jonathan

@jonathan@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The first option is unlikely, Apple said no but the UK were probably already speaking to their Five Eyes pals in the US. I don't think they ever expected Apple to relent and it was all just a gambit in the larger picture.

  The second option, by far the most likely in my opinion.

  The third option, the US doesn't need Apple to cooperate so this also seems unlikely.

  Remember, any individual or group of people can be subject to secret gag orders around US intelligence capabilities. Tim Cook can say whatever he says, but you can't believe a word of it as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would the UK do that? My money's on a new deal to get access through US intelligence agencies instead of directly through Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the "everything is an Xbox mantra, there's no reason to have a capable PC and an Xbox anymore. I don't mind waiting for PS games on my PC either, leaving only Nintendo still having some appeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can be waterproof but are also non functional until the water is fully cleared from the port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Convinced my organisation to use Mastodon and Bsky. Any userfull tools to automate crossposting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hashtags used to be placed inline due to character limits. That's much less of an issue now, and many people place useful tags below their post to make their content easier to read while also remaining more discoverable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate coldplay?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you're sort of right. It's not simply because they're popular, it's because the popularity means they get inescapable radio play. Over time you resent it more and more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They rotate them across different SSIDs to make it harder to track you. in a residential setup they should basically never rotate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think all they can really say is it's not on the near horizon, but every public company will enshittify at some point. I can't see a future where the investors will be OK for anything but going public or an acquisition by a public company. It's just a question of when, and when they start to turn the screw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just over a week on from the last one, there's a fresh Battlefield 6 leak here that shows the return of Rush⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So many of the games I want to play run on Linux now, I no longer have a Windows install available to play this with EAs incompatible anti-cheat. It's a pity, but I'm not going back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a weird hill to die on, but you're absolutely entitled to do it.