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  • This probably sounds pedantic but based on this the issue isn't that the software is Russian. It's that the software is under the regulation of an authoritarian government (which is Russia)

  • Nginx is 2-clause BSD, which I would argue is more "Open Source" than Arch Linux (official repo contains proprietary components such as discord, steam, multimedia codecs). You could argue that the majority of it (and it's build system) is open source, but probably not "Arch Linux" is fully Open Source.

  • Out of curiosity what do you think of Nginx, which was Russian based and used to have its main offices in Russia (that also got raided by Russian police) or Arch Linux, where one of the main packagers (up to 30% of official packages) is managed by Felix Yan (which I believe is a Chinese citizen)? Where is the line drawn? Is it only for profit companies, security software, or something specific?

  • It was always there, but we've long ignored the warnings. It invented the Internet, which we took for granted. It wasn't until Gore seeped through a series of tubes that we realized, but by then it was too late.

    It had already taken over the windmills.

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  • Nothing but effort. Nobody wants to constantly baby a project just because someone else may change their code at a moment's notice. Why would you want to comb through someone else's html + obfuscated JavaScript to figure out how to grab some dynamically shown data when there was a well documented publicly available API?

    Also NewPipe breaks all the time. APIs are generally stable, and can last years if not decades without changing at all. Meanwhile NewPipe parsing breaks every few weeks to months, requiring programmer intervention. Just check the project issue tracker and you'll see it's constantly being fixed to match YouTube changes.

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  • An API is an official interface to connect to a service, usually designed to make it easier for one application to interact with another. This is usually kept stable and provides only the information needed to serve the request of the application requesting it.

    A scraper is an application that scrapes data from a human readable source (i.e. website) to obtain data from another application. Since website designs can update frequently, these scrapers can break at any time and need to be updated alongside the original application.

    Reddit clients interact with an API to serve requests, but Newpipe scrapes the YouTube webpage itself. So if YouTube changes their UI tomorrow Newpipe could very easily break. No one wants to design their app around a fragile base while building a bunch of stuff on top of it. It's just way too much work for very little effort.

    It's like I can enter my house through the door or the chimney. I would always take the door since it's designed for human entry. I could technically use the chimney if there's no door. But if someone lights up the fireplace I'd be toast.

  • It doesn't have to be turn-based. FFXI and FFXII are also great. I feel the bigger issue is that making a story heavy game while everyone else is also making story heavy games makes it no longer unique.

    I wouldn't mind going back to ATB, but I don't think that would win back an audience except for nostalgia points.

    Maybe more FF:T though? Kinda miss that.

  • Right after they killed Book Depository? Wow they are getting rid of everything worth keeping...

  • Amazon Smile trades ad views for 1% of their proceeds to a non-profit of your choice (including the FSF, EFF, and more, though I think RMS would have a seizure accepting this money)

    Whole Foods gives you significant discounts on hot foods if you scan a QR code from the app (still expensive though).

    I don't use these personally but I can totally see someone using them.

  • You can build a risc core using an fpga. Plenty of people have done that.

    Performance will probably be an issue.

  • according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.

    What's a ”BGP expert”? Most of this stuff is covered in an undergraduate networking course. Wouldn't just "networking expert" do?

  • I think we may be looking at these wrong. Yes there's a visible throughput/latency improvement here but what about other factors? Power savings? Cache efficiency? CPU cycles saved for other co-running processes?

    These are going to be pretty hard to measure without an x86_64 simulator. So I don't fault them for not including such benches. But there might be more to the story here.

  • The goal here is to prevent someone from requesting a SIM replacement to unlock your other accounts. Since the attacker can use the IMEI and SIM info to contact customer service. If you have MFA on your mint account then they should ask for extra info before sending the replacement SIM, which would help with the current situation.

  • You Is Into

    Baba IS Money

    Take The Breach

    :)

    Also is anyone reminded of Final Fantasy: Tactics by the small isometric maps?

  • Setup TOTP NOW. Mint added proper TOTP authentication as MFA a while back that should block sms based MFA. Might be a good way to prevent sim swapping attacks.

  • No. He was a misogynistic piece of crap that wrote morally questionable material that was also disrespectful to his assistants, illustrators and fans.

    Allegedly, the "good" and the "kind" were stolen during the Great Battle of the Terry's, where one Terry used the "good" to build a Temple, while the other Terry with a meteor sword used the "kind" to empower actual quality fiction.