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An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.
  • The article mentions that one woman (Stefany González Escarraman) went for a restraining order the day after the system deemed her at “low risk” and the judge denied it referring to the VioGen score.

    The judge should be in jail for that and If the judge thinks the "system" can do his job then he should quit as he is clearly useless.

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    Firefox 128.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
  • Together with our co-authors from Meta, we’ve recently proposed IPA to the Private Advertising Technology >Community Group, or PATCG. PATCG is a group in the W3C specifically formed to work on improving advertising >without compromising on privacy.

    It's spyware. Whoever is running the aggregation service can see where you have been.

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    How Long Should Hardware/Software Support Last?
  • Some 10 years ago, my GPU died and I had to use a TNT2 for 3 months. until I could pay for a replacement. Think about what cards you have laying around you may have to use if your GPU dieds today. I feel 25 years is a good cut off point. No one should be using pre year 2000 PC's as a daily driver.

    Current hardware will end up unsafe to use on the internet because of lack of firmware updates. long before Linux stops supporting them.

    Reto PC's are there own thing and should be software from the sameist time.

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    Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away
  • I could not get this to quote right so I used code, but look at the footer that is unfortunate.

    * Re: Larry Finger
      2024-06-22 23:01 Larry Finger Denise Finger
    @ 2024-06-23  5:47 ` Sirius
      2024-06-23 16:15 ` Rafał Miłecki
      1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
    From: Sirius @ 2024-06-23  5:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Denise Finger; +Cc: linux-wireless
    
    On lör, 2024/06/22 at 18:01:23 GMT, Denise Finger wrote:
    > This is to notify you that Larry Finger, one of your developers, passed
    > away on June 21st.
    
    Sincere condolences and our deepest sympathies for your loss.
    
    -- 
    Kind regards,
    
    /S
    

    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/ds6wc3svkyre4p2rwg4f76o67xndazaeoyjwblhuzichscyxoz@5ttdvbymxr55/T/#mfd2f4928e0e013c10375ca766035c1385e18f8e0

    If the is something better. I hope you are there.

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    I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that.
  • Makes sense, but at least this would generally be out of a normal users usage case (multi-file documents), and so the power user could probably just open flatseal.

    I would not be so sure. Firefox has a "save web page as..." option which saves the html page and all other files needed into a sub folder.

    Without better handling of reading and writing files the sandbox will break that builtin function. another way of working around this. would be to change firefox to save the web page into one file. Maybe something a .html+zip file that firefox would know how to open. However that would lock other browsers out without manualy unziping it first.

    Getting sandboxing right with powerful programs is very hard and I feel the tooling is still not here yet.

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    I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that.
  • You could but where is fails is when you open one html file that then needs to loads the other files that are needed by the first.

    You can not allow chain loading like this, it would bypass the sandbox.

    One way of working around this would to allow the option of passing a whole folder and sub folders to the program.

    The other and much harder option would be a per program portal filter that can read the html file. then workout what files that html file needs and offer that list of files to the user.

    The lazy work around is allow read access to $HOME and deny access to some files and folders like .ssh

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