Adanisi

Adanisi , 9 days ago

Are you braindead? Yes yes taking regular screenshots of the desktop can't possibly be a security risk, right?

Adanisi , 9 days ago

No, I don't think "everyone will get hacked or something", don't put words in my. I mouth for the sake of your argument.

What it is, and this is undeniable, is a massive fucking privacy and security hole if someone gains control of your computer.

Adanisi , 9 days ago

Absolutely, but even with control of your computer, if you're smart, other accounts etc will still be inaccessible by the attacker.

Not when they get access to the Windows built in desktop spy saving everything it sees.

Adanisi , 9 days ago

"If sensitive information is not saved" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for you there. The issue is that it saves everything.

Adanisi , 6 days ago

????? It saves everything it sees that's the point ?????

Adanisi , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

User python script. Full control of computer not required.

Adanisi , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

How does any virus run itself? Are you seriously this dense?

Hint: there are many attack vectors, including no-click drive-by downloads, programs from Softonic, etc.

EDIT: Does this person seriously believe that because Microsoft made it, it must be secure, despite that literally having just been proven wrong? And that pointing that out means I need to be smarter than everyone at MS? That explains the delusional argument they're going with.

Adanisi , 9 days ago

DRM for CPUs.

All normal, nothing to see here, folks!

Adanisi , 9 days ago

Thoughts on CO from malfunctioning boilers?

Adanisi , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Boilers were, in fact, mentioned earlier. And have a failure mode where CO builds up for and is undetectable without an alarm. Just like the oh so dangerous nuclear. Where's your condemnation of boilers?

Fun fact: coal plants emit more radioactive waste per unit energy than nuclear plants, and its just vented into the atmosphere!

I swear people run on emotion only when nuclear is brought up.

Adanisi , 14 days ago

So Bittorrent?

Adanisi , 19 days ago

Regardless of whether they actively scan only with permission and only images, it still breaks the security for everyone as images are sent with the same security as text. And future governments might not be so kind with the ability to break into everyone's communications.

This is bad news.

Adanisi , 25 days ago

Same here.

Adanisi , 26 days ago

Yeah, sure, we like to promote it because it's... harder??

Adanisi , 1 month ago

Yep the Pinetime can last for about 2 weeks on Infinitime in my case

Adanisi , 1 month ago

What an original, modern, accurate joke

Adanisi , 1 month ago

If only he didn't decide to call it "open source", when it has quite an egregious license.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

having an ideological-problem with people making a living off their code

I'm just going to stop you right there. Free Software / Open Source Software are not opposed to people earning money. In fact, they encourage it and there are several avenues through which it is possible, such as not making the code public and selling binaries to people with the source bundled.

You don't need to fuck over and mistreat users to earn money.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

It's much worse.

The snap store is proprietary.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

Source?

Not disbelieving, but I've never heard this before.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

They did do shady stuff but I hate that the "TOTK worked on the Switch perfectly on release day" is thrown around as an argument. It's an emulator, emulating the switch hardware, if it does it's job well of course it'll do that.

I know that they used leaked builds but that just annoys me.

And obligatory, fuck Nintendo.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

They didn't win, they did an out-of-court settlement.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

That's not "proprietary code", those are keys. And they actually didn't include keys, Yuzu did require you to supply a key, however a lot of them were then derived from the key supplied.

And there is no other way to do emulation and a whole host of other things if you can't use their keys. Make no mistake, Nintendo wishes it could make using the keys at all illegal.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

Yes.

In fact, it's a good argument as to why "GNU/Linux" isn't wrong, even if it is cumbersome.

Android + Linux = Android, but GNU + Linux = Linux

??

Adanisi , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I dislike TikTok but should you really be banning platforms you don't like?

Sanction them if they misbehave, yes. Prevent most of the population from communicating using it? Absolutely not.

Americans have weird priorities when it comes to freedom. The mental gymnastics I've been seeing trying to justify a ban of a platform to a massive population of people is nuts.

No, it isn't "actually upholding" freedom of speech to ban TikTok.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

Packages delayed by a week or so is not "stable", in either sense of the word

In fact, that can break things. Especially with AUR use

Adanisi , 1 month ago

*at 40mph on a clear straight road on a sunny day in a constant stream of traffic with no unexpected happenings, Ts&Cs apply.

Adanisi , 1 month ago

You've been downvoted, but I don't get why. Are people in denial that corpos will put money above all else?

Adanisi , 2 months ago

I find it weird that Americans never let their cats outside. I mean, they're outside animals.

Would you stay indoors forever? No?

Adanisi , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

They don't belong there

They don't cause serious ecological harm. Even the fucking bird preservation or whatever body says cats don't have a serious impact on local bird populations.

Oh and they do belong outside, actually. They come in and go out as they please.

