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- Comment on WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use 3 weeks ago:
It was never to your definition of free, so you were never going to be using it in the first place. Don’t need to say goodbye when you were never here.
- Comment on WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use 3 weeks ago:
If you’re going to use it, you’d be paying for it one way or another; either through money or privacy. Par for the course.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
Plenty of tools to Sideloadly on iOS; sideloadly.io pops to mind as one example of such.
What kind of sad existence feels compelled to double down on spewing misinformation when being called out? Here, have a pity upvote.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
iOS supports VPN out of the gate. Apps just make it easier to configure. Please don’t spew divisive misinformation, regardless if this is ignorant to the facts or otherwise.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
This is Apple; they value different things than most people… sometimes warranted, results in offering a much better experience, and pushes everything forward (see MagSafe -> Qi2 for recent example), other times they’re just regarded as late adopters. The detraction of visual aesthetics from folding crease is apparently one of such things that they care about.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
The network effect is too strong. The minority that are whining here isn’t going to make a dent. Next time you’re out, look at how many people are using ads ridden apps instead of paying $0.99 or whatever to remove them. The users have already decided their time and privacy is worthless and would rather getting the service for “free”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
4o does perform web searches, give summaries from a couple of pages, and include the link to those pages when prompted properly.
However, as most people know, first couple results doesn’t always tell the full picture and further actual researches are required… but, most “AI assistant” (also including things like those voice assistants in speakers) users tends to take the first response as fact…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on How breaking up Google could lower your online shopping bill | A DOJ win in Google's ad tech monopoly trial could benefit everyone, experts say 1 month ago:
Reducing ad spend on one platform, albeit often the elephant in the room for most companies’ online marketing department, isn’t going to reduce prices at the till. Companies will either reallocate the ad spend elsewhere, there by spamming more ads in front of everyone, or pocket the difference to pad their profit margin.
- Comment on Here’s how green bubbles are getting upgraded in iOS 2 months ago:
Google did not make RCS; RCS is made by GSM consortium as succession of SMS, Google extended it to add some extra features such as end to end encryption (but only when messages are routed through their servers).
China mandated 5G sold in China must support RCS, hence why Apple added support for this. Since Google is basically banned in China, you can pretty much bet RCS going into/out of China is going to be unencrypted.
So you’re basically stuck between getting inferior unencrypted messages, or routing everything through Google.
Avoid RCS like the plague.
- Comment on I cannot seem to figure out how to get caddy automatic HTTPS to work behind cloud flair proxy. 2 months ago:
It is easier to think of the SSL termination in legs.
- Client to Cloudflare; if you’re behind orange cloud, you get this for free, don’t turn orange cloud off unless you want to have direct exposure.
- Cloudflare to your sever; use their origin cert, this is easiest and secure. You can even get one made specific so your subdomains, or wildcard of your subdomain. Unless you have specific compliance needs, you shouldn’t need to turn this off, and you don’t need to roll your own cert.
- Your reverse proxy to your apps; honestly, it’s already on your machine, you can do self signed cert if it really bothers you, but at the end of the day, probably not worth the hassle.
If, however, you want to directly expose your service without orange cloud (running a game server on the same subdomain for example), then you’d disable the orange cloud and do Let’s Encrypt or deploy your own certificate on your reverse proxy.
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
It was not an EU thing, it was a China thing.
It’s quite obvious as well looking back at it; if course China will mandate one of the weakest protocol with no end to end encryption.
Avoid RCS like the plague and use something more secure!
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
No, they’re mostly correct; basically no one except Android users in the USA cares. Everywhere else has it figured out with third party messaging platforms that’s geographically favored, and Apple users in USA will continue to use the superior iMessage protocol with each other. Only the Android users in USA are left out from sending/receiving messaging, so they’re salivating over the update like it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
RCS is janky, inconsistent, and carrier dependent. Can’t wait for Android users in the USA to join the better rest of the world. Until GSM consortium mandates end to end encryption and force all carriers to adopt certain version of consistent minimum, RCS is and will continue to be a garbage inferior protocol that should be avoided like the plague.
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
Not entirely true… the American Android users care about it; Apple users will still default to the superior iMessage as opposed to the inconsistent carrier dependant RCS; rest of the world will use geo-preferred third party messaging app that also offer consistent experience between carriers.
“Buy your mom an iPhone” people.
- Comment on Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising. 2 months ago:
You’re going to find that the appetite for un-targeted advertising to be much lower than that of targeted. The ROI for un-targeted blast is much lower than a smaller more focused targeted campaign.
As such, you’ll either see even more ads on the same content (in order to obtain similar level of revenue for the publisher), or, as the other user suggested, free ad supported service be a thing of the past.
Neither of which are good for the mass audience. People already aren’t willing to pay $1 to remove ads on most free ad supported apps, you’re going to find small businesses collapse left right and centre as result of the change.
- Comment on How can I keep my forwarded port secure? 2 months ago:
In the old days, it used to be a problem because everyone just connect their windows 98 desktop with all their services directly exposed to the internet because they’re using dial up internet without the concept of a gateway that prevents internet from accessing internal resources. Now days, you’re most likely behind your ISP router that doesn’t forward ports by default, and you’re only exposing the things you’d actually want to expose.
