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mastodon 4.7.3Instance admin. Not a professional sysadmin like some here; fuck me, I'm not even a *good* sysadmin. But I wanted in on Mastodon, and "Spin up your own server" felt easier than figuring out which one to join
Goal is empathy, posts are typically about daily life and home / car / computer repairs and events I guess? I dunno, I've been posting often enough you can just scroll and see
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Joined July 14, 2022
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@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place @futurebird@sauropods.win Oh! I always thought it was "We sell rockets. The more things we can plausibly (or implausibly) claim to use rockets for, the more money we will be make at IPO"
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@gwen@tech.lgbt @DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange @kimzetter@infosec.exchange She actually calls out youth being failed
So a lot of people that only have online friends are [in The Com] because they have other problems that are not addressed, and the social fabric has broken down to the point that they’re falling through the cracks, and the only remaining social resources for them are just online
She also calls out delayed feedback loops as not being helpful, and wants a tighter loop of action -> consequence, which... isn't unreasonable. Lots of people are bad at seeing which actions lead to what, youth especially
If you don't give them penalties immediately that…are painful for them, then they're going to keep doing the thing. Because a potentially bad thing two years from now means literally nothing to them.
I'm not going to argue about how long the sentencing should be, but if probation is provably not working, then continuing to apply the same sentence and expecting a different result is not the smart way to solve this problem long-term
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@wohali@timeloop.cafe I mean, *I* thought it was fine
While I was out of town for work though, my newly-moved-in girlfriend had a guy banging on our door at 3am after confusing it for someone else's, and ended up stabbed to death in the hallway immediately outside our unit
I was told we had to move, and that it was, apparently, a "bad part of town"
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@N33R Warner Brothers has been warning us against consumerism for decades, and I'm just now hearing their message
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@ashten@woem.men sharp contrast with my current stance of "I'll call you when I'm well enough to return"
Holy shit America. "Right to Work" feels more like a privilege every time I learn another facet of it
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@megmac@social.treehouse.systems @clarfonthey@toot.cat @ClarusPlusPlus@gamedev.lgbt I mean if corporate bought the swords, duels were to be expected
Thus, corporate policy could definitely be interpreted as, "Some disagreements *will* be settled by a duel"
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Strongly suspecting "Keep at least 3 months of backups" is the key lesson most corporations will learn
Because each mistake can only teach us a single lesson 🙄
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Current is better~~, I guess?~~ I dunno, maybe I'll find something I like better eventually.
Current is definitely better
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@lunalapin@slime.global nothing wrong with cold turkey, but if you wanted a slow-roll, you could use the web client exclusively and just... make others wait to hear back (and hopefully realize what the delayed response time means), and drop the web client in a month
The fuck do I know about your use-case though? I'm sure you know better than me about this, and good luck getting others on-board <3
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... and I'd love to show you, but I'd have to bypass the anti-dev, user-hostile locks we put in place and will be making more restrictive every few years"
The Google that championed openness knows they made it out alive from the multi-billion dollar cage fight with RIM, Win Mobile, Apple, & Symbian
And they are clearly aware they no longer need the support of the geeks
Can barely believe Microsoft threatened Valve with the locked-down Windows S build, and Valve's been slowly taking Microsoft's game market apart, piece-by-piece, ever since
Using *Microsoft's own standards* feels like an "And the horse you rode in on" kinda move too
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But anything digital is almost guaranteed to betray you. Vehicles will sell sexual orientation, phones will sell your location [by default], apps like Flo will sell your health information
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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net @mavetju@aus.social In all fairness it's also a pain in the ass when you assemble it
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@aesthr On the topic of future tech in museums:
Thanks to this “cloud rot,” an Android retrospective won’t be possible in a few years
Pulled from a decade-old Ars write-up that, fittingly, probably could not be written today
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/
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@adatje@kinkycats.org Wait, but like... why?
I mean, forgive my ignorance - please, I'm begging you
But are Redditors just not as well behaved regarding Don't fuck over content crea-...
tors...
Dear god let it be the platform itself being shitty; the alternative is Reddit has gotten so much worse than I remember it being
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And Google knows it too - because you can't really protect the user from themselves to any meaningful degree; the easiest exploit will always be exploiting the human, especially on an OS that's been in the sights of Project Zero for a *decade*
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@pixmo@mastodon.ie I can get behind the "Don't use capital punishment" stance,
But for a nation that claims to value efficiency so highly, how has America not discovered the guillotine? What, are they afraid the citizenry will start getting ideas based on other historical uses?
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Oh god that might actually be it
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And *now*...
Well, now Google enables the fucking *McDonald's* app to refuse to run because your bootloader isn't locked right the fuck down
Google has abandoned AOSP to the extent that AOSP has accessibility services (like TalkBack) that don't work without third-party programs - there is no TTS built in to AOSP, good luck if you're partially sighted (or want spoken directions 🙃)
Or we can discuss attestation - imagine in '08 having to tell the crowd "I wrote this really cool app,
(1/2)
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And I feel like the proliferation of this lower standard for digital products is instrumental in America drifting from a high- to low-trust society
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Like before OEMs supported a major or two, with nothing in-between. Now the phrase is "Users must purchase a new phone when we drop support"
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Like where do we think these attacks are coming from? Nation-states exploiting baseband firmware attacks absolutely happen, don't get me wrong, but in the same way "A secure computer is one with power removed", a secure cellphone is one without apps
Frankly, the biggest security hole in every modern cellphone is coming from the Google Play Store
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@njion@bark.lgbt I mean, which part isn't lasting?
