Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor • Hacker News Board

Re: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

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Post by fwn » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 7:01 AM UTC

zepto wrote: post #235

cageface wrote: post #179

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This is exactly why I use an Android phone.

Why do you care what Apple does then?

Surveillance is rarely about the individual avoiding one specific mechanism and instead mostly about its subtile influence on society (like chilling effects, the reshaping of power structures, the shift of dependencies, etc.)

We should therefore care about increased surveillance even though we personally can avoid some specific measures.

We wouldn't question someones concern about climate change just because they live in some Russian perma frost region either.

Both are global issues.

Re: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

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Post by jl6 » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 7:58 AM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #243

selfhoster11 wrote: post #207

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PDF/A is a reduced subset of PDF, optimised for archival storage. A compliant PDF/A reader has a greatly reduced attack surface compared to a full PDF format reader.

Any recommended readers?

pdf.js in Firefox - as it’s sandboxed. Safari on iOS also natively displays web-hosted PDFs very snappily. Okular is an excellent PDF reader for the Linux desktop and supports attachments.

Re: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

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Post by jeegsy » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 8:02 PM UTC

adwn wrote: post #213

chordalkeyboard wrote: post #204

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Why do they need special laws to subsidize their creation? People can pay them to make their work, that's historically how things were done. Now suddenly they need special laws so its illegal to take a photograph in public without permission? Of course they need to get paid in order to live and to work, so do I, so does everyone else. Can we now discuss why creators are so special that they get an entire class of qua…

> People can pay them to make their work, that's historically how things were done. So who's going to pay them? Their employer? That raises two problems: 1) Creators can't be independent and self-employed anymore, and 2) how is their employer going to make enough money? A rich patron? That's hardly a better system.

> A rich patron? That's hardly a better system.

Many great works of art have come to us via this system. In our time, isnt that what Patreon is?

Re: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

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Post by twic » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 11:31 PM UTC

jl6 wrote: post #2

The chaos and banditry is caused by software churn. Nothing is ever finished, so nothing is ever secure, so you must ally yourself with a powerful warlord. This is why I am in the process of migrating my website from HTML to PDF/A.

Buddy just post one big PNG.

Re: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

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Post by walterbell » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 12:35 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #223

walterbell wrote: post #87

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Immediately after a clean boot, apply security update, reboot to test, then immediately shutdown and allow that snapshot to persist.

Wouldn't it be better to do a reinstall of the OS in the VM (or use a previous image), apply the security updates, and then reinstall any other software that was on the system?

Typically the base, non-persistent image is carefully managed to be pristine, e.g. through a tree of storage snapshots that allows reversion to known-good checkpoints.