TechieDamien

TechieDamien , 1 month ago to 196 in 'YoU bElOnG hErE' rule

Well it shouldn't have learnt how to run away from the school of Prometheus then!

TechieDamien , 1 month ago to Memes in Volume

To be fair there is so much JPEG compression on the image, you can't see much of anything.

TechieDamien , 1 month ago to Privacy in How to randomly pad files before encryption to prevent file fingerprinting?

Sounds like you want a proper backup solution. Take a look at borg backup, a tool that supports encrypted, deduplicated, compressed, incremental backups. You can even directly save to your cloud via protocols such as ssh, s3, etc.

TechieDamien , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

No, it is customer's since there will only be one customer left at that point.

TechieDamien , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs?

There's pros and cons. On one hand, packing your dependencies into your executable leads to never having to worry about broken dependencies, but also leads you into other problems. What happens when a dependency has a security update? Now you need an updated executable for every executable that has that bundled dependency. What if the developer has stopped maintaining it and the code is closed source? Well, you are out of luck. You either have the vulnerability or you stop using the program. Additionally bundling dependencies can drastically increase executable size. This is partially why C programs are so small, because they can rely on glibc when not all languages have such a core ubiquitous library.

As an aside, if you do prefer the bundled dependency approach, it is actually available on Linux. For example, you can use appimages, which are very similar to a portable exe file on windows. Of course, you may run afoul of the previously mentioned issues, but it may be an option depending on what was released.

TechieDamien , 5 months ago to Privacy in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

Can't include any proprietary code, so using the google sdk would invalidate it I believe.