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sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea ,

Even then, some places will reboot on a schedule when nobody should be using it.

I have some entry level "enterprise" hardware (Mikrotik router and Ubiquiti access point) and I auto-reboot mine weekly. In addition to maintaining performance and minor security wins, it also helps ensure everything csn survive a reboot (e.g. all configurations have persisted to disk).

It's good practice. Some people brag about continuous uptime, I see it as a liability.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I wish they'd do that instead of stupid speed traps.

Just this morning on my way to work, I was behind a cop, and they went 30-35mph in a 25 (everyone goes 35-ish on that road, it's very wide). I know because I was following their speed, noticed I was over, then slowed down. They pulled over, then in my rear view mirror I saw their lights go on and they pulled someone over like 3 cars behind me who couldn't have been going more than 35mph.

How does that benefit anyone? I'd much prefer they "waste" time tracking down theft like this instead of taking down hardened speeding criminals on roads where the speed limit should probably be adjusted (it's residential, but it's one of the few connector roads and has tons of space).

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Sorry China, you don't win the coolness award, that goes to flamethrower robot dogs.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Idk, but as someone who has a fair skin tone and thus likely wouldn't trigger a false positive, I am prohibited from entering the store based purely on the fact that they use face recognition software. Screw that.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

governments will outlaw the use of such circumventing tech

They can't stop all of us. If they outlaw using it, I'd support (or even organize) a protest group that organizes widespread use of them.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, it turns out if you have millions of pixels to work with, you have a better shot at correctly identifying someone than if you have dozens.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Reflectacles

Cool! Looks like they also have a discount for Monero purchases. I might have to pick one up.

I wish they would make a line available for cheap so a charity could hand them out for free, ~$150 is a bit much.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm guessing they use eye tracking, so they'd probably need something to block IR facial recognition. Another user mentioned Reflecticles, which should work but are a bit pricey.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I just wonder if I'd get in trouble for wearing them at the airport. That's the most likely place for 3D facial scanning.

But AFAIK, most facial recognition systems use IR, whether they're 2D or 3D, so I would guess they'd be pretty effective.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

But AI is "somebody else's computer," at least that's how most work. What's to guarantee that it's actually local and stays local going forward?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Use case: I remember doing something yesterday about this, but I can't find the email/document/etc.

But I honestly don't think the value outweighs the cost, so if I still used Windows, this would absolutely be something that drives me away.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It's not mentioned there because it doesn't meet the OSI definition, but Grayjay is a source-available Android app that pulls videos from various services (e.g. Nabula, Odysee, PeerTube, etc). I'm hopeful it'll become properly open source at some point.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Just do benchmark videos on youtube or something. Then rake in the sweet, sweet business losses.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Dang, they'll kick my corpse off Steam...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It could be, but I don't think they'll bother.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

What does this have to do with the article?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Is that the first communication though? I would really like to hear Cloudflare's side of the story.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Could you provide a couple?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

So no sources then?

If I have to dig, I'm most likely only getting one side of the story. This article pointed out that the customer broke the TOS and knew they were getting way better of a deal than they should've. I'm not so confident a random post online from angry customers is going to be so forthright.

That's why I'm asking. If you've seen some particularly interesting stories, it would certainly be easier for you to find them them me. I'm not looking for butthurt customers who got caught breaking the rules, I'm looking for legitimate cases of CF bullying rules-following customers into paying more.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, as much as I like Grayjay, I'm not going to help development much because it's "source available" instead of open source. There was an annoying bug I wanted fixed, and I was willing to go set up my dev environment and track it down, but they don't seem interested in contributions, so I won't make the effort.

Likewise for WinAmp. The main benefit to it being "source available" is that I can recompile it and researchers can look for bugs. That's it. They're not going to get developers interested.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And it's not a particularly interesting application anyway. I'd only want to hack on it for nostalgia, and if there are any barriers to doing that, I'll just use a different app.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It might wipe it though.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Nope.........................................

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Libby works great in my area. Connect it to your library card and grab some ebooks.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Easy: worse results with more ads means more searches and thus more ad impressions, therefore profit.

That'll only work for so long, but that seems to be what they're doing.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't think Stallman would be proud of anything Android, and certainly not something that the user can't update outside of the manufacturer updates. Pretty much everything has a locked down BIOS, and you can't really modify the OS yourself.

