WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on My boyfriend feels weird about sleeping over at my place because I live with my parents. How can I help him loosen up? 5 hours ago:
no offense taken, but given. really, what was that, man?
- Comment on My boyfriend feels weird about sleeping over at my place because I live with my parents. How can I help him loosen up? 5 hours ago:
paying your own rent and having your own place
slightly off topic, but this is a contradiction. if you are paying rent, that is not your own place.
- Comment on spicy one 1 day ago:
maybe, but it seems it would lower the sea level
- Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 1 day ago:
that’s a lot of fuel. and smoke too.
and I assume they need to replace all that fuel once in a while even if unused, because it goes bad in a few years
- Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 1 day ago:
do they have 2 GW of backup generators, though?
- Comment on AI applications are producing cleaner cities, smarter homes and more efficient transit 2 days ago:
it would be interesting to hear your opinion, @Pro@programming.dev, why did you think you want to post this here
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 2 days ago:
for streaming, yeah, for tracking its plenty
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 2 days ago:
for streaming, yeah, for tracking its plenty
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 3 days ago:
ok, I most often type with 2 hands, but I have issues holding my tablet sized laptop for a longer time, so it’s hard to even just keep reading on it. and it does not even have an HDD inside. I have no such problems with my phone, I could hold it probably for hours.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 3 days ago:
Didn’t know it only applied to UWP apps on Windows. That does seem like a pretty big problem then.
it is mostly for compatibility reasons. no win32 programs are equipped to handle such granular permissions and sandboxing, they are all made with the assumption that they have access to whatever they need (other than other users’ resources and things that require elevation). if Microsoft would have made that limitation to every kind of software, that Windows version would have probably been a failure in popularity because lots of software would have broken. I think S editions of windows is how they tried to go in that direction, with a more drastic way of simply just dropping support for 3rd party win32 programs.
I don’t still have a Mac readily available to test with but afaik it is any application that uses Apple’s packaging format.
ok, so if you run linux or windows utils in a compatibility layer, they still have less of a limited access? by which I mean graphical utilities. just tried with firefox, for macos it wanted to give me an .iso file (???)
if so, it seems apple is doing roughly the same as microsoft with uwp and the appx format, and linux with flatpak: it’s a choice for the user
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 5 days ago:
and also introducing hardware backdoors, courtesy of Going Dark
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 5 days ago:
how do you use it with one hand?
imo that’s the only benefit of having a smartphone. any other computer can do internet calls too
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 6 days ago:
It literally requires every connected wallet to process the same transactions as everyone else.
wat?
wallets don’t process any transactions other than yours. and eve then, wallets do the easy work.
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 6 days ago:
it is by design for a lot of them.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 6 days ago:
This is gibberish.
I don’t know what this means. you could have just said “fuck you”, plainly, and it wouldn’t have made less sense.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 6 days ago:
App-specific file-acess permissions are on MacOS out of the box as a configurable setting for all applications (in the system settings menu), and I’m pretty sure Windows 10/11 has something similar in its settings menu as well.
I don’t know about macos, but I doubt that it applies to software tgat was obtained outside of their app store.
on windows however, those settings only apply to UWP apps. not .exe and .bat and .msi and .ps programs, but .appx packages that you can install from the Microsoft Store. and installing something from the Microsoft Store does not mean that it’ll be sandboxed, lots of regular .exe programare also distributed there.
Also, if we’re being pedantic, this is also a setting on both Android and iOS, with Android displaying the option to change access pretty much every time you pick out a file.
those are mobile operating systems, they have been designed with this in mind from the beginning. General purpose desktop computers are very different though, for better or worse. and, as I know, desktop computer users are still not a small minority
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 6 days ago:
Most operating systems at least have filesystem permissions,
which limits access between files of different users, but does not prevent the zoom app to read your documents, or the cracked game you torrented to read the passwords from your web browser.
and on a lot of Linux distros you additionally get AppArmor or PolKit to further restrict what files a program can read/write
on lot of linux distributions where apparmor is active, most processes are unconfined, or at best still have broad access, because the distribution does not ship apparmor profiles for each executable that a user may run.
same with polkit, except that it’s use case is not about defining additional limitations, but about defining what is allowed, to build upon other security systems. so to define whe n to prompt the user permission, whether to ask for a password or just a yes-no question, or whether to just allow something that would otherwise be disallowed if polkit was not in place.
Additionally, on a lot of linux distributions, umask is set by default so that new files are world readable, and so users can read most of each others files.
this is also at least the 3rd instance I ask this week, but are we really assuming that the common internet user is using linux? what is the case with other operating systems, like windows? yeah users can’t read each others profile directory by default, but nothing prevents program A from reading something written by program B when both are running with the privileges of your user account
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 6 days ago:
Eh, most good quality routers from reputable companies can handle separate VLANs just fine. My old Asus RT-N66U had that capability right out of the box.
I haven’t seen “advanced” settings like this on consumer tplink and asus routers, only on business grade tplinks, when considering these brands. but I also wouldn’t consider those that I often see to be good quality, so there’s that.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 6 days ago:
What you originally said was gibberish, but I digress.
I don’t agree, and additionally when you say I’m wrong I have to pull the reason out of you with pincers.
The chat app is open source, so you can evaluate what it’s doing with those messages for yourself.
yeah, evaluate what it does at the time of the audit.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 6 days ago:
What you originally said was gibberish, but I digress.
I don’t agree, and additionally when you say I’m wrong I have to pull the reason out of you with pincers.
The chat app is open source, so you can evaluate what it’s doing with those messages for yourself.
yeah, evaluate what it does at the time of the audit.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 week ago:
Apps are typically given their own dedicated storage volume, and access to any other part of the filesystem requires permission from the user.
uh, no? on smartphones, yes, but not on computers.
and even on smartphones. the chat app does have access to your messages, as I originally said
WTF kind of computers are you using?
desktop… computers? you probably heard about operating systems, like windows, and linux…
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 week ago:
on linux. flatpak. now, how mainstream is that setup exactly? are you saying that the issue I brought up does not apply to most of the people on the internet?
it does not matter what platform I’m on. what matters is what do most people use. in the world where I live, most people use the windows operating system. there is no such protection at all. except when accounting for sandboxie and other obscure programs virtually no one knows about
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 week ago:
how are programs denied that access? how is it that they can’t do that?
with the computers that I know, if I download a program, that’ll be able to read, and also modify all the files that I have access to. this includes the ability to read the saved passwords from my browser, and to install browser addons without my consent or knowledge.
what makes it so that it cannot happen on mainstream desktop computers?
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 1 week ago:
to me that sounds like arguing that banning behavioral advertising would result in all monetarily free social platforms stopping to exist
chinese tech was cheap even before datamining and IoT was a thing. “banning” datamining wouldn’t make chinese tech expensive
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 1 week ago:
where did I recommend that?
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 1 week ago:
It’s not about me, but about all the people around me
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 1 week ago:
Why is it my problem?
Because when manufacturers see that they can get away with this shit, they will all start doing it, and then you can stick up your research because there will be nothing else.
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 1 week ago:
If you can’t be bothered to take a few extra minutes to do that, then quite frankly, you deserve to be fucked by scammers.
and this is exactly how being fucked by scammers will become normal
stop with your fucking elitism and start thinking what to do for those whos work/hobby is not in IT, because that’s 99.999% of people.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 week ago:
Because any programs have that access??
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 week ago:
what no?