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- Comment on Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’ 12 hours ago:
I can’t tell if this is just Wizards of the Coast panicking and flailing because they are out of good ideas, or if they are actually carefully analyzing and re-evaluating older cards because the balance and synergy of the current cards allow for the use of these older cards without being game breaking.
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 12 hours ago:
So this may still be possible
This article seems to be saying that’s it’s not only possible, it’s being actively (and I would assume widely) exploited on current versions of Android. Google is supposed to catch any abuses of listed exceptions, but they are either missing a bunch or letting them intentionally slide through. Either way, apps being able to see other apps is a big security risk that IMO only the user should be able to explicitly allow, and on a case-by-case basis.
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 13 hours ago:
Yeah, meaning all newer phones past Android 11 shouldn’t have this issue, but they do because of a workaround by shady companies that Google is either not aware of or not addressing. This issue isn’t limited to older phones – quite the opposite.
- Comment on The NGage Has A New Boxed Game For The First Time In 20 Years 13 hours ago:
I love stuff like this! I never had an NGage because the competing handhelds at the time were better. I’ve never even seen one in person.
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 13 hours ago:
Well that was a horrifying read. Is there any software that can protect against this? GrapheneOS? LineageOS? A Magisk module?
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 13 hours ago:
What do you mean? The article is talking about current versions of Android.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 6 days ago:
Chandler’s “dad” was trans, but they didn’t use that word. I don’t remember if they ever put a hard label on that character, but his dad wasn’t just a drag queen. Chandler’s growing acceptance over the course of the show was a positive, but the jokes made were not.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 6 days ago:
You could try Permute. It’s a pretty simple app for converting video and audio. Permute is my go-to for quick video conversion.
DBPowerAmp has an easy-to-use audio converter that supports pretty much every audio format and does batch file conversion as well. DBPowerAmp is my go-to for audio conversion.
Both of these are paid apps.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 6 days ago:
I would argue that Friends does not hold up so well. It still has funny bits, but it’s also quite sexist and is homophobic and transphobic (while also being one of the few big shows to even talk about gay and trans topics at the time).
- Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. 1 week ago:
Only when I took Ambien
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
No one has asked so I am going to ask:
What the heck is Elon University and why should I trust them?
- Comment on Scientists for Future, October 2021: Nuclear Energy is no technology for solving the Climate Crisis 3 weeks ago:
You don’t think there’s debate about nuclear waste and how and where to store it? Because those are my reservations about nuclear power.
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 3 weeks ago:
I would only say that a calculator always gives people the right answer. ChatGPT does not. People should not be using any of these current LLM tools to seek answers to things they don’t plan on verifying through some other source.
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 3 weeks ago:
If students can cheat on writing papers, why don’t we stop using it as a learning metric? Why not use in-person, timed tests instead?
- Comment on New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla 4 weeks ago:
Is sucking dick supposed to be a bad thing?
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 4 weeks ago:
Wire has calling voice and video calling.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 month ago:
Yes. There is a firefox extension called Chameleon that does this.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 1 month ago:
Ricky Gervais is transphobic garbage.
- Comment on !taneggs@lemmy.ca Declares National Pika Day; immediately escalates to Global Pika Day! 1 month ago:
All hail the mighty pika!
- Comment on !taneggs@lemmy.ca Declares National Pika Day; immediately escalates to Global Pika Day! 1 month ago:
Shutup and take my upvote
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 1 month ago:
Alphabet and Meta might be at that point soon, with the way things are going.
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 1 month ago:
“Ooh, Ellison smoke. Don’t breathe this!”
- Comment on no words, much feelings 1 month ago:
This photo is about 8 years old now. I’m pretty certain Reefill did not succeed as a product or a company. It barely got crowdfunded and then fizzled out a year later.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Do you mean Hacker News?
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
If they completely break the payments system, does that mean government employees stop getting paid?
Like no more federal government? No more ICE? No more military? No more FBI?
- Comment on I'll show them 1 month ago:
If you want to support a creator, give them a quarter and block the ads. Seriously. That quarter is worth more than any ad revenue they will ever get from you watching their videos.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Most democrats at the federal level are complicit in a lot of what’s going on, including Musk’s DOGE treasury crap (crimes?) despite him not being a government employee or confirmed by the senate. Hell, most federal democrats JUST in the last year voted for the legislation that enables ICE to indefinitely detain any suspected immigrant suspected of committing any crime. No due process. No actual crime needed.
Screw voting for democrats. Democrats voted to let the government round up the people I love to be deported or tortured. If we still have the power to vote, vote for leftists. Or vote for left-of-average-democrat people like Bernie.
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 1 month ago:
Also the timeline usually matters. Mod methods can change as game patches are released. Mods can have mod patches. Mods can be deprecated for new mods or mod methods. Mods can have other dependencies. Install order sometimes matters.
I think OP is right; mods can be messy, complicated, and a lot of work.
- Comment on LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs 2 months ago:
As far as I know, all smart TVs are user-hostile in the sense that they will be used against you if you connect them to the internet.
The least bad is Sony. Buy it, keep it offline forever, and enjoy good-quality video.
- Comment on Old fashioned 2 months ago:
Some estimates put conventional CD and DVD lifespans at 25 years, however they can last decades longer than that if they are stored away from UV light, and stored in a moderate temp and humidity controlled location.
Under similar conditions, blu-rays are estimated to last around 100 years, and blu-rays that use non-organic dye layers (such as M-disc) can reportedly last 1000 years or more.
As moisture finds a way between the layers, the disc will degrade. Too much bending or flexing of a disc will encourage separation of the layers.