For things you’d actually want to expose, having a service on the default port is fine, and reduces the chances of other systems interacting with it failing because they’d expect it on the default port. Moving them to a different port is just security through obscurity, and honestly doesn’t add too much value. You can port scan the entire public IPv4 space fairly quickly fairly cheaply. In fact, it is most likely that it’s already been mapped:
www.shodan.io/host/<your-ip-here>
Keeping the service up-to-date regularly and applying best practices around it would be much more important and beneficial. For SSH, make sure you’re using key based authentication, and have password based authentication disabled; add fail2ban to automatically ban those trying to brute force. For Minecraft, online mode and white listed only unless you’re running a public one for everyone.
- Comment on 10 years later, Apple Pay is amazing — and about to change 2 months ago:
Yep :(
The only reason Apple had gotten traction with it is because they focused all of their users’ purchase power in one unified place. Which became a powerful driver to drive for change. Samsung/Android/Google Pay/Wallet thing never gained traction despite having access to the chip is exactly what we’ll see if the chip just get opened up free for all. All the larger players will push for their own standard, demand for the coveted hardware invocation sequence, while no one else wants to adopt theirs, and ultimately get no where while littering our phone with useless apps.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on 10 years later, Apple Pay is amazing — and about to change 2 months ago:
If you didn’t read the article, Apple Pay is the ubiquitous one; Google floundered, flip and flopped but can’t get traction until Apple came around with it. Old or not, having a feature that no one cares about so you can’t use it anywhere makes it pretty useless.
Also, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I don’t want PayPal to launch one, then Walmart decide to push theirs, then local transit authority one, and all of them compete for the coveted hardware invocation. Instead, all of them should consolidate into one unified place via standard set of API + UI so none of them can make a mess. Guess that’s something Android users wouldn’t understand, judging from the piss poor IOT ecosystem and all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on 10 years later, Apple Pay is amazing — and about to change 2 months ago:
Opening up the chip is great, but there needs to be a standard way to consolidate them all into one app/interface. Much like how HomeKit brings everything into one place, the Wallet (or some updated API based variant) needs to remain the central place, so we don’t end up getting littered with vendor specific apps for different payment systems.
- Comment on Apple stands by decision to terminate account belonging to WWDC student winner | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Why pay for apps when you can just sideload pirated version from dubious origin and pay with your privacy and crypto mine for the pirate distributing it?
Oh, wait, I just said the quiet part alt store advocates doesn’t want to say out loud.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 2 months ago:
These also tends to be designed for 16/7 runtime, which should be way more than most residential usage — unless grandma keeps it running 24/7… but hey, if you splurge a bit more, there are models designed for 24/7 as well.
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 2 months ago:
Pretty sure it is baked in as part of the SOC, not soldered on after the fact?
- Comment on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France 2 months ago:
I don’t know how they manage their platform — I don’t use it, so it’s irrelevant for me personally — was this proven anywhere in a court of law?
- Comment on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France 2 months ago:
Safe harbour equivalent rules should apply, no? That is, the platforms should not be held liable as long as the platform does not permit for illegal activities on the platform, offer proper reporting mechanism, and documented workflows to investigate + act against reported activity.
It feels like a slippery slope to arrest people on grounds of suspicion (until proven otherwise) of lack of moderation.
- Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂ 2 months ago:
Technically, the words are adopted from Chinese (in this case both Traditional and Simplified are the same and have not diverged yet); but same meaning and reasoning, just different pronunciation.
- Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂ 2 months ago:
Emojis used zero width joiner to combine multiple single code point emoji to a single combined emoji.
⛥+ZWJ+⬠could form the combined character, and be rendered as desired. - Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I actually don’t know if/how the ad block people worked around it or if YouTube pulled back. The problem with DAI on podcast and in stream ads is that the ads aren’t always 1:05~1:35, the ad could be longer or shorter, then the next ad won’t necessarily start at the same time, and most definitely won’t end at the same time. So sponsor block won’t know precisely where the ads are, thereby making it much harder for a crowd sourced solution to accurately skip embedded ads. Hopefully they figured out a way, but as mentioned earlier, I don’t know what happened to that experiment.
- Comment on Is connection from home server to cloudflare HTTPS or HTTP when using cloudflare tunnel? 2 months ago:
The answer depends on how you’re serving your content. Based on what you’ve described about your setup, your content is likely served over HTTP through the secured tunnel. The tunnel acts like an encrypted VPN, which allows unencrypted content to be sent securely over the wire. This means although your web server is serving unencrypted content, it gets encrypted before it goes to Cloudflare, so no one along the path could snoop on it.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
They were serving videos with ads spliced in, basically DAI in podcasting industry. I’m not sure how that experiment went, but if that’s how they’d serve the videos, downloaders will have ads embedded as well.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 2 months ago:
It’s not threatening anyone… I don’t believe I’ve seen anywhere that the mods say or imply that. Also before anyone complain about singling people out, no, if I share anything from a non-reputable source, it’s going to get deleted, regardless of the subject. It’s about the quality of the source; the objective is to create a community sharing good trustworthy sources to improve the overall quality of content appearing on the community.
Again, you’ve been invited by the mods to repost from a more reputable source. If there aren’t any, then perhaps it is not !news worthy.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 2 months ago:
Looks like a case where poorly sourced article getting removed, with invitation to repost with a more reputable source… so do so with a better source. Or is the underlying article itself leaning too much towards propaganda that there is no more reputable source? and if that is the case, then is it really !news worthy?