Deebster

@Deebster@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thai woman arrested for blackmailing monks after sex with thousands of videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the BBC reworded this title, I assume so that my fellow readers don’t also get confused about this woman that had sex with thousands… of videos‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I’m from it’s spelt centring, but I think Randall’s referring to “doanate”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When tech hardware becomes paperweights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses like having an app on your phone because they can update it to fix bugs, add features, track your activity and send you notifications/ads when they have something new to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To ELI5 this, this happens when whoever made the webpage put a text layer above the image - probably on purpose to make it harder for people to download the image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of this is paving the cowpath - the animated PNG stuff is 20 years old and e.g. Firefox has had support since March 2007.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  APNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.

  * surely that’s easy, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, you’ve added a link where the label is the URL and the actual link is empty. You can fix this by removing the [ and ]() around the link. If the link is there as plain text, it gets a hyperlink automatically: arstechnica.com/…/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudfl…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3107: Weather Balloons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems reasonable given that space the atmosphere is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, Randall is alive! I kept thinking my bot had broken as it’s so rare for him to miss an upload.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look, I just really don't like working with soil in my apartment [DWC with Caladium, Tradescantia, Hawaiian "Ti"]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea of hydro since watering plants is a bit of a dark art (your plant is unhealthy often means you’re watering too much or not enough).

  I had to look up DWC (Deep Water Culture) and the page was talking about fast growth as one of the benefits. If you’re not growing crops, I can see that being bit undesirable - have you noticed high growth levels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP’s link is just an incomplete summary of the real article

  That source post has this Bluesky quote:

  Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored and verified

  Also, that it would have been heavily flagged by users was probably part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3104: Tukey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of Charles Babbage’s response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:

  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  I’ve been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more about things similar to Microsoft Recall, I don’t think whistleblowers are going to send their messages where other people can see their screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial recognition error sees woman accused of theft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  innocent until proven guilty but when an algorithm, a camera and a facial recognition system gets involved, you are guilty

  Just the algorithm is needed for that, for example the Post Office Horizon scandal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my first thought, but it’s actually a library for newsreader-type apps that lets a communication happen without exposing a whistleblower (it’s like a digital deaddrop).

  I had a quick look and they’re going the things they need to like certificate pinning, so even corporate-level MITM wouldn’t be seeing any unusual traffic. I assume they’re also blocking access to the screen like banking apps do, which is more secure but annoying for normal users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vomiting Emoji⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of those games where you start of with water, wind, earth and fire and combine them to make new elements, which you them combine to make new elements, etc.

  I wonder how the code works on emojikitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not using Lemmy, but there are other options that can do both thread/Reddit style and microblog/Twitter style like mbin. Personally, I find them so different that I’m happy to stick with different accounts on different sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also there’s that a file on a cloud service might change. E.g. Amazon sometimes updates ebook covers to advertise that there’s a show - even for those who have paid extra to have the ad-free option.

  E.g. the sticker-type graphic on this and that the title is updated to “The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)”:
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Podlet is really useful in this area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3093: Drafting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a wiki, so there’ll always be troll edits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3092: Baker's Units⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame that it looks a bit stupid in Voyager (post title and link are both next to each other and the same) but hopefully it’s an outlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3090: Sail Physics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you upload an image, the URL field is populated with the URL of the uploaded image, so there’s not really multiple fields like it appears.

  I can definitely change the template, although I won’t edit the bot before the next comic which might be any second now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3090: Sail Physics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bot author here - I thought that the current implementation was a big improvement because it meant you didn’t have to load up an external website but I should have known that not everyone would be happy!

  Looking at the votes for the comments for and against this idea, it looks like if it went to a vote the current setup would win, but I’ll think about how it can be improved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3090: Sail Physics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had tried that before (when posting manually) but didn’t think it worked very well. I’ve edited it in to this post. to test.

  It’s also not technically the alt text, it’s the title text, but I’m not sure many people care about the distinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great use of AI and it’s caught some small errors like the wrong its (which is one I find distracting when reading). The editing is light enough that it’s still your voice, just with extra punctuation and fewer typos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, and it’s infuriating that the AI scrapers are just so lazy/incompetent that they do things like try to scrape every dynamic page of a git repo instead of just cloning it. Similarly, they could just connect over ActivityPub and it wouldn’t have much more overhead than another private instance.

  There’s Anubis which uses JavaScript to force browsers to do some work before they can access, but given how unpopular Cloudflare is around here, I imagine there’d be a lot of complaints if it was deployed on every instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of chickens euthanized in South Africa after they were left starving and eating each other⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Culling took a real toll on the staff

  I can believe it, I would be surprised if some of them have PTSD from this, having to triage and kill most of those starving birds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I repurposed an old phone into a portable Atari 2600 for my mom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It says it’s wireless, but I’m not sure what it’s using - I’m guessing something custom enough that the dongle is necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rss feed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wHAT WOULD rANDALL DO?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rss feed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The caps lock makes sense! A key logger will get confused when you type your passwords in.