CameronDev
@CameronDev@programming.dev
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
guide.michelin.com/en/us/restaurants/french - Go nuts.
- Comment on Thanks Alot 4 days ago:
- Comment on How come in movies tv shows books etc at court they make it seem like swearing on the bible prevents you from lieing? If my family or I was in danger I would lie my ass off to get out of it.. 5 days ago:
Hell may be a step up, certainly sounds a bit better organised…
- Comment on How come in movies tv shows books etc at court they make it seem like swearing on the bible prevents you from lieing? If my family or I was in danger I would lie my ass off to get out of it.. 5 days ago:
It doesn’t, and people do lie in court. It’s a relic of a time when people supposedly were afraid of going to hell.
- Comment on Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email 1 week ago:
Just because they are a distasteful company, doesn’t give us free reign to spread lies about them. There is plenty of verifiable true things to say.
The signal protocol and encryption explicitly prevents the transit server decrypting messages. That a theoretical hidden third person (who may or may not be part of meta) in the chat doesn’t change that is e2e encrypted.
Simplifying it down to "they might have a hidden back-door, therefore it’s https is a dishonest framing in my opinion.
- Comment on Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email 1 week ago:
Them including themselves as a participant still does not make it “like https”.
Being sued also doesn’t mean anything, anyone can be sued at any time, and there does not need to be a basis in reality for it to go ahead. It is not proof of anything.
They control the app, they can obviously steal the messages if they wanted to, but you are making very strong claims with zero evidence.
I don’t like meta any more than you do, but if you are going to make claims of “like https”, bring actual evidence.
- Comment on Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email 1 week ago:
Whatsapp still predates signal, they just migrated the network across. And your own link confirms that.
Also, whatsapp, by your own link is e2e encrypted using the signal protocol. That does not make it “like https”. Whatsapp could snoop your messages off your device, but they cannot read them as they pass over their server.
- Comment on In the far future deployable couches will be designed into pants 3 weeks ago:
Depending on your definition of a couch, which I think is already a bit loose, they already exist.
- Bike shorts, built in cushions, no structure though
- Avalanche airbags, deployable cushions, built into a backpack, kinda like an inflatable couch? Not in pants though.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
$200 + KFC, don’t be greedy.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 3 weeks ago:
Do you think it worked?
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 3 weeks ago:
There are a lot of tfa apps in the store, and search does seem to surface the brand name ones first, but there are a few no-name ones as well:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=twofa.accou… play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.authent…
I don’t know that they are legit or not, but they exist.
I suspect if someone wanted to do this, they would use a fraudulent ad campaign to sent people directly to the store, rather than hope for the playstore search to find people.
And based on my experience with Google, they do fuck all screening, it’s mostly just checks to ensure you have a privacy policy, no checks that the policy is actually followed…
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 3 weeks ago:
“Just a 2fa code generator” is still a good phishing target. Stealing the 2fa seeds would be incredibly valuable for a bad actor. Which is exactly why it should be audited.
It does look incredibly basic though, its basically a “my-first-android-app”. So extremely trivial to recreate, which does somewhat nullify my original point about app clones.
I would be a bit more interested in the MyID app, which has a lot more risk involved (Uploading ID documents, facial data etc).
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but having the full source makes that even easier.
- Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app 3 weeks ago:
One plausible reason for hiding the source code is that if Service Australia was forced to fully open source it, it would be trivial for bad actors to make knock-off clones that look and behave identically, while doing other bad things. We all know Google and Apple wouldnt do anything to prevent that happening…
Maybe a middle ground of releasing the code, but not the assets (images, style sheets, etc) could be reached?
Either way, I’ll still interested, and I might contribute after doing a bit more reading of his past case.
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 3 weeks ago:
www.ifixit.com/Guide/…/25068 - Looks easy, barely needs a guide.
www.ifixit.com/Guide/…/3255 - Definitely doable, although I will say that you should be careful with game controllers, they are often full of springs that will escape and be a complete pain to find and reinstall.
