Company says it’s improving testing processes to avoid a repeat.
For example they are going to test the update once and for more than 5 minutes on real hardware
TBH I hated when I got reddit results on DDG because they're blocking access from VPN
Can't wait to have the Google app apk bloat of another 100mb because they have to embed all the ads Easter eggs
IMHO you have to download the whole media again, only the dub is very difficult that would match the video seamlessly - even subs often desync because in that particular zone they cut 2 seconds from a scene or they are playing the media at a wrong frame rate (now less common but with analog media it happened a lot)
I would have assumed that maps are disabled by default and all requests proxied by the server to some mapbox api that has been set by the admin
i'm just curious because on the page it says the software is free
it's a crack to allow it to run with any hardware? Or they locked something under subscription?
I don't think that for something ultraniche like this (that panel is $80k lol) there's a public crack, maybe only something done by commission
Seems trivial to solve. Send them a letter stating that they have n days to remove the rockets or they will be disposed.
edit: it was a bug of the adblocker. It's not possible to register if you deny cookies & you use an adblocker. Deleting this post
I found a e-waste retailer that is selling old new stock of ST3000DM001 for 25 euro
For server usage they're awful due to the extremely high failure rate (so high that it deserved a dedicated page on Wikipedia) but for cold storage they are perfect as the cost per TB is very good
It doesn't have an option to split it?
When I did my Google takeout to delete all my pics from Google photos there was an option to split in like "one zip every 2gb"
I mean, suppose that i save a passkey in my password manager, then because of my bad opsec someone else gets hold of it - if I delete it from my account, the attacker still has a copy and I have no way to invalidate it
I checked again on eBay, there's no "list of passkeys" even if I created 4 of them (one for each browser on each of my computer + one synced via password manager)
main issue for me is that i didn't see any way to invalidate old passkeys. I tried them in a few websites like ebay but it looks like they are valid forever so if my device is compromised, the attacker has access to my account in perpetuity even if i change the password
I'm a lousy programmer and I'm starting to see all those monorepo. Proton also have a monorepo with everything.
Is this actually usable? With everything mixed together it seems a mess, for my eyes it's seems to be some sort of "yeah we're open source 😉 but good luck compiling it lolol 😂"
They can barely show useful information on that screen, how they can show ads?
For example, the qr code is completely useless - you would expect to send the user to a page that explains the problem or even just search the error string on Bing, but no, it sends to a placeholder page that doesn't say anything useful
Yay all I need to do is to upload all my photos in their servers for just a little training
How much money they can save for this?
Probably with the saved money can't even pay one single day of salary for the CEO
Surrender? Capitulate? Is it a "special military operation" or an invasion/attack? Because those two words are not usually associated with a "special military operation"
it's because on web people would get different designs according to which operating system is used. Marketing prefers uniformity. They could load a webfont, but color font support is not really universal and because people use always the same 10 emojis it's faster to load only those cached pngs compared to a full webfont with 3000 emojis that aren't even used in that specific page
it's because the immich app in unraid isn't directly pulling from the official docker image(s), but it's manually updated by another person here https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich
in this case it's done because it's safer and the maintainer will take care of any breaking changes, so you don't get the update immediately
Why surprised? They're still selling stuff with Android 11
There are so many OEMs that are dropping new phones every week and obviously don't have resources to support the previous phones after 6 months
I bought a brand new Redmi for my mom in September 2022 and the latest update available as of today (security update) is dated July 2022
In the browser, i didn't login in the google account, and I didn't accept the cookies on that site. Using privacybadger that supposedly should block the 3rd party spyware like that
Wow, that's awesome! I was very sad without the clickbait articles. I was staring at Firefox thinking "i wish it had a cluttered start page with clickbait articles and sponsored content like MS Edge" - and then with this new update the devs nailed it! Thanks!
That's really perfect!
(it's a tablet in a smartphone form factor, it doesn't have cellular connectivity)
For reference, android 14 was announced 6 months before the launch of this device.
It's a bit surprising that Google still allows device certification with such ancient, unsupported and vulnerable OS.
All the marketing materials don't say which CPU it's using except "Qualcomm octa core CPU" - that means nothing as the description could apply to the Snapdragon 415, which was a low end slow system on a chip released ten years ago. Maybe it could explain why they're using an ancient version of Android - the soc that they're using it's a leftover found in some warehouse and it's already unsupported by the manufacturer; they're forced to use android 11.
In its services and repair terms and conditions, Google says it will keep devices sent in for repair if they have a non-OEM part.
"please don't buy our phones"
Samsung's catchy end-of-cycle jingle gets caught up in YouTube copyright drama.
TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime
The account of the copyright troll is still standing and it's not permanently banned
IMHO in this case YouTube should permanently ban at the first offense any copyright troll that maliciously claim as their property something that's in the public domain
Also: if it wasn't that it affected a big streamer with lots of followers, YouTube would have ignored the problem
Google artificial "intelligence" suggested to add glue to let cheese stick to the pizza, because a decade ago user fucksmith on reddit said so
I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like "what do you think, scam or not". I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the "play" button with a fake button that leads to google play.
I assume that there's no way to watch it anymore without an account and without the app, right?
Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it's expensive)
I switched phones and instead of copying manually /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp I used the new feature of pairing via qr code.
Besides that's a not very well designed feature (you need to start transfer on the old phone before logging in the new phone) because they really want to store unencrypted backups on Google drive, the transfer completed in a short time.
Maybe too fast, I was expecting at least one hour to transfer the 5000 photos 10gb, instead it completed in 20 seconds.
So I told myself, ok photos not transferred, I'll just do that manually and directly put them in the photo archive on my PC rather than keep them mixed with all the "happy holidays" trash.
I browse the old phone to /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp and... It's empty. Wiped clean after the "successful" transfer process!
Luckily I had set syncthing (the fork on fdroid, the one on play store doesn't have access to whole storage) to have a full overnight backup! On my PC I still had all the photos, almost deleted too as I noticed that I didn't set the "trash can" option
Conclusion: go to download syncthing fork from fdroid and have a safety net from mistakes like this
And of course they want a credit card on file for "age verification" 😉 or they won't let you chat with the bots
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.
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
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"
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?