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- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 week ago:
oh, these are all four years past their EOL. Yeesh.
Yeah, at a certain point it’s the consumer’s (and blog writer’s) fault, and that’s after EoL. Not patching a supported one and just getting rid of support, saying buy a newer one? Yeah, that’s bad.
Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don’t support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue. - Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 2 weeks ago:
And hopefully does something about. Disciplinary for the poor OPSEC and/or better resources to avoid it and/or better laws to stop this unfettered data collection and/or better training to avoid it in the future. Here’s hoping. Holds breath
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
Depends. In my experience, it usually does exist. Now there are hallucinations where GPT makes up stuff or just misinterprets what it read. But it’s super easy to read the GPT output, look at the cited work, skim works for relevance, then tweak the wording and citing to match.
If you just copy/paste and take GPT’s word for it without the minimal amount of checking, you’re digging your own grave.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
I uploaded one of my earlier papers that I wrote myself, before AI was really a thing, to a GPT detector site. The entire intro paragraph came back as 100% AI written.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
old system of writing them down on paper
That’s harder to steal/hack by someone across the globe.
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
CalyxOS relocks the bootloader and they supported the FP5 right after launch.
CalyxOS is not a hardened OS, and GrapheneOS requires more than than just relocking the bootloader.
Fairphone’s devices do not meet basic security requirements for hardware, firmware and the software device support including drivers. Please look at the hardware requirements at grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices and check for yourself how many of those are provided by the Fairphone. Even the Fairphone 5 has a CPU core from 2021 without even PAC and BTI.
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
You can still be part of a project without being lead, to be part of the “we.” Did he contribute and/or is he part of GrapheneOS, yes? So he’s part of the “we.”
Or does only the lead developer get the “we?” Wouldn’t that make it more of an “I” instead?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Preview: Purest Evolution of a Stellar RPG 2 months ago:
Thai article reminded me to buy (and hopefully beat) KCD before KCDII comes out in Feb 2025.
On the Xbox store, the DLC bundle (no game) was normally $20, but 75% off so it was only $5. The game+DLC bundle was normally $40, but it was 90% off so it was only $4. Easy choice, even if I already had the game and no DLC
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
about which distro to use and got a range of suggestions but none of them were arch.
I think Debian is usually the strongest contender here.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
I’d love to have working NFC pay
NFC works. NFC payment is dependent on the app as some block those that fail Play Integrity / Google certification. Google Wallet / Pay does not work for payment because Google blocks it.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
Do you have Google services installed? I use MicroG…
Yes, I have Google Plays Services, Google Services Framework, and the Google Play Store installed, which are all sandboxed. MicroG isn’t supported by GrapheneOS.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
but I’m concerned RCS is going to become a deal break for me
For what it’s worth, I have RCS working with GrapheneOS. I don’t think I did anything special, but it did take awhile. I did see stuff on their forum about others having a bigger issue with it, though.
And of course, I prefer Signal, where possible.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight.
That, I can see being more of an issue than an unmodified, trusted 3rd party OS. If I remember right, rooting makes the device fail Verified Boot:
It establishes a full chain of trust, starting from a hardware-protected root of trust to the bootloader, to the boot partition and other verified partitions including system, vendor, and optionally oem partitions.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more.
I’m actually for this. The bar to entry for the Play Store is too low with too many low quality and unmaintained apps. I’m all for booting insecure and super old apps. They cheapen the ecosystem.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
I’m holding out for the 10. The 8 added mirrored display (so you can mirror your screen on a monitor… I’d rather this come with the Pixel Tablet 2 and the Pixel Tablet skipped it form some reason) and MTE, which GrapheneOS says is the most significant addition to security since they’ve started the OS. If those come with the 10, not to mention the 10 is supposed to have Google’s inhouse chip and not Samsung’s…yep, I’m upgrading.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
Do you pass play integrity?
GrapheneOS, and other non-OEM OSes, do not. It’s kinda the whole point of the article/OP I linked.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 2 months ago:
I’ll have to make do with a secondhand 7 pro
Ouch, that hits me right in the 7Pro feels lol. Make do, indeed, lolol.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 3 months ago:
I could see things as simple as…
Last I heard, the McDonalds’ app doesn’t work, of all things.
- Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizenswww.androidauthority.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 185 comments
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Google Begins Testing 50 Gig Fiber Internet 3 months ago:
Can we work on expanding existing fiber so most places get at least a single gig fiber first?
- Comment on Proton mail launches LLM and crypto wallet 3 months ago:
Except it’s cheaper to pay their existing non-Linux developers to do something than hire a team of new developers for Linux.
- Comment on NewPipe outage over: version 0.27.1 restores YouTube playback 4 months ago:
Tubular
Updated 44 minutes ago. github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular/releases
- Comment on NewPipe outage over: version 0.27.1 restores YouTube playback 4 months ago:
Which one? Also…it has been less than 24 hours. Give them time to pull changes.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
They’ve taken everything subjective and unspoken about human interaction and reduced it to explicit, objective numbers. I’ve never felt so alive.
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext 4 months ago:
Nope, I’m out.
From the person you replied to, emphasis mine:
You could also start with just one of these
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
case in point: people still use twitter.
And WhatsApp over Signal/Molly.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 6 months ago:
I don’t know, sounds reasonable chief.
They want to talk to everyone so they’re blocking someone/anyone? That does not sound reasonable. If that instance defederates,all that person has to do is just not use them as their home instance. They’re saying they want to talk to everyone, but they’re going out of their way to not do so (by blocking an instance). Makes no sense to me.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 6 months ago:
Yes, you need an Internet connection at some point. This can be a cafe, a library, an office, your house, friend’s house, etc. As for controlled by the government, well, that depends on your country.
Worst case, if possible, you can move countries. I understand that might not be feasible, but my point is, you can move countries to escape the government and Internet restrictions. But the government locks your account/bank? Moving countries doesn’t fix that, and you’re locked out of any money you had there.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 6 months ago:
But even if I have a server, I’ll have to have my own separate Internet if I really want to be able to pay unrestrictedly.
Separate Internet? I mean, yes, you do need Internet. Not sure what you mean by “separate.” And you don’t need a server (node), though they are handy for privacy. You could choose one that is reputable.
Otherwise the government would just shut down my internet connection, right?
If they knew where it/your Internet was. All you really need is your phone or PC. You could use a cafe or library or cell tower or etc.
