OfficerBribe @ OfficerBribe @lemm.ee

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Not a cinema guy, but assuming those movies are encrypted with modern standards, it is practically impossible if you simply would steal the media. Could be done if you could tap into the original playback device where movie plays and pull decrypted copy out of it.

Edit: As per this AES 128 is used so good luck if you ever stumble upon an encrypted copy.

Not familiar with cinema projectors, but as I have gatherered from this forum problem is caused by KDM (used to decrypt movie) provider / reseller called Deluxe. Neither Sony or this cinema chain is at fault and problem indeed seems worldwide.

I do know that if our servers lose power and the CMOS battery goes dead, they will internally destroy themselves and never function again. This is to prevent piracy I assume.

Find it very hard to believe to be honest. Could this be simply some rumour from colleagues? Doubt any vendor would implement anything like this, drives could be simply encrypted to protect data if they ever get stolen.

Do not understand the downvotes and comments saying article is bullshit. Maybe it all depends on country / ISP, but I have never even thought I need VPN where I live. And since practically all sites indeed use HTTPS all they could get are IPs and possibly hostnames (I do not use ISP DNS).

Have always disliked VPN ads especially when they talk about security benefits. Regular Joe who has no idea about any of this hears those ads and indeed thinks without this magical technology you are now at serious risk your bank details could get stolen by anyone. Not to mention the claims of speed worded in such way that it seems you will get faster network.

Only meaningful reason I can think of privacy wise are these scenarios:

A)

1. You have a static IP and it gets leaked with other info like your real name / personal mail address from site A
2. Only your IP is leaked for site B
3. By cross referencing site A and B info, you can determine identity for site B user

B)

1. You have a static IP and it gets leaked with other info like your real name / personal mail address from site A
2. You visit site B and whoever has logs of that site could tie your actions to your identity by using leaks from site A breach

If that is real, this is baffling, why was it done in the first place? Was there some new company that could manufacture a significant amount of SSDs who started selling at loss so everyone else had to follow to not lose all marketshare? Also it's not like SSDs are some eggs that expire, there is no need to dump all inventory. Pretty hard to believe.

Here are some not mentioned in this thread yet.

• App Manager - App manager on steroids
• Calculator++ - Have used this calculator forever
• DiskUsage - Storage analyzer
• J2ME Loader - Emulates old JAVA games
• Jellyfin - Client for Jelyfin media server
• PCAPdroid - Network sniffer
• UnicodePad - UTF char explorer

Kind of surprised although at least now looks like only 1st one is available

Depends on app I guess, but I never had any issues with Magisk hide feature including Intune root detection for Company Portal app.

That said I do not think I would have a use for any app now that requires root. I used Adaway in the past, have switched to Blokada now which works quite well. Have not switched my first non rooted phone yet so no idea how problematic it will be to migrate app data but most important apps I have either store everything in online account or there is an export/import data option.

Assassin's Creed is free of DRM?

This feature is a thing if your account:

• On Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, and some customers on Dropbox Standard and Advanced.
• In countries with the preferred language set to English. Excluding Canada, the UK (United Kingdom), and countries within the EEA (European Economic Area).

Would recommend going through that article in general, this is yet another great example how people start to go nuts without understanding something.

Steam and GOG are simply better platforms overall. If you really care about being DRM free and owning your games you go GOG route, otherwise Steam is the king. Epic does not even have a review system.

Epic however is the best source of free games on PC. A lot of the latest games I have played have been from Epic giveaways. Right now they have Outer Worlds and yesterday it was Ghostwire: Tokyo, both of these games I played few months ago after purchasing them through Humble Bundle.

Will I ever buy a game on Epic? Probably not, I prefer Steam, but those that simply refuse to redeem freebies and install their launcher while shouting things like it being spyware are weird.

If you have heard bad things about this edition performance wise, it's in the past. Played it around 1 or 2 months ago and had no issues whatsoever.

Game itself is quite good. Liked Fallout better, but had fun with this one as well. Combat might get a bit dull after a while, but everything else was alright. Main story was solid, but don't expect anything groundbreaking, same goes for side missions and DLCs. World / atmosphere was really cool, companions and dialog options were a lot of fun. You can take the usual evil/good path and slightly change the world (available missions) around you.

Don't have one and personally I do not care anymore. I probably will never go back to wired on phone.

PC is a different story, I use wired headset there exclusively unless it is work PC and I need mic, then I also use wireless.

All bigger chains I have visited seem to have paper like bags for bread stuff. Plastic bags also exist, but those are usually in other grocery sections.

In theory you could pack it in your own container if you wish, do not think anyone would have issues with that, but I have never seen anyone doing that.

My only reason besides stuff being free is that I want my music library offline. There are some services like Bandcamp that offer it, but it would not cover a meaningful percentage of all my library. Not gonna buy and rip CDs myself as well

1 day cannot pass without this article getting reposted across various communities.

It was some low effort attempt talking about "code that I do not like running on my PC" or something like that, words like "malware" were thrown around. Basically if detecting adblocks is illegal so should be any JavaScript code.

For most it's a CV hosting platform and nothing else.

Your question was why GPS permission is needed, you should now know why.

I am using MS Authenticator and Aegis. Using MS authenticator only for work accounts that have been setup for number matching feature, it is pretty nice to simply enter 2 digits in app than entering 6 digits in client itself any time you need to approve MFA.

Everything else that supports standard TOTP whether work related or personal is on Aegis - it is a much better TOTP app.

It's a security / compliance policy. There is a very high chance your company has not even enabled it, have not seen anyone using it.

As I see it, you would and could use it only if you force MS Authenticator notification as the only MFA method and it is important in which country MFA prompt originates. Usually it is IP based block / whitelist which checks IP from which login originates which seems like a much more useful info, then you can also allow any MFA method.

You can always deny permissions to apps.

Sounds more like a bad design than purposefully left backdoors. Very few devices are rooted and usually you cannot get root without fully wiping your device in process. As for cloud upload, that indeed is convenient for most regular users. I prefer encrypted offline backup like Aegis does, but you need to think about regular folk if they would loose or wipe their device.