HyperfocusSurfer

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no… Anyways,

  * Adds a filter for the pop-up*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tnx!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucksung customers, iirc, at least have an option to unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM that doesn’t phone corporates whatsoever. Iphones, tho, will always phone crapple, so that’s a questionable choice as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except working without play services, that is, and some of us aren’t fans of having those around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X launches E2E encrypted Chat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because cryptography is hard, especially when you’re trying to do it in a user-friendly manner, with syncing encrypted conversations between devices and whatnot. Like, it’s kinda the whole reason why the classic reply to “how do I make my own encryption algorithm” is “don’t”.

  Also, with proprietary platforms you can’t make sure stuff’s encrypted the way they say it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X launches E2E encrypted Chat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it can be done relatively securely using both the password and the code to derive the encryption key while not storing it on the servers (while 2fa isn’t of any help here given it’s kinda random with shared seed). I, however, doubt it’s done that way: 1st of all, decryption should then only be possible after one enters their account password for the second time, as well as the conversation password (since the password shouldn’t be stored in plaintext after you’ve entered it), and, secondly, that’ll basically drop the chat history as soon as one changes the password, which is neither convenient nor mentioned.

  Then, if it works how I assume it does, i.e. the actual encryption key is stored on the sitter’s servers and only retrieved once you enter the encryption password, then they can decrypt your messages (either by immediately using that if the password just tells 'em who they should give the key to, or by bruteforcing the password if it decrypts/derives the actual key), which defeats the whole point of e2ee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X launches E2E encrypted Chat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmfao, 4 digit password? That’s like 1 femtosecond to bruteforce given whoever tries to access your messages isn’t rate-limited *ahem, feds*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people really use DMs there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I call bullshit on it being for cops: given valid-ish reasons, they can simply request all the comments left by the user directly from google and ask an llm of their choosing to produce a similar result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit (as well as lemmy) is a bit simpler in that regard: all you need to find all the posts made by the $username is to visit their profile, while YouTube actually requires scraping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, transistors and ICs do degrade over time, hovewer, out of all the power supplies I’ve repaired, the vast majority had dead caps, and those kinda tend to dry out with time regardless of whether they’re in use. So, kinda negligible, just like the power consumption in standby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to see there are still viruses in the wild, I was beginning to think those kinda became some ancient forgotten form of art. [I mean proper viruses, not malware in general]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s onlyfans performers can’t get justice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t say I agree, but it’s an interesting perspective for sure. Although, given the problem literally cannot be solved by tightening the DRM and whatnot, so why don’t we fight the stigmatization instead? As in, people usually dgaf if they learn their friend is an accountant or paints 40k miniatures in their spare time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RSS readers are the way, yes; mail – most of the time: there are pretty nice Foss options I can trust, although it’s not always possible, like with free tier proton mail. As for chat clients, also true for android but not so true on desktops: like, I’m not exactly happy when telegram logs my window manager and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sometimes useful for messengers, tho. I mean, many of those are electron apps anyway, and those that are not are unlikely to have a sandbox as good as what browsers have.

  Although, I agree: my default action for notifications is always reject, and then I can manually approve what I think I need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the brightest of those, imo: a while back they’ve opted their users in “discover together”, which is basically sharing your watch history with your plex friends. That went over as well as you’d expect: www.404media.co/plex-users-fear-discover-together…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Samsungs mostly, also shift and a few older models. Although, some have a crutch called displaylink, which basically encapsulates video signal over USB in software, while dp alt mode kinda* connects those same wires to the displayport output of the SoC (which is better due to having little to no overhead as well as ~no need for specialized overcomplicated hardware).

  Also, some of the older models, like my beloved oneplus 6, don’t even support USB 3, so dp alt mode is physically impossible for those.

  * iirc, on qualcomms at least the SoC itself multiplexes USB 3 with dp (as in, it can be configured to output usb3 or dp on the same data lines), but I’m not sure how the switching itself is triggered, so there may or may not be a need to add another IC that’ll handle communications over CC lines and tell the SoC when to use which. I personally suppose the SoCs should be able to handle everything themselves, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just me, or it kinda sounds like they don’t want to prococess a complaint? A warning not to do that again would be enough, IMO, given it seems like there are no rules prohibiting this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool and everything, yet we have an itsy-bitsy tiny problem: iirc, there are like 3.5 vendors that have opted into dp alt mode support, and each one I know of kinda sucks. I suppose it might be possible to simply enable it in software by changing the devicetree on usb3 devices or something if the port the vendor decided to route is the one multiplexed with dp, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, right. Because those contracts are set in stone, and our corporate overlords won’t ever take away the advertised ability to download books you’ve paid for not to mention those very contracts being written in human-readable format and not lawyer speak. \s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed to disagree then. IMO, if a company thinks it’s OK to throw me over the dick hiding behind being afraid of shadows, deny me access to legally obtained content on my devices, walk back on previous deals, and so on, then I have no problem with getting unrestricted access to stuff they decided I don’t technically own. Fuck the fucker, simple as that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Baseless (and also wrong) assumption that piracy is responsible for by any means significant monetary losses aside, there are other reasons for bypassing that DRM bullshit. Like, off the top of my head:

  • archiving – when you don’t have a local copy of a piece of content, it can be changed or deleted at any time;
  • ability to access stuff on a wider range of devices – I want to be able watch my favorite coomtent creator in full resolution on my phone that has only L3 and quite outdated version of widevine without installing proprietary crapp, so what;
  • bypassing bullshit restrictions – not sure if onlyfans in particular does that, but we have Netflix, for example, that would tell you to fuck off when you’re not watching from home be it VPN or an actually different location when traveling.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving Linux (selfhosted podcast) - system monitoring, terminal tools, local AI tools, NixOS, Kubuntu 24.10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, as long as it works, why would they? Like, I’m also unlikely to suddenly go converting all my nix spaghetti into some new and shiny thing unless it makes doing something I need considerably easier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone looking for a open source project to get involved in? If so, this might be for you: MediaWolf - a Media Discovery and Download Hub.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While not in the roadmap, I’d like to try adding squid[.]wtf and possibly lucida.{s,t}o (although, it’s been rather unstable lately) downloaders, if you’re interested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly

  • main laptop (t480 currently) – Murderbot;
  • previous main laptop (x270) – MB20;
  • homeserver – ART;
  • a TV box running armbian – Miki;
  • t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov’s “Мастер и Маргарита”), although I’ll probably rename it to Holism;
  • x230t – Three;
  • a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I’ll rename them.