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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, unless you’re in the UK. Before Advanced data protection was available, Apple was still advertising iMessage as E2EE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably yes. General rule of thumb is if you don’t control the keys, it doesn’t matter if it’s E2EE, your communications could be intercepted. Famously iMessage is E2EE but your keys are uploaded to iCloud under standard data protection. They say “Your iCloud data is encrypted, the encryption keys are secured in Apple data centers so we can help you with data recovery, and only certain data is end-to-end encrypted.” ^[support.apple.com/en-us/102651]. The encryption key is included in iCloud backups which is provided to law enforcement with a subpoena. ^[appleinsider.com/…/what-apple-surrenders-to-law-e…]

  Even if a service claims it is E2EE, it’s still important to understand where that those encryption keys are stored, how they’re managed, and if security researchers have raised concerns about the E2EE claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any school shooting is tragic, but incessant back to back coverage outside of the immediate affected area is not very helpful to anyone, and has been shown ^[journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjo…] to cause copy cats ^[www.nytimes.com/…/school-threats-closings.html]. The impact to the community shouldn’t be glossed over, but especially for this particular incident, there seems to be a lot of focus on the identity of the shooter (and why it has been a topic of discussion), and that’s what especially results in copy cats. If the goal is to minimize mass shootings, not sensationalizing them is the key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding the USA point, from the article, there are many indications that the site was founded by someone from Russia:

  But in October 2025, the FBI sent a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows seeking “subscriber information on [the] customer behind archive.today” in connection with “a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI.” We wrote about the subpoena, and our story included a link to Patokallio’s 2023 blog post in a sentence that said, “There are several indications that the [Archive.today] founder is from Russia.”

  This is the link to the 2023 blog post: gyrovague.com/…/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This syntax should work in most Lemmy clients natively: !vxjunkies@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The linked paper, “Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog” is also a great breakdown of how much the quantum factoring is more of a parlor trick and not practical for factoring RSA Keys, mainly since the prime factors are only a few bits off of each other and from the square root of the number being factored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, you’re famous!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a great way to get fired from a job. Mirror as much as you can from him while he still has it up, but also probably limit it so that the bandwidth doesn’t raise any alarms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With P2P file sharing, your client is sharing the files with random people on the internet and you’re identified by your IP address (or a VPN IP address / seedbox IP address / etc). MPAA hires companies to check for popular content and log the IP address, time, and content shared, and then sends that to the ISP. The risk and issue is sharing content with anyone randomly, since that is how your ISP is informed of the activity.

  With media servers, unless you’re somehow sharing publicly, it’s safe to assume your members aren’t going to report you to your ISP. I guess in theory the ISP could see high upload bandwidth and investigate, but more likely than not, if there are limits, automated systems will just throttle the bandwidth, and no deep packet inspection or other forensics is performed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good on you, but I would never pirate Ready Player One, let alone pay $0.50 for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you download a file (not via BitTorrent), your downloaded file will have the same hash as the person who shared it with you, but that doesn’t mean you were the sender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check if they’re on ICE List and if not, get proof and if they are ICE, get them on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends if you’re popular or not. People might copy your style and purchase the fast fashion directly because of you, even if you got it second hand. Say for example you’re Taylor Swift, and you literally steal the fast fashion cloths directly from the factory to wear in public. You are still indirectly financially enabling child labor and probably boosting the business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for this. Sucks the local chapters are primarily organized on discord. Seems pretty risky that they could all be shut down in one fell swoop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re probably not even building to industry standards and not properly grounding their equipment, so if you were to visit the “datacenter” you’d be literally shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come streaming or satelite don't have a playlist option? I got Dish and its annoying where I can't just tack on a bunch of movies or series and just let them play in an order I choose?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For broadcast television, especially over the air, there’s no additional load on the provider side for broadcasting to 1 or 1 million people. The TV consumers never have to communicate back to the broadcaster, and this is very efficient from a bandwidth perspective. It’s somewhat similar for cable in most provider situations, the video is broadcast over a wire rather than over the air.

  With streaming, each stream has to negotiate with a server to access the stream and the server serves the content to that consumer. This scales as there are more consumers, and the load on the provider increases. Caching layers and CDNs exist to distribute this load, and that is expensive. This is why streaming providers have a “Are you still watching” prompt if they think you’ve stopped watching, since it costs lots to serve the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of people have a crazy MAGA parent / sibling / cousin, etc they vehemently disagree with and wish would realize their relative is aligned with the baddies. Judging and targeting innocent people for the actions of someone else is pretty disgusting, even if it would show ICE officers the damage they’re causing in America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The raw comment is this:

  [Digg.com](digg.com) didn’t load for me, good start 😅

  It’s missing the https:// protocol, so the link is assumed to be relative to the current page you’re on. It should have been formatted as

  [Digg.com](https://digg.com/) and then it’ll look like: Digg.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Honey is just exacerbating the inherent flaws in the system, and most of it can be dealt with having a limit of coupon usage and expiration of the coupons.

  The thing which really upset me is advertisers pulling money from podcasts which have referral codes because of abuse from Honey. I’m not a fan of advertisements, but the referal codes were a simple solution since there’s no way to accurately measure if an ad was listened to. Honey causing advertisers to pull support for podcasts just pushes podcasts to closed ecosystems with more tracking and analytics, and takes money away from Podcasters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure when the sale happened, but there was a recent video about the invention of the Blue LED from the past year which was really good, highly recommended. To me click bait implies the contents are not worth the headline / title / thumbnail, but old Veritasium and recent have kept up mostly the same level of quality IMO. I will say updating old video titles and thumbnails to juice the numbers was annoying, but the optimist in me figured that at least people who had not previously experienced old Veritasium got it recommended to them which is a positive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Both the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequel trilogy end with the fire roasted Anakin.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s like poetry, it rhymes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you played inside video games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Pico-8 version of Celeste inside of Celeste

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haha, Russia 🤏⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does the true size work on a 2D plane? Is it because we’re ignoring connecting landmasses that this gives a better approximation than a full globe 2D map?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And at night

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought Cyberpunk on Stadia on release day, since I couldn’t play it anywhere else, and it was actually great for me. The technical issues I ran into were all because the game was buggy, not because the service was bad. The biggest issue was the self self-fulfilling prophecy that Google was going to kill it, and not worth subscribing to (which they eventually did kill because of low usage). I think that if Google had spun out Stadia as it’s own company, it may have succeeded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thiel was outed by Gawker and made it a mission to secretly fund the Hulk Hogan lawsuit which resulted in Gawker going bankrupt: forbes.com/…/peter-thiels-war-on-gawker-a-timelin…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I even have my phone upside down in my pocket so the charging port is facing up.

  This is probably the difference, people who put their phone in with the port facing down in their pocket have lots of opportunity to pickup lint as the phone is going into the pocket on the way down, and then also as you’re moving, any lint collected in the bottom of your pocket can enter the port. Unless you have super baggy pants, debris won’t be randomly entering your pocket from the top and getting into the charging port if you have the phone upside down with the charging port facing up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The United States changed about 15-20 years ago to always be after Halloween, so that kids can trick-or-treat longer and people will have to buy more candy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My friends missed a wedding ceremony because of this, showed up an hour late and were very confused. I guess people who live right next to a timezone border turn off the automatic updates on their phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before Unicode adopted it in 2010, Gmail had added it in 2008 to their email client: medium.com/…/10th-anniversary-of-the-poop-emoji-a…