OfficerBribe
@OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 14 hours ago:
I definitely was looking at porn on my 240x320 Nokia screen.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 14 hours ago:
HMD (Nokia) Skyline has a cool feature where you unscrew 1 screw and can change various things like battery. Unfortunately phone itself is not impressive especially from OS update standpoint (only 2 year support for major Android versions). I would love to see this idea being copied by other manufacturers.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 day ago:
It’s a good Chromium based OS native browser that has integration with your Entra ID account so all your bookmarks / history is automatically synced and users have seamless experience when switching devices. No longer seeing tickets like ″My bookmarks are gone after I reinstalled my PC″ is enough to consider Edge as your company main browser. And the fact that it is part of OS, you do not need to worry about install and patching.
I prefer Firefox, but from Chromium browsers Edge is really good, you cannot expect companies to suggest something like Vivaldi.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 3 days ago:
Aegis is amazing for standard TOTP (6 digit code that changes every 30 minutes), but there are also proprietary OTP that require own apps and usually do not support export and would require to set it up from 0. Microsoft for example have push notifications that I love and prefer over TOTP, but for recovery purposes I have TOTP added in Aegis as well so if I ever loose MS Authenticator data, I will not be locked out.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 3 days ago:
Here’s a link to it in PlayStore. It mentions some of the features it is a dependency for.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 3 days ago:
Kind of weird that they are installing this dependency whether you will enable those planned scanning features or not. Here is an article mentioning that future feature Sensitive Content Warnings. It does sound kind of cool, less chance to accidentally send your dick pic to someone I guess.
Sensitive Content Warnings is an optional feature that blurs images that may contain nudity before viewing, and then prompts with a “speed bump” that contains help-finding resources and options, including to view the content. When the feature is enabled, and an image that may contain nudity is about to be sent or forwarded, it also provides a speed bump to remind users of the risks of sending nude imagery and preventing accidental shares.
All of this happens on-device to protect your privacy and keep end-to-end encrypted message content private to only sender and recipient. Sensitive Content Warnings doesn’t allow Google access to the contents of your images, nor does Google know that nudity may have been detected. This feature is opt-in for adults, managed via Android Settings, and is opt-out for users under 18 years of age.
- Comment on It works for anything 5 days ago:
Before that these were captions.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 2 weeks ago:
It does not mention it and I cannot see any official statement, but that seems like a logical reason. Reddit management however is not famous for being logical so we will see.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 2 weeks ago:
That probably is the idea, to have a competitor to Patreon and OnlyFans. They should have probably mentioned that as an example before some people start thinking /r/worldnews becomes paywalled.
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 3 weeks ago:
To be honest, not using TLS nowadays is pretty surprising.
- Comment on Why? 3 months ago:
This might sound easy, but is actually extremely hard
I don’t think this impossible contraption sounds simple.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 3 months ago:
Never realized there are so many rules for divisibility. This post fits in this category:
Forming an alternating sum of blocks of three from right to left gives a multiple of 7
299,999 would be 999 - 299 = 700 which is divisible by 7. And if we simply swap grouped digits to 999,299, it is also divisible by 7 since 299 - 999 = -700.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 months ago:
From article
Reddit challenged its designation on the basis that it is mostly a text-based discussion platform, and links to videos uploaded elsewhere on the internet should not be factored in. The Irish regulator counter-argued that the audio-visual content on the platform is extensive, and pointed to its enormous reach, with 73 million daily users.
Could not find any post statistics, but they probably are correct and percentage wise uploaded videos should be at the bottom, but total count probably is too large to be simply disregarded. Reddit probably has more videos than Vimeo which is purely video based. And if Reddit would be in the clear then so should be Twitter and Facebook since those too are primarily text based.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 months ago:
Because most people did not use 3rd party apps and do not care about site′s management. Why move to someplace else if everything works great where you already are.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 months ago:
Keepass2Android supports many cloud options including Nextcloud and OwnCloud so it sync with storage directly. At least with Dropbox it works like a charm.
