Tbh china did a pretty good job in incentivizing moving out the supply chain during covid, with a complete travel ban to everyone for so many years. Western companies were practically banned for almost 3 years to visit Chinese factories for production, and doing this remotely is expensive and leads to bad QC. Many set factories in neighboring countries. For example I was surprised to get an ASRock motherboard made in Vietnam in 2022. Some iPhones are also made in India (and to catch a bird with two stones, get tax breaks from the Indian government)
Once a factory and its supply chain has left the country is very difficult that it will come back
Yes sure and all the increased train traffic that the satellites are recording are just empty trains
A country that devotes most of its budget to the military is certainly unable to make ammunitions.
Go to watch the recording of their military parades to see how many weapons they're showing.
They're not just parading with a sad little tank from the 40s like that "greatest military power in the world"
legitimate domain changed from .org to .io on 1st feb according to this commit https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter/commit/0645481801ccb8f46a8e0766e9edac9acf77f468
originally it was hosted in the .org domain, then somehow it changed hands and it was changed to .io
Only if you live in a country like russia, china, iran, north korea or south arabia
No, I tried it in a VM and it's a completely different app. It seems like a shitty electron app that sits forever in the tray wasting ram just to upload files in their cloud for conversion instead of converting locally. And then it shows prompt to subscribe from the tray
i downloaded an old version from 2017 to see what happens when checking updates on the domain that's now distributing the scam. Luckily they're replying with a 404 and not with "install this new update, it's 100% safe"
In the github issues the dev is aware of this but he's not completely enraged, just mildly infuriated that the design is too similar and he's politely asking to have a different design.
From the history in the wayback machine i don't see any "parking" page between the switch, so my guesswork is that the dev has been approached with an offer like "we like that domain, we would like to buy it for $$$", unaware that they would copy the design like that in order to achieve maximum deception of users
One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?
File Converter (FOSS) by Adrien Allard was hosted on file-converter[.]org since a decade. Then someone a few weeks ago snatched that domain and it's now distributing adware. Almost identical design for the page, 100% designed to deceive users to download a different product, as it's called Zamzar.
Unfortunately there's still not enough proof of genocide, according to the military complex
Finally, it only took them 8 years to reach feature parity with Samsung
And the label doesn't say anything about it, doesn't have the "don't throw in the trash" logo.
Those LEDs are glued in, there's no way to remove batteries before discarding the item
But knowing Cisco, the router would be unsupported and with some unpatched zero day vulnerability when the RTC battery dies...
Cool, but why? Doesn't really makes sense to run a desktop os in a vm on a touch device that doesn't even support external screens via USB C
Who said it's self hosted? For what we know he could be paying $200 a year to Microsoft for his personal mail@domain account under the most expensive office365 plan (sorry, did it change name? What's called now? Microsoft 365?)
the alternatives are worse
i'd rather go back to barter than using paypal, for example
If you want to just use it exclusively as a Nas, then why not truenas?
I have a unRAID server but the nas part is nowhere as good as truenas (slower, worse ad integration)
Main issue with virtualization is the bootable USB with the serial number that's used as DRM
The IDF should be renamed to IAF or IKF
They also monitor new website registrations and immediately spam info@newdomain
Also the problem of the algorithm that thinks it knows what you like to see instead of showing your subscriptions
"Six months ago you did a single search of a walkthrough for a Mario 64 level, so here is a feed filled with only Mario 64 speedruns"
I'm always wary of clicking a YouTube link scared it would poison the feed.
Newpipe solved this
Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outage
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too
Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"
On my 4k 32" usually I run 4 programs at the same time, one at each corner. It's like having 4 1080p screens (I keep scaling at 100%)
Create unique contact pictures
I turned on my old HTC espresso after a decade and I remembered that I loved this app.
It creates an unique profile image for contacts without a profile picture
So now when you open the contact list instead of having a list of capital letters in a circle you have a list of capital letters in a more colorful circle
Unfortunately it's now outdated and discontinued, but it still works on Android 14.
Seems like some asshole took the source code and republished the app as is, without credit, in the Amazon app store to get some financial incentive (around 2014 blackberry paid devs to republish their apps and many assholes decided that it was a good idea to "steal" open source apps)
After this, dev took development private but then got tired of the update treadmill that Google forces on the play store, so the apps were automatically delisted.
Luckily, fdroid doesn't have such artificial limitations on outdated apps that still work as intended.
I hate registering to websites. Especially when it's just to download FOSS.
It looks like there's no way to download Ondsel without registering?
I've enough.
Last year the automatic updater was rebooting windows without any warning after the uac prompt. The problem continued for months before being fixed
This year I got an update a week. Very annoying to get the same "why u no reboot? I need updates" question every single time I turn on my PC.
Today when updating it kills explorer.exe without any confirmation and doesn't bring it back to life.
I don't think that their paid enterprise customers are doing the beta alpha testers like this. Is it really necessary to push nightlies to end users? It can't be tested casually for a couple of days then pushed?
I disabled the updates check and will update the nextcloud desktop client manually every 5 years if I can remember. Added an exception to Winget so it doesn't update it. I lost my patience.
It's a 8th gen Intel laptop CPU with 64 GB of ddr4
Definitely a bargain!
Google's Gemini chatbot falls short in a number of areas. One of them is recognizing songs that might be playing.
The author says that once you install Gemini (pro), when you ask "what song is this", you get a reply like "use apple's Shazam".
They say Google assistant music recognition was working so well and super accurate.
