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TWeaK

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TWeaK ,

Hasn't Telegram always been a Russian asset?

TWeaK ,

I'm a little gutted that I lost my Facebook account, if only because it was so old I had a username. Instead of my profile only being facebook.com/<number>, my profile was like facebook.com/tweak. People were really surprised by that.

However they blocked my account because I used 3rd party web wrapper apps and once had a poor internet connection in a remote location. It asked me to log in again, I did, then it said "you've done something strange" and demanded government ID. I actually complied (although I taped up most of the info, like it said I could) but it kept automatically rejecting it. I think it was because my profile used the shortened version of my name, which I go by on a day to day basis, while my ID uses the full version.

One of these days I might twist their arm with GDPR and get them to grant me access, however my local ICO has been pretty toothless under the current right wing government. I don't really miss Facebook, but there are friends and family on there I'd like to contact, and I was a member of a particularly good meme group.

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    TWeaK ,

    Back in my day it was just boob edits.

    TWeaK ,

    Everyone should go the day before, they'll see it coming on the 12th.

    TWeaK ,

    The question hasn't been legally tested, it's no more certain now than it was before.

    While it might be the case that the EU could come down on a user's main instance for not deleting everywhere, really it's no different to anywhere else - any app that uses an API or even just a simple scraper can get comments that a user posts, so as with those it could also simply fall to the user to go around each and every instance and request deletion. Arguably, the Fediverse is better than this because it does include a facility for deleting things from a host instance - the only issue is that the other instance might not necessarily follow that (as instances don't necessarily run pure lemmy code, in fact they could run anything).

    Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)

    Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

    TWeaK ,

    Data collection is theft. Every one of us is being robbed at least $50 per year. That's how Facebook and Google are worth billions.

    TWeaK ,

    Paywall :/

    TWeaK ,

    Israel would never do that, they certainly never did that before...

    USS Liberty

    TWeaK ,

    This is just another attempt at establishing a new status quo for other social media before Twitter dies a death due to the insurmountable debt that Musk's purchase saddled it with. We've had a bunch of things tried, so far the only thing that stuck was charging for API access (which reddit soon adopted). Let's not have this as well, please.

    TWeaK ,

    The purchase itself was a death sentence. $13bn of the $44bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk's behalf, even before Musk started tanking the revenue there was no way Twitter was going to be able to pay the interest on that without further cash investment.

    Meanwhile, given that the business in unviable, Musk can try all sorts of crazy shit and are what sticks to the wall. Anything that proves successful can be adopted by whatever comes after Twitter or other social media. Charging for API access stuck, this is just the next attempt.

    TWeaK ,

    There are extensions for that.

    TWeaK ,

    The purchase itself was a leveraged buyout, they didn't pay the entire $44bn as Twitter took out a loan to cover $13bn. Like all leveraged buyouts (eg Toys R Us) the purchase itself is meant to kill the business. Even before Musk started screwing the revenue there was little hope Twitter could pay the interest, let along the principle. Now, Twitter is worth less than the debt, by some estimates.

    TWeaK ,

    Reality has a left-wing bias.

    TWeaK ,

    Climate change was adopted because global warming doesn't intuitively line up with winters being much colder on top of the average temperature being higher.

    TWeaK ,

    Now? They've always been playing whack-a-mole against third party apps.

    TWeaK ,

    The article says it's only a specific Win7 version of VLC that's blocked, so maybe that's the case with these also.

    TWeaK ,

    Can't you disable SmartSense or whatever bullshit there is that scans apps programs when they're installed?

    TWeaK ,

    If the linked article has a paywall, you can access this archived version instead: https://archive.ph/aeQhP

    TWeaK ,

    On AI training itself on AI produced content:

    “As long as you can get over the synthetic data event horizon, where the model is smart enough to make good synthetic data, everything will be fine,” Mr. Altman said.

    everything will be fine

    https://i.cbc.ca/1.6713656.1679693029!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/this-is-fine.jpg

    TWeaK ,

    kerning

    FTFY.

    TWeaK ,

    Dammit lmao the joke has stuck so hard I forget which one is the real one.

    TWeaK ,

    You cannot use the new Outlook app without syncing these data with Microsoft's servers, i.e. your usernames and passwords are sent to the company's cloud servers. While the data is sent using TLS, the IMAP and SMTP username and password are sent to Microsoft in plain text. This could allow the company to access your emails, and share the data with third-parties.

    Not only that, but sending usernames and passwords in plaintext allows for MITM attacks.

    TWeaK ,

    This article doesn't just summarise the discussion on Proton's blog post (which the article linked to), it's looking to spread the information and increase discussion of the issue, in particular in the community of users who regularly browse their site and comments sections.

    Your comment is like complaining about reposts. Yes, in the worst cases reposts can be bad and disruptive, but more often than not it's just a genuine attempt to spread the content/story further and one that introduces it to more people than the original. This isn't one of those worst case examples.

    Articles like this are at least better than Yahoo or MSN articles that literally just copy the text of other publications (although sometimes the source article is paywalled while the copy is not).

    TWeaK ,

    This has little to nothing to do with net neutrality, which refers to back end L1 and L2 network interconnections.

    TWeaK ,

    It's worth it for more than a few days, custom ROMs ftw.

    Personally my minimum features are:

    • Long press back button to force close and kill an app.
    • Call recording.

