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- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 1 week ago:
ITT: People debating whether such a shirt is possible and not answering the actual question.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 week ago:
Yes, the least a journalist could do, if they really thought that a developer talking about changes to notifications accidentally let slip a huge announcement, would be to confirm it with him, or anyone else at Microsoft. But that would make the story go away.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 week ago:
Did you even read my comment?
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but that’s like answering “Oreos, Jaffa Cakes, Biscoff, could I theoretically bake my own cookies?” with “It’s a task that usually takes entire teams of highly competent and experienced people. Food scientists, industrial designers, supply chain management, factory design, lots of math”
Well, yes, but OP is not trying to make a product to compete with these examples. The answer is absolutely yes – to both cookies and file systems – and they can both be done in one afternoon.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 week ago:
No, they never did. Yes, it was all over the news, but they literally didn’t. Go be angry at media for making stuff up. You don’t have to believe me, go ahead and find that announcement yourself. You won’t because there was never such an announcement.
Notice how even the article you linked doesn’t give a full quote? It just quotes someone saying “last version” without any context of the sentence it was used in? I will give you the full quote where that comes form. Someone asked a Microsoft employee what they are currently working on, and the answer was:
”Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.”
It is obvious from context “last version” meant “latest version” here. And that misreading of a quote, conveniently not included in most articles, is the only source for all these news. No announcement. No journalist actually asking Microsoft about it. Just a fleeting comment by one Microsoft employee that obviously meant something else, in an answer about something else, but why let that get in the way of a good story.
The company said it had yet to decide on what to call the operating system beyond Windows 10.
And the exact same article you linked confirms Microsoft is still deciding on the name for the next Windows? Which would make no sense if there was no next Windows?
“There will be no Windows 11,” warned Steve Kleynhans, a research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner.
There will be no Windows 11, says some guy who doesn’t work at Microsoft.
And then a bunch of cherry picked quotes about continous updates being a good thing. Yep, continous updates, just like we got in Windows Vista, and that have nothing to do with there not being new Windows versions.
Modern journalism is useless.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 2 weeks ago:
English is not my first language, so had to look “diatribes” up. “a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something”? That was not my intention, I’m trying to have a polite conversation, maybe I’m failing at it if that’s how it’s received!
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 2 weeks ago:
To be clear, I’m not saying secretly recording conversations with a mic never happens, just that it didn’t happen in this case.
To the other story you linked, what we know happened is that some company had a slide deck claiming they have that capability. It could be that they really did and that it’s used everywhere. It could also be that they were judging interest and didn’t even look into the feasibility of building it. It could be that they wanted publicity by manufacturing some controversial news and never even wanted to build it. Or, again, it could be true. But all we know for a fact, in that case, is that a slide deck existed. Not that any product existed, let alone that it was deployed anywhere.
Again, I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, it probably does, but that story doesn’t prove it either.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 2 weeks ago:
I feel this comment lacks some nuance. Someone who didn’t read the article might think microphones were involved, or that Meta recorded any conversations, which they didn’t.
What has actually happened: The Flo app, as part of onboarding, asks the user about their goal for using the app, with possible choices being “I am pregnant” and similar sensitive info. They are using Meta’s analytics SDK for tracking what users do in the app, and they included an event for when a user selects the goal. All these events go to their analytics dashboard, which lives on Meta’s servers. Flo promised they are not sharing this information with third parties, but they clearly do. So in the end, information about someone being pregnant ended up on Meta’s servers. Meta later learned that this data is sent their way, and incorporanted it for their own use for advertising.
Both Flo and Meta are clearly guilty here. But no eavesdropping occured here, “just” the usual event tracking of which radio button a user selected when installing the app. I.e. no conversation was recorded by anyone, which is what someone may picture seeing the word “eavesdropping”. Which doesn’t make this any better of course.
What I’m trying to get to is this:
they were found guilty of fucking eavesdropping. I can’t wait to see people defending this as not being true for advertising.
This story is once again an example showing that your devices don’t need to listen to your conversations, and aren’t eavesdropping on you. Because all the apps you use are already tracking everything you do, and eavesdropping is not necessary.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 3 weeks ago:
But the security researchers did not have time to write a patch yet
This is not true. They never intended, and said would never try to make any modifications to the train software, because it would be very illegal, you can’t make modifications to the trains without the train having to go through recertification again and they have no credentials to be making any modifications to trains.
