the user. User…

2 ? Google, Apple, Microsoft, Palantir, Meta etc.

> your device violated the USB-C spec I heard there are more than one USB-C specs.

But they ran out of names. The S in USB still sucks. Just try to transfer a lot of small files over USB.

> Do we do this for every new version and combination of versions for USB? USB-PD? Thunderbolt? DisplayPort? Yes.

> “is that a linguist hiding behind that bush?” No, a FAANG employee. /s

Again ? Wasn't '45 a lesson for them ?

Business is business. It it the same in the whole world.

Because he didn't have any apple, that's why.

> I certainly hope the EU is studying the problem US-controlled EU-trusted issuers cough DE-CIX cough CIA cough

> wrapping text at 55-75 characters per line What happened to 80 ? Ok, 75 is "close enough", but 55 ?

> I don't know why you'd want the content potentially getting covered by unrelated UI elements. Well, if Google and Firefox does it, it must be good. Ah, yes, I forgot Microsoft wi…

Thank god there was no Google then. They would have put the knobs on the screen.

> Think about users who don’t maximize the window, for whom centering to the screen, not viewport, would just be broken. This in blasphemy. Never, ever, think about the user. Users…

> If I have a sidebar open, it's because that space is not yours to care about. Drawing UI is hard. Firefox likes to draw the websites underneat the scrollbar. Google likes to draw…

> I am kind of surprised GitHub doesn't seem to have built a simple classifier for public repos to proactively lock the account of anyone uploading such obviously fishy things (for…

> That's why governments want to do something about it in the first place. Really ? Like what ? I never heard about mandated "working parental controls". I only heard about "protec…

> because now government is protecting that crap without even realizing it. I don't think politicians are _so_ stupid (except some of them, of course). But business is business. Se…

> How about NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FreeDOS, Plan9 Good luck booting those OSs on a system with secure boot enabled

Surveillance is to protect about ... hm... terrorists. Not to spy on political opponents. /s In the end, those who do not learn from history (hello EU) ....

> The antivirus companies knew it existed, but did not flag it partially because it was by a legitimate company Just like Google today with play protect. From this point of view, S…

Look, they only have a 600 Mhz processor to emulate the look of Windows 2.0. /s

> Somehow the rendering of that dashed line at the top runs across into the "pinned tabs" section Graphics programming is very hard. Borland tried to improve the situation in the 9…