Posts by jamesh@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AiHLyBBmga0Qjy87xw by jamesh@aus.social
2024-05-26T09:31:27Z
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@geordie Think of all the other card-shaped objects you'll be able to randomise with it!
(DIR) Post #AiZNZwfZP5ZJ8VAo1Q by jamesh@aus.social
2024-06-04T01:49:29Z
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@NewtonMark @bgrinter The US law doesn't outright ban people under 13 either. It requires services get parental consent for the child to use the service, and to consider the child's safety in using the service.Many sites choose to ban children under 13, but there are some that jump through the hoops (e.g. Xbox child accounts, YouTube Kids, etc).
(DIR) Post #AinxGhfVGnaLfihmNc by jamesh@aus.social
2024-06-11T03:00:09Z
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@geordie From what I can tell, these channels are US only at the moment, and also had ads already. So rather than everyone being served the same baked in ad, it'd slot in ads targeted based on surveillance of your habits.It doesn't seem to be talking about inserting ads into other apps running on the Chromecast.
(DIR) Post #Aj0MtH7ERo0FFmY0wa by jamesh@aus.social
2024-06-17T02:43:48Z
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@geordie But if a phishing attack does succeed against the company, they can point at evidence that they made attempts to mitigate the threat.Whether those mitigations actually helped is secondary.
(DIR) Post #Aj0QIO6PuJbc1bpgNk by jamesh@aus.social
2024-06-17T03:21:57Z
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@geordie It turns out the threat of shareholder lawsuits really just created defenses against shareholder lawsuits, rather than the things those lawsuits were about.
(DIR) Post #Aj4hpnRqxKD452e8sC by jamesh@aus.social
2024-06-19T04:57:19Z
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@geordie Do you get much use out of the tubular lock picks? I'd considered getting some to play with.
(DIR) Post #AjcO3z21HZbLNkzGSW by jamesh@aus.social
2024-07-05T10:55:58Z
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@geordie @InsurgoFormica How much longer will it take for them to unedit them?
(DIR) Post #AjvzGmpSLmfIEnZ4qW by jamesh@aus.social
2024-06-26T03:01:49Z
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@womble @GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes JS CDNs can be somewhat safe if using the content integrity features in modern browsers. There's still tracking concerns, but it will error out if the CDN swaps out the content.But polyfill was explicitly designed to send different browsers different JavaScript bundles, which makes it impossible to use those resource integrity checks.
(DIR) Post #AjwSrOvN5THNU58uy8 by jamesh@aus.social
2024-07-15T03:23:57Z
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@geordie I imagine it's there in part for end of stay cleaners to determine if anything is missing.
(DIR) Post #Ajyr0fl4efFhW3CT20 by jamesh@aus.social
2024-07-16T07:03:57Z
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@geordie You could always nominate the other photo for deletion...
(DIR) Post #Ak6nXafJlWqAj0czxI by jamesh@aus.social
2024-07-20T03:02:47Z
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@geordie @voltagex they've apparently made some Linux systems unbootable in the past with the older kernel module (on supported distro/kernel combinations). So it seems more like a general testing issue on their end.
(DIR) Post #AkCvNb2dTfMVZr2WzQ by jamesh@aus.social
2024-07-23T01:58:53Z
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@geordie Aren't they pretty similar to coal fired power stations in this regard, using a heat source to power a steam turbine?Would nuclear use significantly more water to generate the same amount of electricity?
(DIR) Post #AkCwWtZQ3bs9bUN7js by jamesh@aus.social
2024-07-23T02:11:47Z
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@geordie Isn't "water to cool the rods" just part of the heat exchange to create the steam? And using water to condense the steam would also seem to apply to any other thermal power plant.This paper seems to put coal and nuclear in the same ballpark: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032119305994I am not saying Dutton's plan is a good one, but I'm not sure water use is the argument against it.
(DIR) Post #AkESeEGGuxRBUiutZg by jamesh@aus.social
2024-07-23T07:58:52Z
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This post was a bit surprising: Mozilla's ad tracking feature is part of an "origin trial", which means the new API is only exposed to websites on an allow list. Currently that list is empty, so the it doesn't do anything even if you've left the feature enabled.They generated all that bad publicity, and the feature isn't even collecting any data yet.
(DIR) Post #Akg574YT7yeFJYWizA by jamesh@aus.social
2024-08-06T02:36:53Z
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@ariadne It seems like most of the problems would go away if they added "CLOFORK implies CLOEXEC" or similar. I can't imagine why anyone would want this behaviour to persist past their own process image.
(DIR) Post #Ao5QdLE4DCs96PWuw4 by jamesh@aus.social
2024-11-16T02:39:21Z
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@foone I wonder if you would have been able to boot Windows 95 from an LS-120 floppy drive? I only ever saw one of them though, and don't remember what it sounded like.
(DIR) Post #Ast4LXt7IaT7rrhgeG by jamesh@aus.social
2025-03-24T09:47:37Z
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The Wikipedia editors did a great job captioning this photo on the ThinkPad X1 series page.
(DIR) Post #B2Eky0FGld4kquJrHc by jamesh@aus.social
2026-01-13T08:44:50Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 @sesquipedality There is the ext-session-lock-v1 protocol, but it is not supported in the most widely used compositors (presumably because they implement their own screen lockers): https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-session-lock-v1#compositor-supportUnfortunately, it bundles screen locking (i.e. being responsible for deciding when to unlock the screen) together with drawing the screen saver animation. You can't leave locking decisions up to the compositor and just render the screen saver to a surface when requested.
(DIR) Post #B2EnutLMGsNiRNNKWO by jamesh@aus.social
2026-01-13T09:09:30Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 @sesquipedality The protocol I linked to definitely combines the two: the client doing screen locking decides when to lock the screen and when to unlock again.I'm not sure wlr_layer_shell would help here: if the compositor is locking the screen, it's going to hide all the application surfaces. Saying you want your application window to be displayed on top of other application windows isn't going to change that.
(DIR) Post #B2FIPT1jAANIQHglaC by jamesh@aus.social
2026-01-13T14:35:38Z
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@ignaloidas @mjg59 @sesquipedality Perhaps take a look at swaylock, which makes use of this protocol extension.The other lock screen stuff it is doing is presenting a password prompt and doing PAM authentication to check that the password typed in is correct.You could implement an animated screensaver with this protocol extension (since you could draw whatever you want on the lock screen surface you provide). But it would be nice to be able to do so without being required to do auth or make policy decisions about when to engage the lock.