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abrahambelch

@ abrahambelch @programming.dev

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  • any cheap VPS with payment with XMR?

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  • I think you misunderstood my comment. A prepaid Mastercard can be bought at many gas stations or supermarkets and allows you to pay online at places that only accept credit cards without actually having one.

  • any cheap VPS with payment with XMR?

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  • Hetzner covers all of the above except the Monero payment option. Would a prepaid Mastercard do the job for you? I think you can buy them in cash without identification.

  • Do flat earthers think other planets are flat? All of them or some of them? Are stars (including and excluding the sun) flat too?

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  • What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

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  • Fühle mich nach jedem Auslandsaufenthalt so, als wäre ich 20 Jahre in die Zukunft gereist lol

  • What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

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  • Here in Europe there are a lot of country-specific instances (e.g. feddit.de or feddit.nl). I can confirm the German one has quite a lot of members and some large German subreddits moved to Lemmy when the blackout happened. Germans are quite privacy focused in general with a generally higher Firefox market share and a lot of shops only accepting cash (not proud of the latter haha)

  • Is there a way to make it so that your devices (sd cards, USBs, phones, laptops) etc can't be copied without knowing the password ?

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  • First of all:

    You can always copy storage if you're able to physically access it. The only way to prevent this is to secure the chip in a way it destroys itself if physically tampered with (like some TPM chips).

    You should instead opt for a passphrase that is practically impossible to bruteforce on current hardware due to its complexity. Also, try not to disclose the encryption algorithm or software used as this information opens the possibility of exploiting known vulnerabilities.

    VeraCrypt for example is able to completely hide its presence on a volume and the only way to know if a device is encrypted with it is trying to decrypt it using VeraCrypt with the correct passphrase.

    Trying to answer your questions:

    1. Most modern smartphones encrypt their data by default nowadays. The rest depends on the phone itself. Mostly they just delete the encryption keys from the TPM when formatted so this still enables an authority to copy your storage and bruteforce.
    2. No. Encryption does never prevent you from copying the encrypted information. Those are two completely different things.
    3. No. You cannot encrypt the SD card with say Bitlocker and use it on a phone afaik.
    4. Yes, some Androids allow you to encrypt the SD card from within the storage settings.

  • IT Department's Plan

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  • Sometimes you have to learn the hard way...

  • People younger than 30, what advice would you give to people over 30?

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  • Maybe it's the wrong person if they can't be with someone who doesn't use Instagram ;)

  • People younger than 30, what advice would you give to people over 30?

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  • Don't make the same mistake as our generation and fall for TikTok, Instagram and that shit.

    Almost everything is better without it, from concerts to weekend trips to relationships.

  • iPhone users, what's stopping you from switching to Android?

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  • When you re-import the images into another program/library, they will not be displayed in the correct order and all other information will be lost as well.

    Metadata in general is very useful and contains a lot of valuable information like location data, lens, focal length and device information which you have to manually re-integrate into each and every photo.

    I mean yes, I could write a quick and dirty Python script for this, but why should I have to do this in the first place?

    In my subjective opinion this is malicious as in it only being this way to make it as hard as possible to migrate away. I highly doubt this is the way their servers store the images as it is very inefficient and the images are likely stored in a database instead. This means in order to retrieve a file they have to process each image anyway, so why not follow the universally accepted and well defined standard and include the metadata in each file?

  • iPhone users, what's stopping you from switching to Android?

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  • First thing: Privacy. I am aware that iOS is not entirely private too, but I trust Apple Photos much more than Google Photos. You can even enable end-to-end encryption iirc.

    Second point is control over my data. I can easily export my photos from Apple Photos as files, whereas Google maliciously separates Photos and Metadata upon export. In my experience this is the same for a lot of other services as well. Being able to easily export my data enables me to escape the walled garden more easily should I get fed up with one system. I also try to use as many open source services as possible for this as well as other reasons.

    Apple has a lot of malicious practices too, especially when it comes to EU citizens and third-party app stores, etc. - but in my experience Google is no better.

    Lastly, I considered switching to an Android with Graphene OS (privacy focused Android derivate) a couple of times, but the added control over your data comes with a lot of other inconveniences. So for now, I’m just sticking to iOS.

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    At what hour you go to sleep?

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  • Same! I just can't manage to sleep earlier than 2 am and I'm starting to feel it in the mornings

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    How useless are dating apps?

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  • Im very well aware these apps are terrible in every aspect possible and only there to take advantage of people's anxieties. Thus, I'm even more confused I met my girlfriend on Bumble and we've been a couple for two years now.

    To be fair, I've been trying my luck on tinder before and got so frustrated I deleted the app multiple times.

    As an introvert, finding people in real life can be a lot harder than for other people so you kinda have to rely on dating apps sometimes. This makes it even worse to see how they're developing.

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

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  • It's not an Apple fanboy but imo it's a lot more transparent on their side. There's a switch for each and every service to use iCloud or not in the settings. Services don't just re-enable their usage of iCloud after some random update and most importantly, they don't just re-install apps you previously deleted. Or bloatware.

  • Has anybody noticed that some videos on YouTube will let you out of the app and continue playing in PiP mode on iOS?

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  • Usually their videos have an info box below the title stating they're part of our public broadcasting system and explaining what it means :)

    Regarding the buggy mess: I often find it becoming unresponsive or the UI glitching around. For example when changing from dark to light mode and vice versa the text often becomes unreadable. Or when switching from shorts to regular videos the tab bar often becomes unresponsive. As a result of the glitches I was able to get PiP a couple of times even though I'm not on the Premium plan. They might have already patched this though.

  • Has anybody noticed that some videos on YouTube will let you out of the app and continue playing in PiP mode on iOS?

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  • In Germany there are channels owned by our public broadcasters which won't have ads and let you watch their videos offline, even if you're not paying for YouTube Premium. Letting you enter PiP is not possible iirc, but it might be in other countries having the same model.

    Edit: Also, YouTube seems to be a buggy mess in iOS 😅

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  • If AI can now speak Italian, it can certainly replace us...

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  • Which language uses these signs? It truly looks like some kind of alien language

  • Just use it. Now.

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  • Maybe that's because of your extremely niche hardware vendor not providing appropriate drivers for their hardware?! Honestly, I read your salty comments under this post and your kind of attitude really pisses me off. Don't like the experience? Totally fine, don't use Linux and move on. Linux, for the most part, is FOSS software so feel free to contribute to it instead of complaining about things being broken. Linux is also free in terms of cost. So quite frankly, the developers of your distribution of choice owe you nothing.