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2017 May 12
Fri: |
| 10:29 |
< | oldlaptop | + | > |
tilt: amusing. you could argue the severity is limited by its nature as a local exploit |
| 10:29 |
< | oldlaptop | + | > |
but then you're left wondering why polkit is there anyhow |
| 10:38 |
< | oldlaptop | + | > |
(meanwhile in windows "security", Microsoft's antivirus thing apparently runs a non-sandboxed javascript interpreter as root, for the purposes of determining whether javascript is evil or not. This is about as good of an idea as you'd guess.) |
| 10:39 |
< | oldlaptop | + | > |
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1252 |
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2017 Jul 25
Tue: |
| 13:53 |
< | edweb | | > |
i don't know what limits netflix impose on themselves regarding the shows and films they make available, but i guess if they change their offering then you can cancel your subscription |
| 13:54 |
< | edweb | | > |
in theory you can change your phone if there's an app you want which apple have blocked, but in practice a platform like a phone is "sticky" |
| 13:54 |
< | furrywolf | | > |
Let's say you buy a TV. The TV then one day decides that Animal Planet is evil, and the TV refuses to let you tune to that channel. It's OK - you can go buy a different TV, so there's obviously nothing wrong with this, right? |
| 13:55 |
< | edweb | | > |
good point, mozilla can apply rules retroactively, as it were |
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2017 Aug 08
Tue: |
| 14:50 |
< | DusXMT | | > |
Shameless self-advertisement: https://github.com/dusxmt/nxbelld (as I set up a fresh new machine for myself, I realized how I can't live without this on machines without a PC speaker :3) |
| 14:51 |
* | DusXMT |
's personal settings of choice for it are -q -F 1000 -d 100 |
| 14:52 |
< | Lydia_K | | > |
The PC Speaker is evil. |
| 14:52 |
< | DusXMT | | > |
:O |