uzay @ uzay @infosec.pub

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Elon Musk's many children are only insofar hypothetical that he has yet to see them

A real life GTA hero

I have only used the new version on my phone a little and it felt much smoother than before. The mobile app was always ass, so if the redesign stops it from crashing all the time on my tablet it's a net win in my book

And they recently added a feature where they tell your friends on the platform what kind of porn you've been watching ✌🏾 I think I'll stick to Jellyfin.

Signal notifications work fine without GCM, and even Whatsapp does to an extent

Epic already sold off Bandcamp to another company (songtradr) and it's probably not an improvement.

Even before any of the vaccines were finished, there were plans to not grant them any patent protection so they can be produced and distributed as widely as possible. Gates and his foundation lobbied hard against that and instead came up with the bullshit plan to have rich countries buy vaccines for poor countries, which helped no one but the insane profits of the pharma companies. In the case of the vaccine developed with public funding by the Oxford University, Gates actively talked them out of releasing it with an open license, so they sold it to AstraZeneca instead.

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/

Yes, he's working hard on prioritzing profits over people even harder in the medical industry.

Nooooo

These subconscious effects are indeed the most effective ways for an ad to work. However, if an ad is obnoxious enough for you to remember, it can get you to actively avoid the advertised product as well.

Just put in another disk or create a new partition, encrypt it with LUKS, move your data there, mount it in the place where it was before. You'll have to SSH into the server and decrypt it after each reboot, but no pne will be able to plug in your disk or change boot parameters and just get in without the encryption password. It won't protect, however, against an attacker with frequent physical access who can manipulate the system and wait for you to type in the encryption password.

Setting up headscale isn't too hard. But last time I tried, connecting the clients to it didn't work properly (on mobile). Since they are using the regular tailscale clients, they don't have much control over that.

You might be confounding a RAW photo file and the way it is displayed. A RAW file isn't even actually an image file, it's a container containing the sensor pixel information, metadata, and a pre-generated JPG thumbnail. To actually display an image, the viewer application either has to interpret the sensor data into an image (possible with changes according to its liking) or just display the contained JPG. On mobile phones I think it's most likely that the JPG is generated with pre-applied post-processing and displayed that way. That doesn't mean the RAW file has any post-processing applied to it though.

Yes, there are (so far) ways to get around it for more technically skilled people, but you also have to sacrifice some features like the home screen channels (or updates). But you shouldn't have to do that on a device in that price-segment, and I don't want to support a product that employs such anti-consumer tactics with my recommendation.

It only protects your data if you encrypt the virtual disk. And then you could still lose it to a ransomware attack.

I've been using an Nvidia Shield TV Pro for a while, and hardware-wise it's still amazing. But with the way the OS is going, I can't recommend it to anyone anymore, not for that price. I basically had to stop updating any of the system stuff so it doesn't plaster my TV screen with ads.

Ads are the very core of Google at this point. They are more likely to give up their search engine and the name Google before they give up their ad business.

Depending on the system you're on it can be all you have. It's like Microsoft's vi, just so much worse

If my device started showing full-screen ads all of a sudden I'd assume I caught some malware. I guess I'll never update mine past v8.

They probably had trouble in their polycule