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- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 1 hour ago:
The ones with EOL 2015, fair play. But May 2024 isn’t all that long ago.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 1 hour ago:
Can highly recommend ASUS, most of their models can be flashed with custom firmware that is supported beyond EOL. And their EOL cycle is also pretty long.
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 3 days ago:
It’s the same crap as Twitter, I don’t get why people ever used it in the first place.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 days ago:
The OG Doom is fairly linear, unless you play on the lowest difficulty level where all doors are permanently open. Else you need to kill specific enemies that can only be found in certain rooms to get keys.
- Comment on What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? 3 weeks ago:
Have a look at gullo.me, their entry level vps was just $2 or something.
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 3 weeks ago:
The article said that they track the movements of bodyguards. I doubt Trump or Biden use anything remotely related to fitness. Obama might have.
- Comment on ‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’ 3 weeks ago:
More like salaries below survival limit, so overtime is a must-have.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 weeks ago:
I’m using Fennec which also removes telemetry, but many standard users are not comfortable installing apps that aren’t on Google play.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 weeks ago:
They mention that the shared codebase means they can add functions back in, so there’s that. To me that reads like a hard fork that they’d have to maintain independently.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 weeks ago:
The link you shared is the company profile only and doesn’t mention any controversy about telemetry being shared with China.
I’ve been googling for a bit, and there are articles concerned this might happen from 2016 when the takeover was announced, and plenty of discussions on reddit, hacker news, y-combinator, quora and even on the official Opera forum (not deleted or redacted, mind you), but there wasn’t any clear evidence that telemetry is being shared.
While the concern remains valid, I’m also asking myself whether it’s that much worse than Chrome, Brave or Firefox sending telemetry to the US? I’m neither American nor Chinese, and would consider both governments hostile. Which one of them has access to my data is merely a choice between plague and cholera.
So in the end it’s on informed users to block transmission of telemetry themselves, regardless of their browser of choice.
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 weeks ago:
Leather slippers (or loafers, think they are called differently in some locations) don’t have laces you could possibly loosen.
Hiking boots and winter shoes are often challenging to put on due to the rigid ankle support.
Other shoes such as Converse and the likes get really worn out and flimsy on the heel, to the point where trying to slip in without support will just wrinkle them up.
Some people are unable to bend down properly due to knee or hip issues, etc.
Shoehorns make life easier for almost everyone. I’ve been using them for 20+ years and wouldn’t miss it.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
True, but it’s the only thing you can do if your company forces you to use them…
- Comment on Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide 4 weeks ago:
How is that the app’s fault?
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
The browser versions of teams and outlook are surprisingly stable. The desktop software for both are beyond broken.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
Um… Did you read the article? It’s about moving their EU Headquarters from Ireland to the Netherlands. GDPR applied before and after. This is specifically about Irish censorship requirements.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
Have a look at how some early apple varieties looked like, before they were cultivated:
- Comment on Google removes Kaspersky's antivirus software from Play Store 1 month ago:
Playing world police again, are we? Thanks, Google.
- Comment on From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install? 1 month ago:
That’s why I said “essentially”. The data is no longer accessible by the system, which is all that’s needed to prevent malicious files from being executed.
- Comment on From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install? 1 month ago:
Deleting all existing partitions via the installer is already enough. Once a new partition is created, all files are essentially wiped.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
Nope, Malaysia. I’ve traded a crazy hustle for quality of life.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
As long as the loans aren’t paid off though, running the stock into the ground would result in margin calls. An empire built on borrowed money with loans secured only through the value of the empire itself can be a fragile construct.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
Location, location, location. I’m living a great life, missing nothing, and my monthly expenses are below $1500 a month (excluding travels, including medical insurance). That’s for a 2 person household in a 1600ft² 4BR rental house nearby a larger city (350k population).
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
ASUS RT-AX88U with Merlin firmware. Running stable since 2018 or so.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
Sure, it’s being done. Xiaomi TVs have custom ROMs available, and I’m sure a bunch of others. Thing is, state of the art TVs are are not exactly cheap, and you need one to hack it in the first place. Most hackers do it for free, so they can’t exactly go on a spending spree.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
Sure, waste electricity while being unable to use the TV as intended, and cause some additional wear & tear. Great idea.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
The regular shield does just fine for me, I can attach hard drives to my router and mount them as smb shares, and then access movies with VLC Player.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
That’s not what this is about, the article is simply garbage. They are enforcing a kernel level anti-cheating system that is incompatible with Linux (where no third party gets kernel access, and rightly so). This locks out all Linux players, including Steam Deck.
- Comment on I wish Japan was easier to immigrate to. 1 month ago:
Not OP, but I live in Asia and am sporadically changing countries. Japan either requires you to have a job offer prior to moving, or show sufficient funds to live there indefinitely (around 2k USD/month; though that won’t get you far in Tokyo for example). Remote work does not qualify, it’s either a domestic job or income from pension or investments.
After 10 years of living there legally you qualify for a residence permit.
The alternative would be through marriage.
- Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? 1 month ago:
Different pretense, if a kid is identified as a victim, authorities will be informed since they haven’t reached maturity yet, and the alleged perpetrator is the legal guardian.
If an adult falls victim to sexual abuse, they will not inform any authorities on their behalf but leave it to the person.
- Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? 1 month ago:
It is where I’m from. Not even nurses have full access to the patient file. Confidentiality exists between doctor and patient exclusively, that’s why I’m so shocked.