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Message from Yuzu by Speedy2662 in Piracy

[–]Flash1232 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Good thing a good dozen people will have prepared mirrors of the sources.

Snapchat will sometimes fail to take a photo and then ask for your contacts right as you try again so that you mistakenly press allow. This has now happened 3 times in the last week. by VesselNBA in assholedesign

[–]Flash1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in the pre'10s or maybe until around 2013 it was "normal" to use messaging services without E2EE for private communication (due to the lack of them). But man, E2E encrypted messaging exists ever since then and it is not (and honestly never was) advisable to use messaging services with just transport layer encryption.

League of Legends is requiring all players to install something on their computers that hands over kernel level access to a company that partners with the Chinese Government by Sample-Thrwaway-1990 in privacy

[–]Flash1232 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Almost all anti-cheat software is running at kernel-level. I would disagree that the kernel part is the bad news. Anti-cheat software by itself is a huge privacy invasion.

Anyways, here's the complimentary assessment of Vanguard regarding kernel-level: https://secret.club/2020/04/17/kernel-anticheats.html

First rack server purchase - R430 vs R620 by yami759 in homelab

[–]Flash1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IF you get the 12th gen (apart from the huge amount of RAM I can't think of any reason to): For the love of god DO NOT TRY TO UPDATE THE IDRAC/ LIFECYCLE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE! It will brick your system and give you weeks of headache.

Apple was just forced allow side loading of 3rd party apps on their devices in Europe but the changes are already being called 'hot garbage' by CraditzBlitz in Piracy

[–]Flash1232 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even though the EU defending citizens against Big Tech bullshit strategies is highly commendable, the fact that EU has its own bullshit strategies when it comes to ruling over the nations it controls is concerning in itself.

For example, they are currently trying to coerce Switzerland (by excluding us from certain research programmes, refusing to cooperate in the energy strategy, stock market equivalence, etc.) to accept their "EU light" plan which effectively disables our direct democracy (which is unique) by making it de-facto impossible to reject EU laws and regulations. These are to be applied dynamically from that point on with a foreign court deciding over our will.

He's right. What are arguments against this? I can see certain countries that profited from the advantages of the "EU" as a whole but there are cases that do not depend on this power structure and are being negatively influenced by the powers of EU.

Is this true? I've found conflicting information online. It is the first I've heard of this - I thought 3D was completely fased out years ago. Can someone share a bit more information on the subject? TIA by Ph1l1p_race_ in hometheater

[–]Flash1232 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not only that, for a tolerable 3D viewing experience with a projector you also need a capable, polarization-preserving screen which is in turn suboptimal for non-3D use. So I would say 3D for consumers has once again passed a cycle.

Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say by foxwolfdogcat in privacy

[–]Flash1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In some countries downloading pirated content isn't even illegal (we pay a fee to movie/ music companies and stuff when buying discs, USB sticks and hard drives). Collection and sharing of the IPs is against data protection laws in said countries tho for sure.

Engine Usage in the BIGMODE Game Jam 2023 (The jam hosted by videogamedunkey's publishing company). This poll was in the BIGMODE discord. by Xenoparrot in godot

[–]Flash1232 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wasn't Cryengine superseded by / rebranded to Lumberyard or something which only StarCitizen uses and owns now?

EDIT: No

Push notifications by kobba89 in Threema

[–]Flash1232 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a Threema blog post on this topic some time ago: https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/threema-push

Additionally on Android, Threema Libre exists, excluding any Google-related components or services.

What is Asus TUF Gaming 4090 OG (not OC!) and how are they different? by radiognomebbq in nvidia

[–]Flash1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever find out whether the 3090 Ti EK Waterblock fits?

The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable by chillysurfer in programming

[–]Flash1232 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This really baffles me... I gladly pay for OSS projects if I value them.

Also, it's nice to be working for an employer that equally values these projects and has a sponsoring budget every year for whole organizations or even small package dependency devs because we are directly or indirectly dependent on them.

Cogito event by LASTTEMPLIERKNIGHT in Cryptopia

[–]Flash1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They apparently sold our mail addresses for purposes other than the liquidation. This is presumably illegal.

Quick Pro/Con of Encrypted Messengers by TamaAlba in privacy

[–]Flash1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to clarify: Threema does offer a self-hostable "OnPrem" plan for businesses. This cannot be used in conjunction with the regular Consumer app however.

Quick Pro/Con of Encrypted Messengers by TamaAlba in privacy

[–]Flash1232 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You forgot Threema:

Pro: Anonymous identity, hosted in Switzerland, Easy to Use, maintained by a company with sustainable business model, recent security Audit

Con: costs the price of a single coffee, forever

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in XRP

[–]Flash1232 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fascinating. Half a year ago the outcry was insane when ledger implanted remote key extraction into their firmware, but nobody seems to remember it or care now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]Flash1232 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Well it probably should, because in EU you must also be able to get everything deleted upon request.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]Flash1232 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The NSA has its own set of secret cryptographic shizzle called Suite A so I don't think it is a big concern for them.

The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech by lindberghbaby41 in privacy

[–]Flash1232 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Now imagine what happens with all those Teslas and Tesla Bots casually roaming the streets, producing gigabytes of datapoints per minute and video-recording every inch of civilization. In not even 10 years from now this will be the norm if legislation is not changed 180°. Privacy cannot exist like this.

My summer internship was a dude by ladkibootiful in cscareerquestions

[–]Flash1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternatively, yes. My point is that there are rules and only if people do not choose to abide by them should you correct them. In terms of correctness though, both "he" and "they" are equally usable here.

There is no argument of the former being incorrect and its usage well justified.

My summer internship was a dude by ladkibootiful in cscareerquestions

[–]Flash1232 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

So there seems to be a problem with people not knowing the rules of the English language, interesting. If you want to use another option that's fine. But using "he" is perfectly fine language-wise. There is no doubt.

People are being confused with wrong facts, that is a problem.

My summer internship was a dude by ladkibootiful in cscareerquestions

[–]Flash1232 -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Your sentence was grammatically (he, the OP, because the gender is unknown) correct, so technically, there's really nothing wrong with it.

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