BakedCatboy @ BakedCatboy @lemmy.ml

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What kind of TV service / set top box did you have at the time? I remember a lot of talk about providers pushing set top boxes both because it lets them use newer broadcast tech with customers using old TV tuners, but crucially it allows them to have their own software running on the box that you use to switch channels, which let them use out of band communication over the cable network to report what channels you watched, when, and how long, which I don't doubt gets sold and aggregated by ad targeting firms.

It's pretty common for smart TVs to do a similar thing to collect streaming app watch data when using the TVs built in apps.

I'm getting this too on programming.dev (https://programming.dev/post/17666208)

Really irritating because I have to constantly open the link in Firefox just to read the comments.

Threads on lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, hexbear, and even other threads on programming.dev all work fine so it seems like there's something about that specific post.

Edit: also this post, which the app for some reason uses infosec.pub even though the community is on my own instance lemmy.ml: https://infosec.pub/post/15743006

The comments load through the infosec.pub link as well as when viewing on lemmy.ml in the browser so idk why it wouldn't be showing up in the app.

I like using bitwarden, the selfhosted vaultwarden server stores it with passwords and makes codes available in the app / browser extension. I also keep them backed up on a nas and synced off-site just in case.

"This app won't work for your device" :(

Yeah I had the i7 7700k which was like 7 years ago, and with like 64GB of ram because I wanted to play with large ramdisks.

Does fakespot have a chatbot? I thought it predated LLMs and is basically just some human-made algorithms to filter out suspicious reviews.

Bro the article headline even says balcony railings. We're talking single solar panel + plug in micro inverter type setups. That's like $200 if you shop around.

And not sure if you're aware, but after the "usable age" the system produces at like 80% capacity, so unless you disconnected from the grid and really really need that last 20%, you don't need to change a thing and can keep using it way past the warranty period. Or you can add a couple extra panels. Why replace the whole thing lol.

Hmm that's very surprising. Secure boot setup mode is entirely just to enable or disable enrollment of keys, so being able to enroll keys with setup mode off and the bios locked is bizarre. I can say that my dell (xps 9560) does not behave that way - I have to enter bios and explicitly enable setup mode to enroll keys, and setup mode automatically switches back off once you enroll.

If the bios is locked you can't modify the enrolled keys - that's the point. The guide you linked assumes the bios is already set to enroll mode, which requires unlocking it.

The result is that without the bios password (or a bios in default state) you can't change the settings.

I have my laptop set to only allow booting internal drives and to verify with my own enrolled keys. The only way to bypass it is to use something like ventoy is to unlock the bios and use the one-time boot menu or to enroll their key or sign ventoy with your own key.

Sounds like this is completely about the preloaded PKs, so if you set up your own secure boot with your own keys then you're probably fine because you would have cleared out the OEM keys right?

Could even mix the yeast into a bottle of sugar syrup beforehand to give the juice a boost of yeast food. And less suspicious when dumping it.

I thought tepid was like neither warm or cool, so more of a lukemedium.

That seems like a pretty big hole in their lifecycle analysis. The ol' tow it out of the environment strategy.

CohortAttack?

It's better because PPA isn't about targeting ads at all. It doesn't share any browsing history, topics, or any information for ad targeting to advertisers at all. What it does do is provide a way for a website to tell your browser which ads are relevant to an action you take - for example on a checkout confirmation screen the site may tell your browser "here's a list of ad IDs for the shop you just bought from". Your browser then checks if it's seen any of those ads, checking completely using local data that doesn't leave the browser, then to an aggregator it reports which ads possibly led to your purchase. The aggregator increments a counter for each ad in its database and relays the totals to the advertiser. There are no unique identifiers or any information about your habits or interests involved.

When I initially heard about PPA I also thought it was related to FLoC / topics, but it has nothing to do with ad targeting or sharing information about habits / interests, it's just a way to tell advertisers "Ad XYZ was effective and led to a sign up/purchase" without revealing who saw the ad or any personal information about them, just the total number of people.

Somebody should make an api shim that proxies openapi compatible requests to this. And since Microsoft is forcing copilot on windows 10 they're on the shit list too. Load balance all the AI workloads onto both of them through API adapters.

I'm no expert but what I've heard is that there are lots of mosquitoes that don't bite which are more important for the food chain, but the ones that do bite make up a super small part so if we only eliminated the biting species there would still be plenty of other non-malaria-carrying mosquitoes for the food chain.

At least that's the theory.

Brb uploading a 5GiB file from /dev/urandom to make sure there isn't a byte of space left in OneDrive for them to do this to me.

I'm not sure how you figure that I'm "so angry", I thought my reply was pretty calm. All I'm pointing out is that valve treats their own employees very well, and that if you have an issue with how developers working for other companies are treated / paid, your beef lies with those companies.

Hell valve doesn't even charge their cut on steam key sales on other storefronts even though activating the key / downloading the game still uses steam infrastructure.

Then maybe you should complain about the game company that employs those developers, not valve...?