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• Lol, nope. Data centers are built with advanced fire suppression systems.

  on AI ethics professor receives ‘dystopian’ email from 12-day-old AI agent begging for money to stay alive in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• If anyone tried for murder can’t use the same excuse and get away with it, then neither should they.

  on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• It’s called MDM. Unfortunately most companies try to limit their MDM solutions to enterprises, but FleetDM is an okay choice.

  on Is there a self-hosted Family Link server? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Yep, many piracy advocates are suddenly appalled by piracy. Truth is I don’t think many of them ever actually formed a real opinion.

  on Canada’s music rights defender sues AI song generator Suno | BetaKit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• It’s a cancer. They are devoid of morals. A cult of sociopathy.

  on UK announces sanctions on West Bank settlements prompting furious Israeli response in c/europe@feddit.org · 8 Sep 2026

• I agree. Most actual technical professionals agree. AI has long existed in some form before tech bros in silicon valley turned it into a SaaS. It’s just the fediverse is filled with a bunch of anarchists obsessed with Loli anime, and to them chaos and a return to medieval age is their best chance of living out their child loving fantasies.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• The US government is finally learning it’s capitalist system can’t compete with China in terms of AI. Someone finally got through to them capitalism will cause America to lose the AI race. Too little too late. Why they still call everyone communist and socialist, turns out they’re doing the same except it’s corporations that are allowed to be socialists and communists.

  on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• KeePass honestly sucks for the most part. I love local vault and hope something better comes along, but KeePass UI constantly gives me issues. I’ve tried KeePassXC and that is what I use still, but being limited to opening a single entry at a time. Additional properties are a pain. It’s author not even understanding the need for using the desktop session for the CLI (requires passing password via the terminal to or having separate key file). KeeShare not working on Android. So many things that Bitwarden/Vaultwarden solves much better and quicker. Sad that Bitwarden/Vaultwarden didn’t make a local SQLite client that doesn’t rely on a server.

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• Clearly you’re the one struggling with coping.here

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• You can’t claim to be “semi-technical” while simultaneously refusing to look at technical facts and dismissing platform mechanics as “empty yapping.” How a browser engine executes extensions is inherently technical. Claiming you want facts while ignoring the architecture just means you’d rather stick with an emotional narrative than understand how the software actually works.

  Chrome MV2 never supported some features people claim were lost: Features like in-flight response body rewriting and pre-socket IP filtering were Firefox-exclusive APIs (filterResponseData). Chrome MV2 never had them, so MV3 did not take them away.

  webRequestBlocking is not dead in MV3. Google did not delete the synchronous blocking engine from Chromium. It requires installing via policy now. If an extension is provisioned via local policy, full programmatic webRequestBlocking runs in MV3 just as it did in MV2.

  Everyday ad blocking works normally. For standard Web Store installs, uBlock Origin Lite compiles the standard filter lists (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, uBO filters) into native browser rules. Banners, trackers, and video ads are blocked.

  The original claim was that “Chrome users don’t know what an ad-free web looks like.” That is provably false. If you want to understand the issue as a “semi-technical” user, you have to separate actual browser engine mechanics from internet hyperbole.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• This is extremely funny that you’re trying to insult me, based on your feelings and not facts.

  My only participation in this thread was that UBO Lite creator disagrees with you, which he publicly stated, but you felt… Offended? (No idea) - and decided to insult me rather than to deal with facts.

  There is a word for people like you.

  Troll.

  Citing gorhill’s disclaimer that uBOL isn’t a 1:1 clone of uBO doesn’t prove Chrome is “ad-infested”—it conflates advanced power-user filtering with everyday ad blocking. Many limitation were Firefox-exclusive APIs that Chrome MV2 never supported in the first place.

