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From Raymond Hill, the author of uBlock Origin:

  Please do not use those online tools which claim to measure how good is your content blocker, they are often flawed.[0]
I don't know how much that applies to this particular tool, but I did notice that it's flagging requests as 'not blocked' even though they're blocked with uMatrix.

[0]: https://xcancel.com/gorhill/status/1583581072197312512


SteamOS is also an Arch distribution, though I'm not sure how significant the changes are. AFAIK Lutris uses Ubuntu's libraries for better compatibility across distributions, maybe Steam does something similar.

kinda, SteamOS is an arch distribution but it's locked down by default (you can access stuff) and it's run by the company selling games on PC, so they make it work. On a normal arch distribution, you have to deal with installing dependencies yourself, so more of a pain.

Why is this marked (2019)? Besides the book PDF, everything seems to have been created in a commit 3 weeks ago. The way some things are phrased smells of LLM style as well.

The reply was likely referencing Apple's infamous "You're holding it wrong"[0] rebuttal to design flaw criticism - as in, that's what Apple would say if you contacted them.

[0]: https://archive.is/jt9rD


Right, but it wasn’t at all relevant.

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No, they’ll fix the issue for you or give a new laptop. This isn’t relevant.

AMD dropped support for Linux on the free plan, not the other way around. Nor is this a Linux problem, because they still allow paid users to run the software on Linux.

As far as what's evident from the support thread goes, this is the closest to a justification given:

> AMD expectation is that the BASIC tier licensing level is used for simple, entry‑level needs. While more advanced, production-based workflows are aligned with paid tiers.

Looks like AMD equates Linux to professional use and Windows to simple, entry-level needs :)


If Microsoft didn't have a good operating system it wouldn't have such a dominant market share for the free tier of Vivado. If the Linux community actually properly competed and gained 50% market share then support would not have been dropped. You can't blame companies giving up on Linux on the company itself. Eventually the Linux community will need to take responsibility for their failures.

I have, and compared to just running Linux it's not very good. For starters, the shared filesystem is incredibly slow, there is no hardware passthrough support out of the box (even for USB), the graphics support is incomplete and there's lots of non-standard defaults like custom kernel images and a custom init. That's on top of all the bugs and horrible error reporting.

It still beats Windows, but given the choice, I'd much rather just use Linux properly and have all of this just work than waste my time fiddling with WSL/WSL2.


The open source community has hijacked VBox drivers to get USB pass through working and is the official solution from Microsoft to that problem (since it requires a signed driver on the host, and RedHat was authorized to sign drivers, so Microsoft can provide their drivers to work around the signing requirements of the OS)

> if you were on macos

Did they only target macOS? The article mentions macOS a lot, but AFAIK this attack changes the instructions based on the User-Agent. I've seen the exact page with instructions for Windows and PowerShell before.


The hidden risk of attestation none: the user might (gasp) use a libre authenticator!

This same ordeal is why lots of Android software is intentionally broken on non-Google operating systems, and it would be a terrible blow for the web if it worked like that for every website with a login. Passkeys are that future, and it's very hard to take anyone who encourages their use seriously. Encouraging attestation, like here, is even worse.


Please do not needlessly denigrate the poster you're responding to.


It would be written by a human.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.


The comment wasn’t AI generated. And the article was partially: it contained a list compiled by AI


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