WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
well not sure if fixable
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
there is no way to verify the downloaded package before installation.
also I generally deem both webusb, and chrome’s broader filesystem access apis dangerous, partly because a vulnerability in the website permission checking code with this permission is much worse than with e.g. the camera.
but the more realirealistic problem is that its just too easy to grant a random website so deep permissions to your device, either by accident, by habit or because the user does not understand what is happening. just a click or two and you have just granted a ransom website full access to your drive. with webusb, they can even write a bootable anything to your pendrive.my concern here is not that you cannot make sure that the graphene website will only do what it needs to, but that the feature exists at all, because of all the other websites. I sincerely bless mozilla for not implementing these.
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
oh google pay, I see. but that’s not NFC’s fault, it’s useful for other things too
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
that’s the spirit
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
LOS has privacy issues though, if I remember correctly. like, default DNS server is 8.8.8.8of google, assisted gps contacts a global server of I think qualcomm to speed up getting a GPS fix, and others I don’t remember now
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
If someone finds your phone can’t they just tear it apart and read the storage with external tools?
that’s not the problem that BL locking solves. this is solved by storage encryption. BL locking solves 2 other problems:
- helps keeping stolen phone from being wiped, though maybe it’s not 100%
- makes it much harder to plant malware on your phone while it’s not with you
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
afaik it should. but why do you think NFC defeats privacy? it is quite short range, isn’t it? having google services is much worse
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
that’s not a feature of the ROM. that’s a tool provided by ROM maintainers. that being said, it almost certainly supports it, as in in someone makes a website that does that, it will be possible.
now, don’t get me started on how bad of an idea it is to use webusb
- Comment on why does everyone i know treat me like a child or if i was a very childlike person?? 4 weeks ago:
this sounds a bit harsh, but look at OPs history and its actually true.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
I see. wouldn’t the default disabled social blocking lists block that too?
another way is to have libredirect redirect the embeds to nitter. some instances still work
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
I see. wouldn’t the default disabled social blocking lists block that too?
another way is to have libredirect redirect the embeds to nitter. some instances still work
- Comment on Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus 2 months ago:
You need to know what instance your friend is on.
of course you need. your friends need to tell you. only they can know. just like with email and IRL cities
- Comment on Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus 2 months ago:
it’s quite cheap, per user, to run lemmy, e.g. lemm.ee is one of the bigger instances and costs 200 Euro a month,
storage requirements will only increase (attachments, linked website images), unless you are regularly deleting content and so contributing to link rot
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
but that’s what exactly embeds do. forcing you to interact with the site
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
then you can join twitter and reddit as well
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.
there’s the catch: it’s for people. not robots, not billionaires
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 2 months ago:
if it’s an app, it’s not n OS, and does not replace an OS.
People want to replace the OS to get rid of forced data mining, forced updates, other limitations, and to be able to install other software
- Comment on How to have inter-VMs alerts? 2 months ago:
would running nut-monitor in the VMs fit your use case?
- Comment on Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish 2 months ago:
I think a hybrid approach is better, have a screenshot and a link to the source too. with a screenshot of a post on a whatever site I don’t not to figure out which privacy frontend is working right now every single time.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 months ago:
windows 11 is not only about irreversible breaking changes
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 months ago:
did any of them do the write fast for 5 seconds, then freeze for 10 seconds shit? that’s the worst when a pendrive does that, and I’ve experienced that with multiple drives
- Comment on Jellyfin 10.10.0 | Jellyfin 2 months ago:
only if that feature wouldn’t have a massive memory leak… can’t update even to 10.9 because it crashes the whole system the first time it tries to rescan a library.
- Comment on what do you use for screen sharing? 2 months ago:
you should be able to turn it up always, to some extent. it’s in the settings on web
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
for example by being aware that the format is harmful to psychological health
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
possibly, but couldn’t that be said about instagram and tiktok too?
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 2 months ago:
tbh I don’t think any of the 2 sides here could know that their opinion is the truth. we can’t say that it’s intentional, but can’t either that it’s just a honest mistake, so far everyone saying that just sounds to apply wishful thinking. let’s see what happens in a few years, and then we may be able to judge future incidents better.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 2 months ago:
except that the case of winamp and bitwarden couldn’t be more different.
- Comment on Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel 2 months ago:
the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking
that’s rarely a single click
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 2 months ago:
you know, half an hour is really not that much. I would easily choose that
- Comment on Some docker containers need manual start after host reboot 2 months ago:
I have recently discovered what was causing this to me for years. It was IP specific port bindings. Ports of a few containers were only bound for the LAN IP of the system, but if DHCP couldn’t obtain an IP until the Docker service started its startup, then those containers couldn’t be started at all, and Docker in it’s wisdom won’t bother with retrying.
The reasons to move my compose stacks to separate systemd services are counting.