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Un1corn commented on Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy sammobile.com/news/israel... · Posted by u/croes

Centigonal · a month ago

From Stuxnet to Pegasus to the 2024 pager attack, Israel has a history of leveraging its tech sector to advance its national security aims through clandestine means (this is not unusual: so does the US, and so does China). If you're a country with not-so-friendly relations with Israel, the company being founded in Israel is absolutely pertinent.

Un1corn · a month ago

Which _Israeli_ companies were used for Stuxnet or the 2024 pager attack? NSO is not the same as the company from the article since it's explicitly a cyber company.

Un1corn commented on Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with new command editor developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/keepamovin

nicoburns · a month ago

CDP is a good exmaple of why the ecosystem has converged around Chrome and not Firefox. CDP has:

- Full documentation

- A stable API

- Tooling like this

Firefox has none of that: implementing the firefox devtools protocol means reverse engineering it, and then sometimes it still breaks when Firefox updates!

Un1corn · a month ago

I haven't used the devtools protocol of Firefox but CDP is one of the worst protocols I had to work with. Everything is "experimental", inconsistencies between different domains, multiple ways to do some stuff and revealing internal stuff.

Un1corn commented on Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw

probably_wrong · 3 months ago

My grumpy preferred alternative would be "you're supposed to be an init service. That's not your job".

Un1corn · 3 months ago

> systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system.

You can always use a simpler init system if you want

Un1corn commented on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus meduza.io/en/feature/2023... · Posted by u/Klaster_1

game_the0ry · 2 years ago

Let's assume I am a savvy career criminal (I am not...promise). What would I want to use for counter-surveillance? I would probably go:

- For desktop - Tails OS booted from USB + TOR for browser

- For mobile - GrapheneOS on latest pixel device

Un1corn · 2 years ago

This is absolutely not enough against targeted attacks. It will be harder to detect you but once they do, Firefox (which Tor is based on) is a lot more vulnerable than Chrome. Same for Android, the locked bootloader and such can be helpful in this situation.

Un1corn commented on A look into the finances of SpaceX wsj.com/tech/behind-the-c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

DoesntMatter22 · 2 years ago

Most of the changes seem to be great to me. Long form video. Longer posts. Revenue sharing.

Great changes so far

Un1corn · 2 years ago

I think most people focus on bringing back far-right people to the platform, making the application inaccessible to logged out users and the failed attempts at Twitter Premium or whatever it's being called.

Un1corn commented on Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/fortran77

mytailorisrich · 2 years ago

People who like WFH will never want to return to the office unless perhaps the office is a 5 minute walk from home (they may be forced to, but they won't want to). For many people the time and cost savings of avoiding a daily commute cannot be offset by a nicer office.

Those who are happy to return to the office in general are those who do not like WFH and prefer more contacts and a change of scenery.

A nicer office makes things better but it will not change people's minds on WFH.

Un1corn · 2 years ago

My office is half an hour by foot from my house and yet I prefer to work from home exactly for this reason. Maybe in America where the commute can become ridiculous quickly it's a problem but here I just take an e-scooter if I don't want to walk. A better office would certainly make me come to the office more. But to be fair, even the CEO doesn't have his own office currently so I don't expect any of us to get one soon.

Un1corn commented on “Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?” twitter.com/maximilianhil... · Posted by u/scblzn

morelisp · 2 years ago

Is the specific person important to the point?

Edit to replies: Both the context and the employer were in the original post. Blasting the actual GitHub issue when it's clear the author specifically tried to avoid that is awful behavior too.

Un1corn · 2 years ago

I don't think the person was important but the employer might. It seems to be IBM which is not surprising I guess, although I'd hoped that RedHat would influence how they work with open source somehow.

Un1corn commented on Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces yotam.net/posts/linux-nam... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie

totallywrong · 2 years ago

Never tried but I remember reading it was very dependent on the mouse. I probably wouldn't like it.

Un1corn · 2 years ago

Yes, Plan 9 made some bad choices in retrospect, at least in my opinion. The big dependency on the mouse is one of them but also assuming people will be in managed networks.

Un1corn commented on I give up on free software phones (2019) yotam.net/posts/why-i-giv... · Posted by u/luu

barbariangrunge · 2 years ago

I expected this to at least mention the pine phone, the librem, or the Ubuntu phone (which was charming). It’s just about de-googled android and how it doesn’t work very well due to how everything depends on google play services

Un1corn · 2 years ago

When I wrote it, from the options you mentioned, only Ubuntu phone existed and it was after Canonical abandoned it. So in 2019 it really felt like Android was the only option.

Un1corn commented on KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis docs.keydb.dev/... · Posted by u/nilsbunger

rollcat · 3 years ago

It is open source, you can browse the source all you like.

It's not free software.

BSL-style licenses seem to be a popular choice for databases, thanks to AWS.

Un1corn · 3 years ago

Please don't try to delude people by changing the definition of open source. While sadly Open Source Initiative were not able to get the trademark for open source, the de-facto definition of open source is practically the same as free software.

Dragonfly is source available which is a completely different thing.

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