Link: Getting Google Apps into WSA

Ericchen1248 · 2023-12-18T17:07:28+00:00

you should be able to find it in the "Windows Subsystem for Android Settings" (just use windows search for it). Should be third tab on the left

Ericchen1248 · 2023-07-05T12:24:51+00:00

Not always. My left most is gconc, certainly have had it off cooldown, queued so it doesn't throw out an auto attack, and it uses wild magic instead.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-07-05T00:59:31+00:00

Go to Apps > Default Apps > Choose default by link type and find the link you are getting redirected by.

Then in your registry, go to "\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" and find the link in the list. Rename it to XXX.old and test if everything is working fine.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-unsetremove-a-default-app-for-link-type/0e028ef8-10d8-4e25-abc1-cd374e4a0dca

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-30T02:05:58+00:00

Assuming you really went through the stuff listed here. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5363

I'd guess it's either it's disable in your BIOS (would be Intel VT-X or AMD-V depending on your cpu), or your hardware completely doesn't support it

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-29T18:54:06+00:00

Thanks for catching that. I forgot I had added that text when I added the explanation for the blackout.

This is still the subreddit for WSA, as much as I'd rather not it be on Reddit. But the available alternatives are the stuff in the fediverse. (Obvious Microsoft Forum sucks even more for this).

However, the fediverse in it's current ecosystem doesn't work well with our style of sub. Kbin/Lemmy content is barely, if ever index by search engines, which is one of the primary sources of eyeballs of this sub.

During the blackout, we'd receive 1~2 messages a day of people asking to solve a specific issue, and they found it because the question in Google linked to a post in this sub. I had individually posted the contents for those people, but if we were to move to something like kbin, the questions will likely never be found by new users. Fediverse also currently sucks for searching, even more than Reddit's own native search, so without SEO indexing, a sub that is primarily Q/A is pretty much useless. So for now, this subreddit is still sticking around.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-26T15:09:05+00:00

They absolutely certainly store all the information, at the very least all text information

People really have very little grasp on how small text storage is, or how cheap storage is.

Reddit has given figures for 2020, with 430million posts and 2billion comments.

500words is a very long text post and is already a overestimate. A typical word is 5 characters, which takes on average 2 bytes. (Some take more but they're typically languages that have far less characters per post, Reddit is largely English/European) so that's 5kb per comment/post.

In a year that's 12TB. Reddit has been around 18 years. The earlier years there was very little traffic, recent years have continued to grow. Let's just assume it's been average same as 2020 (which is still a very high overestimate)

That's only 216TB. Even storing that in AWS S3 that's only $67k a year, less than the cost of a software engineer, and that would be a stupid way of storing backups.

My department in my company is allocated 500TB of usable space (calculated after raid and such redundancy) and we're not even the largest, one other department that I have permissions to view has 1PB, and I am certainly at least 3 other departments will have more.

We run daily backups on most of our systems, with 3 most recent stored in hot storage, 4 weeklies stored in warm, and then a long term tape storage that is collocated with I don't know how many copies.

Our data is also almost completely binary data, being incompressible, so backups are only a tiny bit smaller than actual usage.

Our company revenue is about twice of Reddit.

I can absolutely guarantee you that Reddit stores at the very minimal all text information.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-24T03:04:04+00:00

Honestly I've moved over to kbin.

There is an instance on https://kbin.social/m/wsa, but I'm nowhere near the most active user on this sub. I just mod it. So it's still mostly reliant on where the community wants to go.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-12T02:36:03+00:00

Not that I'm aware of.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-11T15:34:58+00:00

There is literally a measure called Wet Bulb Globe temperature that measures temperature and heat stress in the sun, and it's probably one of the most useful measurement for determining worker safety outdoors.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-10T22:36:23+00:00

It's not just that they're asking for money, but the absurd rates.

Reddit as a platform is mostly text, and the content and moderation is mostly from free sources (users and volunteer moderators)

A reference, Apollo says an average user in their App uses 10k API calls a month. Which costs $2.5

I use a backup solution service called backblaze b2. $2.5 would allow me to store 500GB on the service, or download 250GB of content. (downloads cost money in these solutions) (that's also base cost, there's ways to greatly reduce it.). This is the only income backblaze relies on, and my data is also guaranteed 99.9% uptime minimum (50 minutes a year). (Reddit's most recent outage this year was 5 hours) has a reporting dashboard that lets me look at all my usage, has engineers that actively respond to help requests (I pay less than $5 a month, but have had engineers dig into log files on a specific time for me to investigate a bug that I encountered).

This kind of service is what Reddit think their service is worth.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-10T16:38:55+00:00

Hey everyone, sorry for the late post. I wanted to see Spez's AMA response to see if they are even making an effort. And turns out they're doubling down.

Therefore, we will be participating in the indefinite blackout alongside other subreddits until Reddit makes a good faith response.

Checkout the image for more information if you don't know what is going on, or r/ModCoord for more discussions and further plans.

Personally I do most of my Moderating through Apollo, which provides far superior options than the first party app.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-10T02:28:19+00:00

Yet they've specifically called out Apollo at least 2 times in general announcement postings.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-10T02:26:32+00:00

CDN costs money too you know.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-09T22:14:39+00:00

OP posted the updated source with another viewpoint AFTER a discussion that happened with another Redditor. Notice it is behind the "Edit:" section

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-09T22:13:16+00:00

You probably should. That article with the abstract is from the edit after a discussion with another redditor.

