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• I’m always ready for some ursula blaming but the first two are really not the fault of the law. majority of the companies “comply” maliciously, often also illegally, to make people hate privacy laws

  on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 36m ago

• it does not say part number is baked in. it says parameters are baked in (latencies, frequency), and so chips with a different part number might not work.

  on Raspberry Pi is intentionally blocking RAM capacity upgrades in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• That’s neither the law nor the ethical requirement.

  the law needs to be changed, and your lack of ethics is your subjective preference.

  on Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• As a photographer I’m a firm believer in the right to take photos and videos in public, for both artistic and documentary purposes.

  sure, no problem with that, just be careful.

  There is no expectation of privacy when in a public place

  that’s blatantly false. However much you deny it, there is an expectation of privacy in public. we are not going out to have a chance to be acting on your photos and videos. we are going out because we need to, to go to work, the shop or to the doctors.

  it would be right to say, there is no expectation of being invisible, or that nobody will see me do my things on the street. and of course if we do something silly, people will see that and judge us. but that is not what you said. there is an expectation of not having a permanent record of our own lives if we don’t want, and anything standing in the way of that needs to go.

  that being said, yes, you can take photos and videos in public. granted that there are no unconsenting people in the scene, or that they will not be recognizable in the resulting images. otherwise dont be surprised if you are being judged.
  recognizability does not only mean, whether do I know that person, or whether the face is visible. photographers are notorious for uploading their images to tech companies that have the capabilities and the practice to do their magic on photos to recognize people by their other attributes.

  on Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• likely not the reason. haven’t seen anyone denying the existence of AI so far. the other two user’s explanation sounds more plausible

  on Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households: Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent that connected to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• I mean, “america” (specifically USA) bad, but that user has no idea bitwarden encrypts the password before sending it to the server.

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• It doesn’t require a reboot for updates the way KDE Discover would for example

  it does not require that. turn that off in the system settings, and enjoy the consequences

  the consequences:

  (though occasionally I run into bugs if I don’t reboot)

  on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• and details: wiki.mozilla.org/…/Certificate_Transparency

  this sounds important:

  This information has a 10 week expiration time. That is, if 10 weeks have passed since the information has been updated (typically by updating Firefox itself), the implementation will no longer enforce certificate transparency.

  this also means, it can’t truly verify SCT’s that were issued since the last browser update?

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• it seems Firefox started doing the CT validation too, without needing to contact the CT log service: developer.mozilla.org/…/Certificate_Transparency#…

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• apparently certs can have a cryptographic proof of having been included in the CT logs. but what do browsers do if the letsencrypt cert has no such proof?

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• It’s actually to prove that a web server belongs to (or is trusted by for delivering their content) a specific website.

  qualified certificates go a step further, by proving that a web server belongs to a specific company or a real person. but that’s costly, because verification is inherently more difficult.

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• you don’t know how bitwarden works, do you?

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• which is still there if you are not using lets encrypt, because they can strongarm them to make a fake cert for your domain, and install a proxy repackaging HTTPS traffic with the fake certificate. all browsers trust the lets encrypt root certificate, so they won’t see anything suspicious.

  the only thing there today to detect this (but not avoid) is certificate transparency logs. all modern certificates are required to be added to this log, for the CA to remain compliant. but browsers are not checking the logs, that would be a lot of additional traffic and how do they decide if a certificate was created maliciously? also, lets encrypt could afford being noncompliant, browser vendors can’t realistically just distrust their root certificate, many sites would become inaccessible.

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

  there are too many people who don’t care about shit until they see results (good or not). like our greatest billionaires.

  on AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• That ‘digital shit’ has about as much value as what you flush down the toilet, individually, but combined into representative market statistics it’s digital gold - predictive information about what will sell, how much of it will sell at what prices, where and when.

  the advertising industry has left that behind many years ago. the question now is not what will sell, but how will they sell literally any garbage, how do they get you to buy that any garbage, and how do they make you actually want that any garbage above anything else. its mass manipulation from start to end, with the knowledge about everyone how to press their buttons.

  on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• 100k lines? are you sure you couldn’t outsource more tasks to existing tools?

  on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• The ultimate goal is to get this 100% AI/LLM free, but for now the LLMs are still doing a lot of the heavy lifting of configuring the target devices to install the player.

  why don’t you use ansible for that, or even just some bash script? you could generate it even if you want

  on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• in that case, meshtastic does not do routing. like a network switch or a wifi AP is not a router (except combined consumer devices but that’s an other thing)

  though, doesn’t meshtastic have some kind of relayed operation? that would count as routing, I think.

  on FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• oh, probably a network error. I did not do it intentionally

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• copy pasting? what?

