foxpurple (u/foxpurple)

foxpurple commented on Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15 theregister.com/2021/09/2... · Posted by u/LinuxBender

JonathanBeuys · 4 years ago

I am always shocked when I find out how lax security is handled even by parties of whom I thought they would take security very serious.

Did you know that you can bypass the lockscreen on Linux Mint by plugging in an external monitor?

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/9123

Did you know that when you use Chromium on an up-to-date Debian stable, it has over 100 unpatched security holes?

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s...

If you cannot trust Debian - whom can you trust? Any suggestions which distro takes security serious?

foxpurple · 4 years ago

X11 screen lockers are not secure at all if you can get them to crash in any way, they revert to showing the full desktop unprotected.

foxpurple commented on AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/belter

km3r · 4 years ago

It's draws an interesting question though, at what point, if ever, does an AI system move beyond the scope of a tool and into the scope of an assistant? I don't think we are anywhere near that yet, but it's conceivable that we reach a point where that question needs to be answered.

foxpurple · 4 years ago

What would be the point of a program owning a patent? Is it going to charge you royalties for use? Where does that money go? If it gets it’s own bank account, what happens when you run two instances of the same program? Do you split the account in half and then join it when one exits?

It’s all nonsensical anyway.

foxpurple commented on Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends cbpp.org/blog/millions-st... · Posted by u/paulpauper

scollet · 4 years ago

> not pay rent and instead buy luxuries

Seems highly unlikely and also fine. If you want to introduce moral arguments, you can dig your own hole.

foxpurple · 4 years ago

Does it seem unlikely? the rise of buy now pay later services for non essential retail shows the average person is fairly financially illiterate and will put present comforts ahead of future finances.

foxpurple commented on Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends cbpp.org/blog/millions-st... · Posted by u/paulpauper

nimbius · 4 years ago

I know its an unpopular opinion but for those who were hoping for a roaring 20s comeback from covid, I believe this will prove to be a huge damper.

Remember: no forgiveness means eviction and bankruptcy, which disqualify you from renting practically anywhere.

foxpurple · 4 years ago

Landlords will be extremely cautious from now on and only selecting tenants that they believe will continue paying through laws like these.

foxpurple commented on Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends cbpp.org/blog/millions-st... · Posted by u/paulpauper

dheera · 4 years ago

Yes, they really should have removed people of rent obligations if they lost income (in tiers) and bailed those people out instead of big corporations.

foxpurple · 4 years ago

Australia did it better by just providing a regular income to everyone who lost their job. That way everyone keeps paying their bills/rent and things return to normal after.

foxpurple commented on Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends cbpp.org/blog/millions-st... · Posted by u/paulpauper

chii · 4 years ago

> the moratorium contributed to people owing more rent than they otherwise would have

the moratorium didn't contribute to owing more, because the alternative was to have those people evicted and in the streets (in the middle of a pandemic no less). unless if they could have gone to a lower-rent shelter had they been evicted, they are going to owe just as much.

foxpurple · 4 years ago

There are absolutely some % of people who are so poor at financial management that they used the last year as a chance to not pay rent and instead buy luxuries. These people have dug themselves a huge hole.

foxpurple commented on Embedded social media posts might now be illegal maya.land/monologues/2021... · Posted by u/kixiQu

foxpurple · 4 years ago

I feel like the “server test” rule OP talks about doesn’t really matter and shouldn’t. Who cares if the browser downloaded it from Instagram or the site itself. The actual result is the same. It would make sense that embedding is exactly the same as reposting, either allowed or not allowed for both.

A similar situation is that I can listen to music on my phone with Spotify legally but if I plug my phone in to a speaker system and play the music for a large group in public, it’s no longer allowed. But the music actually came from Spotify so how is it different?

Tech people always feel entitled to loopholes in laws like “this file is just a bunch of bits, how can a number be illegal??” But this thinking is not useful for a functional legal system.

foxpurple commented on Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity support.google.com/drive/... · Posted by u/knaik94

eitland · 4 years ago

It is a pain to use IMO.

You get a mail sometime in the future and after receiving it you have to turn around and download multiple chunks, log in for each of them and do it quickly before they disappear.

foxpurple · 4 years ago

Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1TB of data on a slow connection would be difficult but I can’t see how google could make it better since downloading and extracting a 1TB zip on its own would be almost impossible.

foxpurple commented on Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity support.google.com/drive/... · Posted by u/knaik94

judge2020 · 4 years ago

And if people file these complains for doing stuff like actually hosting terrorism? For this to work you'd also need a review board to determine if TOS clauses are "fair" and not overbearing.

foxpurple · 4 years ago

If a literal terrorist files a complaint then the police department can pick them up. The complaints department only needs to handle local citizen complaints.

foxpurple commented on Spotify Box evanhailey.com/2021/09/20... · Posted by u/belter

lucideer · 4 years ago

It's called Bandcamp

foxpurple · 4 years ago

Did this for years. Finally gave up last year. It’s so much work, discovery is a huge pain, listening on all devices is a pain. None of it was worth it.

Now I just use Spotify and don’t care. I don’t need the extra work in my life.

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