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tty2300 commented on Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68   blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/c... · Posted by u/johnnyRose
peterlk · 6 years ago
To any browser developers out there, I beg you, please, please, please whitelist lvh.me. I am so tired of security restrictions making everything painful for lvh.me.
tty2300 · 6 years ago
Why? That is just an ordinary domain name that someone pointed at local host. I don't see why it should get any security exemptions.
tty2300 commented on Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce   cam.ac.uk/research/news/r... · Posted by u/hhs
inetknght · 6 years ago
Why do you think a robot capable of harvesting lettuce is more valuable than a person?
tty2300 · 6 years ago
The robots could probably work almost 24/7
tty2300 commented on Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of (2018)   smashcompany.com/technolo... · Posted by u/lkrubner
w8rbt · 6 years ago
I agree 100%. A Go fat binary has all the advantages of Docker with none of the added abstractions and complexities.
tty2300 · 6 years ago
Is it sandboxed from the host system?
tty2300 commented on ISP Association Nominates Mozilla as “Internet Villain”   ispa.org.uk/ispa-announce... · Posted by u/pjc50
15characterslon · 6 years ago
That would be my point too. DNS-based content blocking is very ineffective and can be outsmarted very easily.

DNS filters might be very easy to set up but if they become more major they can be outsmarted very easily - what if Google starts serving ads from www.google.com, would you block that domain name too? Browser extensions can block content far more precisely.

And smart TVs and such stuff could easily switch resolvers and just not use your Pihole's DNS resolver - that would work even without DoH as long as you don't intercept traffic on your router. E.g. Fire TV already adds Google DNS as an additional DNS server (you can't change that). Chromecast only uses Google DNS (AFAIK you can't change that either). I guess the only viable option here is just not to buy those products.

tty2300 · 6 years ago
Or just intercept and redirect requests to googles DNS.
tty2300 commented on Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers   trackthis.link/... · Posted by u/doener
zaarn · 6 years ago
I already have to do that, if you're on Firefox, you get treated like a bot and have to solve 10+ puzzles on recaptcha, possibly even just ending on a "network error" screen regardless.
tty2300 · 6 years ago
If you enable the resist fingerprinting setting on Firefox every website will slam you with captchas and random errors.
tty2300 commented on Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers   trackthis.link/... · Posted by u/doener
enriquto · 6 years ago
Beautiful! But this could run as an invisible background job alongside the ad blocker.
tty2300 · 6 years ago
It already exists, Its called ad nauseam. Its an adblocker that opens every ad in the background. Google has banned it from the chrome store so that says something.
tty2300 commented on I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy   wired.com/story/opt-out-o... · Posted by u/lnguyen
jen729w · 6 years ago
I use the ‘smart’ gates at Melbourne regularly. You insert your passport, stand in front of a camera, and one assumes that your current photograph is compared to that of your passport. If they’re the same, you pass.

I fail to see the privacy implications. I’m already giving someone my passport details – I must do that to enter or exit the country. That passport already contains my photograph. What privacy am I losing by having my photograph taken at the airport?

I say this as a very privacy-conscious individual. I block ads, don’t use Facebook, etc. I fail to see the further loss of privacy in this case, over and above the mandatory scanning of my passport.

tty2300 · 6 years ago
This may be true but the end game for governments is to have facial recognition everywhere. They start at the airport because "it doesn't matter, you are already giving your info out" and then we become OK with the idea so they start rolling it out for public transport and "it doesn't matter, you already do this every time you fly"

It seems to me that the only way to resist is to take a very hard rejection of facial recognition entirely in any situation.

tty2300 commented on Welcome to the Old Internet Again   theoldnet.com/... · Posted by u/myth_drannon
WalterBright · 6 years ago
> Everyone knows the fuel distributor, or the window heating icon.

No they don't. I've been in a car with a front window defroster and a rear one. The icons are different, but who knows which is which.

> Not everyone understands "Fuel"

More than understand an inscrutable icon. Besides, anyone can look up Fuel in a dictionary. How do you look up an icon?

> "Włącz", "Rozmrażanie", "Paliwo"?

Dictionaries are marvelous tools. translate.google.com works great, too. There are no icon dictionaries, especially when everyone copyrights them so every icon is different. If you don't know what the icon means, you're borked.

Hey, I'd settle for the wretched icon if underneath it they're write "Defrost".

Besides, I've traveled in Poland. I don't know a word of Polish, but had a wonderful time regardless. Everyone I met was very nice.

tty2300 · 6 years ago
The front window defrost has always been an option on the air con dial and the rear is a button
tty2300 commented on A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices   zdnet.com/article/new-sil... · Posted by u/bifrost
Waterluvian · 6 years ago
I don't think it's ever acceptable to make an "if I didn't do it, someone else may have done something worse" defense.
tty2300 · 6 years ago
I see like a food safety inspector going around shutting down unsafe restaurants. These IoT devices are a danger to society and should be shut down.
tty2300 commented on A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices   zdnet.com/article/new-sil... · Posted by u/bifrost
adrianN · 6 years ago
Before you do this, please make a law that forces the manufacturers to replace the devices free of charge when they get bricked due to a security problem.
tty2300 · 6 years ago
Having a known security bug unpatched for longer than x days should be grounds for a warrenty refund. That should get companies moving when there is a real world cost for not dealing with security bugs.

u/tty2300

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