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 3 weeks ago:
Retro consoles aren’t my thing, but i have replaced batteries for all kinds of devices, and it’s usually fairly easy to do. Aliexpress et al. have all the batteries you could want, and a little fiddling with some screw drivers and you cam usually get the job done. Fairly safe with some basic common sense as well.
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 3 weeks ago:
Okay, I see we have some confusion, when you said “new retro”, I was thinking of the N64 raspi thing that came out last year. Those did have a manufacturer warranty.
In terms of second hand consoles, yes, no warranty, but, it’s still not messing around with emulators, it should play the games largely as expected.
Phone attached controller might be cheaper, but surely you can see that its a significantly worse experience than a properly built console?
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 3 weeks ago:
Expensive is relative to income. 300eur is not much money for some. Also, 300eur is cheaper than a steam deck…
Buying a complete product means you don’t have to mess around with emulators not working quite right, and if it doesn’t work, you can just return it. Those two alone are pretty good reasons to get the prebuilt machine.
- Comment on The PS5 has no games! smh 3 weeks ago:
It’s a good site for that, because it’s a very non-suspicious domain name. It’s also a very bland technical site, so you won’t know it’s about buttplugs until you scroll to the bottom.
- Comment on Suggestions for online petitions 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know of one, just want to warn you that you’ll likely be collecting personal identifying information (PII), which requires careful storage and protection. You may want to seek some legal advice before going down this road.
- Comment on The PS5 has no games! smh 4 weeks ago:
Clear win for xbox: iostindex.com/devices/…/xbox compatible gamepad/
(Site is for programmable buttplugs, and all things that vibrate. You may not want to visit from a work PC. Or you might, your call)
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 4 weeks ago:
Can I introduce you to the concept of “fire” :D
A single bitflip wiping your novel is incredibly unlikely, to the point of being almost impossible. Modern OSs and filesystems are fairly resilient, and the data is likely all still there.
- Comment on how to dust properly 5 weeks ago:
Damp cloth to capture the dust? Or a strong vacuum to capture it once airborne?
- Comment on Hypothetically, if your were a kid and your parents worked for a government intelligence agency, how would you keep secrets / have privacy from your parents? 5 weeks ago:
Even in the US it would be punishable. Morality aside, using a billion dollar NSA malware on a person carries a real risk of getting caught. The NSA might be willing to wear that risk for a high value person, but not for some employees kid.
Purely on a misuse of a valuable asset it would be punishable.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Join your countries instance? I’m fairly sure the people in Aussie.zone aren’t American. You could also put your flag in your display name.
- Comment on We always seen/heard/read about dumb criminals. Has the opposite ever been true a smart criminal? Not including that white collar crap? 5 weeks ago:
A truly smart criminal wouldn’t get caught. So you could argue any of the unsolved crimes were “smart”. But equally likely that they were just lucky.
- Comment on Jewish American columnist Thomas Friedman says he was uninvited from 2024 Adelaide writers’ week over ‘timing’ 5 weeks ago:
“who programs writers who have a vendetta against Israel and Zionism”
Oh no, not the poor Zionists…
- Comment on Festival of cowardice: The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah 5 weeks ago:
It was meant to suppress all criticism of Israel. And it succeeded. Next time, she won’t be uninvited, they will just not invite her to begin with.
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 5 weeks ago:
Some fine point tweezers are usually useful for getting lint out of the USB port, I have done it fairly aggressively and not done any damage yet.
- Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
Annoyingly, disk discovery. It refused to use my disks, claiming they didn’t have serial numbers. I could see the serial numbers in the fronted and the console, but their middleware just hated them.
I am using a USB multi-disk drive thing, which didn’t work properly on an old kernel, but it should have been fine with the new kernel.
I reported the bug, which didn’t really get addressed, and then had to build my array using the command line tools (which aren’t documented).