Imagine how differently the CloudStrike incident would have played out, if users saw the above message on July 19th. It’s also quite possible for Microsoft to do this – Windows already keeps track of which drivers crash, and how often. How do you think they wrote their own post-mortem? Some security folks might say that …
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This morning, I read Hacker News’ analysis of Apple Maps for the web, complete with widespread disappointment that Firefox is not supported. A sobering realization came to mind: YouTube dropped Internet Explorer 6 in March 2010. At the time, IE6 had about 17% market share. Facebook followed in September. Firefox currently has about 2.8% market …
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To keep things short and sweet, a manifesto: We can argue about reform, antitrust, memory safe code, decentralization, the automatic OneDrive backups, the whole shebang for another day. There’s a great discussion to be had there. However, I know one “first step” that I will ask Congress to investigate, and if I had lobbying money, …
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Note: This is just me, thinking out loud; you absolutely do not need to think that I have carefully thought this through, or that this is a good idea. With expectations set as low as possible, let’s continue. There are many old pieces of tech still in use, but there’s one that grinds my gears …
Congress has recently proposed multiple bills to regulate the internet (such as the recent “Kids Online Safety Act”), in the name of protecting children. This has caused a simple response: “Just have parents be parents and set up parental controls if they care.” That’s simpler said than done. Parental controls right now completely suck by …
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Recently, I’ve built a navigation sidebar with Tailwind that changes appearance based on a CSS hover, and I’ve found a strange bug. I’ve found Safari will, under the right conditions, leak the cursor position during a click to completely different windows, underneath the window being clicked on. Unfortunately, I can’t reproduce the above bug on …
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Update 1: Purism states on their website in a March blog post that there is one production run that covers the entirety of late 2019 – mid 2021. So, it is actually possible to accomplish. https://puri.sm/posts/where-is-my-librem-5-part-3/ This also makes some of the production timing mentioned below much more innocent even if calling it “In Stock” …
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If you’re going somewhere anonymously, or attending a politically unpopular protest, or visiting a sensitive client, you might want to turn Location Services to Off in your smartphone’s settings. Great – now you can go and do whatever it is without worrying. Well, that would be the case if we lived in an ideal world, …
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Note: I am not a lawyer – but hear me out. Considering the recent squabble between Pointcrow and Nintendo, almost everyone has heard of the “DMCA Takedown.” The DMCA is a huge (and arguably unconstitutional and 70% stupid) law that has a ton of sections, with Section 512 dealing with takedowns. However, there’s another section …
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Here’s yet another theory that could partially explain why Windows 11 doesn’t support anything below Intel 8th Gen: Something’s really borked in Skylake (Intel 6th Gen), and operating systems are eager to get away from it. And, when possible, the refresh (7th gen). Consider: There are good alternative motives for all of those events (Windows …