WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook 16 hours ago:
I think this is the owing air from nose out of frustration emoji
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 day ago:
and I thought the service was in good hands in his time… in the meantime he is a garbage person just as much as the average tech leader today
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 1 day ago:
Lemmy is a link aggregator. News are linked. Memes are directly uploaded.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 3 days ago:
how do you make sure that you always have the latest aegis backup somewhere else? did you automate uploading it somewhere?
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 3 days ago:
the google play services system can silently install and remove apps from your phone
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 5 days ago:
it would be interesting to have some kind of study about which one is more popular these days, the fedivetse or the cryptobro web 3
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 days ago:
I would read this book
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 days ago:
I would read this book
- Comment on Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means 6 days ago:
app manager can scan the APK for trackers and other program libraries. it won’t work reliably though if the app has been obfuscated
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 week ago:
what do you base that probably upon?
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 1 week ago:
they cannot block what is internal. google does not need to be aware of your internal activities anyway
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 1 week ago:
you can selectively mark mails as read that don’t need attention anymore, and keep as unread those that do. how would you do that with ntfy, or messaging services? at most you can mark unread a whole topic or chatroom
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 week ago:
probably, lol. they don’t even support openwrt
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 1 week ago:
But other than that, SyncThing isn’t a great replacement for iCloud Drive because you can’t choose what you download. So if I have 200gb in my ST folder I can’t sync it with my 128gb phone.
did you try to use syncthing’s filters?
- Comment on Google is on the Wrong Side of History. 1 week ago:
what the hell man
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 1 week ago:
partly I agree, but then I would prefer to run those webapps confined in a web browser
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
does it count as viewing if every time I just download the videos with yt-dlp, and watch in a good media player?
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
oh not the menu translation, but the local website translation. well I’m happy if that’s your worst problem
btw, translation to english will almost always work the best, with any kind of service
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 1 month ago:
well not sure if fixable
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
that’s the spirit
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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?? 1 month 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 3 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 3 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 3 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