Kazumara
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- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 16 hours ago:
In the old post from when the update was released a Heise article is linked, that contains indicators of compromise, and in turn links to Kevin Beaumont for the details of his analysis:
lemmy.zip/post/54712916
heise.de/…/Notepad-updater-installed-malware-1110…
doublepulsar.com/small-numbers-of-notepad-users-r… - Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 1 day ago:
I just know they said from the start that you could buy three years at escalating prices. Then later, closer to the original end of support they made the first year of ESU free for users in the EEA, and then they made it buy-able for reward points or something like that for everyone.
tells me that free ESU support for private users will end in Oct 26
You’re probably right on that
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 days ago:
The entire article is based on a false premise:
With ESU, you can still get security updates and minor fixes or improvements, but the catch is that extended support ends on October 13, 2026.
Not true, there are three years of ESU updates available.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 4 days ago:
Nowhere in the given scenario do secret keys leak.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 5 days ago:
I understand perfectly well, it’s you who doesn’t.
If the access happens on the client which is the endpoint of the e2e-encryption then it doesn’t say anything about the e2e-encryption working or not working. On the endpoint the content is always available decrypted, for user consumption
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 5 days ago:
Even if that’s all true, it’s not evidence that the end to end encryption is broken.
That sort of debug access could simply be included in the clients.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 week ago:
Grid scale storage doesn’t strike me as an area of application where high energy density is important, so wouldn’t batteries with less conversion loss do an overall better job? I think grid scale Lithium-ion battery stores have become somewhat common.
I’d see gasoline from CO2 capture of interest more for airplanes, drones, ships, maybe even certain modes of long haul terrestrial transport where weight and volume is important.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
The article speaks of a “Windows 365 suite of productivity apps” but that doesn’t exist.
There is the “Microsoft 365” suite of office apps, and there is the “Windows 365” offer of a Virtual Machine as SaaS.
It seems the thing that went down was the former and the ill timed announcement concerned the latter.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 week ago:
Still a good idea for specific cases though. An example from current news close to me: We have line ships on lake Zürich that can’t be electrified because either they are too old to sustain a major internal rework or, for some, they can’t carry the battery weight.
For a case like that I’d prefer if they put some CO2 capture stations up to keep running the ships rather than scrapping them prematurely.
… if the capture stations work, that is. Can’t trust the word of a startup too much.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 week ago:
You gotta get on Alan Wake 2.
Bit cruel after they just said they can’t run it 😄
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I’m just wondering how many devices still use dedicated TPMs, instead of the ones integrated in the SoC by AMD and Intel. Sniffing a bus inside the SoC must be significantly harder or impossible.
- Comment on Fax 2 weeks ago:
Shit, it’s kind of bad :-(
- Comment on Fax 2 weeks ago:
Found it:
My Internet Friends
Authors: Allen Wu, Dr. Mouri - Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
Or Swiss, it sounds very familiar. My French sucks. I did get DELF B2 level at the time, but damn do I struggle when I need to work in Lausanne with locals.
- Comment on Would you pick her up? 3 weeks ago:
Especially in zombie survival movies. Except in Zombieland, there it’s just the sister I think.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 3 weeks ago:
Can confirm, Firefox with uBlock works. The OS doesn’t seem to matter. I use that combination on Linux (Fedora 43), Windows (10), macOS (15) and Android (16), no ads anywhere.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 3 weeks ago:
on YouTube (on my TV, still need to get a piHole up and running
Unfortunately that won’t help. The Youtube ads are served from the same domains as the videos, so a DNS based blocker is inherently powerless.
- Comment on So far... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the magical growth thing is kind of a cop out anyway.
I feel like the author wanted to have his cake and eat it too. Save a child and have the cute protector child relationship, but then magic her into a suitable wife, and have a new child appear, so they can play family.
Spice and Wolf did it better.
- Comment on So far... 4 weeks ago:
It’s cringe that she wants to stay a slave especially. That kind of thing annoys me to no end.
She grows really quickly. I thought at least the love interest stuff starts after she stops being a loli.
- Comment on Ya no sé qué quieres 4 weeks ago:
lol the clerk is reading ecchi.
- Comment on I love Vtubers 4 weeks ago:
Hmm I see Jaiden Animation but not Kairyu Crocodile, and I see Gawr Gura but not Sameko Saba.
On the other hand Nimi Nightmare already replaced Fauna Ceres.
Conclusion: The image must be from early last Summer 😄
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 4 weeks ago:
That was a rhetorical question after I pointed out the inconsistency: The author claimed they keys were for verification and then also said they were used to decrypt.
That’s most likely bullshit, and if it isn’t they should explain the unusual setup in detail instead of glossing over it.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 4 weeks ago:
Yeah agreed especially further down when it’s just randomly rehashing old history. It’s also mixing up decryption and verification even in the beginning of the article. First they write:
BootROM (Level 0): The CPU runs code burned into it at the factory. This code is immutable (cannot be changed). It uses the ROM Keys to verify the signature of the next loader.
Then just two paragraphs below:
The ROM Keys change everything. With these keys, hackers can decrypt the Level 1 Bootloader.
So which is it? Usually boot chains hash the next stage and compare it with a signed “known-good” hash they have stored, no encryption. Maybe this is different for the PS5 but then that would be noteworthy, not something you just assume readers to know.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Since the graphic is counting sales in units sold I guess free to download “live services” wouldn’t really appear.
Would be interesting to see the same counting revenues.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 5 weeks ago:
Good analogy. It also brought to mind the bumpers you can enable for kids in bowling.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 1 month ago:
When I was a child I used to ask my dad to input the invulnerability cheat in Doom. I was way too bad at movement, aiming and basically just everything, that I could have had fun otherwise. Likewise for Anno 1602, there I needed the money cheat because otherwise I’d just go bankrupt. I didn’t understand the income balance yet but I still had fun building economy chains.
I’m not sure I have a point here. Just remembered cheating as a child because I needed it. Probably haven’t cheated in 18 years now.
- Comment on Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game 1 month ago:
Yeah they are fun!
Also pretty easy I’d say.
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 1 month ago:
Two that I run for our little group outside the ones you mention are Space Engineers and Valheim
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 1 month ago:
I wonder how long it will take until they start using DoH and conveniently make the TV fail if it’s blocked…
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 month ago:
Don’t use SSDs for a server…
lol