Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 4 days ago:
The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I thought that OEM unlocking was removed years ago? That’s why I’ve not bought Samsung phones since the mid-2010s.
They had a thing that would blow a fuse if you unlocked your phone. Did they get rid of that for a while?
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 6 days ago:
Not if they end up banning VPNs, which is already something being discussed. If that happens, I might genuinely leave the country.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 6 days ago:
Dude. I just bought a used 6A last week.
- Comment on back in those days... 1 week ago:
We lost one 😭
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- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 week ago:
No idea why they were collecting identification then.
Even worse, since the hackers got a bunch of the data at once, the company must have held onto those pictures long after they registered people to their service, which they likely didn’t need to do.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 week ago:
The drivers license thing is likely due to a law passed by the UK a few days ago requires all mature content to be behind an age check. And not a “Are you 18: Yes / No”, more like “we will check using ID and photos of you”.
It’s the most hated piece of legislation in a while, with already 100 000 petition votes in 3 days to repeal it.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
LLMs are like Trump government appointees:
- They hallucinate like they’re on drugs
- They repeat whatever they’ve seen on the internet
- They are easily maniuplated
- They have never thought about a single thing in their lives
Ergo, they cannot and will not ever discover anything new.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
As mentioned by another user, all drives fail, it’s a matter of when, not if. Which is why you should always use RAID arrangement with at least one redundant drive and/or have full backups.
Ultimately, it’s a money game. If you save 30% on a recertified drive and it has 20% less total life than a new one, you’re winning.
Here’s where I got some.
serverpartdeals.com/…/manufacturer-recertified-dr…
I looked around a bit, and either search engines suck nowadays (possibly true regardless) or there are no independent studies comparing certified and new drives.
All you get mostly opinion pieces or promises by resellers that actually, their products are good. Clearly no conflict of interest there. /s
The best I could find was this, but that’s not amazing either.
What I do is look at backblaze’s drive stats for their new drives, find a model that has a good amount of data and low failure rate, then get a recertified one and hope their recertification process is good and I don’t get a lemon.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were refurbished. Usually a refurbished drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.
- Comment on Hard day at the office 3 weeks ago:
Imma have my 1-1 performance review on this.
- Comment on Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, seems to get right-wing update 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Pretty sure that was deliberate on Musk’s (or his cronies) part.
Imagine working at X and being told by your boss “I’d like you to make the bot more racist please.” “Can you convince it that conspiracy theories are real?”
- Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s if you want to have user management. There’s some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don’t use it.
To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you’re using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.
However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won’t have to pay for it.
Give it a go and see how you get on!
- Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses 5 weeks ago:
Been using them for years.
It’s completely free, open source and has:
- Unsupervised (for headless servers) or supervised (helping out relatives) access
- Easily file transfers
- Cross-copy paste
- Identification server (what gives out connection IDs) can be self-hosted or you can use theirs for free
- Can control PCs from mobile app (though not vide versa)
- Experimental web browser client.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 5 weeks ago:
If your kid has half a brain he’ll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He’ll just get a VPN.
And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we’d just download their apps on mobile data.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.
- Comment on Best way to drink coke? 1 month ago:
Woah woah woah. That’s going too far.
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- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 month ago:
I was with them helping them out. For reasons I won’t discuss here I won’t be able to visit them anymore, so that avenue is gone 😞.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 month ago:
The exit plan from WhatsApp is quite simple. Start by installing Signal and setting it up – it takes only a couple of minutes. Then, resume any WhatsApp conversations on Signal if that person is already a Signal user. If they are not, then switch to regular text messaging and gently suggest to that person to switch over to Signal.
Sadly for me, this doesn’t really work for some relatives as
- They live abroad and the cost of sending text messages abroad is not insignificant
- Some are so tech un-savvy that even installing a new app by themselves is too much.
All I can do for those relatives is to leave WhatsApp installed but take away basically every permission I can, including running in the background.
- Comment on Some things just refuse to die 1 month ago:
Another one: An old metal USB stick that stayed on my key chain for 15 years. It went through the washing machine at least once.
It still works, though it is dead slow.
- Comment on Some things just refuse to die 1 month ago:
I’ve had one Jansport bag for 18 years, all the way through secondary (high) school, university and many years of work.
I use it for food shopping, travelling etc.
It’s only now starting to form holes, in the last couple of years.
- Comment on Behold 1 month ago:
Ah ok. On Boost I don’t see it :(
- Comment on Behold 1 month ago:
None on this one, sadly.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 month ago:
Well, I’m not an expert in this stuff, but here’s a couple of starting points
- This bill amendment that was submitted, but thankfully didn’t pass
- The Cass Report, a review of the science of trans studies the government bases many of its decisions on has been widely criticised by the international community. It was also found they tried to deliberately ban any subject experts from weighing in on the report during its construction.
- The EHRC and other government bodies frequently consult trans hate groups while preventing any trans person from weighing in on decisions about them
- Last year, the UK government banned the use of puberty blockers for adolescents, saying there is an unacceptable health risk to them, when in fact the risk is minor at best and witholding them is much more damaging to trans people (high suicide rate, for example).
Generally, rather than listening to experts, the government cherry picks bad research (similar to weirdos saying vaccines cause autism) and listens to and emboldens hate groups.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 month ago:
That’s the narrative, but trans rights have been taken away. Ask anyone who is being forced to put themselves by going to their “sex assigned at birth” bathroom, or being forced to use the accessible toilets.
Not to speak of the increased trans-spotting, and the fact women can now be searched by male police officers (trans or cis) for being suspected of being trans.
And every effort is being made to pass more laws to make things worse, such as making registries of trans people, outing them to their employers and potential employers.
- Comment on A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion 1 month ago:
I’m glad they are really putting the screws to unfortunate, harmless people instead of dealing with rampant corruption and hate crimes.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 month ago:
Gets AI looks inside Badly paid employees
- Comment on Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time 2 months ago:
The livestream in question:
- Comment on I must confess I laughed 2 months ago:
Ok that’s very funny
