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arboles commented on You Are in a Box jyn.dev/you-are-in-a-box/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

MisterTea · a month ago

Nice take. You sound like the kind of person who only ever reads other peoples opinions and then parrots them creating the illusion that you have knowledge. Meanwhile you never bothered to boot the OS or see why people like it. It's actually pretty fucking amazing but that's okay, you are obviously too smart to use it since you read Unix Haters. Have fun with creaky old Unix.

arboles · a month ago

It's definitely unpleasant when opinions you hear seem like they might be parroted, but at least it's in good faith. I find it frustrating to hear argumentation that shames, rather than attempt to correct or add anything.

arboles commented on KiCad and Wayland Support kicad.org/blog/2025/06/Ki... · Posted by u/xvilka

gf000 · 2 months ago

A window manager is just an X11-ism. It's nothing more in that parlance than a Gnome plugin.

There are "Wayland display server toolkits" out there, so you can just build whatever you want without reimplementing a wheel. But an additional layer allowing for these plugins that X has is just added complexity that not every diplay server would want - e.g. a custom display server for a thermostat.

arboles · 2 months ago

Emphasis on the plural in "toolkits", X has one standard interface running on people's computers that window managers target. X environments end up having common behavior regardless of window manager, and for application developers having to target each Wayland display server with its own subset of protocols has to be less appealing. That is what that comment was getting at.

Application developers don't want to log your keyboard and aren't oblivious to security. The lack of a standard Wayland display server is a real grievance.

arboles commented on Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production nrkno.github.io/sofie-cor... · Posted by u/rjmunro

arboles · 4 months ago

Can you write real-time shaders in it?

arboles commented on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

Mindwipe · 6 months ago

Aaron Schwartz's lawyer could have posed exactly the same claim.

It wouldn't have succeeded, just like this won't.

Lawyers will deploy any possible argument, just in case, even if it has a 0.1% chance of working because why wouldn't you?

arboles · 6 months ago

On the off chance the defense succeeds I'm proven right, if the defense fails, I'm still proven right as the fine will only be a minor set back for Meta.

arboles commented on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

close04 · 6 months ago

Their point is that they are not.

arboles · 6 months ago

It would set the precedent for everyone. The real difference is that they can beg the question and people like Aaron Schwartz couldn't.

arboles commented on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

arboles · 6 months ago

If you download one book you're a criminal. If they download millions of books, that's just business.

arboles commented on A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils nationalpost.com/news/can... · Posted by u/IndrekR

arboles · 9 months ago

Toxic chemicals aside, does anyone else have trouble accepting how little effort entities whose job is to recycle put into recycling? The article explains that recycling facilities throw out black plastic utensils just because the infrared light in sorting machines can't sort it. I've also heard that unscrewed bottle-caps, or other small plastics also fall in the common waste dump at the facility.

Perhaps these are the only exceptions. For some of us that have grown up being taught the importance of sorting your trash for the bins by school and TV, it might feel like a betrayal. I would actually like to know the average percentage of the content of domestic recycling bins that the entities on the other side bother to see recycled.

arboles commented on ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives docs.sweeting.me/s/archiv... · Posted by u/nikisweeting

hobs · 10 months ago

As a custom tool built to archive stuff for archive.org, why would you expect that it can also do a completely opposite task, saving information privately?

I can see why you would want such a tool, but it seems like a direct divergence from the core goal of the existing codebase.

arboles · 10 months ago

> As a custom tool built to archive stuff for archive.org

Archivebox has no association with archive.org. Sending URLs to archive.org is just one of its features, which can also be turned off.

arboles commented on ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives docs.sweeting.me/s/archiv... · Posted by u/nikisweeting

nikisweeting · 10 months ago

> The default settings should be "safe" for the default user,

I 100% agree, but because private archiving is doable but NOT 100% safe yet I cant make that mode the default. The difficult reality currently is that archiving anything non-public is not simple to make safe.

Every capture will contain reflected session cookies, usernames, and PII, and other sensitive content. People don't understand that this means if they share a snapshot of one page they're potentially leaking their login credentials for an entire site.

It is possible to do safely, and we provide ways to achieve that that I'm constantly working on improving, but until it's easy and straightforward and doesn't require any user education on security implications, I cant make it the default.

The goal is to get it to the point where it CAN be the default, but I'm still at least 6mo away from that point. Check out the archivebox/sessions dir in the source code for a look at the development happening here.

Until then, it requires some user education and setting up a dedicated chrome profile + cookies + tweaking config to do. (as an intentional barrier to entry for private archiving)

arboles · 10 months ago

I don't think it's possible to remove information about yourself from a webpage before you share it. It's always possible to have crafted a website that sneaks reflected session information or the instance of archivebox's IP address into the main content. This can be a real response:

> And that was this week's newsletter! Congratulation for reading to the bottom, dear 198.51.100.1.

Even if the archivebox instance noted its own IP to do a search-and-replace like s|198\.51\.100\.1|XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX| on the snapshot it is about to create, it's possible to craft a response that obscures the presence of the information, such as by encoding the IP like this: MTk4LjUxLjEwMC4xCg==. I.e. steganography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography).

Being able to anonymize archives before sharing them is something I would find interesting, but I don't think you can beat steganography, so I'm wondering what exactly you mean you plan to do.

arboles commented on DNS over Wikipedia github.com/aaronjanse/dns... · Posted by u/pyinstallwoes

labster · a year ago

Why not get the URL from Wikidata json instead of parsing Wikipedia pages? Some of these pages can be quite long, and you’re throwing away most of the data.

arboles · a year ago

Wikidata can also list a choice of URLs if there are mirrors, or URLs that, on the Wikipedia page, are censored.