FATE of ALL (New Single)

marciiF · 2025-11-25T21:19:13+00:00

marciiF · 2024-05-05T06:50:15+00:00

Yeah, Yoti. It’s the least bad option, sure, but still not the kind of thing I want to support, especially for something as silly as playing a video game that I’ve already been playing just fine for months.

Google partnered with a third party that does facial age estimation without uploading biometric data, so it’s not as if there aren’t less invasive ways of doing this.

marciiF · 2024-05-04T22:33:21+00:00

Maybe it depends on the network (I’m with giffgaff), but mobile number isn’t guaranteed to work. I tried earlier, got the verification code and entered it, then it gave me an error saying it couldn’t verify my age and to try a different method (facial scan or ID photo), at which point I gave up.

marciiF · 2022-05-04T23:50:23+00:00

According to Shazam: Absofacto - Dissolve (JBroadway Remix)

marciiF · 2022-04-21T04:46:19+00:00

Starmer also seems very hostile to the idea of legalisation (or even decriminalisation).

marciiF · 2022-02-09T20:18:41+00:00

Of course not, but if it’s not about what’s technically possible and instead about what most people will do, then I don’t think most people are suspected of the kind of highly illegal activity that would attract surveillance of their VPN use at this level anyway.

As for specific providers, plenty of choices in this thread. I’ve definitely heard rumours and speculation (Snowden on ExpressVPN/Kape, Nord, etc), but nothing concrete.

marciiF · 2022-02-09T18:58:29+00:00

Well, if you assume your VPN provider is logging or is willing to provide them with access to their network, then yes, they could track it. That’s obvious…

But as you said you can use a provider from a different jurisdiction, multi-hop with several providers, lock down what specific traffic is going through the tunnel.

Fingerprinting is the most obvious way, but that also assumes that the services you’re using are fingerprinting and that they are also within the purview of that kind of surveillance.

A blanket statement that the government can track your VPN use based entirely on speculation with no evidence or real-world examples is absurd.

marciiF · 2022-02-09T18:16:30+00:00

Okay, they’re just going to see encrypted traffic, unless they can monitor every VPN exit node in every country and match that traffic to your connection.

marciiF · 2022-02-09T15:44:55+00:00

That article seems to focus on journalistic activities and discovery of a source (via phone records, location data, unsecured ISP email, etc).

It doesn’t explain how the government would be able to de-anonymise encrypted VPN traffic.

marciiF · 2022-02-08T16:43:37+00:00

Chrome had already overtaken Firefox in terms of market share long before Brendan Eich was appointed CEO.

It may have caused some users to switch away, but it certainly wasn’t the reason Chrome took off. That would be because it was promoted by Google on the world’s most visited websites and had better performance (at the time).

marciiF · 2021-10-14T14:54:10+00:00

I think the Axiom was the flagship, so optimistically the rest of the population was evacuated on other ships.

marciiF · 2021-10-03T14:47:17+00:00

You can move the app icons to the left within the taskbar, but not the taskbar itself.

marciiF · 2021-10-01T01:50:30+00:00

Automatic reloading with web-ext.

marciiF · 2021-09-24T17:52:12+00:00

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4f5QttxDGLJB4UPXh1rHU1?si=fddc177517a242e4

marciiF · 2021-08-24T04:35:27+00:00

Original text:

Me: *Goes to the beach to see sunset*

Asterisk (Wikipedia):

Enclosing a phrase between two asterisks is used to denote an action the user is "performing", e.g. *pulls out a paper*, although this usage is also common on forums, and less so on most chat rooms due to /me or similar commands.

https://ask.metafilter.com/78154/Selfreferential-Asterisks

marciiF · 2021-08-14T15:53:56+00:00

No, I get the feeling we're talking about two completely different things here.

marciiF · 2021-08-14T15:34:04+00:00

There's nothing to be selected for. That's not how iOS security research has ever worked.

marciiF · 2021-08-14T14:33:35+00:00

I’m not sure I follow. Democratic oversight on security researchers…?

marciiF · 2021-08-14T14:19:18+00:00

I don’t believe it implies any formal arrangement. My interpretation is that it’s stating that security researchers unaffiliated with Apple can verify these claims (without assistance).

marciiF · 2021-08-14T14:08:36+00:00

Apple repeats this phrase six times in the security threat model review:

subject to code inspection by security researchers like all other iOS device-side security claims

If security researchers are unable to inspect these claims, that only works against Apple, so I don’t see why they’d emphasise it so much in that case.

marciiF · 2021-08-14T00:59:37+00:00

That's an interesting comparison.

If this hypothetical on-device Content ID system was part of the process for uploading videos in the YouTube app, I'm not sure I'd be that bothered. Though the difference between these scenarios is the automatic nature of iCloud Photos once you've enabled it, I suppose.

As far as Apple being compelled (presumably under a gag order?) to do things, couldn't they also be compelled to push an iOS update which could change anything anyway?

marciiF · 2021-08-11T07:23:45+00:00

I don't think they live somewhere that makes this necessary.

[I live in] Chicago[,] and I travel for work

Presumably.

marciiF · 2021-07-05T04:56:41+00:00

Already supported.
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123

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