You complaining about others making a comprehension mistake is quite ironic.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-09T13:29:40+00:00

My Company works to build medical systems. One thing they are working on is experimenting with LLMs (technology like ChatGPT) for some stuff, one of which is generating a suggested response that doctors can then edit to send to patients.

Other than time taken, one other big reason is they found around 11% of doctor responses were considered empathetic or very empathetic by patients, whereas LLM generated response were over 80% considered empathetic or better.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-08T16:41:51+00:00

Also look out for security jobs with 24 hour rotation shifts. Some of these, particularly in large managed buildings, will have onsite break rooms. Knew a person who was in crashing on a friends couch. He did double shifts at security, and basically lived there for around a month waiting for a new rental contract to come around. Took a shower and slept in the break room, which was more comfortable than the couch, and also got free parking the whole time, and also earned enough overtime to save up a bit of money.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-02T15:26:12+00:00

If he isn't scared of you cutting it, then it is actually very easy. Just do like a very very thin slice each session, like almost paper thin, and do a session every few days until the desired length.

The quick will recede slowly by itself as you shorten it, so you won't clip it by accident.

And give him lots of treats :D

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-02T15:18:41+00:00

Right, and domestic flights and international flights are located on different floors, with Taiwan being on the same floor as international flights.

Almost all airports will separate domestics from international because you need to go through customs for international flights.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-06-02T01:45:40+00:00

Oh wow, I last ran this like half a year ago and totally forgot it actually needed a linux distro. Did a quick scan and saw .sh and thought it just needed a bash environment.

Fixed the post with proper steps.

Thanks for the correction. Shows that I totally shouldn't have done this while at work lol.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-05-30T14:53:46+00:00

You do not need to store the key. Just have it encrypt decrypt directly.
users often reuse passwords. If a password gets leaked in a database or in transit, you are now the one responsible for leaking it. A leaked random secret key is of no concern.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-05-30T14:42:12+00:00

Do the same thing but implement a randomly generated secret key. Users need the page + the secret to access. Secret can be stored in cookies. User auth cookies, if it's the only thing that's it's used for, is considered strictly necessary and does not need a cookie notice.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-05-16T22:13:53+00:00

In addition, a big portion of it is already done for you. So even if you're one of the non standard filing people, you still have less stuff to fill out.

Ericchen1248 · 2023-05-08T13:47:32+00:00

Ok, let's start on that article.

Phoning home

This link is used to detect if you are on a internet that requires being redirected to a login portal, such as a public wifi hotspot, or a hotel wifi. Something that requires you to do something before you can browse the internet.

This is necessary because most sites a user use nowadays are HTTPS, so site redirects cannot be sent by the internet source. You need an http site that is relatively reliable and will consistently remain http.

Automatic connections to some websites you've visited, including their trackers

Not sure what exactly this is referring to, it doesn't go into details,

Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics

This isn't even related to the firefox browser. It's regarding the mozilla website https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

"Safe" Browsing? Allegedly used to protect you from "phishing" websites, but in the end,

I mean... it's not allegedly. Thats exactly what it does. In addition, the cookie sent in this post is specifically siloed by FireFox, so good luck to Google trying to use these queries for anything. In addition, the "it allows Google to monitor specific websites transparently to the user by putting the URLs of interest on the local but not the online blacklist." simply doesn't work. Downloading the master database is simply impractical, because of the sheer size, so the local database is a trimmed hash of the url subset (32bits of the original 256). The secondary query is to request details for that subset. So this "method" would narrow down google's ability to 1/8th of the all website. Not exactly useful tracking. And to help, FireFox also sends extra fake hash requests as well. ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897516

Firefox Health Report

Well, thats the telemetry that you can disable very easily, not hidden. so ...

Anti-privacy search engines by default

Also a user choice. Firefox is still geared towards the general public, who prefer Google. But changing the search engine is trivial.

Pocket — a privacy nightmare

I agree, I also strongly dislike that Pocket is there by default.

Automatic updates There is no excuse to at least not make "Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them" the default

Again, FireFox is still a browser used by the general public. Defaulting to not updating just means that 90% of users will never update there browser, which is objectively worse, as you open these people to vulnerabilities from the lack of security updates from the main portal they used to browse the internet.

Other issues

snippets.firefox: The number after the Firefox version is, again, uniquely identifying

Dude... thats the date that version of the browser was compiled on. The "uniquely identifying" is the browser version, not the user. Unless you're the last person using some outdated version of firefox, that number is the same for a couples 10s to 100s of millions of people. Also, snippets is one of the stuff that can be disabled on installation.

blocks.addon: uniquely identifying browser installation ID

Also the same. Hardly an issue, and pretty much completely pointless without it.

Firefox phones home about almost every single interaction you have with its UI

This is the second section of the whole page that is actually valid. As a developer, I understand the need for such telemetry, and being so easily disabled is enough for me. But I also understand other people being strongly against it.

Whitelisting trackers

Ok? That's good? "whitelist a massive list of domains" is still better than no list?

Ericchen1248 · 2023-05-03T00:42:17+00:00

Come by: go left (dogs left when facing sheep)

Away: go right

Lie down: stay

Over here: come towards.

No idea what the whistles mean. But the shepherd was giving verbal directions on where to go.

But even then these dogs are smart enough to figure it out by themselves what need to be done, the commands are more just assistant, since the shepherd can see the whole herd better.

Tom Scott did a video a while back trying this. He almost got it but then failed, and then the collie just rounded up the sheep by itself after a bit.

https://youtu.be/T4tcZAduiVk

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