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- Comment on Ska ftw 4 days ago:
cockadoodle
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU - Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 4 days ago:
Nazis were efficient; that was literally the point.
No, they weren’t particularly efficient. In many cases they were bumbling idiots that got really, really lucky - just like the current US administration.
- Comment on Ashmelissaleigh 1 week ago:
Q huehue
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
I switched to LibreWolf when the privacy policy fiasco happened a while ago. It’s funny how every few weeks Mozilla manages to demonstrate why I won’t switch back.
The new CEO has also already lost me with this gem:
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
Even taking the statement at face value, it’s unacceptable for it to just “feel off-mission”. It should be a clear “no, never” instead of some wishy-washy answer.
But reading between the lines, such a statement is not just an off-the-cuff remark, but at best a threat to their users, and at worst a way to gauge the blowback of such a decision. They must have already taken it seriously enough to come up with the $150 million.
If I had to put up a number, I’d guess there’s a 25+% chance that Firefox will drop Manifest V2 in the next few years.
- Comment on When THIS happened it was so annoying 2 weeks ago:
I mean, when you put it like that
- Comment on Great guy 2 weeks ago:
What about a good sturgeon?
- Comment on uhhh 2 weeks ago:
Skong: Sea of Sorrows when??
- Comment on Christmas Animals 2 weeks ago:
If ranting about cultural associations of animals makes me autistic, I don’t want to be autistic!
- Comment on Is this the future that transhumanists want? 2 weeks ago:
Hubba hubba!
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 weeks ago:
Aw, so no hamster?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Teaser 2 weeks ago:
FUCK YES! I was so bummed that Pharloom Bay and the Lifeblood Spire were cut, looks like we’ll be getting all that & more!
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Then I’ll hold off on adding even more to the pile, but I can definitely recommend Lies of P.
Oh man, brace yourself! Dispatch is amazing. Came out of nowhere for me, and blew me away!
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Silksong - I had hyped myself up way too much, yet it still delivered. Absolute masterpiece.
Dispatch - I finally understand why people enjoyed Telltale games so much. The writing is great, the characters are interesting, just all around a great experience.
Lies of P - Overture - I finally finished Lies of P & played Overture a few weeks back, after dropping off the game twice in the last years. Wow, that was great! And honestly more emotional than I’d expected.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t wanna hype you up too much - but I’d been looking forward to playing Silksong almost since it was announced and had very high expectations, and it did not disappoint!
- Comment on Does this count? 3 weeks ago:
Are you talking about 30cm traffic cones? Unfortunately I don’t ever see them used since they’re not allowed for any real work. The smallest I can try are 50cm, but that’s pretty big already.
- Comment on Why do some Men think all dish washing should be done by their GF or wife? Their help is really appreciated 3 weeks ago:
Literally Hitler
- Comment on Does this count? 3 weeks ago:
That’s kinda what I pictured. I’ll have to try them one day!
- Comment on Does this count? 3 weeks ago:
Imma have to ask. Why are these talked about so badly?
I’ve never seen them in real life, so I have no idea if they actually taste bad.
- Comment on Does Shuzku / wireless debugging demand a trusted wifi device? 3 weeks ago:
it follows that a malicious wifi modem, knowing all devices’ mac addresses, could, perhaps, feign being the phone, mac-wise. And issue its own commands, which the phone wouldn’t tell aren’t its own.
I just tested some scenarios:
- I start Shizuku in one wifi network (prompt to trust the network, then I had to enter the pairing code since I hadn’t used it before)
- Then switch wifi networks
- Shizuku was immediately disconnected
- When I press “Start” again in Shizuku, I get prompted to trust the network
- Then I switch back
- Shizuku stays running
- Then I disabled Wifi
- Shizuku stays running
- Then I disabled mobile data
- Shizuku stays running
- Then I stop Shizuku & press “Start” again
- It asks me to enable wireless debugging, and that enables wifi
So you’re safe as long as you don’t start Shizuku & trust the network while connected to a potentially malicious network.
- Comment on Does Shuzku / wireless debugging demand a trusted wifi device? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, sorry, seems like I was wrong on the whole “no network connection needed”, but the reason is the explanation for your question!
The only way for your phone to recognize/authenticate the source of an incoming ADB connection is the MAC address. Basically every device that sends/receives ethernet packets has to have a unique “fingerprint”, so everyone knows it’s still the same device if it disconnects & reconnects etc. Everything else (IP address etc.) can change at any time, so the MAC address is the only fingerprint available.
But devices can spoof (change) their MAC address. That’s a really useful feature in many cases, e.g. phones these days use a random MAC for every new network, so a network provider can’t track you moving through multiple different networks. Also there’s no way to prevent it with our current network design. But this means that a malicious actor could wait for your trusted device to disconnect, then change their MAC to the one from your trusted device, and thus send malicious ADB commands.
Androids solution is to make you trust both the network and the device. So as long as you don’t have malicious actors in your trusted network, you’re safe - even if you connect to a different network with malicious actors, they can’t send ADB commands.
- Comment on How customer service jobs be 3 weeks ago:
The worse the pun, the better the food!
- Comment on Does Shuzku / wireless debugging demand a trusted wifi device? 3 weeks ago:
- You don’t need to be connected to a network to set Shizuku up. Even while you’re not connected to an external network (through Wifi or mobile data), your phone has a “loopback” network that allows applications on your phone to talk to other applications as if they were connected through an external network. So if you’re scared of giving access to the wrong thing, just turn off wifi & data.
- When Android asks you to approve an external debugging connection, it’s approved for the specific device that’s connecting. Other devices on the network are not allowed to connect. If I use my computer to connect wirelessly to ADB, only my computer can execute commands, not other devices on my network (they’d show another popup).
Hope this helps!
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
Ah, that’s a bummer.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know, can you? Do many TVs support VRR through HDMI <-> HDMI connections, but not DP <-> HDMI?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
I thought you can connect DP to HDMI with a simple cable, no adapters needed?
- Comment on behold, the I don't care cube 4 weeks ago:
Door-Kun!
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 5 weeks ago:
I see where the confusion is.
“Brat” can also refer to adults.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 5 weeks ago:
First, it’s not true that there’s no protection - various anti-cheat solutions do support Linux.
Second, “strong” solutions still let through cheaters, because client-side anti cheat is an inherently unwinnable cat-and-mouse game. It’s better for everyone to block kernel-level AC and instead force better backend solutions.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 5 weeks ago:
Not sure I understand - games with kernel-level anti cheat also still have cheaters.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 5 weeks ago:
Currently kernel-level anti cheat isn’t available for Linux, so games that are released with multiplayer support don’t require it (e.g. games that enable Linux support in EAC).
If kernel-level anti cheat is supported by Valve, many of those games will start requiring it. So if you don’t want kernel stuff, there’s a real chance this development will reduce the number of available games in the future.
