HyperfocusSurfer
@HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 7 hours ago:
Please tell me they’re not writing it in php.
- Comment on Boost Note service is shutting down in September 2025, and urges users to export data 6 days ago:
Looks like it hasn’t exactly been actively developed since 2022: github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App/commits/master/
- Comment on Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers 6 days ago:
Nondescriptive title, I think. Ppl here tend to be quite tired of clickbait, as I’ve noticed.
- Comment on Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers 6 days ago:
Quite possible. The solution even puts the money you spend on their disservices back in your pocket.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
It’s kinda the same as it was before, as far as I can see, for the personal plan. Looks like they’ve just added more the ability to add more than 3 users for a fee.
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 1 week ago:
I’d say they’re equally meh due to not showing the whole picture. TV kinda says what feds allow 'em to, and antisocial media gives an easy way to filter only the news strengthening your beliefs in whatever (I.e. radicalization). But with the latter one can at least consciously add more perspectives [unless it’s Facebook, and zuckwomble decides to conduct one of his mood control experiments or something]
- Comment on Meo: AI Girlfriend Sparks Debate Over Digital Intimacy and Emotional Ethics 2 weeks ago:
But at least you get a decaf version of a retationshit out of it 🤣
- Comment on Dia, The Browser Company’s AI-first browser, launches Mac beta - 9to5Mac 2 weeks ago:
One more proprietary garbage, one less proprietary garbage… What’s the difference?
- Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
I meant their supposedly secret chats. Last time I’ve checked they weren’t even available on desktop
- Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
Why block a popular messenger that has no e2ee by default and shady custom e2ee that doesn’t even sync between multiple devices users can optionally use? Sounds counterproductive
- Comment on Indian carmakers in Chinese trouble as rare earths supply runs short 2 weeks ago:
Also fair :)
- Comment on Indian carmakers in Chinese trouble as rare earths supply runs short 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about the past vs present, it’s about them solving an issue that didn’t exist in the first place. Like who the hell thinks it’s a good idea to let cars connect to the internet? Except car manufacturers who decided cars became too cheap for their tastes so it’d be nice to data-mine the customers as well. Enshitification 101, that’s all I’m saying.
- Comment on Indian carmakers in Chinese trouble as rare earths supply runs short 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, so how about they pull their heads out of their asses and fucking stop making cars computers on wheels? That might help a bit.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 3 weeks ago:
Oh no… Anyways,
* Adds a filter for the pop-up*
- Comment on Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music? 3 weeks ago:
Tnx!
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
Do people really use DMs there?
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.