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by snailmailman 5mo ago
It’s a common thing for malware. But people are going to be more likely to fall for it when mainstream sites ask you to complete weird tasks with your phone to verify your identity.
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
I’m already sick and tired of seeing cloudflares “making sure you aren’t a bot” checkbox everywhere. Sometimes it locks me out entirely and decides I don’t get to view pages. I see recaptcha less frequently but it’s much more annoying, with
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
I want to enjoy the movie theater experience. It should be a better screen than the one in my home. It should be a better audio setup, with full surround sound. It should be great, a premium experience. The last few movies I’ve seen in thea
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
Now, when you click a link in GitHub, the current page doesnt change . I want to look at the linked issue on its own page. That doesn’t occur anymore. The page i wanted to go to pops up in a small overlay on the right hand side. The body
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
I don’t think carriers have the ability to install apps on iOS. I’ve always thought it’s weird that they can do that on android.
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
Regarding the telegram app I’d check iOS settings->apps->telegram->search and make sure “show app in search” is checked You can intentionally hide apps from search. If you did this, it’s not very obvious that its hidden from search
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
I've been running my own private forgejo instance for a while now. I host all my own private side projects and stuff there. Its a much more pleasant experience than github, if only because it has higher than 90% uptime. The UI is mostl
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
I think most browsers have patched this out? i didnt do super concrete tests, but at least on my machine their demo is failing to fingerprint me across private browsing/incognito sessions as they claim. Tested in firefox and edge.
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
Firefox's "Resist fingerprinting" does this. It sets timezone to UTC, standardizes the fonts, standardizes a whole bunch of other fingerprinting data, etc. It also has a "letterboxing" option to round screensize dow
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
I've always wondered to what extent these culling techniques still work with raytracing? A reflective surface can bring a bunch of otherwise-offscreen things into the scene. Its what makes screen-space reflections look so bad sometimes
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
I try to disable a lot of web tracking stuff, so I kinda understand if advertisers have trouble targeting me. But the information they should be able to use to target me just isn't getting used at all. Are other people getting well-tar
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
how well does the battery hold up after that long? Mine is only like 2-3 years old and I charge it so rarely. I can read several entire books on a charge easily. It lasts months. I imagine even if the battery degraded significantly it would
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
This is absolutely what it is. The easiest way to strip drm from a kindle book was through this app. You download the file, strip the drm, done. I think newer versions of the app made it harder? But old versions were still supported. The mo
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
It’s more difficult, but KFX drm is still possible to break.
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
Generally speaking, they auto update, and the latest firmware is always patched to not be jailbreakable. However airplane mode easily dodges the auto update process, and new vulnerabilities are found to enable jailbreaking eventually . Whe
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
It’s infuriating when I do a search and get an entire page of AI slop articles, “helpfully” prefixed with the search engines’ own AI summary of the AI slop articles I searched for a specific niche product the other day. Second result down
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
Usually the Anubis anti-bot things only take a second. But I stared at one for more than 30 seconds the other day when I tried to access one of the Linux kernel websites. Literally just a progress bar with a hash counter. I was on a modern
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
The people I follow on mastodon come from a wide variety of instances. While mastodon.social is the largest instance, most of the accounts I follow are elsewhere. Granted, all the smaller instances are likely easier to DOS as they are small
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
It has been resolved. https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/threa...
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by snailmailman 6mo ago
I’m surprised that such scanning isn’t built into windows defender, the enabled-by-default tool already designed to scan all your files. But yeah, they also just super aggressively try to trick you into sending all your files to onedrive.
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
I think windows has a feature built in on some adaptive refresh rate displays to dynamically shift the frame rate down (to 30, on my screen) or up to the cap, depending on what’s actually happening. I remember playing with it a bit, and it
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
Every day users? Probably not many. It forcibly disables lots of nice-to-have features. But users who need a highly secure phone? It’s entirely possible to use the phone without media embeds in iMessage, or shared photo albums, or websites
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
Update: It looks like the accounts have all been deleted by github, including their repos. They are 404 pages now. Their repos + recent malicious commits are all just 404 pages now. I'm curious what the policy is there if the accounts
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
The same thing occurred on the trivy repo a few days ago. A GitHub discussion about the hack was closed and 700+ spam comments were posted. I scrolled through and clicked a few profiles. While many might be spam accounts or low-activity acc
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
I run NixOS and the number of times ive been able to install something 'normally' (not via nixpkgs/flake) is approximately zero. You cant go to a website and download a binary and just run it. Almost every program references
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
It doesn't help that there are two NixOS wikis. nixos.wiki and wiki.nixos.org. wiki.nixos.org claims that nixos.wiki is outdated and unofficial. But both appear to receive updates, and which one wins the SEO game is a coinflip whenever
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
Ah, I think the HN post was merged. My original comment was in response to this related github discussion: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/10420 There are hundreds of automated spam comment
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
Are the spam comments all from compromised accounts, presumably compromised due to this hack? I only clicked on a handful of accounts but several of them have plausibly real looking profiles.
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by snailmailman 7mo ago
This is a quite scary map. They are all over my local area. It may technically be possible to route a drive around them, but if you take the most convenient path between any two points at least one camera will spot you. I'd have to
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
I like the concept of them, and I want them to work well purely so people stop using bad passwords. But nearly everywhere does it differently and weirdly and likely wrongly. When I log into my Amazon account with a passkey, it then asks me

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