WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Atproto is getting an ietf working group 39 minutes ago:
linux users are allowed to watch the show in compressed 720p. that’s it.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 8 hours ago:
well, poettering’s new company amutable is pretty suspicious in its intentions
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 8 hours ago:
thats cool until you find out the reason for that is he founded a company that’s goal is to turn desktop into locked down android.
- Comment on Atproto is getting an ietf working group 12 hours ago:
and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren’t excluded.
aren’t they? last time I checked any browser on linux had artificial problems with playing DRM content from streaming platforms
- Comment on ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it 22 hours ago:
exFAT
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 days ago:
to be fair, this is not “asking for permission”. that’s what xiaomi is doing, but not this. on xiaomi phones, to be able to unlock the bootloader or grant higher permissions to adb, you have to insert a live sim card, log in with an “mi account”, and have the server decide whether you are allowed doing that. for unlocking you additionally have to wait for several days, if you can get the approval process started that is, and hopefully you will be allowed.
unless it turns out this requires internet connection, a sim card, or a google account, this is just a safety procedure. and it’s hard to say but this world is so full of incredibly dumb people that all both need and want to use shiny smartphones for all that convenience and social media addiction, that a safeguard like this is needed.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 days ago:
to be fair, this is not “asking for permission”. that’s what xiaomi is doing, but not this. on xiaomi phones, to be able to unlock the bootloader or grant higher permissions to adb, you have to insert a live sim card, log in with an “mi account”, and have the server decide whether you are allowed doing that. for unlocking you additionally have to wait for several days, if you can get the approval process started that is, and hopefully you will be allowed.
unless it turns out this requires internet connection, a sim card, or a google account, this is just a safety procedure. and it’s hard to say but this world is so full of incredibly dumb people that all both need and want to use shiny smartphones for all that convenience and social media addiction, that a safeguard like this is needed.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 2 days ago:
disregard what I said on my other comment. I believe it to be correct, but despite the post title this is not a VPN, but a proxy, as the article says, that needs to decrypt the HTTPS traffic.
weird choice to be honest.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 2 days ago:
they were explaining what happens with a proxy server, but with only a VPN there’s no proxy server or other such decrypting middleman. but in short: TLS was made to protect against exactly this: the network between. only thing leaked is the domain you are connecting to
- Comment on Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds 3 days ago:
nobody said a thing about what AI thinks
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 4 days ago:
well in that case, why do we eat dessert when we do?
because that’s when you are home and maybe not in a hurry. says a lot.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 4 days ago:
I mean this thread didn’t mention archive.today, it’s another reply to the top comment that did
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 4 days ago:
reformers are the exception, they don’t represent the class
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 4 days ago:
that’s a different thread
- Comment on 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. 6 days ago:
in civilized countries consent is required for that
If you don’t want to be recorded by people at random,
stay home.you are free to die - Comment on China approves launch of world first brain-computer interface device 6 days ago:
or worse, all your peers will ridicule you for not having it
- Comment on China approves launch of world first brain-computer interface device 1 week ago:
“optional”
- Comment on China approves launch of world first brain-computer interface device 1 week ago:
in the pantry
- Comment on 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. 1 week ago:
that’s fine, if you only use it on private roads. but if not, you are recording plenty of people (even not counting drivers) who did not consent to being recorded.
then who knows what happens with the recordings. and that’s the actual problem.too bad its not enforced.
- Comment on Face scanning and age verification is the big new privacy invading feature of this decade. Meanwhile almost every single iPhone user has given away all of that for years, just to unlock their phone. 1 week ago:
then I have a bridge to sell you. you just need to register on our website. register to the raffle too with your address and phone number and you may win the bridge for free, but don’t worry we value your privacy.
that’s what I say. surely it’s all honest and true. you will have to believe us, because nobody can confirm it.
- Comment on Face scanning and age verification is the big new privacy invading feature of this decade. Meanwhile almost every single iPhone user has given away all of that for years, just to unlock their phone. 1 week ago:
But it’s true that no cloud nor third party involved in storing biometrics information
how do you know?
my point is there is no way to know that. you can believe things, but that may or may not be the case.
- Comment on Face scanning and age verification is the big new privacy invading feature of this decade. Meanwhile almost every single iPhone user has given away all of that for years, just to unlock their phone. 1 week ago:
tbf the same could be said about tyler
- Comment on Face scanning and age verification is the big new privacy invading feature of this decade. Meanwhile almost every single iPhone user has given away all of that for years, just to unlock their phone. 1 week ago:
that’s not a proof at all. it not being usable on your other devices does not mean it is not uploaded. it just means the data is not synced to other devices for this specific purpose. we simply don’t and cannot know whether it is uploaded anywhere.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 week ago:
oh I mostly agree, but forgot to include the quote. I wanted to say, all that AI processing probably does not happen offline
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 1 week ago:
how would a community owned ISP deny federal censorship?
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 week ago:
few computers have an embedded NPU
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 week ago:
why don’t you just use chromium? it is open source, you can fork it!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
that started with SELinux enabled
that does not matter, it needs to go over all of them. I don’t know how long it takes with SSD, but with HDD it can take a half an hour or more, with a mostly base system. and the kernel starts doing this very early, when not even systemd or other processes are running, so no ssh, but web console should have been working to see what its doing
- Comment on 1 week ago:
you are just making yourself learn to ignore that your smartwatch vibrates. It’s a bit like breathing and blinking, you are so used to it you can completely forget that its happening. if your smartwatch, or phone, or whatever, starts vibrating all the time, you will get used to it and not notice when it stops happening anymore, but also it will hide any actually meaningful notification.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
but you probably won’t notice that some of the regular emails are not sent anymore