Attacker94
@Attacker94@lemmy.world
- Comment on Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats 6 days ago:
I always laugh when I hear about meta’s end to end encryption because it isn’t remotely true in the sense that people would care about from a privacy standpoint. I know it is the case for messenger, I have not confirmed for other meta services, but in messenger the messages are encrypted in the way you would expect with the one big caveat being that meta stores your private keys on their servers. Iiirc meta explained that it is still e2e because they don’t unencrypt it which I find hilarious.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
I always thought of it going the other way, leave osx relatively untouched and make phones run on it, rather than taking ios as the standard.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Iirc the general assumption in tech spaces was that ios and macos are going to merge in two or three major versions, so I would imagine that apple is aware of this want in their consumer base as well.
- Comment on Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats 1 week ago:
Maybe I’m misreading, but it seems like this only applies in the context of sex crimes. I see no reason based upon the wording that they couldn’t do it for other things even with this in place
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
That’s just because amazon doesn’t tag it correctly, there were easily 5 models when you just had Linux as a search term. And I also disagree that variety is necessary for laptop listings to be considered viable, it’s not like non technical people are even looking at specs anyway.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
There are quite a few listings for Linux computers on amazon now, granted most of them are in the premium range, >here is one in the mid range of prices with comparable specs to the new macbook
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 2 weeks ago:
LOL those are all like $2k I’ll give you that if you want it officially supported they tend to come with those price tags, although i did find this one which is officially supporting linux at the midrange price tag Laptop, I mainly mean that the individual components are supported which you could determine through a little bit of research, but generally speaking if you don’t want to pay the premium, you should be prepared for a little bit of trouble shooting, but normally it is only for the webcam nowadays. Overall, I have changed the os on many of my laptops, and they have always either had no missing functionality after installation or had a forum that explained how to fix its issues that was a one and done fix.
if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.I don’t think you understand what this is…
Could you be more specific about what you mean? I don’t think I claimed anything that would be out of the purview of fractional scaling.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 2 weeks ago:
That Is almost always a hardware compatibility issue, if you get a machine that is specifically meant for Linux, even the jankiest of distros will not have all but the last issue, and for the last one if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 weeks ago:
It all but makes the law useless, but the law characterizes viable age verification as being self reported, so the Id wouldn’t be necessary.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
If that is the video conferencing in the desktop then I can tell you that that has not been my experience with it both on windows and w/ Wayland
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using matrix.org, it doesn’t work with the desktop app on windows, & I use the element-desktop package from the arch extra repo, which also doesn’t work. I do use Wayland, as I am unable to run an x11 de for various reasons
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
Except audio on the screen share, it is my biggest issue with matrix currently.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
The thing that’s insane to me is that most of the alternatives have screen sharing with working audio on the back burner, while I can tell you that the first one to get it working will be my go to. Hopefully with this extra cushion, one of them can get it working it’s the only thing discord has over its competitors other than general stability related things.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 weeks ago:
I think it is notable that it never makes assumptions about the verification method, so it could just be a simple parental control system. Granted I have no doubts that the corpos will take this as requiring Id, but the bill itself makes no such requirements.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it will be cut and dry on state vs federal, although if we follow trends it will get shutdown because the feds love abusing the commerce and elastic clause. And I’m not overly familiar with the Colorado constitution, but the actual text isn’t actually that invasive, it makes no requirements on data collection, it only requires for it to be obtained somehow, which could be self reporting ala parental controls, it only requires that once the data is obtained that they must provide an age bracket and only and age bracket to services that request it and only services that request it.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, if left unchecked, an incompetent ally is just as destructive as a malicious adversary. If you are from Colorado and take issue with this legislation you should contact your representatives and let them know that they are being idiotic since that is the only meaningful difference between the two. Overall, we can continue giving the dems a pass because they are the lesser of the evils, or we can attempt to use what little political capital we have to make them realise their errors.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 3 weeks ago:
That is more confusing since free software is a double entendre. The software could be monetarily free, or it could be free to use for development. I think the best way to move forward is to make active attempts to distinguish open source, ie freely modifiable code, & source available, ie code can be viewed but not modified. There are probably some shortfalls here and I would love to hear them, but this is what I have been doing when I talk about software.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 4 weeks ago:
Unless I am missing something obvious, the simplest solution is to require both uppers and lowers to be stamped. As far as I can tell, this would only be a burden to manufacturers unless there are some weird interactions with the idiotic “stamped part is gun” definition of a firearm.
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean by spending boycott, if your thinking about the corporations that are enabling this administration I can agree on sentiment but not on effectiveness, the involved corporations are already propped up by nonexistent money, removing the real money won’t have any noticeable effects other than accelerating the economic collapse, which I will grant you is not necessarily a bad play, but it is not quite as cut and dry.
If you are talking about tax evasion, I would highly doubt that that would end well, especially with the propaganda machine in full swing
- Comment on DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts 4 weeks ago:
From preliminary checking I would have to agree with you, but the only sources I could find said that the clauses that were explicitly sun set clauses have since lapsed, I see no mention of what clauses still remain, does anyone have a source for the original text?
- Comment on DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts 4 weeks ago:
You’ve got to love the patriot act
- Comment on Ruling by bullying: Threats of regulation as an internet governance device 5 weeks ago:
Good old Bud Cubby
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 5 weeks ago:
If you don’t care about audio on screenshare you could use matrix, that’s what I do.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 5 weeks ago:
I’m not too well versed in it, but just based upon how it works I would imagine you would be at greater risk without taking at least as many precautions as the normal internet.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 5 weeks ago:
So long as you are careful about file formats you shouldn’t have any issues, but there are a decent amount of measures you can take.
- Do all your downloads inside a VM that is sandboxed away from your main system, and then monitor the system processes when you run the file. 1.1 if you really want to isolate it watch things on that VM, but that’s a bit of a pain
- Have your download system on a vlan that isolates it from the rest of your network.
- Only download from well trusted communities and make sure to verify checksums.
- With a little bit of time to kill you can learn how to run a sandboxed video player on Linux or could go the extra mile and run a system like nixos which is isolated by design
It doesn’t have to do with device security, but you should only do downloads over a VPN with a kill switch enabled to stop your ISP from sending you a cease and desist letter. Keep in mind that you are just trading your ISP for your VPN server when you do that though, so you may want to pick one that has been proven to not record logs, I use PIA for that reason, but I have also heard that mullvad also got subpoenad and demonstrated that they didn’t hold logs.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 5 weeks ago:
I assumed that they didn’t have old hardware lying around, in which case they are not incorrect as they will need at the very least 8gb to run the server effectively which by itself is approx $100 unless your looking at the second hand market.
- Comment on Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" 1 month ago:
I’ve been saying for years, water makes things wet, so one molecule of water is not wet, but once you have more than 1 the collection of them becomes wet.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
I don’t know about the launcher, but I do know the that all storage is wiped in the process of switching over.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
Discounting some minor comparability issues, the process just requires a computer, an internet connection, a cable, and the ability to read through a couple paragraphs of instruction.
- Comment on US tech firm Palantir extends deal with French intelligence agency 2 months ago:
I don’t know how it operates under French law, but governments have been tending to use palantir’s services since it let’s them circumvent the procedure for issuing a warrant since a lot of the laws that require warrants to be procured were written in such a way that assumes that the government would be the only ones able to spy on their citizens, and thus make no provisions against corporations spying on people.