Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

pHr34kY

@pHr34kY@lemmy.world

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

pHr34kY ,

My company has build scripts that practically pull half an OS from an update mirror every time someone commits a code change.

It's maddening how inefficient CI/CD setups are.

pHr34kY ,

I have two Surface Pros that are BIOS locked so I can't install Linux. They also don't support Win11.

I'm not sure what I can do with them.

pHr34kY ,

Xiph have always produced the best stuff. Competition is great and all, but at the end of the day, Xiph's codecs beat everyone at everything.

pHr34kY ,

This new thunderbolt feature hilariously does what I once did with RS-232.

pHr34kY ,

Google did not put it in Android. They put it in Google Services Framework. Ironically, GSF is the first part you rip out to protect your privacy.

pHr34kY ,

GSF is where most of Google's invasive user tracking happens. It's proprietary, closed source and is not part of AOSP (Android Open Source Project). It is, by definition, spyware.

pHr34kY ,

There is one. It's called "AirGuard" and it has been around for a while now. I'm using it on GrapheneOS.

pHr34kY ,

I already do.

pHr34kY ,

I bet a ton of it is Nvidia and AMD junk.

pHr34kY ,

And my wife got a Meta Quest 2 headset that does neither of those. Ugh.

pHr34kY ,

I tried it a year ago and couldn't get it to work at all. The install process was so destructive that I had to factory reset the headset afterwards.

I'd try again, but I'm not sure I want to put that kind of pressure on my marriage.

pHr34kY ,

It was a while ago, but I think it stopped operating normally for my wife's account, and I had issues adding myself as a second user (not the device owner) with dev access.

The nonsense where I had to get permission from meta to take control of my own hardware was utterly absurd. It was 1000x harder than tapping a button 8 times.

pHr34kY ,

To check that box, you first need to sign up to the developer portal and pair the headset to your account. It wasn't even my headset. I just wanted to connect it to Steam on my PC.

In future, I would be looking into something that behaves more like a peripheral device. It should be no harder to connect than a gamepad.

pHr34kY ,

And half the time you'll find it in the registry too. Linux has proven quite well that an OS doesn't need a registry.

Oh, and what's with ProgramData and AppData being two completely different things. I understand the difference between the two directories, but there is no difference between a program and an app. Everywhere else it's Machine/User.

pHr34kY ,

I'm on the Ubuntu 24.04 beta and this is what I get in a day.

pHr34kY ,

The internet is full of bad advice.

Man pages are never wrong.

pHr34kY ,

I did have LUKS and a USB flash drive with a key to be inserted on boot. It was definitely difficult and caused performance issues. It was particularly difficult to add/remove drives from the array. These days I only encrypt my off-site backups that sit at the office where my coworkers potentially have physical access.

There have been recent advancements in TPM so disk encryption is easier to maintain and doesn't affect performance. I'll need to investigate this one day. My server/NAS is a 4th-gen i5, so it may not support the functions I would need. Full disk encryption will land in Ubuntu soon. I'm hanging out for that.

pHr34kY ,

It's maddening that my telco will negotiate a roaming rate on my behalf, and it's 100x worse than what a random dude in a supermarket can sell me.

pHr34kY ,

Yes, but it already had Linux on it.

pHr34kY ,

I self-host everything and subscribe to nothing.

If my router/server/Nas is powered on anyway, it might as well do the lot.

pHr34kY ,

I personally would flick through the OpenWRT supported devices and pick the best supported device with 802.11ax.

pHr34kY ,

That graph is trash. The baseline needs to be at zero.

pHr34kY ,

Worse, or... "better"?

pHr34kY ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/eaac197d-4b2f-4554-96f3-d882d3cba9c6.jpeg

pHr34kY ,

Everything about this just defies logic. I could improve my driving score by not braking for anything. Flat-out through roundabouts and high-speed cornering. Yellow light? Just keep rolling. The most dangerous driving I've ever seen has been from slow, inattentive drivers. This just rewards them.

I'm now having second thoughts about even using a phone for GPS navigation. Perhaps I should use a dedicated phone that's not logged in, or on a dedicated unlinked account.

