Deebster

@Deebster@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wipeout series - The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to listen to the soundtrack (since it used to be on the CD as standard audio tracks) and never realised in my foolish youth that it was from actual musicians with whole albums I could check out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was confused too. Perhaps they didn’t see any problem and instead of realising the page had been edited after I commented they just downvoted.

  Back to that article, I wonder if they were trying to add links into their footnotes and that broke stuff. They seemed to have fixed it by deleting them all, but that’s quite a lot of content gone.

  E.g. after pairing up the broken footnotes with their endings that stayed in the main text you can see these:

  How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration. “No user accounts, by design”: https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html

  ‘> “Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software” (because you don’t need a manufacturer’s permission to install software on your computer).’ — Pluralistic: Darth Android: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The author seemed to struggle with their CMS, but you can get the gist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3143: Question Mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That must have taken some practice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3143: Question Mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People sometimes introduce a quote by doing that air quote gesture - I suppose with this logic they should only do it on one hand at the quote start and use the other hand to end the quote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw one comment and was sure it’d be the Arthur C. Clarke quote. I like your one, I hadn’t seen it before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia has network of 200 camps for ‘brainwashing’ Ukrainian children – report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To show that the word brainwashing comes from an article source, not their own editorialising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In ex ha ha le le⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that’s where we were! Did we lose it in the lemmy.ee shutdown?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the Gulf Coast is strange, has diurnal tides (twice a day)

  Diurnal tides are once a day (semidiurnal is twice a day). By the Gulf Coast, I guess you must mean the Gulf of Mexico. I’m living on the other side of the world in the other diurnal region, so I assume our tides are synchronised!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call me...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I think of when I hear The name Daddy Longlegs. Wikipedia tells me that they’re called “Jenny long legs” in Scotland and Pilib an Gheataire (“Skinny Philip”) in Irish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some images are broken⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another example is on this comment: infosec.pub/comment/17573592

  The image is infosec.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2F… (Image) and instead of an image it says {“code”:“validate-width”,“msg”:“Too wide”}

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that the little extra work to have separate services is a small price to pay to have the kind of top notch user experience that you can only get with a dedicated tool.

  Besides, it’s cool to have a load of different services. Most self-hosters seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next thing to install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A great read, thanks. I think you have posted this as a full post to this sub (perhaps repost it on a quiet day).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But we’re talking about Lego, which is from Denmark. Correcting the quote is at expanse of the joke/relevance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just bought the Legendary Edition on Steam for now much at all, cheers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not e-ink though, which was one of the defining features of a Pebble (and why the battery life was so good). Also, the Pebble guy is back with some new Pebbles: repebble.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I self-host open source software, pay for services that I don’t want to host (email, etc) and I prefer buying things to subscribing/renting things. I experience far less enshittification than most as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whereas I just assumed it was suggesting that the parent comment also was in the awful social skills group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a more beautiful looking game than I expect from retro graphics. A good write up, thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3121: Kite Incident⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think OP means it’s above on a map, i.e. north, like how the Mediterranean is above Africa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that PSU is larger than necessary for running a PC with a single graphics card - I haven’t done the maths but it’s probably comfortably under 850W (a common PSU size).

  The memory is huge but fractionally “slow” at CL32 - I’d say 32GB of CAS latency 30 memory would make more sense (or even CL28). With such premium kit, you might even be able to use DDR5-6400 (running at 1:1 mode).

  It’s a huge price though - a really good PC should cost about a half of that (or even a third depending on your local prices), those components are in the “money’s no object” end of the range. It does match what you asked for, so if you don’t mind the price it’s a solid build using all of the latest and greatest speeds and versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a utopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I say accept, I don’t mean live in denial, I mean acquiesce. I resist it, whether that be by avoiding services/products, paying for premium, installing ad blockers or modding things to remove telemetry.

  I am aware that my phone company knows where I am and I’m on cameras, but I’m not going to make it easy for the next Cambridge Analytica.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming this is a young group, and they’ve grown up in the always-connected, always-surveilled modern world.

  I’ve met plenty of people that are surprised or even suspicious when I say that I try to avoid corporations and governments tracking me. I guess the Overton window has shifted so that people expect and accept constant surveillance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We spoke with one of the founders of DICE about their first game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was Pinball Dreams from the thumbnail, I loved that game! I played it to death on the Amiga. And Pinball Fantasies too, but I don’t recognise the name Pinball Illusions.

  We knew that the game was going to be cracked, given that we ourselves did some cracking and distributing of cracked copies. So was not really a big thing, but we did put in some crack detections that altered some of the scoring and ball physics in later games, that was never fixed by the crackers so they played worse than if you owned the original game.

  That’s quite funny.

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

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When tech hardware becomes paperweights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.