Software support? Yeah, you're kinda stuck with Google or Samsung AFAIK, neither of which I (personally) love
Hardware dying or hard to repair? I'll be honest: I unfortunately don't have a suggestion - I've been using BlackBerry (KeyOne, 2LE, Q20) for over a decade, which I don't believe to be representative of the average person
Software getting laggy or slow and battery life taking major hits? That's Google Play Services getting heavier every year. The only real answer is to ditch Google or remain on the treadmill, the former of which I'm happy to talk about; from advantages, to drawbacks, to how-to's
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@matthew@social.retroedge.tech Okay but like,
on this distro *in particular*, or is this an *every* distro problem?
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@Nimbius666@comp.lain.la His expression pulling Socko off his hand is almost more memorable than the tune
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Continuing to have ~10GB of RAM free (out of 12) is bizarre. Just how fuckin' heavy has #Google Play Services become that this is what's needed?
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@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social I've found Fresh4Life to be... well, adequate
Had to switch when we got the HomeRun Pet CS106, and I've never noticed an odour, though I can't tell if that's due to the litter, the fully-enclosed design, or the sealed-ish trapdoor
I don't love how some varieties of the litter track, but let me know if you follow through? Means we can find out if it's the litter or machine preventing odours
Kinda wish Mastodon showed "You last sent a follow request on $date" - as it stands I'm stuck with adding a note on a profile,
because before I started doing that I'm... 90%(?) sure I cycled through "Hey, neat!" -> Req. to Follow -> Silently denied -> Weeks pass, and someone boosts one of their posts again -> Return to 10 at least a few times
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@tmw@ioc.exchange Without looking into it ex*ten*sively, just a brief once-over, AuroraDroid looks like a reasonable alternative
But I'm not sure just how rigorous you want to be, so I'll leave the actual digging for you
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.adroid/
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FBI will not arrest juveniles, because there is no federal juvenile system. But FBI have, I believe, searched houses and also visited [juveniles] and said, like, hey, please stop doing crime….
Tracks, and makes sense re: the FBI not having a juvenile dept,
but the image of the FBI coming by for a chat and dropping the phrase "Please stop doing crime" verbatim is absolutely marvelous
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@cadey@pony.social Yes, and shockingly quickly at only a second or two on a mobile device
(Zinwa Q25 with a MediaTek Helio G99)
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But Google no longer has any positive connotations or goodwill in my mind. gMail was cool as hell when everyone else charged for storage. Photosphere was wild, the openness of AOSP (with it's actively-maintained apps), the geeky "It's your OS, do whatever the hell you want"-ness of *rollerblading* to the launch event, then throwing your launch product in the air to show off the app your wrote, was refreshing beyond words
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@paco@infosec.exchange But I *like* my wires. They don't run out of battery, or act up based on who's using a microwave next door. They don't have a dongle to lose, or have weird delay or echo issues - especially nice for headsets, where I want as close to realtime as possible.
I think you might get a skewed result without the option for "None", is what I'm driving at 😬
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@redstrate@mastoart.social Had a Microsoft account that claimed I did need their super-secure app,
but the OTP imported to Aegis just fine
The truly broken one though, is "Give us your phone number, we'll call or text you" - which, fuck no I won't, you will get a burner number that auto-answers and spams your "Authorize session" button" (2, in this case)
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Wonder if battery stats / usage will actually work with 23.2 🤔 It didn't with the default OS or Lineage 23.0, but that could also be a hardware revision
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@CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro That's honestly too bad - I stumbled across one of their songs ("Be My Friend"?), and fell in love with the rest of the album (2008's *Monster*)
Now I'm full of questions I don't think I really want the answers to
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Especially as one becomes a more "interesting" phishing target, being able to rely on a (government provided) domain feels a hell of a lot more secure than a phone number
At the very least, taking over a government domain feels like an op that makes a hell of a lot more noise than taking over a phone number, regardless of how briefly it's done
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Like, one cannot really buy [in the US] a vehicle that's truly unsafe [for the motorist]. Even a cybertruck is above average for what we had in decades past
Same for electronics (shock, fire hazards), food (perhaps not *nutritious*, but not quite the point), and the built environment (asbestos & leaded paint, for example, being less common)
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The answer is, even as all settings indicate there *shoud* be previews, pressing F12 will still leave them disabled
This is not the first time I'm left questioning UX decisions #KDE has made, but it's definitely the most recent
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Inspired by the line
Yes, technically, you are patching vulnerabilities. But in the actual, messy, human world, people get hacked because of deliberate user actions executing malicious payloads regardless of the underlying OS vulnerabilities.
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Not that I can at all complain - I've contributed nothing here, no financial support or incentive, no time spent squashing [the type of] minor bugs [that I could even potentially hope to fix], no time in support channels, nothing
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@iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be Without wanting to fill my *own* disks with this poorly thought out half-idea...
*Can* you download /dev/urandom from a remote server? Likely to a RAMdisk that, when full, deletes itself, then starts over?
I mean I don't want to waste your time with this garbage, but it also feels dumb enough to fit