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- Comment on flashing ROM, is it that easy? 6 months ago:
With Xiaomi, you're looking at a two week or more wait to unlock the bootloader. I wouldn't recommend it.
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 6 months ago:
Now my friends know I bought an Alienware device. I'm never going to live this down.
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 6 months ago:
I know you're being flippant, but it's worth noting that there is a considerable difference between a company getting hacked like this and an app with unfettered access to the cluster to sensors that we've got in our pockets.
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 6 months ago:
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 6 months ago:
Perhaps "state managed" would be a better descriptor for Chinese private companies, since now they have personnel belonging to the CCP serving in management or board positions.
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 6 months ago:
Isn't every Chinese company partly state-owned?
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Looks like it worked a treat. Do WeChat next!
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics Creator Reacts to Unicorn Overlord Localization Debate and Shares His Own Stories 8 months ago:
I don't think anyone would've complained if the localization's quality was on-par with AA or Vagrant Story, but it looks to me like that isn't the case.
- Comment on Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men 8 months ago:
It's strange that we've put so much work into DRM and yet piracy persists. Almost as if...
- Comment on China’s massive Desert Solar/Wind Project will eventually produce 455 Gigawatts of power, enough to power all of India. 9 months ago:
What do we do with solar panels once they reach end-of-life?
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
There is no reason for CBDC to use blockchain.
- Comment on I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why. 9 months ago:
crypto wallet
Ah, thank you for this piece of information. Nostr is not for me. - Comment on Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation 10 months ago:
What makes an anticheat a rootkit? Rootkits are malicious and don't generally come with EULAs and uninstallers.
- Comment on Kagi search engine releases a "lens" to search lemmy/kbin instances 10 months ago:
I read somewhere that they'd make it opt-out, but I can't find that setting anywhere.
- Comment on What would happen if you drank bleach, and then drank ammonia? 11 months ago:
If doesn't kill you, it would make you very, very sick.
- Comment on Regarding Avocado Toast 11 months ago:
It's not even that good, I'd take a nice BLT over it any day of the week.
- Comment on Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. 11 months ago:
I'll get my friend to buy it from me for millions, then he can give the money back to me and when it sells again, we can split the profit. It's win-win!
- Comment on AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled 11 months ago:
The confusion is understandable but this is not a fuse in common usage of the word, which is used to break a circuit to protect against over-current. Rather it's an part that changes state irreversibly (much like a fuse) when something happens.
- Comment on Anytype as an alternative to Notion or Obsidian 11 months ago:
It also seems to use a remarkable amount of CPU power for some reason, I could hear my PC's fans spin up significantly.
- Comment on Anytype as an alternative to Notion or Obsidian 11 months ago:
I tried looking for where the company developing Logseq was located and couldn't find any information at all. The only thing I found was this in the T&C
If you have any questions or suggestions about the Terms and Conditions, do not hesitate to contact me at tiensonqin@gmail.com.
- Comment on Why is anti-cheat always client-side? 11 months ago:
I don't call
sudoa rootkit, do you? - Comment on Why is anti-cheat always client-side? 11 months ago:
Just let people vote to kick
This system is easy to abuse, and historically when implemented will be abused. - Comment on Why is anti-cheat always client-side? 11 months ago:
I just want to say that the term 'rootkit' has been twisted out of shape when referring to anti-cheat. Rootkits are malicious. Software using low level privileges that require the user's consent to a EULA, and which is designed to be uninstallable by the user I would not consider a rootkit, just invasive.
- Comment on Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices 11 months ago:
Weird I downloaded it in Firefox and all it shows is
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The premier sensors enabling Windows Hello fingerprint authentication are not as secure as manufacturers had hoped. Researchers have discovered security flaws in a number of fingerprint sensors used in several laptops that work with the Windows Hello authentication feature.
Saved you a click.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
If Binance knew that they were trading derivatives illegally in the US and went ahead with it any way, then they were deceiving their customers, which does make it a scam.
- Comment on Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024 1 year ago:
What is your job?
- Comment on Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile 1 year ago:
I see what you're saying, but that's not Firefox. Not really.
- Comment on Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile 1 year ago:
I'd have bought an iPhone a long time ago if it had Firefox. Unfortunate.
- Comment on Marines Test Rocket-Carrying 'Robotic Goat' at Twentynine Palms 1 year ago:
The robot in the picture looks like a Unitree Go1: https://www.unitree.com/en/go1/
This is remarkable because according to the unitree website they are a Chinese company.HangZhou YuShu TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD All Rights Reserved 浙ICP备17044557号 浙公网安备 33010802011921号