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doctortran

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  • Wonder Woman plays a game

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  • I see you're just going to deliberately leave out the context.

    That wasn't a homeless person, it was a patient at the asylum. Hugo Strange had injected him and 4 others with grown hormone that turned them into mindless, rage filled monsters, and there was no cure. It's needlessly violent and careless but that is in no way "Batman lynching a homeless man"

    I don't know what it is with people on Lemmy trying to dishonesty reframe the legacy of that character just because he's wealthy. It's so petty and pointless.

  • The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid

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  • There's really no reason to go scrambling for an alternative, it's a temporary problem.

  • The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid

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  • Fennec being a version behind for over a month because the dev was absent wouldn't normally be that big a deal if not for the vulnerability being discovered.

  • What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs

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  • You're about to get ripped to shreds for daring to suggest the odds of anything actually happening to someone on a recently discontinued operating system are not dramatically higher as long as the user has basic use cases and basic tech literacy.

  • What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs

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  • The article doesn't need to explicitly state that, because it's a simple comparison to make.

    its not an issue unless you have a 20 year old computer.

    Plenty of computers have been made without TPMs in the last 10 years, as well as built by people who have no need for one, or else they simply disabled it.

    The article states;

    Without Secure Boot or a TPM, though, installing these upgrades in place is more difficult. Trying to run an upgrade install from within Windows just means the system will yell at you about the things your PC is missing. Booting from a USB drive that has been doctored to overlook the requirements will help you do a clean install, but it will delete all your existing files and apps.

    If you're running into this problem and still want to try an upgrade install, there's one more workaround you can try.

    Download an ISO for the version of Windows 11 you want to install, and then either make a USB install drive or simply mount the ISO file in Windows by double-clicking it.

    Open a Command Prompt window as Administrator and navigate to whatever drive letter the Windows install media is using. Usually that will be D: or E:, depending on what drives you have installed in your system; type the drive letter and colon into the command prompt window and press Enter.

    Type setup.exe /product server

    That is objectively not much different than the majority of Linux installs in terms of what you're having to do just for an upgrade. That's the point the person above was making. You can't click a button, you have downloaded an image, mount it, and run through a setup.

    You want to talk "smug", yet you're the one being triggered enough by seeing Linux mentioned in a perfectly valid comparison to the point you have to hop on your soapbox about "why Linux has a bad reputation".

  • What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs

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  • And feel like an idiot when Windows 10 support inevitably gets extended in a year anyway.

  • The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid

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  • Honestly, just wait a little bit, both Fennec and Mull will get it sorted soon and you'll see an update. If the vulnerability is worrying you that much, I'd honestly just download the standard Firefox APK for the time being and use it while waiting on Mull to update on fdroid. It likely won't be more than a couple days.

  • The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid

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  • The only reason the Fennec devs haven't announced this is that they've been moving but they're basically working on the same things to get it back on F Droid.

  • The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid

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  • Cool.

    But I'm not adding another method of updating apps just for the browser. F-Droid is where my non-play store apps live and update from, and I'd like to keep it that way.

  • The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid

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  • Yep, it's this. Annoying change, but from what I was reading, perfectly solvable with a little time. Unfortunately the dev was moving house, so they fell a version behind at the worst possible moment, but they're aware of the issue. I'm not too concerned.

    Had it not been for FDroid's warning, I wouldn't have even realized Fennec was a version behind (now 2). Normally it's not that big a deal.

  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • It's funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won't catch on because "federation is too hard to understand" when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

    Because you don't need to understand email to use it.

    There have been decades of software and user interface advancements that have made the usage of email extremely simple and straightforward.

    People also inherently grasp the idea of it because they understand the real world concept of mail.

    Email is also one way. You aren't sending mail to and receiving mail from everyone at once, or reading mail one person sent to another and interjecting. You're just sending something to an address, not CC'ing literally everyone all the time.

    Email also doesn't have any confusion around which mailboxes are allowed to speak to each other.

    The fediverse is nowhere near that simple or intuitive.

    Particularly Lemmy because Lemmy admins have fundamentally broken the idea of federation with defederation. It generally doesn't matter what email you use or what email the receiver uses, baring more niche services. It does actually matter what instance you're on.

    We try to sell people on this comparison, try to explain to them that it's simple, but it's really a half-truth at best, or a lie at worst.

    When you joined reddit, you know for a fact you're seeing everything, and the same thing as everyone else. The same posts, the same comments, the same vote counts. A simple, shared, unfiltered experience of everything was the default, and then you shaped it yourself.

    That's not the case with the fediverse. There's no simple default. You have to build it yourself.

  • When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.

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  • Find me any charitable, non-profit, or community organization that wouldn't call the cops if someone was breaking into their networking closet to install data harvesting hardware.

  • When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.

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  • Because he literally broke into a server room and installed hardware to harvest this data.

    There's no world where any organization, for profit or otherwise, would tolerate that. Even your local library would call the damn cops if you tried that.

  • When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.

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  • Can we be honest about this, please?

    Aaron Swartz went into a secure networking closet and left a computer there to covertly pull data from the server over many days without permission from anyone, which is absolutely not the same thing as scraping public data from the internet.

    He was a hero that didn't deserve what happened, but it's patently dishonest to ignore that he was effectively breaking and entering, plus installing a data harvesting device in the server room, which any organization in the world would rightfully identity as hostile behavior. Even your local library would call the cops if you tried to do that.

  • Bitwarden update: sdk-internal now GPL, sdk/sdk-secrets to remain proprietary but not used in clients

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  • What they've done in the past has earned them trust, but it is irrelevant to what they intend to do in the future. Bitwarden is growing company, not the scrappy little open source app they once were.

    In 2022, a private equity firm injected 100m into Bitwarden. From that point forward, users are rightfully going to scrutinize any action they take because it's 2024 and the tech space is a hellscape of enshitification and acquisitions, thanks in part to VC money. We've seen this story play out too many times to assume there's nothing to worry about.

    So yes, people are going to be suspicious. That's not irrational.

  • YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns"

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  • It's the difference between a theme park and a casino. Both are legitimate forms of entertainment for many people, and both do need income to maintain their operations.

    One of them charges for entry and then you enjoy the park, only paying for additional but ultimately optional things like merchandise or food. The fun ends when you decide to leave or the park closes.

    The other is designed so you have to spend small amounts consistently, and it is designed in incredibly manipulative fashion, literally employing tactics that trigger addictive responses. The fun ends when you run out of money to spend, therefore compelling you to keep spending.

    The people designing the theme park are designing something entertaining, the people designing the casino are perfecting a skinner box.

    One is more deserving of income than the other.

  • YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns"

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  • Also because the install base for mobile devices is just about everyone everywhere, and yes, a fair amount of people, particularly young people, would much rather play something on their phone than a PC or even console.

    The difference in potential customer base is orders of magnitude larger.

  • 🚨🚨🚨DEFINITELY DO NOT DO THIS HIGHLY ILLEGAL🚨🚨🚨

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  • How to avoid Windows Recall as a Linux user?

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  • Right but you could at least be reasonably sure it wouldn't be outright spied on from the person you're sending it to. Now it's almost a guarantee.

    Like if I sent something to a friend of mine, I could be fairly certain it wouldn't end up in the wrong hands unless they got compromised or did something stupid. I could trust their competence.

    Now everyone that isn't actively managing their own windows installation is absolutely compromised, as a rule. Like I can't just send an email to my mom anymore, from now on its always my Mom and Copilot.