Lifter
@Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 3 days ago:
Searching is way faster than trying to keep stuff organized in folders and screens. You get at least two clicks anyway and you keyboard is already there.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what they said.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 week ago:
You are not addressing my critique of your statement, just piling on a bunch of useless extra knowledge just so that you can feel superior.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 week ago:
The point with digital transfers is that you round it back to either 0 or 1, hoping that no bits are distorted enough to have any loss at all.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
In Sweden, all the major banks joinef together and created BankId. It id now pretty much a monopoly on id verification. Even some government agencies use it, which is problematic for multiplr reasons.
Debate by former PM: www.svd.se/a/…/utredare-infor-statligt-bank-id
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
Well all the major brands are below that…
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Yep but also 200 buck phones.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
The only way to log into my bank on the website is to use the phone two factor authentication app, which only works with Google Play Services… 💩
I’m considering getting a dedicated login device which can sit on my desk all day doing nothing else.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 4 weeks ago:
The problem with that is that insurance companies would gladly interpret that as tampering of the vehicle, voiding your insurance and which will really fuck you up in case of an accident.
- 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Emissions per capita would be interesting
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
You are obviously not interested in listening to a word I’m saying. Goodbye.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
No, the other ancestors are all native American. Obviously the child stayed in the native to community.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 3 months 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] 3 months ago:
Does it have to be sponsored though?
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 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.