Although I was never able to have it work. When I ask "what song is this" I can only get one of this two results:
- Sorry, I didn't understand (90% of cases)
- Search "what song is this" on Google
My use cases are:
- In car listening to radio. I never have it work.
- Know which song is playing right now on the device when I'm using headphones. It never worked but it should be trivial, you already have all the metadata already. My iPod touch could do this super reliably and 100% offline TWENTY YEARS ago. It was so useful.
I want to try bitmagnet on the dev server at work (yes, we have permission to use it for personal reasons as long it's legal) but for obvious reasons it must be tunneled through a VPN.
Bitmagnet it's a local search engine that discovers content via DHT. It just asks peers for content, then when you come back the following month it should have found many interesting stuff
Problem is that from a network point of view it looks I want to download every single torrent ever made so I wouldn't want to have my workplace ip address associated with that.
Because the network traffic is minimal and for this content I don't care if the provider does data mining, I would like to use a free VPN with gluetun.
But I can't find a free one that works. From the officially supported only windscribe and proton have a free offer, but windscribe free doesn't have OpenVPN or wireguard, while proton VPN free blocks me immediately as soon as the program talks with other peers, even if I don't actually download anything.
So back to the question, which free VPNs are working with gluetun, someone has experience with that?
AAAD it's a freemium sideloaded app that allows you to install unofficial apps for Android auto.
At startup it sends some device identifier to his server and checks if you have a license, otherwise goes in trial mode where you can try one app every month.
It doesn't ask any additional permission. No storage, no phone/IMEI and no location. If you uninstall it, somehow it knows you previously downloaded it.
Tried to reset the advertising id, no change
My questions:
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How the hell the app is able to fingerprint the user like that, persisting uninstalls?
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How to reset the counter?
I'm just scared that they're saved with reversible encryption on the disk, then malware could steal them
The university allows URLs as a "person name", so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i'm getting bombarded by "legit" emails with a spam url as in "hi SPAM_URL"
If spammers can abuse something, they gonna abuse it
I am running this docker image: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker with a cloudflare tunnel, meaning the webserver would see all the traffic coming from a single ip in 172.16.0.0/12 .
The documentation says:
> The apache image will replace the remote addr (IP address visible to Nextcloud) with the IP address from X-Real-IP if the request is coming from a proxy in 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16 by default
So I thought that this is a not a problem, as other docker images can also automagically figure out the real IP address from traffic coming from cloudflare tunnels.
In the beginning it worked fine, then it was SLOW. Like 2 full minutes to load new feeds on news, waiting ages to complete a sync, and so on. I rebooted the server on those instances, and then it worked fine for a day.
So because at the time i was running it on unraid, i blamed the lag on that OS + my weird array of HDDs with decades of usage on them. Migrated to debian on a nvme array and... same lag!
Wasted hours trying to use caddy+fpm instead of apache and it's the same, worked fine for a day, then it was slow again.
Then I wondered: what if the program is "smart" and throttles it by itself without any warning to the admin if it thinks that an ip address is sending too many requests?
Modified the docker compose like this:
nextcloud: image: nextcloud
became
nextcloud: build: .
and I created a Dockerfile with
FROM nextcloud RUN apt update -y && apt upgrade -y RUN apt install -y libbz2-dev RUN docker-php-ext-install bz2 RUN a2enmod rewrite remoteip COPY remoteip.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/remoteip.conf
with this as the content of remoteip.conf
RemoteIPHeader CF-Connecting-IP RemoteIPTrustedProxy 10.0.0.0/8 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 172.16.0.0/12 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 192.168.0.0/16 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 173.245.48.0/20 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 103.21.244.0/22 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 103.22.200.0/22 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 103.31.4.0/22 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 141.101.64.0/18 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 108.162.192.0/18 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 190.93.240.0/20 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 188.114.96.0/20 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 197.234.240.0/22 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 198.41.128.0/17 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 162.158.0.0/15 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 104.16.0.0/12 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 172.64.0.0/13 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 131.0.72.0/22 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 2400:cb00::/32 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 2606:4700::/32 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 2803:f800::/32 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 2405:b500::/32 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 2405:8100::/32 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 2a06:98c0::/29 RemoteIPTrustedProxy 2c0f:f248::/32
and now because nextcloud is seeing all the different ip addresses it doesn't throttle the connections anymore!
Gone from SERPs, and soon the operator is going.
Another useful feature for power users that Google is killing.
They don't care about us that day they we have a problem and the solution is in a now defunct site. That doesn't generate revenue. "When People search on Google they need to find what they need on a click on the ads", the shareholders are saying
I added a passkey for eBay and I'm wondering, I can't find in Vivaldi settings a panel with the list of passkeys or a button to revoke some of them?
Because i am local admin and i'm authorized to do whatever i want, i can use process explorer.
But i want to use taskmgr.exe
The exe is signed by microsoft
It's not just Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube that don't have apps for Apple's Vision Pro at launch. New App Store data indicates the new mixed reality
I left the headline like the original, but I see this as a massive win for Apple. The device is ridiculously expensive, isn't even on sale yet and already has 150 apps specifically designed for that.
If Google did this, it wouldn't even get 150 dedicated apps even years after launch (and the guaranteed demise of it) and even if it was something super cheap like being made of fucking cardboard.
This is something that as an Android user I envy a lot from the Apple ecosystem.
Apple: this is a new feature => devs implement them in their apps the very next day even if it launches officially in 6 months.
Google: this is a new feature => devs ignore it, apps start to support it after 5-6 Android versions
“Due to nation-wide technical difficulties with Sony, we aren’t able to play any titles today.”
From the article:
> When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.