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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stremio + Torrentio is the way to go.

  Torrentio has started blocking VPNs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on where you go to school, 70% is passing while 50% is not. While “not far off,” one is a C, the other a F.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These things will very likely not work on non-proprietary devices.

  Depends on your bank. Most work on alternate OS (like GrapheneOS), and of course some don’t. privsec.dev/…/banking-applications-compatibility-…

  If an app (especially bank) doesn’t work, I forward them this and try to ELI5 that their current method is flawed and less secure: grapheneos.org/…/attestation-compatibility-guide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same website (granted, different author, but), same inflammatory language, same vendor, referencing previous erroneous article…I’m not even gonna read this one. Just going to copy/paste my previous response from the previous post:

  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 ⁨X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t he have a rather large role in the party of small government?

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  old system of writing them down on paper

  That’s harder to steal/hack by someone across the globe.