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"Bang-up" is a good description of what Seedvault does, because your backup will have holes in it. Anything made with Android's backup system has the same problem. Applications can…

This is nonsense; GOG has a very simple API to list and download games you own, and all you have to do is run a downloader script (many are available online, including mine) in a c…

I think it's closer to a bartender mixing you a drink with 30 (hundred) different poisons and hoping you get tired of saying "no" every time.

Unless disabling cookies means treating all cookies as session cookies (meaning you can still be followed within a session), this has the fun side effect of breaking pretty much ev…

Curiously enough, .me's whois record does not list Identity Digital as a contact (as seems to be standard practice with externally-managed ccTLDs, such as .gi), and .me is not list…

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This is great, thanks for the correction! I tried resolving dnssec-failed.org and it does indeed fail with EDE 6 (DNSSEC Bogus). I'm not sure why this hasn't been updated on the in…

Be cautious with Quad9; their main address (9.9.9.9) has a "malware" blacklist that has misfired several times already: twice for a private torrent tracker, once for gist.github.co…

"Rent for 48h", and... "Rent until we say the time is up"?

The clause you cited as well as the "Termination" section and the non-commercial restriction make it a non-free license. Besides the direct issues with that, it also means all soft…

If the website sees (and possibly stores) the e-mail address, and the government or another party knows who it belongs to, the scheme is anything but privacy-preserving.

I encourage people to read through his proposed WikiProject's page[0] and the related discussion.[1] Important context is also that WikiProjects are exempt from canvassing rules; m…

There's more! On my machine it creates an empty ~/.mozilla/extensions directory every time it starts, and I have no idea why it does that or how to make it stop.

ETA: Turns out ryanmerket is associated with runtimewire.com, and is likely posting this as self promotion. Please verify your sources; the linked article is unfiltered LLM output.…

From Raymond Hill, the author of uBlock Origin: Please do not use those online tools which claim to measure how good is your content blocker, they are often flawed.[0] I don't know…

SteamOS is also an Arch distribution, though I'm not sure how significant the changes are. AFAIK Lutris uses Ubuntu's libraries for better compatibility across distributions, maybe…

Why is this marked (2019)? Besides the book PDF, everything seems to have been created in a commit 3 weeks ago. The way some things are phrased smells of LLM style as well.

The reply was likely referencing Apple's infamous "You're holding it wrong"[0] rebuttal to design flaw criticism - as in, that's what Apple would say if you contacted them. [0]: ht…

AMD dropped support for Linux on the free plan, not the other way around. Nor is this a Linux problem, because they still allow paid users to run the software on Linux. As far as w…

I have, and compared to just running Linux it's not very good. For starters, the shared filesystem is incredibly slow, there is no hardware passthrough support out of the box (even…

> if you were on macos Did they only target macOS? The article mentions macOS a lot, but AFAIK this attack changes the instructions based on the User-Agent. I've seen the exact pag…

The hidden risk of attestation none: the user might (gasp) use a libre authenticator! This same ordeal is why lots of Android software is intentionally broken on non-Google operati…

Please do not needlessly denigrate the poster you're responding to.

It would be written by a human. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans…

We already have privacy preserving age verification: the website asks for your age (or just whether you're over 18), and lets you through. There's no issuing party to collude with …