  Under the hood, standard filter lists compile directly into native C++ evaluation via declarativeNetRequest, while cosmetic element hiding and anti-adblock defusers run through the scripting and userScripts APIs. Furthermore, synchronous webRequestBlocking is still built into the Chromium engine for policy installs. Pointing out the architectural reality of how these APIs actually execute isn’t trolling; it’s addressing technical mechanics rather than hyperbole.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Some of those limitations were never supported in Chrome to begin with. MV3 still supports webRequestBlocking at the engine level but it is gated behind enterprise policy (ExtensionInstallForcelist in the Windows Registry, macOS MDM, or Linux managed policy JSON). If an extension with webRequestBlocking is installed via policy, it restores programmatic interception.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• First, I don’t care if they agree with me or not. It is an open source project. They said from they never intended to try to make a 1:1 extension with UBO. They clearly lay out the positives of MV3 as well, and the scripts permission feature is a relatively new addition. You or anyone can contribute or fork it you want to add something.

  I have spent enough time working on MV3 to know Chromium has solved a lot of the challenges. If you want to have a technical discussion about the APIs and differences or how you might do something with MV3, then let’s have the discussion. I never tried to claim MV3 is perfect.

  I just have little patience for essentially non-technical cultists who go around spreading misinformation while acting like they know way more than they do. Prove it then… 99% of people like you never actually want to have a real technical discussion, because you spread your opinions based on feelings and not facts.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Not really. UBlock Origin Lite works really well. They even added content scripts recently. From a technical perspective MV3 offers more security by default.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Not true. UBlock Origin Lite works just fine. They even recently added the ability to use content scripts so there is almost no difference between it and the original UBlock. Manifest 3 has had and still has some challenges, but you’re being so hyperbolic that I can’t take anything people like you say seriously. Might as well say… “I hate Chrome so much that I’ll make up random lies to prove how bad it is!”

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Make city councilmembers scared again

  on Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• It is the same “anti-tankie” people that will mass downvote videos of Ukrainian military beating citizens and kidnapping them, and that constantly post weird pro-war graphics bragging about the number of people they claim Ukraine has killed. They aren’t anti-tankie at all. Oddly, or predictably, they are almost always entirely silent about Israel, Lebanon, etc. The anti-tankies are usually some of the biggest tankies there are.

  on Support Lemmy development in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 27 Aug 2026

• Yesh, people that love to use buzzwords like tankies typically would have been the first to defend Democrats funding Israel’s genocide.

  on Support Lemmy development in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 27 Aug 2026

• The US MIC is in an ongoing proxy war and this is in regards to recent attacks on trade and energy, and they’re now worried that Russia will fund similar attacks or take advantage of depleted US munitions.

  on Trump says Russia is 'not going to attack' NATO territory in c/europe@feddit.org · 27 Aug 2026

• At what point do we stop voting for the people putting up the flock cameras, and start voting for those that have comprehensive plans to address real issues?

  on Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• No, a much better comparison is that his backyard is already wide open. Whenever you go there he takes you all around his backyard. There are no signs saying you shouldn’t go to certain parts or fences stopping you. You go there to look at other parts and he still takes you there. Then one day he gets mad and says he himself took you to a part of his backyard that he didn’t want to, and rather than put up a better fence, he’s going to have you arrested for trespassing with multiple felonies… no warning, straight to prison!

  on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Lol, doesn’t matter if you have expensive lawyers. What matters is that you have counsel that goes to church with the judge or plays golf at the country club with them, or knows people that do. Or you’re a Zionists genocide supporter and pedophile like Alan Dershowitz.

  on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Fuck Congress and the DoJ as well. How the fuck can Reddit still have Section 230 protections after what spez did?

  on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• But he did have access via university. Besides, my understanding is he was scraping research journals, many of which would not have been possible without grants from tax dollars. Meaning the mere fact that the research is publicly funded means the journals should also be public.But they didn’t even prove he distributed them. For all we know, he was planning to have an AI use them for training and apparently that isn’t a problem.

