ozymandias117
@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
- Comment on HP agrees million-dollar settlement over "false advertising" on PCs, keyboards 6 days ago:
My naive reading is the difference here is HP slapped a discount sticker on it without changing the price.
Where Kohls, et. al. set the price extremely high and then always have it “on sale.”
Now, how companies get away with doing the same thing for Black Friday, no idea
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 4 weeks ago:
That’s already how it functionally worked for each major release
Here’s their previous strategy: web.archive.org/web/20220917195332/…/codelines
Google works internally on the next version of the Android platform and framework according to the product’s needs and goals
When the n+1th version is ready, it’s published to the public source tree
The source management strategy above includes a codeline that Google keeps private to focus attention on the current public version of Android.
We recognize that many contributors disagree with this approach and we respect their points of view. However, this is the approach we feel is best and the one we’ve chosen to implement for Android.
As far as I can tell, this would really only affect QPRs, since the public experimental branches that get made after they throw the next release over the wall is going away
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 4 weeks ago:
Oracle happened to it
All the devs went to LibreOffice after that
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 5 weeks ago:
Kind of seems like they simply installed this dude’s tarpit from a few months ago
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 5 weeks ago:
Where did Microsoft put an official announcement saying the statement from an official Microsoft employee, Jerry Nixon, at an official Microsoft conference, Ignite, was incorrect?
- Comment on The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC 1 month ago:
Yes, in the sense that every device you own has these same commands
The alarmist of the original was that this was somehow unique to the esp32
If your device has Bluetooth, it has these commands
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
I agree, but unfortunately, this has become common since Heartbleed, and they seem to be able to sell their snake oil to CTOs…
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
The article is a security company trying to hype their company with a theoretical attack that currently has no hypothetical way to be abused
The China part just came from OP
- Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters 1 month ago:
If they’re being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
You can even trivially run your own server on an old Raspberry Pi.
I used to run one on a Pi 3 that would regularly have ~100 concurrent users without any hiccups
- Comment on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order 1 month ago:
That’s separate from what OP is talking about. The on-device encryption is decent
For data on Apple’s servers (which they push icloud by anemic device storage…) Apple themselves publish that they give access to user accounts 90% of the time in the US
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
Finding a searxng instance and entering a random search term, the first 10 pages of results all came from google.
Checking the preferences, there were 4 search, and 6 of the other toggles enabled.
Even enabling all engines and rerunning the search, the first 13 results were listed as google
Is it meaningfully different from this offering if all the results it picks seemingly come from Google?
If I disable all but mojeek and qwant, all the results came from mojeek
- Comment on Qualcomm and Google team up to offer 8 years of Android updates 1 month ago:
That may be the best option right now, but it’s still a far cry from an upstreamed device
They aren’t able to support devices longer than Qualcomm and Google maintain the random out-of-tree drivers for a chipset, and even state such in their “legacy support” for harm reduction
- Comment on Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting. 1 month ago:
- They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.
Is what’s being discussed. Since Apple has a backdoor in the default configuration of their phone, they’re able to comply with 90% of all data requests.
The UK is demanding they remove the option to disable the backdoor in their encryption
You can kind-of sort-of use local only, but Apple makes that very inconvenient and almost 0 users do
- Comment on Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting. 1 month ago:
Sure, but if that’s your only concern, then you aren’t really concerned that to toggle is removed in the UK, either
- Comment on Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting. 1 month ago:
I don’t know about other countries, but Apple itself reports that it provided access to customer accounts at the US government’s request 90% of the time
- Comment on Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order 2 months ago:
In the default configuration of iDevices, the US already can
This seems more around the UK wanting to spy on its own citizens more easily
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 5 months ago:
For what it’s worth, it seems like it’s this “journalist” trying to make a sensational headline
The researchers themselves very clearly just tried to see if it could happen in our reality
“We decided to look at the probability of a given string of letters being typed by a finite number of monkeys within a finite time period consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe,”
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 5 months ago:
I’ve used Matrix since the app was called Riot.im and there was no encryption
I didn’t realize once encryption was added, that there were still metadata leaks as compared to Signal
Could you give me some information on what metadata is unencrypted, or point me towards documentation about that?
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 5 months ago:
Yeah. The crowd rooting for Qualcomm has never worked with them
ARM has it’s problems, but they aren’t in the wrong here
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 5 months ago:
Is that how you think about your bills?
“Your rent can be paid on the 10th, and you can pay late up to the 31st”
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 5 months ago:
Every carrier lets you use an unlocked phone on their network
T-Mobile no longer lets you buy unlocked phones from them
- Comment on Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility 6 months ago:
Microsoft has agreed to purchase all of the power from the reactor over the next 20 year
techcrunch.com/…/microsoft-taps-three-mile-island…
The original reporting sounded decent - Microsoft was spinning up a decommissioned reactor, everyone wins
This new reporting of they can’t afford it makes it seem like a bad idea in its entirety