    All the other stuff and customisation is just tasty gravy.

    TWeaK ,

    Lol when I travel to the US I get 12GB roaming per month included for no extra charge.

    TWeaK ,

    and that’s even if your phone/carrier allows it.

    This is why you should buy the phone outright yourself then get a SIM only deal, rather than paying for your phone in contract.

    TWeaK ,

    Yeah it's definitely true, even with the same manufacturer it can be hit and miss. You gotta do your research before you buy.

    TWeaK , (edited )

    Net neutrality is about service to last mile customers, but it is based upon interconnection agreements across the L1 and L2 level.

    ISP's pay for a connection to L1 and L2, so their users (who pay ISP's) can access content on those networks. Websites pay for a connection to L1 and L2 so their content can be available on those networks.

    ISP's want to also charge websites for access into their networks of users, in spite of the fact their users already pay them for access to the website content. If some websites don't pay, then ISP's will provide a lower service to their users for those websites. Net neutrality says ISP's should not do this.

    Differentiating between locally used data and hotspot data has nothing to do with this. Hotspot data is about the device the data is going to, not where the data is coming from, and typically (or at least traditionally, maybe not so anymore) a PC will use more data than a phone. A PC is more likely to have large multi-gigabyte downloads (eg games), although these days video streaming is perhaps the main bandwidth hog and is generally equal across all devices.

    A home internet connection is expected to serve all devices in that home, while a mobile internet connection is expected to serve only that mobile device (excluding mobile broadband options, which serve multiple devices but are typically more expensive). The ISP's network is designed with this in mind.

    It is more reasonable for an ISP to only provide data to the phone you're paying for than it is for them to throttle websites you already paid for. However, really both are kind of bullshit - usage limits in general are completely disproportionate to actual costs.

    TWeaK ,

    They can care about what device they're providing internet to. Net neutrality is about where content is coming from.

    TWeaK ,

    That depends on whether the connection is sold to cover one device or several.

    TWeaK ,

    I love how all the Aones look stoned, except for Arnold himself.

    TWeaK ,

    On Windows you should be downloading from the website.

    TWeaK ,

    That's right. Fdroid the app is just a program that accesses repositories. It's not even the only one, Aurora has a similar version of their own called Aurora Droid.

    Fdroid the repo is a repository of FOSS apps maintained by the Fdroid team with apps they've reviewed and compiled themselves, to provide an element of trust that you might not get from every random developer.

    There's no fool proof way of handling app trust other than developing your own understanding of the code. Otherwise you have to trust someone. Fdroid seem pretty trustworthy, more than the big corporations, and more than many unknown small time developers - however you can get app updates quicker direct from the developer, through the Fdroid app, if you're willing to trust them.

    TWeaK ,

    Generally with small time apps, sure, but VLC are trustworthy enough to get it straight from the source. However, it's not like VLC is an app that you need to keep up to date as soon as possible.

    TWeaK ,

    VLC don't update on Fdroid, Fdroid compile all the apps on their repo (the one that comes with the app). Fdroid do some checks on the updated app before they compile it, so it's always a little behind the main release.

    Edit: it could also be that VLC haven't yet released the updated app (and in particular its source), so Fdroid have nothing to work with.

    TWeaK ,

    By the way, archive.is and archive.ph are Tor unfriendly.

    Not just Tor, they poison DNS queries from Cloudfare and Quad9, basically any DNS that doesn't give them sufficient location information about the end user.

    TWeaK ,

    Yes, but only because it's Google. Fdroid do exactly the same thing in their repo.

    The idea behind it is sound, because otherwise you're putting all your trust in the app developer. By having the store do some basic checks and compile the app the idea is they can guarantee no third party/bad actor has inserted malicious code.

    However, this being Google, they are the bad actor.

    TWeaK ,

    Pretty sure they're signed by Microsoft instead? At least that's what other app stores do.

    It's all a game of shifting the point of trust around. Personally, I'd trust most small time developers more than the likes of Microsoft and Google, however I'd trust Fdroid more than unknown developers (but still go direct to the developers I do trust).

    TWeaK ,

    I agree, I mean it kind of sounds like they have something dodgy they're about to put out but they're playing silly buggers and trying to deflect the blame, else they would have released already and pointed to the lack of a store release as the stores' problem.

    Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

    I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

    TWeaK ,

    DivestOS here, it's not in my ROM.

    TWeaK ,

    Yep, I checked a few places, in the end ClassyShark seemed to be the best place to see everything.

    https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/1754773b-fa0d-48b8-b011-37811d71b8c1.png

    I don't doubt it's part of AOSP, but that doesn't mean it needs to be left in the ROM.

    TWeaK ,

    Ahem, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a Nic Cage bro movie with Pedro Pascal.

    TWeaK ,

    Nic Cage playing Nic Cage and a bromance with Pedro Pascal? Count me in!

    TWeaK ,

    Dream Scenario is pretty awesome! Such a funky concept.

    TWeaK ,

    Where possible I always use local accounts on Windows, none of this signed in to MS bullshit.

    TWeaK ,

    Windows Subsystem for Android hasn't been as nearly as popular as Windows Subsystem for Linux itself and its scope was limited given the focus on the Amazon Appstore for obtaining Android apps.

    Sounds like no one was using it.

    TWeaK ,

    Also, don't google offer some functionality for testing Android apps in Windows?

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