Outdoor cats live an average of 3-5 years

Most cats are outdoor here, and live a damn sight longer than that. My own cat is 7 and counting. I have a relative who had an 18 year old cat.

Maybe lifespan is different here because we don't have 10-lane motorways every 10 meters in every direction.

And for the record, if possible it is better for bears to be, well, outdoors in their natural habitat rather than a zoo.

Adanisi , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

There are literally wild cats you can find, especially here.

This pretty much is their natural habitat. 🙂

But yeah tell me again how we're all irresponsible for letting our cats breathe fresh air because they're "iNvAsIvE".

Adanisi , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Talking about my own country specifically here:

They're not really in competition. They're mainly concentrated in the pretty much unpopulated highlands, whereas domestic cats owned by humans are mainly concentrated in the central belt.

Scottish Wildcats are endangered technically, but not in terms of competition from domestic cats killing them or taking their food. Rather, they're interbreeding (because they're so similar!). That's just evolution at the end of the day.

Even though they're still considered endangered because "pure" wildcats population is reducing, the wildcats are still living and creating offspring, some of which are still wild cats, even if they're not purebred "wildcat".

Adanisi , 2 months ago

It's irresponsible to not neuter or spay a housecat, yes. I agree. Most do but some irresponsible owners don't.

It doesn't change the fact that the only real danger domestic cats pose to wildcats is interbreeding. Which isn't really a danger.

What they certainly aren't doing is what you claimed: taking their food source. It's just not a concern.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

"Cats are not native to north america and western Europe"

You're just wrong, at least about the Europe part. There's literally a species known as the Scottish Wildcat. And last I checked, Scotland was in western Europe.

Can Americans stop spreading patently false information based on their Amero-centric worldview? Please and thank you.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

I didn't say it's fine. I said it's the only problem when you made the grand claim that domestic cats were basically stealing their food source.

Because you made it sound like they're dying, when they're really just hybridising. Both are forms of extinction in a sense, but one is a lot worse than the other.

And again, they don't even live in the same damn parts of the country.

Americans like you need put in your place and reminded that the whole world does not revolve about you and your country's circumstances.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

You told me, that the domestic cat must be eating the Scottish Wildcat's lunch.

We were specifically talking about that species at that point. Don't try to spin it.

Adanisi , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Hey, since you don't believe me about cats not causing massive ecological harm to local bird populations:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200206053916/www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/animal-deterrents/cats-and-garden-birds/are-cats-causing-bird-declines/

It's also funny you attribute cat's longevity to the death of predators, and not the fact that there are native cats here and so cats very much, well, adapted to local predators.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

Aw, are you sad now? You can't think of anything else so you complain about the topic being changed ever so slightly to letting cats outside (still very much related)?

Anyways, you are just as responsible as me for switching topic.

And that's how a conversation typically works. If you strictly never even slightly deviate the conversation will fall flat on it's face in two minutes.

Also, I addressed the bird thing elsewhere. You should see it, since it's a direct reply to you, the high-horse shining example of global animal population ethics American.

Adanisi , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You edited your comment, so don't get snarky about me not accounting for an edit you made after I replied.

Anyways,

I mentioned wildcats because they are similar to domestic cats and the existence of them here disprove the "it's not their natural habitat" talking point.

The Scottish Wildcat is so overwhelmingly similar to the domestic cat that they can interbreed.

And this fact might entertain you: both types of wildcat mentioned are considered Felis Silvestris. They're really not that different.

I don't care about some American publication talking about cats as that is obviously going to be specific to America, and it's claims of invasiveness do not apply to many other places, or are such a small concern it's not considered.

Here's a UK source, a bit more applicable to where I live:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200206053916/www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/animal-deterrents/cats-and-garden-birds/are-cats-causing-bird-declines/

That's the checks notes Royal Society for the Protection of Birds noting that cats are not causing issues for bird populations. Give it a read.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

Hahahaha this is the funniest thing I've seen (heard?) all week.

GPL next pls.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

I honestly don't understand why the people who do bugger all for services should be catered to just because they have shares or whatever.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

Debian FTW

Adanisi , 2 months ago

Let that parasite rot in prison.

And can somebody split Meta already? Please and thank you.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

Bu-bu-but I'll DIE without the latest Macbook! 😭

Adanisi , 2 months ago

Devices definitely can be fixed in this industry, especially older ones.

I'm very opposed to anti-repair features of modern devices but I'm not sure what that's got to do with my comment? If you get a good device you can use it for many years even without needing to repair it.

Most people don't replace a device because it's broken beyond repair (especially Apple users), rather they replace it because it's more than a few days old and they want a new one...

Adanisi , 2 months ago

It sucks so much and is so unusable that Valve chose to use it for their Steam Deck!

Adanisi , 2 months ago

You love to see it.

Adanisi , 2 months ago

I've had the opposite experience here on GNU/Linux. The AMD drivers are phenomenal.