wintermute
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- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 weeks ago:
I think BLE is only required for the initial compromise (extracting the pairing key). After that the attack can be performed over classic BT, and can impersonate either part (headphones or phone) to the other.
It’s still very targeted and sophisticated, so no reason to panic unless you have reasons to think someone with the resources could target you.
Regarding the attacks, they got way beyond eavesdropping calls, since BT headphones usually have access to contacts and smart assistants, that you can use to extract a lot more information - Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 weeks ago:
Every frickin day… at least once, I read a post’s title and start looking around for clues that it’s not real… My mind goes: “is it the onion? Is it April’s fools again already? This can’t be true…”
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 3 weeks ago:
+1 for Volumio! I didn’t know it can use Jellyfin as a media source. To be fair, I just started using Jellyfin and didn’t want to migrate everything to it until being sure it will stay. So far it’s looking very good though.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 4 weeks ago:
- ‘No’ is already the default, that’s why you get the banners, to trick you into opting in. There are a couple of filters that you can enable in uBlock Origin to get rid of (most of) the banners.
- Comment on Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software 5 weeks ago:
Cool! I’ll give it a try!
It’s heatmap-calendar right?
- Comment on Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software 5 weeks ago:
I recently installed the “Dataview” plug-in, and it’s amazing. You can create documents or sections by querying data from other documents, effectively using Obsidian as a database.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 1 month ago:
I’ve seen them in Germany, but between relatively small cities and towns.
Not Just Bikes made a video about Trams not long ago. - Comment on Doom the dark ages... 1 month ago:
Not talking about any reviewer in particular, but in general, even if they are not payed, they get the game for free and usually have affiliate links to buy the game, so there’s at least a couple of incentives to do a better review.
Again, not accusing anyone, but the potential for bias/conflict of interest is something to keep in mind when watching those types of reviews. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In some countries, you need to declare expensive items when you are leaving the country, otherwise you pay the tariff when you return.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
Exactly… I’m enjoying it very much so far.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
I’m starting a run of Project Zomboid without zombies
- Comment on 4 or more hours of daily screen time linked to more anxiety and depression in teens, data shows 8 months ago:
Exactly. Also, the key word in these type of studies is “linked”, which means that’s only a correlation, with no prove of causality. The way it’s written, it makes you think that the screen time causes anxiety and depression, but there are other studies that suggest the causality goes in the other direction, kids that suffer from depression tend to spend more time in social media.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 8 months ago:
Keepass is exactly that. Basically all the client side parts, and the database is a single encrypted file that you can sync however you want.