I'm probably never buying a car with a transmitter.

pHr34kY ,

I don't think Fosters is associated with a country. Maybe Japan or England.

pHr34kY , (edited )

Haha that's what I was poking at. You won't find it on tap in an Australian pub. I don't even see it in bottle shops.

pHr34kY ,

20 years ago, a friend said "Windows does whatever you don't tell it not to do". It is as true now as it was then.

90% of configuring Windows is disabling shit.

pHr34kY ,

After a while, you'll hit a point where parity is impossible going the other way.

I'm running a striped partition and a mirrored partition with only two drives, and using an SSD to bcache the whole thing. I've even got snapshotting set up so I can take live backups.

I have no idea where to start with that setup on Windows.

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

pHr34kY ,

4.4 million sounds a bit excessive. Facebook marketplace intercepted my search for "unwanted gift" once and insisted I seek help. These things have a lot of false positives.

pHr34kY ,

On Facebook marketplace just after Christmas? A potential bargain on unopened merch, of course!

pHr34kY ,

My 6a on GrapheneOS stopped working months ago and I've spent hours trying to figure out what I had changed in an attempt to fix it.

Google broke it at their end? For no reason but spite? What cunts.

pHr34kY ,

Everything exposed except NFS, CUPS and Samba. They absolutely cannot be exposed.

Like, even my DNS server is public because I use DoT for AdBlock on my phone.

Nextcloud, IMAP, SMTP, Plex, SSH, NTP, WordPress, ZoneMinder are all public facing (and mostly passworded).

A fun note: All of it is dual-stacked except SSH. Fail2Ban comparatively picks up almost zero activity on IPv6.

pHr34kY ,

That disruption is from a 2G/GSM handset. Those networks were turned off a decade ago.

pHr34kY ,

Australia has a DNS based solution and it's fantastic.

And I say it's fantastic because I'm a pirate.

pHr34kY ,

I've found that you're fine as long as you pass all the SPF/DKIM steps, have an SSL cert and use your ISP's mail relay.

The biggest issue I face is that occasionally a legit mail server refuses to support SSL/TLS and my server drops the connection. The other 99% of unencrypted mail is spam.

pHr34kY ,

I'd doubt it's collecting or transmitting much. It's probably just estimating age, sex, race etc. and using it to decide which promotion to put on screen. It's possibly collecting these to determine what type of people use the machine. Similar to those billboards in shopping centres.

Storing each individual to recognize later or identify online seems like a stretch.

If it did have a user bio database, it would be centralised and not on the machine itself.

pHr34kY ,

Testdisk and photorec? It's saved me heaps of times.

pHr34kY ,

I'm hoping the K-9 Android thing still happens.

pHr34kY ,

An interesting game.

The only winning move is not to play.

pHr34kY ,

Gmail works with it.

But Gmail could technically pump the same ads over IMAP if they wanted to.

pHr34kY ,

Get what you're trying to do, but that URI has got an extra scheme in it.

pHr34kY ,

Oh, the link got fixed in an edit after I posted that.

pHr34kY ,

WhatsApp, Google Messenger, Facebook Messenger and Skype all implement the same Signal protocol.

The article's title is misleading, and did not explain how it would work at all.

Like, will the protocol also add logins for different services? I remember having a messenger app a while ago (Trillian), which would merge MSN, ICQ and other chat platforms into a single experience.

I can sorta get how DMs will work. Group chats may be much harder to implement.

pHr34kY ,

They'll pull an Apple out of their arse and somehow break it outside the EU.

pHr34kY ,

Hopefully the opposite is true. There'e end-to-end encryption and if the client isn't written by meta, then meta can't intercept after decryption.

Being able to use meta's chat platform without any of their code being executable on your device is a big improvement. They can't scrape your contacts and data at all.

pHr34kY ,

Microsoft are still better than Apple in this regard. But they're both far from acceptable.

pHr34kY ,

I feel this is now being driven by the decline of desktops in general.

Every now and again I meet someone who somehow gets through life without a desktop.

I can understand someone who owns a Mac/Windows PC just binning it out of frustration and not buying another one. They are just life-sucking levels of horror at this point.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines
    •