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  • Closing programs

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  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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  • I thought this was using SDKs embedded in apps and advertising platforms. This is a different threat model. You need to block ads and prefer using websites instead of apps which have more access to device info like the advertising ID.

    If you've got an Android, go to Settings, search for ads, and find the advertising ID and delete the ID. It's a stable identifier that can be used to identify your phone.

    Switch to more private browsers like Firefox for Mobile and install uBlock Origin.

    EDIT: I'm not saying this will protect you against IMSI catchers or tower based drag nets. In addition to not bringing your phone, when you do go home you need an entirely different set of tools to protect yourself.

  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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  • Are those networks marked as hidden SSID networks? Hidden networks require the client STA to broadcast them to find them.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Worst of Breed software

    worstofbreed.net

  • Software craftsmanship is dead

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  • You're describing what agile should be, but Agile™ is the variant you get in toxic companies where they say they are agile, but it's just a mechanism to micromanage developers with bad managers asking why you're not burning down enough points or why you haven't met the estimated date you thought before you realized there was more technical debt than a bankrupt business.

    Maybe you've avoided it but I've seen it first hand.

  • Building a React App with Formally Verified State

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  • Pretty cool. I played around with Dafny at work for some security-related software and I was pondering if Dafny could be effective for other problems like complex web-app state management or even more standard services.

  • America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth

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  • Wealth in economics refers to the amount of assets (home, stocks, cash, bonds, art, etc.) That one owns. Wealth is a lot easier to grow than income is.

    Family wealth likely refers to a single family unit, ie parents and kids.

  • Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves

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  • I use it to play music from Jellyfin to my Sonos speakers. It won't fix a Jellyfin library that has bad data, but it can pull in music from multiple different sources and push to different players.

    It works well enough. Some issues where songs get interrupted, but I think that's issue with the Music Assistant/Sonos integration.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Logging Sucks - A review of challenges with logging

    loggingsucks.com

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • I developed my own scraping system using browser automation frameworks. I also developed a secure storage mechanism to keep my data protected.

    Yeah there is some security, but ultimately if they expose it to me via a username and password, I can use that same information to scrape it. Its helpful that I know my own credentials and have access to all 2FA mechanisms and am not brute forcing lots of logins so it looks normal.

    Some providers protect it their websites with bot detection systems which are hard to bypass, but I've closed accounts with places that made it too difficult to do the analysis I need to do.

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • I scrape my own bank and financial aggregator to have a self hosted financial tool. I scrape my health insurance to pull in data to track for my HSA. I scrape Strava to build my own health reports.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Can't be a passive adapter or else that would mean DisplayPort and HDMI have to protocol compatible. If they were then we wouldn't have this issue. Apparently I was wrong.

  • Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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  • Just an update. Firefox 146 just dropped with:

    • Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux (Wayland), making rendering more effective.

    After upgrading to 146 and natively using Wayland, it feels faster. Some fade animations are still choppier, but on average it's at least tolerable.

    Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

  • Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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  • Interesting. I played around with X11 vs Wayland settings just to see what different configurations give me

    • MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Exhibits low FPS issue
    • MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Actually feels fast like it should be. Most animations feel faster, some are still choppy though. It's hard to tell.

    It seems like running with X11 sort of the problem? Which seems unexpected and concerns me since I know distros are starting to default to Wayland.

  • Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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  • Yep, both are plugged into the graphics card. Other programs and games are a lot faster.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • If the app is just a WebView wrapper around the application, then the challenge page would load and try to be evaluated.

    If it's a native Android/iOS app, then it probably wouldn't work because the app would try to make HTTP API calls and get back something unexpected.

  • How does "DNS" work on the dark web?

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  • On Tor dark web domains, you use the .onion domain. Tor is configured as a SOCKS proxy, so it doesn't perform a DNS query. Instead, Tor itself sees you're trying to connect to an onion domain name. Then it takes the URL and translates that into a public key that it knows how to find in its own hidden service directory.

    Only the actual hidden service has a valid private key corresponding to that public key in the URL so cryptography (and the assumption that quantum computers don't exist) ensures you're talking to the right server.

    Tl;dr effectively no DNS for onion hidden services

    https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/overview/

  • Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?

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  • Putting the charger circuit inside the battery takes away battery capacity, so I still buy the external chargers

  • DFRobot router board with a CM4

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  • Unless you're running VLANs, in which case the inter VLAN is normally handled by the router. I also expose my home lab services over BGP so all my traffic hits the router then comes back to my lab services.

  • It's your fault my laptop knows where I am

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  • Every WiFi router and network has something called an SSID and a BSSID. The SSID is the friendly name that you use to show off your puns to your neighbors. The BSSID is a 6 byte MAC address. All devices use the BSSID when connecting and communicating.

    With a non hidden SSID, your router broadcasts the SSID and BSSID.

    The BSSID doesn't change even if you change your SSID (Though APs with support for multiple SSID create a different BSSID per network) and it's what is actually used for geo location.

    When it's hidden, it doesn't send the SSID out, but sends out packets with the BSSID. Clients then scream out to the void "anybody know the SSID 'My Secret SSID??'" Then it'll respond.

    So basically hidden networks still send out the unique identifying address and then when you take your phone with you, you're just telling everybody what your home WiFi is called.

    Hidden SSIDs are not that useful.

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

    According to this post, it was partly that and lack of maintainers. Given there's maintainers for a fork, I'm curious why they didn't bring them into the main project.

    Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Your data model is your destiny

    notes.mtb.xyz /p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Nabu Casa - Ending production of Home Assistant Yellow

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/10/15/yellow-end-of-life/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Docker/OCI Image Registry Explorer - Explore OCI images using a web page

    oci.dag.dev
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    You Don't Need Animations - Purposeful Animations

    emilkowal.ski /ui/you-dont-need-animations
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    What's your most pointless or silliest automation?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Companion app for Android: It’s been a while

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/07/23/companion-app-for-android/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Zooz joins Works with Home Assistant

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/07/15/zooz-joins-works-with-home-assistant/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Comparison of video game performance of Windows 11 vs SteamOS/Linux on the Lenovo Legion Go S

    boilingsteam.com /lenovo-legion-go-s-windows-vs-steam-os-performance/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Deep Dive on Google's TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)

    henryhmko.github.io /posts/tpu/tpu.html
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Release 2025.6: Getting picky about Bluetooth

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/06/11/release-20256/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    How GitLab decreased repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes with a fix to Git

    about.gitlab.com /blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Home Assistant - Deprecating Core and Supervised installation methods, and 32-bit systems

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/05/22/deprecating-core-and-supervised-installation-methods-and-32-bit-systems/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access

    github.blog /changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Parsing CSV at 21 GB/s Using SIMD on AMD 9950X in .net

    nietras.com /2025/05/09/sep-0-10-0/
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety

    www.reuters.com /graphics/VIDEO-GAMES/MENTAL-HEALTH/akpeewkqgpr/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call

    devblogs.microsoft.com /oldnewthing/20250411-00/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    The manager I hated and the lesson he taught me

    www.blog4ems.com /p/the-manager-i-hated