| ▲ | poemxo 6 days ago |
| I think Hanlon's razor is outdated. Plausible deniability is the new meta. On top of that, the maintainer seems intent on not fixing the problem. |
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| ▲ | bornfreddy 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not only is it outdated, the Nolnah's razor (reverse form of Hanlon) is more likely to be true nowadays: "Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice". |
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| ▲ | ASalazarMX 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The bad actors have become too good at acting like well-meaning klutzes. | |
| ▲ | Gibbon1 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wholesale violations of legal and social norms as the secret sauce that will give your company a leg up? Sure if we get caught the stockholders will have to pay to keep our asses out of jail. But we'll get to keep our share of the loot. Yeah this is the world we now live in. |
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| ▲ | Terr_ 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Right, there are times where the "algorithm" falls over because of pathological inputs. |
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| ▲ | guappa 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can the problem be fixed without making the software useless? |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure. We've had dictionary software for decades. This whole trend of adding a service to stuff that doesn't need a service is very annoying. | | |
| ▲ | guappa 5 days ago | parent [-] | | In that language… | | |
| ▲ | tremon 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Since it has been shown to be possible in other languages, why wouldn't it be? | | |
| ▲ | guappa 5 days ago | parent [-] | | It is possible. If you have a free database to do that please upload it? | | |
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| ▲ | kelnos 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can absolutely have an offline DB for lookups/translation for any language that has a server-hosted option available. | | |
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| ▲ | npteljes 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Absolutely. In my understanding and approach, it would need two smaller modifications: 1. making "scanning" (the clipboard capturing feature opt-in, with a huge notification for the implications 2. disabling the English-Chinese online translation plugin by default | |
| ▲ | sim7c00 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | use TLS enabled dictionary service. if there is none, you dont want this feature. at all. make sure they click through something or explicitly enable is even hard as you cannot assume a user understands the impact. they might not understand what it means to send their data over plaintext, or what someone can do with it. | | |
| ▲ | kelnos 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't want this feature with TLS either. Sometimes I copy passwords from my password manager to paste into the intended app. I don't want everything that enters my clipboard sent to a third party. | |
| ▲ | guappa 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Does this service exist? | | |
| ▲ | rangerelf 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Does it matter? Will the existence or lack thereof excuse the absolute lack of security and privacy this package exhibits? And the lack of interest from the developer? | | |
| ▲ | guappa 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Yes it matters. Something that doesn't exist cannot be used. Any other insightful comment you wish to make? | | |
| ▲ | rangerelf 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Don't be dense. At least try to keep up with the main concern: "sending potentially private or security impacting information in plaintext across the internet". "Does not exist blah blah" That has to be one of the most inane replies I've read in a while. |
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| ▲ | npteljes 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I think that in today's polarized world, it's very much needed. I think we need to look at each other's fallibilities and failures, and not hate each other for it. But the issue needs to be taken care of, especially since it's known since 2009. It's ridiculous that everyone let if fly for so long. |
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| ▲ | jeltz 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, but it is a tricky situation when a common tactic is to pretend to be ignorant. For example by "just asking questions". We need more patience and respect in this polarized world but at the same time there are a minority of malicious actors who intentionally abuse any assumption of good faith given | | |
| ▲ | npteljes 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, I agree, it's tricky. And besides, the clipboard leak should be fixed for sure, malice or not. It's strange that it has been known for so long. |
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| ▲ | DonHopkins 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | torstenvl 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The DC police are inherently federal. The federal government "exercise[s] exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States." | |
| ▲ | encom 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | There needs to be a Godwin's law, but for Trump. |
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