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cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain

activism.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED

it sucks but can you blame them?

For picking discord I very much can blame them, I figure it won't be long until that goes down the drain too.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

Just so you know, the actual source code for this project mentions both Jamulator and another project that did this for the N64.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog

(the sync can actually be self-hosted and is OSS, the DRM is third-party and proprietary)

cyrus , 1 month ago to Matrix in Matrix Discord-like Voice Channels

Video rooms are coming, Element is currently working on MatrixRTC, for Matrkx-Native VoIP.

Demo is at https://call.element.io, Element X on mobile implements this and soon™ the desktop client will too.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Privacy in Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os?

It isn't google-free in the sense that it ships https://microg.org

Unless you enable SafetyNet, none of Google's code runs.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

"Inside the EU" in the sense of "its headquartered in the EU" or in the sense of "available in the EU"?

either way, I've heard lots of people here vouch for Tidal.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Privacy in Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch

Proton and Wire didn't share any decrypted ciphertexts, Wire shared a ProtonMail address and Proton an iCloud Address that they had set as a recovery method.

Personal info like where they live came from Apple.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Privacy in Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

Most info came from the fact that they made the move to link their personal iCloud Mail as a recovery method.

Infinite wisdom.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

The case is essentially "hey you kinda passed a bill that's against your own constitution? You're kinda supposed to follow that..."

cyrus , 2 months ago to Privacy in Trying to understand Consent Forms, Cookies and Third-Party Vendors

there are additional cookies with duration as high as 1825 days, not 180... So which is it?

Whatever the browser reports is what they are actually doing.

In Firefox, enter the developer tools, navigate to the "Storage" tab and open the "Cookies" dropdown.
For any given domain you can now look at the "Max Age" or Expiry date.

cyrus , 2 months ago to Privacy in How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?

the metadata still isn’t.

That doesn't quite work in the case of Signal

The only data that they have, based on transparency reports and dissections of their source code, is the time you created your account and last connected to the servers.

Messages themselves are essentially only relayed, with sealed sender, and anything that would be actually useful to identify who was at a protest and who wasn't encrypted.

Things like, e.g when messages arrive at the server would have to be monitored live on compromised servers, which reasonably unless you assume* it is wiretapped already prior to a protest, isn't realistic.

*: of course, I am saying this because making an assumption and portraying it as truth (e.g assuming something is already wiretapped based on no evidence at all) is not the smartest of moves when it comes to threat modeling...especially if you wanna stay sane whilst having a threat model

cyrus , 2 months ago to Memes in I couldn't believe my eyes

I've just installed it, and it runs just fine on my PC

As per the source code, that was probably from here given that is where the source code for this Linux port lives.

cyrus , 2 months ago to Technology in Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app

They are technically not wrong when they say that the whole experience isn't made up of just an App

They are intentionally dodging the ACTUAL question.

Anyways here is a leak of their "LAM", which is just playwright for the most part.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240424133441if_/https://pixeldrain.com/api/file/vYHXbUwP?download

With that, we have both components, yay?

cyrus , 2 months ago to Privacy in Creating dummy Google accounts

approximately 9 months, sometime in summer of last year