  You do realize as well that almost every site you visit makes API requests. And you can then use the same API to request other data directly. And the difference between “public” and unauthorized access often comes down to whether you used the same API that your browser would call, but instead decided to make other calls to it directly.

  on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Musk made multiple implications that Trump was a pedophile and that is why he was hiding the Epstein files, only to then go back to giving him money and hanging out with him. If you donate money to someone you think is a pedophile that makes you a pedophile. Simple as that.

  on Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026

• For a long time it felt like BlueSky was just a Blue MAGA version of X. It has gotten a bit better and I see more progressive discourse, but circa the 2024 election it was just a bunch of what I’m guessing were campaign-funded influencers/bots and then people that thrived off that bubble without realizing they were in an echo chamber. I think it is great that alternatives exists, especially since I got banned from X for criticizing Musk. It is at least reassuring when I see various companies/politicians not merely relying on Twitter/X these days.

  on Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app: 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• You’re completely confusing device classes and how forensic acquisition works.

  First, it’s a USB Mass Storage device, not a USB HID (Human Interface Device). Mass Storage operates via SCSI block commands wrapped in USB packets.

  Second, even if the custom firmware successfully fakes the LBA table to report 8 GB, it fails at the protocol level. Forensic tools don’t just read files—they issue low-level SCSI INQUIRY and MODE SENSE commands. Commercial flash controllers (Phison, Silicon Motion) have hardcoded ASIC signatures and proprietary descriptors. A generic CH569 MCU running C code trying to fake these descriptors or pass off software-bridged microSD reads introduces packet latency, timing jitter, and missing SCSI pages that log protocol anomalies during raw acquisition.

  Finally, software doesn’t matter if they look at the hardware. Modern 3D CT/X-ray baggage scanners visually isolate silicon footprints instantly without opening the casing. A standard commercial drive is a single integrated ASIC on NAND. A board with a generic CH569 MCU, voltage regulators, UART test points, and a physical microSD socket stands out.

  on Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• Do you think TSA/CBP is going to check the flash data lines to see if the MCU is scanning the flash internally?

  This isn’t a standard USB flash controller… You would need to break the casing and physically probe it to figure out that something was off as far as I can tell. It’s not like the MCU broadcasts that it is scanning to the USB port.

  You would have to be hitting the stick pretty hard, not just a normal file scan to notice the timing being slightly too long in a small portion of the scans. The bigger problem would be that the flash drive would be brand-recognizable if it ends up being mass produced that they might auto-confiscate it, and of course the default file that it searches for being known.

  You’re proving my point. The device actually fails both ends of the threat model.

  If it’s a casual check, custom hardware is total overkill. You take a standard 1 TB off-the-shelf drive formatted to its full 1 TB capacity as a single partition. You put normal files on it and hide the encrypted header—plus a lightweight host-side decryption utility/bootloader—inside a single JPEG using steganography. To any border agent, OS, or disk tool, the drive is just a healthy 1 TB partition containing readable files and residual random data from a quick format. There are no custom drivers installed, no modified media file sizes, and no missing drive space to trigger software or system flags. Once at your destination, you simply extract the utility from the JPEG on a trusted machine to mount the hidden sectors.

  If it’s a high-scrutiny check, this custom hardware actively guarantees you stand out. CBP doesn’t need software checks—non-destructive X-ray imaging is standard screening. Under a scan, a mass-produced thumb drive shows a single integrated ASIC on NAND. The Phantom Drive immediately reveals a generic CH569 microcontroller, buck regulators, UART test points, etc.

  It visually stands out like a neon sign under basic physical imaging. It doesn’t defeat the threat model—it actively creates the physical hardware anomaly.

  on Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• No it isn’t. It will be treated like any other drive where encryption is nothing new. In fact, to look for a text file and then make something accessible means it is likely much easier to detect that something is off about it than regular encryption that just looks like random data. Whether it tries to hide it’s true storage capacity or boots its own internal OS to present storage, people often think they’re being clever when really they’re just making themselves stand out.

  on Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026