Watching these two behemoths wrestle over the future of a space we all share, and wondering if they will need to loop in regulators on one side or another, convinces me that we shouldn't have gifted all of our digital infrastructure to just 2 companies. Inlcuding our economy, healthcare, government, and civil infrastructure. We've put all our eggs into only a couple of very greedy, impossible to audit baskets. We've really done this all to ourselves. We've raced ourselves all the way to the bottom.
Readit Newszelon88 commented on Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews seroundtable.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/freedomben
zelon88 commented on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network github.com/explainers-by-... · Posted by u/doener
I understand the idea behind it and am still kinda chewing on the scope of it all. It will probably break some enterprise applications and cause some help desk or group policy/profile headaches for some.
It would be nice to know when a site is probing the local network. But by the same token, here is Google once again putting barriers on self sufficiency and using them to promote their PaaS goals.
They'll gladly narc on your self hosted application doing what it's supposed to do, but what about the 23 separate calls to Google CDN, ads, fonts, ect that every website has your browser make?
I tend to believe the this particular functionality is no longer of any use to Google, which is why they want to deprecate it to raise the barrier of entry for others.
Niels Heusinkveld on YouTube has great videos about this!
Just looked this up to see an example of the behavior described. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SlUlENAggE
As a side note, BeamNG.Drive has the most accurate throttle response and audio response of any driving game I've ever tried. You can almost feel the car pull vacuum (or build boost).
zelon88 commented on The Windows Registry Adventure #7: Attack surface analysis googleprojectzero.blogspo... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Considering how terrible Android and ChromeOS and GCP is in every conceivable way, I'm surprised Google even has time to quantify the quality of Microsoft products.
For those interested in hearing some beats, the terminal demo starts at 4:34 https://youtu.be/vfgySTaM1TI?t=274
It really starts getting good at 15:00 when he starts losing packets.
zelon88 commented on My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth gatesnotes.com/home/home-... · Posted by u/nrvn
About time. Where the hell has this guy been? Guy makes hundreds of billions of dollars off the backs of working Americans and then leaves to donate all that American money to India in the form of public toilets under the guise of philanthropy. Meanwhile the country that made him a billionaire is literally falling to a fascist coup.
Seriously, just screw off. We needed you 3 months ago. We'll call you when it's time for your day in court at Nuremburg 2.0.
zelon88 commented on Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the... · Posted by u/micahflee
Is this feigned incompetence. Perhaps a cry for help, or a calculated disclosure?
I can't imagine anyone who would make the mistakes this guy makes, yet here he is; freely using his computer in clear view of a reporter with a camera.
zelon88 commented on Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the... · Posted by u/micahflee
Speculation, as no 'technical' analysis could be performed without access to the actual binaries. These aplications are unlisted and otherwise assigned to organisations using device management. This analysis is based on documentation and how this assignment process works. There is no way to determine if an original application got modified, as this would be the same for the WeChat, WhatsApp applications, or that they recompiled the open source version?
There are images from the user's screen, with him on the photograph using the application, showing the chats from the app reproduced verbatim (forwarded) to a GMail account.
The article states that "at least one line of code must've been added" to support such a feature, which I believe to be an honest and accurate assessment.
Are we supposed to believe that a book which teaches people how to be "programmers" without writing any code was actually written by a human author?
We should call what those authors are doing “vibe writing” because they didn’t have any editors who actually cared about the contents of the book.
This.
I'd be concerned purchasing a book from a "programmer" who claims to teach people how to code without code. Kinda sounds like an "author" who publishes books without writing books.