- Comment on Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures 4 months ago:
I doubt your IT department is installing preview updates in your production environment.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 4 months ago:
Besides the MAC lookup suggestion, have you tried to simply find hostname in local DNS by reverse IP lookup, maybe that would shed some light.
Not sure if there is anything useful, but in browser just check site source, maybe there is something useful there that could help with identification.
In nmap you can attempt to guess OS, try that. Additionally it might be possible to get hostname as well.
And have you checked your router to see if this connection is connected to your Wi-Fi AP or Ethernet to narrow things down? If it is not possible to determine this from router, simply connect your main PC to Ethernet, disable AP in router settings and check if IIS site is still up. If it is not, enable AP again, does it come back early or it takes some time?
Lastly, if it still is a mystery, start powering off devices one by one to find the source. Based on comments it seems you have multiple devices, but I assume it would not take that long?
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 5 months ago:
Walpy is also pretty good. Has various categories and credits each wallpaper′s author.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 5 months ago:
Teams in Teams is the naming I hate the most. Should have called them communities to match Viva Engage (Yammer) or just groups.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 6 months ago:
While decentralised systems can be useful it will not be the future. Initially everything was decentralised and then we moved to centralised systems because they are easier to manage, easier to secure, cheaper. The main benefit for decentralisation is that you are not tied to single organization that dictates all the rules. If reddit would have better management, I would move back.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 6 months ago:
And I do, have used it for 10+ years I think. Keyfile is also used so even with leaked DB file and password, it should be inaccessible.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 7 months ago:
I store my DB in Dropbox and use KeePass2Android on phone which has built in Dropbox sync.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 7 months ago:
It is alright, but SFTP transfer broke for me some time ago. I think it is related to changes in Android, but surprisingly there were not a lot of posts about this issue last I searched. Using Android 13 / Samsung One UI 5.1 with Windows 11.
- Comment on Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama 7 months ago:
Here is a video demonstration. Snapshots contain window that is in focus not the whole desktop and for exclusions I assume it would just base it on process name + additional parameters (private browser windows have same process name so must be something additional). You can also add websites for exclusions. Here is an article that lists other things that are not being captured like DRM protected content and one time WhatsApp images.
Also from support article:
In two specific scenarios, Recall will capture snapshots that include InPrivate windows, blocked apps, and blocked websites. If Recall gets launched, or the Now option is selected in Recall, then a snapshot is taken even when InPrivate windows, blocked apps, and blocked websites are displayed. However, these snapshots are not saved by Recall. If you choose to send the information from this snaps
- Comment on Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama 7 months ago:
True that Recall collects more than Signal, but copying actual files, browser session cookies / passwords, mailbox content if desktop mail client is used makes more sense if you have access to device. Recall is also not supposed to collect data from private sessions from popular web browsers. I assume for that it uses some hard coded list of exceptions with an option to add your own.
Both should have protected that kind of data with additional safeguards so that merely copying that data without authentication would have no value.
- Comment on Unofficial Reddit API 7 months ago:
Just to add my thoughts, it was not closing free API that made me stop using Reddit. It was their management response / actions / not providing a viable API thus killing 3rd party apps. If management would have changed I would probably go back.
- Comment on Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama 7 months ago:
Could not find much info about that claim, but context probably was that data is not possible to be accessed without compromising device, e.g., not possible to get info over network or by compromising some central location on remote server because there is none and all that data is stored locally.
- Comment on Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama 7 months ago:
Windows Recall had the same issue with data storage.
- Comment on Unofficial Reddit API 7 months ago:
Reddit cannot die unless their management does some insane thing that affects majority of user base. Killing 3rd party apps impacted a small minority so it was largely nothing. It is way too popular and useful to die at this point.
As for Lemmy, will be interesting to see how eventual operational cost problems will be resolved. Lemmy (Activity Pub?) is also pretty inefficient and does a lot of data duplication due to being decentralized. Centralized systems like Reddit are much more efficient.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 7 months ago:
And customers. Almost everyone prefers to consume media in a simple way and that is streaming. Almost no one will go back to physical media. If streaming becomes absolutely unbearable, people would turn to digital downloads.