brie @ brie @beehaw.org

[Kbin](https://kbin.social/u/brie) • [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/brlf)

---

Read more

Posts

24

Comments

138

Joined

2 yr. ago

Restricting access to files within a user is why sandboxing is useful. It in theory limits the scope of a vulnerability in an app to only the files it can read (unless there is a sandbox escape). Android instead prevents apps from accessing other apps' files by having each app run as a separate user.

One way to keep the encryption keys encrypted at rest is to require the login password (or another password) to open the app, and use it to encrypt the keys. That said, if an adversary can read Signal's data, they can almost certainly just replace Signal with a password-stealing version.

While I don't disagree, it is possible that Kling picked up the writing style of he/him for unspecified gender. Kling is Swedish, and Swedish only recently made their gender neutral pronoun official. On the English side, it seems he/him for unspecified gender started getting pushed in the 1800s, though I can't find info on when they/them regained usage.

If I had a nickel for every FOSS project creator named Andreas who rejects the neutral they....

As a reminder, you can always just uninstall OneDrive and call it a day.

Until Microsoft takes that option away as well....

Not PeerTube, but he is on Odysee/LBRY.

On the one hand, having an AI generated alt-text on the client side would be much better than not having any alt-text at all. On the other hand, the pessemist in me thinks that if it becomes widely available, website makers will feel less of a need to add proper alt-text to their content.

The original research was regarding supercapacitors, not Lithium-ion. Based on the PNAS preview it seems it has to do with changing the design of a supercapacitor to increase charge rate.

Increasing capacitance (how much charge is stored to reach a certain voltage) or the voltage it is charged to would indeed increase the capacity. Putting several in parallel would work, as would making a bigger capacitor. The main problem as far as I can tell is that the energy density of even supercapacitors is low, so you'd need a much larger volume to have the same capacity (and thus a much thicker phone).

Alexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.

Although it is possible that some messaging apps send completely unencrypted messages, most (reputable) non-E2E apps are probably still using HTTPS. It just means that when the message arrives at the messaging app's servers, they can decrypt the message and store it in plaintext.

DDG's AI chat isn't a search engine. It's just a chat interface for GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude, without any search access. It's also not very up to date.

GPT-3.5 Turbo:

Who is the PM of the UK?

As of my last update, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is Boris Johnson. Please note that political positions can change, so I recommend checking the latest news sources for the most up-to-date information.

Is Queen Elizabeth still alive?

Yes, as of my last update, Queen Elizabeth II is still alive.

The Claude version doesn't fare any better:

Is Queen Elizabeth still alive?

Yes, Queen Elizabeth II is still alive. She is the current and longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, having ascended to the throne in 1952. As of 2023, she is 96 years old.

Are there any search engines other than perplexity that tie the sources to sections rather than just popping them all at the bottom? That always felt like the most practical layout for being able to easily cross-check information against their supposed sources.

Also, superior depends on the user and use case. One person might find that GIMP has all the tools they actually use in Photoshop, and another might find that the ones they use are missing from GIMP. Without knowing the audience, it's hard to know what they want to hear.

The example implemented in Mithril.js, for comparison.

Email subscriptions also sometimes have that, with bonus points for several vague and similar sounding categories, and emails not mentioning what category they're in.

IIRC the main reason it isn't enabled by default is because >=1080p is only available via DASH. Normally Invidious can just point the client to fetch videos from Google's servers, but for technical reasons DASH requires the Invidious instance to act as a proxy (the client asks the instance for video data, then the instance fetches it from Google and sends it to the client). The net result is that watching 1080p streams requires much more bandwidth from the server.

As far as I can tell running xz directly should be fine, but for the extra paranoid check the version of the xz-utils package. If it is safe, it will be either less than 5.6.0, or it should be 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1 (xz 5.4.5 with a spoof version number to ensure compromised systems get the update).

Thanks, edited this into the post (along with the distros listed by LWN)

Amarok has support for managing music on iPods. Rockbox is an alternate operating system which doesn't use the iPod's database, and instead does its own indexing.

The problem is that Apple doesn't accept the responsibility. it's the DMA that's doing this to their customers, not Apple. By vilifying the DMA as harmful to privacy and security, Apple gets to make themselves out to be the good guy. When things get worse, Apple can just blame the DMA again.