They only analysed a copy of the software, and found secret undocumented unlock codes that could just be typed in at the cabin without having to modify anything.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 3 weeks ago:
I think you are confused about this it works. Steam absolutely does refunds after 2 hours of playtime, it’s just that if you have less than 2 hours it’s automated and you don’t need a reason for the refund.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 3 weeks ago:
Of course, but it should be the 2-4 people who are actively going somewhere / in the bathroom, everyone else should have their seatbelt on.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
And many VR games. Linux is not viable for VR gaming (without a lot of concessions).
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 month ago:
Lots of game still have that, Satisfactory, Minecraft, Valheim
- Comment on Dune game 2 months ago:
It’s called “Regis Missile Launcher” and is in the last tier.
- Comment on Dune game 2 months ago:
There are lasguns, and the same missile launcher the NPC has is also craftable.
- Comment on Dune game 2 months ago:
You can craft that same missile launcher, it’s not even a unique weapon, but a normal tech tree unlock. You can also use a lasgun against vehicles (which you need to find a schematic for or gain from a mission).
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 months ago:
Equating photo backup, something that needs to be turned on and only uploads media you create, from folders you choose, to North Korean government taking a hidden screenshot of your screen every 5 seconds, is a gigantic stretch.
Definitely don’t use Google Photos, Google can’t be trusted with your photos. But wow these are completely different things.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 months ago:
What I’m seeing, is that:
- it doesn’t log all your touches, but some actions in some apps
- not on any Android device, but some device categories like smartphones
- only on those with Google services (no China devices for example)
- only with a Google account logged in
- only when that account has that feature turned on
That’s already very far for every Android device, let alone every touch.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 months ago:
Yeah, good stuff to tell people about!
But “Google is tracking your every touch on any Android device” is very different from “Google saves a history of your Google searches, and some major actions in some Google apps”.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 months ago:
I absolutely agree with you. What I’m arguing against is baseless FUD without any specifics, any sources, any details, and making extraodinary claims without extraordinary evidence. I didn’t mean that the type of tracking is ridiculous, what I’m saying is ridiculous is the claim that Google is collecting the logs of EVERY touch on EVERY Android device. Does that claim even needs to be disproven?
Is that happening on Chinese Android phones without any Google services? Is that happening on AOSP phones without Google services? Is that happening on GrapheneOS, on other custom ROMs? Is that happening on my washing machine that for some reason runs Android? Is that baked into the system? From which Android version? In a particular system app? Where can I see these logs of all touches for myself?
It is patently obvious it cannot be happening on EVERY Android device. And I’d welcome evidence that it’s happening on even a SINGLE one. But I don’t see it. Because it’s made up hyperbole that’s poisoning the discussion of real tracking.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 months ago:
Yes, I’m sure he’s angry people are diluting the invigilation he exposed by coming up with fake ones all the time
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 months ago:
Yes, Google’s code processes every touch, they wrote Android after all, so you are technically correct.
Is it all being sent somewhere from every Android device? Of course not, that’s ridiculous.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 2 months ago:
That’s reasonable I think, if people are messing with infrastructure, it’s good it’s being verified they are doing legitimate work. Though don’t call them on a hunch terrorists obviously…
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 2 months ago:
I think you are confused on what cis means
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 months ago:
The entire thing is for running Linux software on Windows, it’s the complete opposite of Wine.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 2 months ago:
Grub did not detect your VM, it detected a bootable operating system on the drive because you passed it through to your VM
Yeah, the bootable drive that contained my VM install, that’s what I’m saying.
But i prefer using a raw disk file image
I started that way, but I had a disk with a single partition that contained a single file - the raw disk image file, and eventually decided this is silly, the filesystem on that disk is useless.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 2 months ago:
I did that, and since I got a dedicated SSD drive for it, I used it for the VM as a block device. Later after a GRUB update I discovered Windows in my GRUB boot menu. Turns out GRUB detected my VM, and now I can physically boot into my VM. Which I didn’t even know was possible.
So yeah, I accidentally dual boot Windows without meaning to, even though it’s a VM. Except when I boot into it, then it’s not, apparently.
- Comment on Got any grapes? 2 months ago:
I was going to post, but my card only had one number on the back, 3 digits long. :(
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
If that counts as recording then all phone calls are recorded by your microphone, in order to send the sound to the other party.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
You should absolutely use GrapheneOS, but why would this optional offline feature sway you to it?