[+] -11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Earlier this year, Hector Martin resigned from kernel development because he claimed kernel devs were trying to sabotage efforts to get Rust into the kernel. While he's been gone, it seems the pace of Rust integration has increased significantly, suggesting that maybe he was the problem all along.

Lesson: always push out egomaniacs who like to create drama more than they want to solve problems.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've been wondering about this recently too. Everyone has had that situation where they talk about (Thing) out loud with someone, and then a few seconds later they see an advertisement for (Thing). That means there is something recording conversations and selling it to advertisers. I don't see why those companies wouldn't sell that to Palantir too.

    The obvious suspect for "who the fuck is recording my conversations" is smartphones, but it's also probably IOT shit like smart TVs and other appliances. Even if not connected to wifi, some could include their own modems.

    In addition to this, Palantir could also just buy location and other data directly from telecom companies. They could even have deals with eg Qualcomm to backdoor their SoCs or implement data collection. (Except I think something like that would've been caught be security researchers already)

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 1 year ago

    Isn't the dev behind rustdesk (at least the original) anonymous? I remember that standing out as a red flag for me when I was evaluating options, and ended up going with Mesh Central instead (which works much better imo)

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    Define "ultimate"

    Pis are neat, but they're not particularly great at anything, and they in fact suck at most things. They're toys except maybe for some very specific use cases (for which anyone reading this doesn't fall under).

    You can find something more powerful and useful for $200. Just buy a used laptop, and you even get a battery, screen, and touchpad (neither of which come with the pi)

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