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The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
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Something like DANE, maybe? Only the websites actually using the compromised certificates would be compromised.
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Something like DANE, maybe? Only the websites actually using the compromised certificates would be compromised.
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PHP selfhosting list
The good thing about it is that all PHP applications run through a single service (unless you use containers for each of them individually, I guess), so it's really easy to take them all down at the same time, and update them all at once.
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As nice as DANE is, it just shifts the burden of trust to your DNS provider. Like if you hop on Wi-Fi at a coffee shop, said network can simply MITM connections and supply their own certs via re-writing the DNS.
It can't, because DANE requires the use of DNSSEC. Unfortunately, there are still so many domains that do not have a proper DNSSEC configuration… so it's unlikely to work out well in practice, anyway.
edit: not to mention the DNS is centralized too. It's federated, at least (in the original sense of the word, not the way it is used on the fediverse), but ICANN is still the only central authority at the end.
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Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say
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but I assume that it sets legal precedent for all.
Other courts might look at it for inspiration, but since Germany has a civil law system (as opposed to the common law system that is usual in English-speaking countries), prior rulings do not really have as much significance as “legal precedent” here.
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AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
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We do, AI companies just don't respect it.
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AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
“Following the recent discussion, we have strengthened our safeguards,” [OKA's] Zimmerman told me. “We are now rolling out a second, independent LLM review step. Translators must run the completed draft through a separate model using a dedicated comparison prompt designed to identify potential discrepancies, omissions, or inaccuracies relative to the source text. Initial findings suggest this is highly effective at detecting potential issues.”
Ah yes; when LLMs don't work, just add more LLMs. Genius.
They say it's been “highly effective” but somehow, I doubt that.
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Reddit's auto-moderation
This is so ironic, considering that linking to other websites used to be reddit's entire point.
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Cloudflare, Chrome, Firefox Developing Next-Gen Privacy Pass: PACTs
PACTs will let websites “with strong knowledge of ‘personhood’” issue anonymous tokens that browser users and designated bots can present at other websites, [...]
This sounds like another attempt at what google already tried with “web environment integrity”.
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Yellow Paint
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The Portal games were really good at this. Using the environment to guide the player where they needed to go and then they used lighting to show what you should look at.
Portal 1 did have some red arrows and “this way” signs on the walls, but that actually made sense because there was someone helping the player character out.
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Signal reagiert auf deutsche Probleme
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🇪🇺 EU Court confirms €4.1bn Google fine - largest antitrust penalty ever imposed by the EU Commission
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why is Apple not guilty of the same thing?
They are, I believe the commission has also been investigating apple for this. But it might also be considered a different situation since, as far as I understood, google was fined for pressuring other manufacturers into pre-installing google search and chrome on their devices.
Apple is ten times worse in this regard because you actually can't use any browser but Safari on iOS
Well, WebKit, not safari (you could say safari is apple's WebKit skin, I guess), but you're right. The DMA was supposed to fix this and force them to allow other browser engines, but I don't think much has changed in this regard. I'm not aware of any browsers not using WebKit on iOS so far, at least.
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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa
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Can't be too sure about that: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57524423
The whole patent system should just be abolished. And if we can't achieve that, at least software patents.
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Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations
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The GPL licenses were all written by the free software foundation for the GNU project. But that doesn't make it less worthwhile to contribute to this cause, too :)
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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
The real URL is in the
Locationheader on/goto. Request that URL. Do not follow the redirect.
…but that's how you follow a redirect?
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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com
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Keep in mind that rystaf/mlmym has been last updated years ago. old.lemmy.world uses the FHF's fork, which has had a few fixes made to it.
::: spoiler self promotion I actually have a fork of that fork at mschae23/mlmym which is significantly different (in terms of new features and bugfixes) from the others by now. In fact, this is what's deployed by your instance at old.lemmy.today :)
Though it unfortunately seems to be having issues with rate limits at the moment.
edit: This should be fixed now! :::
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PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games
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Licenses are a copyright concept, but this isn't a copyright issue. You're buying a copy of a game, and you should own the copy after the purchase (which of course, means the company who sold it to you shouldn't be able to revoke your access at will). That's the part that sony is apparently not willing to do. But copyright-wise, it would be a license either way, so I don't think it's a good idea to confuse people with only tangentially related concepts here.
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Offene Doctolib-Alternative ist fertig
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Das „free“ in „free and open source“ hat tatsächlich wie bei „open source“ nichts mit dem Preis zu tun, sondern steht für freie Software.
Falls allerdings für die bezahlten Funktionen nicht ebenfalls der Quellcode veröffentlicht und Modifikationen und Vebreitung erlaubt werden (was möglich ist!), wäre es weder frei noch open source.
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(-27)^2/3
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-27^2/3 would come out to a different number, because the exponentiation has a higher precedence than the negation
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Sacrifice
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