Lifter

@Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. If he changed the license to allow packaging the new version, at least all of those reports would be of the current version rather than the last GPL one.

  Let the community in and use their time to contribute rather than locking it down as a one man project and then complaining about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but the app will inevitably have bad reviews on Android because it will not be as good - both technically and in yerms of “customer service”.

  FOSS can’t usually compete with big tech in this area and it is one of the biggest drawbacks to FOSS in general. You are on your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good points! Keeping to the norm is very important for readability.

  I do disagree with the performance bit though. Again, there will probably be no difference at all in the performance because the redundant code is removed before (or during [e.g. JIT optimizations]) execution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding the “bad code”. It’s more readable though to keep the full limit for each elif case, which is most often way more important than performance, especially since than logic with the age can be easily optimized by any good compiler or runtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know you can get those extensions for Firefox (and forks) for Android, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Higher for the desperate and lower for the casual traveler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about total polution of an item per county (or region) population - counted like kgCO2 / kg produce / person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Emissions per capita would be interesting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would actually be useful for local testing of software during development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except capital income can be hidden in other countries, still giving an unfair advantage to the super rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soon they may come with cellular capacity. Cars and e-bikes already do.

  You gotta Faraday cage it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are obviously not interested in listening to a word I’m saying. Goodbye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vomiting Emoji⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perro salsiccia!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, we need to stop saying E2EE is safe at all, for any type of data, because or the arbitrary usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably didn’t understand me. I’m saying that a company can just arbitrarily decide (like you did) that the server is the “end” recipient (which I disagree with). That can be done for chat messages too.

  You send the message “E2EE” to the server, to be stored there (like a file, unencrypted), so that the recipient(s) can - sometime in the future - fetch the message, which would be encrypted again, only during transport. This fully fits your definition for the cloud storage example.

  By changing the recipient “end”, we can arbitrarily decode the message then.

  I would argue that the cloud provider is not the recipient of files uploaded there. In the same way a chat message meant for someone else is not meant for the server to read, even if it happens to be stored there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhh yes, sorry. I had it the other way around. Perhaps a native american then raped/had child with a caucasian, who kept the child?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The third paragraph contradicts your other point. You define E2EE in two wildly different ways.

  The chat messages are most likely stored on an intermediary server, which would qualify for the same loophole you pointed out in the cloud storage example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the other ancestors are all native American. Obviously the child stayed in the native to community.

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

  There may be several reasons for this. If I had to guess, they found a critical flaw and had to shut it down for security reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it have to be sponsored though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to be the devil’s advocate here: There are way more settings now than back then. That interface wouldn’t cut it either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just a few Display Ports and HDMI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Xat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3073: Tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t really explain the part where artificially making the pizza more expensive is somehow a payback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It just changes the user agent instead…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM is a subset of ML, which is a subset of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pebble Has Been Brought Back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just waiting for an IP lawsuit to happen there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM is a subset of AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people don’t want specialised tools, they want one tool they can always have with them. We can see the decline of computer use (and literacy) as a consequence of this. Many young people don’t use computers much, if at all.