I'm using a Pixel (bad) with GrapheneOS (good), so I think Stallman would be a little happier, but he'd probably still prefer something like a Pinephone, which I think has a project to open up the modem.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I just got a Pixel 8 and I'm annoyed there's no headphone jack. I have BT headphones as well, but my nice, non-BT headphones won't work.

You can get a dongle though, so that's an option.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, the selection kinda sucks.

I went with Pixel 8 because:

  • can be flashed with another Android OS - I went with GrapheneOS
  • 6.5 years of Android updates (no word on security updates)
  • fancy new memory tagging feature for security - maybe I'll feel confident using it after it gets updates
  • great screen
  • probably more repairable? A quick search found a battery replacement for an okay price ($50?)

But none of that is on your list. I don't care about the camera (though it does have arguably the best camera on the market), and pretty much any software can do ical/IMAP/smtptls. I don't know what "photosphere" is (again, don't care about the camera), but I'm guessing Pixel does it or something similar. It even has fun AI crap to play with (I use GrapheneOS, so I'm not getting any of that).

The only thing missing here is the 3.5mm jack, and requiring that is going to limit your options significantly. If you can budge on that (e.g. get a dongle or BT headphones), Pixel could work for you. There might even be a case that provides one, IDK.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Huh, it looks like Google Camera 9.1 (what's on the original Android shipped with Pixel 8) removed that feature.

But honestly, if I wanted that, I could get it with a separate camera, like the Insta360.

Anyway, I hope you find a good fit!

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I have a couple in my garage because the previous owner liked carpentry, and I'll use it when I get an EV.

That's not that uncommon.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Good advice. I've never had surgery outside of wisdom teeth removal, and other than then, I've never used anything stronger than ibuprofen. I've taken some pretty rough spills, so I think I have a high pain tolerance, but I don't know for sure.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Well, Flint, Michigan had a high profile water issue, so it might be guessing location based on the question.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

This is why I love Duckduckgo, I can turn off AI and ads.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, if you have to repeat your search 3 times, you're seeing 3x the ads. If you control most of the market, where are your customers going to go? Most will just deal with it and search more.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Idk, toxic glue might do a better job, and you can make it safe by adding in some detox suppliments.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, delete your account. They can still use your past submissions, but going forward you're convered.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm the same way, I use Bitwarden myself.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Lastpass exposed encrypted passwords in 2022

Yes, that's bad, but attackers would still need to break the encryption. Nobody does that, except maybe state level actors, and if you're worried about that, you wouldn't use commodity password managers.

1Password app had a bug where it didn't clear master password after logof

I think you're talking about this study:

On the negative side, the master password remains in memory when unlocked (albeit in obfuscated form) and the software fails to scrub the obfuscated password memory region sufficiently when transitioning from the unlocked to the locked state. We also found a bug where, under certain user actions, the master password can be left in memory in cleartext even while locked.

To exploit this, the attacker would need access to the memory of the device and know how to find the password in memory. It's certainly not ideal, but it's also not very exploitable.

The newer version is worse in this regard, but it still requires that relatively advanced exploit.

In the conclusion:

However, each password manager fails in implementing proper secrets sanitization for various reasons.

This isn't unique to 1Password, it's probably common across password managers. Unfortunately BitWarden wasn't part of this research because I'm interested to know how it fairs here.

That said, I don't use or recommend either LastPass or 1Password because they're not FOSS, I just don't like FUD. I use and recommend Bitwarden because it's audited, FOSS, and competitively priced.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I honestly don't like passkeys, at least how they currently work. It seems the intent is to replace MFA with just one factor. I prefer 2FA with TOTP separate from my password manager, which means an attacker would need to exploit both to access my accounts.

That said, it's a sticking point for many people, so I hope Bitwarden gets it soon. I just probably won't use it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Idk, S. Korea's chaebols actively reduce competition. So be careful who you want to provide that competition...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

But YouTube links auto-open, which is why I post YouTube links. I suppose I could figure out how to associate all these random sites (Piped, Freetube, probably others) with YouTube, but surely URL redirectors work better when using the original source URLs instead of a laundry list of different URLs.

On Lemmy, we have the Piped bot, so the inconvenience for those who don't have those URL redirects configured is to go to the comments and click a link.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Thanks, I'll check it out. :) That should do nicely.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification. I've never used it, just seen it mentioned here.