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• totally different things. reticulum is routing, meshtastic is the transport. you don’t route anything without a transport

  on FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Help set family and friends up with access.

  that’s a dead end when all people are interested in is tiktok and amazon

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• only until device attestation does not exist on the web. google has already tried to make it a thing, and the public backlash only caused them to continue development in chrome on android

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• only until device attestation does not exist on the web. google has already tried to make it a thing, and the public backlash only caused them to continue development in chrome on android

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• then you’ll realize the even bigger slippery slope when you reread the article and discover it is for suspected stalkers

  on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• People seem to be fine to be transparent and 24/7 surveilleid with their phones. Some even seem to be fine to install doorcams from US-bigtech or spy-devices that can switch on a light. Heck, they even pay for those!

  yeah, not us

  on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• there is no practical difference. as someone going their way on the street, you have no way to figure out what is happening with the recording the camera takes. you cannot determine if its processed locally, uploaded right to a data broker, or if it is stored locally temporarily for it to be uploaded later.

  on GDPR trap Smart Glasses: Why Ray-Ban Meta wearers can be held liable in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• programs were slow, and I had my system on an SSD. I was seeing 100% utilization in task manager on the drive of the swap file when I was experiencing the slowdown.

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• “You won’t have a tiny pocket computer with you all the time”

  likely true in 20 years

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• I think its both. you have to understand it to be able to build upon it, but it’s also no nearly as readily available as pocket calculators, and they require much more energy that too. It’s not as portable as a calculator.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• lucky for you to have your boss paid for it. but it’s likely not yours, but your company owns it, and you have access as long as you work there. after that, you can say goodbye to your “professional expertise”

  this is completely different from the calculator that can run off its puny solar panel

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• security against remote hacking, privacy to use randomized bluetooth MAC address and maybe even disable bluetooth, safety to turn off more gracefully when something malfunctions. some scooters keep the engine running if the throttle is pressed when the head unit reboots

  on Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• tbh windows was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• so it would use a max of 819.2M for a total of 2457.6M of swap space.

  calling it total is a bit of a stretch. that’s the best case scenario, when the contents compress well.

  also, zswap might not be a good idea on that system. if it only has 4 GB RAM, it likely has a CPU tht is slower and has only a couple cores, and the modern web is cpu heavy enough as it is

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• I don’t think it’s needed anymore, afaik filesystem drivers are supposed to tell the kernel automagically

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• but that’s not what’s happening. processes do actually get removed from RAM, and when they are needed they are very slow until they are loaded back. the system thinks it’s more valuable to have that memory be filesystem cache

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• also in case you have too many electron shits open

  on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• I have bad news for you, simplex also has this “security flaw”: simplex.chat/docs/guide/managing-data.html

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• simplex messages stay on your phone

  I think that’s what I said with signal too. the exception is you can have your messages follow you, if you still have the old phone, because the app supports transferring the data.

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• I meant us handing over our encryption keys. ofc MITM does not work here

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• for signal, that is still required. if you look, they used linked devices to get the messages

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• the only time they mention signal is when they explain they used linked devices to obtain signal messages. not SMS! if you lose your phone or whatever, and log in on a new device, your messages won’t magically reappear, they are lost, and all your contacts get a warning that your safety numbers have changed.

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• they did not disclose how have they done it for signal, and than mentioning linked devices. it could be that they got access to a linked computer of the user, and copied messages that way. there is not much signal could do against this. afaik the app already uses the system keystore to store api keys, and to partially encrypt its data, but the system keystore is often not so strong because its automatically unlocked

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/europe@feddit.org · 12 Sep 2026

• I understand that, but what tools would you use if all open source devs stopped their contributions? there wouldn’t be anything left. we could go back to windows 11, googlified android with all the scam ads of the world, etc. I feel this mindset hurts the open source community more than the ubercapitalist pigs

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• the whois info for the IP might have an abuse email address, try that

  on AI bot hacking/scraping Home Assistant in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• I did not completely agree at first, but now I remembered google using similar language to justify taking away crucial addon APIs

  on The new data transmission permissions [for Firefox addons] seem to be misleading to users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• that is not a pihole device. or do you see that written anywhere?

  this is a raspberry pi 5

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• there is no pihole device, it is just a software you run on linux. you can run it on any kind of computer, desktop, laptop, raspberry or a cheaper SBC, even on old smartphones (but, due to it needing to bind to a port lower than 1000 the phone needs to be rooted first), even on your home rputer if it can run openwrt. but you likely want to have it on something that does not consume much power, because this will be running 24/7

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• you did not correctly remove it, you have just hidden it with markdown. probably your client handles it like that when you paste over a link

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• they probably don’t like having to run a full gui for basic text commands control

  on Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026