Regardless, I think it would be easier to use YouTube links instead of Piped links for redirecting links to it. Then again, I don't have experience with it, only with Android YouTube alternatives like NewPipe and Grayjay.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Is it though? How likely is someone who watches that video to actually degoogle? He uses windows almost exclusively (Microsoft tracks you), shows benchmarks from games with DRM, recommends products that track you (e.g. Meta headsets), etc.

I'm not saying it's bad that he's doing it, I'm just saying it's ineffective. How many of these products does he actually use? Why should I trust his recommendations if he's not actually living a degoogled life?

I see it as lipservice for views, that's it. If he was really serious about it, I think he'd make his videos available on other services (and not just floatplane, that's a money grab).

I trust Louis Rossmann far more, because he:

  • uses the products he recommends
  • fights for real, legal change related to privacy
  • makes his videos available on Odyssee

That last one is a little self-serving because he's pushing his app Grayjay, but paying for the app is optional and no features are locked behind paying.

So I'm not gong ri applaud LTT for making this video. The intent is to drive clicks and ad revenue. I don't think that's bad, I just don't think it's worthy of commendation. If you want a better mainstream channel for this, check out Naomi Brockwell. She's quite pleasant to listen to and covers far more than LTT or Louis Rossmann ever would.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

My new phone doesn't seem to have the rotate issue, so the biggest annoyance for me now is the lack of channel playlists (i.e. go to a YouTube channel and see their curated playlists). I don't need that to pay though, so I'll probably go pay soon.

And yeah, it's a great app. I still need NewPipe though.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

If they go back to non-floating tabs, you'd save like 2-3px per my screenshots. You seem to want more than that, and that's where the accessibility issues come up.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't think people who uploaded pictures on Facebook consider that making it available for personal use.

Then they shouldn't have uploaded it to Facebook and made it publicly accessible.

Just because something is made illegal doesn't make it actively pursued, it just makes it so if someone gets caught doing it or gets reported doing it they can be stopped.

It's the next logical step for the pearl clutchers and amounts to "thought crime."

These people aren't doing anything to my children, they're making their own images from images they have a right to use. It's super creepy and I'd probably pick a fight with them if I found out, but I don't think it should be illegal if there's no victim.

The geek squad worker could still report these people, and it would be the prosecution's job to prove that they were acquired or created in an illegal way.

Do you think it's okay for someone to have real csam?

No, because that increases demand for child abuse. Those pictures are created by abuse of children, and having getting access to them encourages for child abuse to produce more content.

Possession itself isn't the problem, the problem is how they're produced.

I feel similarly about recreational drugs. Buying from dealers is bad because it encourages snuggling and everything related to it. I have no problem with weed or whatever, I have problems with the cartels. At least with drugs there's a simple solution: legalize it. I likewise want a legal avenue for these people who would otherwise participate in child abuse to not abuse children. Them looking at creepy AI content generated from pictures of my child doesn't hurt my child, just don't share those images or otherwise let me know about it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That would just make it harder to prosecute people for CSAM

That's true, and an unfortunate part of preserving freedoms. That said, if someone is actually abusing children on the regular, police have a way of tracking that individual to catch them: investigations.

I wish police had to do them more often instead of leaving that job to the prosecution. If that means we need to pull officers away from other important duties like arresting black men for possessing a joint or pulling people over for speeding on an empty highway, I guess that's what we have to do.

it still involves photos of children without their consent

It involves legally acquired images and is protected under "fair use" laws. You don't need my permission to exercise your fair use rights, even if I think your use is disgusting. It's not my business. But if you make it my business (i.e. you tell me), I may choose to assault you and hope the courts will side with me that they constitute "fighting words."

Just because something is disgusting doesn't make it illegal.

As for that article:

“This is really significant. We now have a peer-reviewed study to prove that watching [CSAM] can increase the risk of contact.”

It doesn't prove anything, what it does is draw a correlation between people who search for CSAM on the dark web and are willing to answer a survey (a pretty niche group) and self-reported inclination to contact children. Correlation isn't proof, it's correlation.

That said, I don't know if a better study could or should be conducted. Maybe survey people caught contacting children (sting operations) and those caught just distributing CSAM w/o child contact. We need go know the difference between those who progress to contact and those who don't, and I don't think this survey provides that.

find a psychologist that can help them work through their desire

I agree, and I think that should be widely accessible.

That said, I don't think giving people a criminal record helps. If they need to be locked up to protect the public (i.e. there are actual victims), then let's lock them up. But otherwise, we absolutely shouldn't. Let's make help available and push people toward getting that help.

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