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evenwicht

@ evenwicht @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • Curated list of banking app support for GrapheneOS

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  • Graphene is Android. Why would a bank’s app not work? @TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip suggests that some banks proactively detect and block Graphene, while other banks’ apps simply accidentally fail on Graphene. Is accidental incompatibility really a notable issue on Graphene?

  • [solved] cannot edit my post b/c of slur filter? (language selector bug in web UI)

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  • Oh, right! Indeed, I forgot there was a language specifier for the post itself. That fixed it. Thanks!

    What a piece of shit software.

  • [solved] cannot edit my post b/c of slur filter? (language selector bug in web UI)

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  • thanks for the tip, but it seems to make no difference. I changed it from browser default to english. Is that the right setting? The screenshot does not render for me.

    I simply tried to add the word “needed” to the end of the title, and it said “language not allowed”.

  • sdfpubnix @lemmy.sdf.org
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    solved

    cannot edit my post b/c of slur filter? (language selector bug in web UI)

    lemmy.sdf.org /post/40711081
  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    Anti-enshitification action: Before buying a “white goods” appliance, send this anti-enshitification letter to the manufacturer (written in LaTeX)

  • Right to Repair @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Promote repairability -- Before buying a “white goods” appliance, send this LaTeX form letter to the manufacturer

  • Quotes @lemmygrad.ml
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    When an exact quote is non-existent, what are the rules? And what if they don’t know you’re quoting them?

  • Snowden quote along the lines of: saying you don’t need privacy is selfish

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  • I recall he specifically used the word selfish and the source was in text. But nonetheless, your find is still useful. Thanks!

  • Quotes @lemmygrad.ml
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    Snowden quote along the lines of: saying you don’t need privacy is selfish

  • Quotes @lemmygrad.ml
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    “Surveillance is a form of oppression.” ← anonymous? Or is it attributed to someone?

  • Afghans burnt by UK data leak because someone used email to send a large sensitive dataset -- which email service, anyone know?

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  • There are different narratives. What I believe I heard on BBC radio was that the sender intended to just send a few records to the recipient but accidentally sent the full dataset of 18,000 (or 19,000) records.

    Other sources, like the one I linked, say the error was that the wrong recipient was emailed.

    It’s surprising that as big as the story is, reporting of the tech details is lousy. A couple sources say the data was a spreadsheet, which seems to support what the Guardian says.

  • cybersecurity @infosec.pub
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    Afghans burnt by UK data leak because someone used email to send a large sensitive dataset -- which email service, anyone know?

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/jul/15/afghanistan-uk-data-leak-taliban-britain
  • Finance @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Why do FB shareholders have a case against Zuckerberg? When do civil and criminal acts expose CEOs to shareholders?

  • Best way to use emacs for Lemmy posting

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  • Glad to hear about that! The page was unreachable (at least from Tor) but this works: http://web.archive.org/web/20250317184645/https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el

    I get the impression from the readme that it requires an Internet connection to use. I might still be able to use it in some ways but I’ll try to compose msgs while offline and save a local copy.

    (update) I get this when trying to install:

     
        
package-compute-transaction: Package ‘emacs-29.1’ is unavailable

    28.2 is the latest on debian stable. Is that my problem?

  • Emacs @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Best way to use emacs for Lemmy posting

  • Finance @lemmy.sdf.org
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    90 min fight with a bank over a check <$2

  • HMD Global, smartphones and tablets from Finland. They are the ones that were behind the Nokia phones

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  • Does the “Buy European” community disregard software?

    Nokia briefly had a couple devices with an apparently FOSS platform: Maemo, IIRC. Then they ditched that to align with Microsoft. And their recent smartphones are apparently based on Google’s Android. That’s not European.

    If you must have an Android for some strange reason, then I suppose Nokia or Wiko would be as close as you can get to European. But fuck Android. It’s proprietary and designed for obsolescence.

  • Two new PieFed instances

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  • I would not even announce centralized instances like piefed.ca. It’s part of the Cloudflare giant.

  • Is this Instance Down? @infosec.pub
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    slrpnk.net down for good, apparently. Speculation they might return as a different platform (piefed)

    piefed.social /post/871124

  • MakeMKV is a freedom shitshow itself. No source code and the binaries are Cloudflare-jailed

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  • I have not tried much of anything yet. I just got a cheap laptop with a BD which came with Windows and VLC. I popped in a blu-ray disc from the library and it could not handle it.. something about not having a aacs decoder or something like that. I didn’t spend any time on it yet but ultimately in principle I would install debian and try to liberate the drive to read BDs.

  • MakeMKV is a freedom shitshow itself. No source code and the binaries are Cloudflare-jailed

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  • thanks!

    Though I should mention my original motivation with makemkv was to rip blu-ray discs, which has complications that go beyond DVD. But the DVD guide will still be quite useful.

  • Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

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  • Fun suggestion.. could be useful to have as a side hack if congestion becomes an issue but I doubt it would come to that. They have what seems to be a high-end switch with 20 or so ports and internal fans.

  • Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

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  • The event is ~2—3 hours or so. If someone needs the full Debian (80 gb!), I think over USB 2 it would not transfer in that timeframe. USB 2 sticks may be rare but at this event there are some ppl with old laptops that have no USB 3 sockets. A lot of people plug into ethernet. And the switch looks somewhat more serious than a 4-port SOHO.. it has like 20+ ports with fans, so I don't get the impression ethernet congestion would be an issue.

  • Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

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  • I think they could do the job. I’ve never admin’d an NFS so I’m figuring there’s a notable learning curve there. SAMBA, well, maybe. I’ve used it before. I’m leaning toward ProFTPd at the moment but if that gives me any friction I guess I’ll consider SAMBA. Perhaps I’ll go into overachiever mode and have both SAMBA and ProFTPd pointing to the same directory.

  • Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

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  • Two possible issues w/that w.r.t my use case:

    • not in official Debian repos -- not a show stopper but definately points against it for installation and maintenance burdons across migrations
    • apparently read-only access for users. This is fine in simple cases where I would just be sharing with others, but a complete solution enables users to share with others on the same server by uploading. Otherwise everyone with a file to share must run rejetto hfs.

    Nonetheless, I appreciate the suggestion. It could be handy in some situations.

  • Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

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  • oh, sorry. Indeed. I answered from the notifications page w/out context. Glad to know Filezilla will work for that!

  • Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

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  • I use filezilla but AFAIK it’s just a client not a server.

  • Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

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  • Indeed i noticed openssh-sftp-server was automatically installed with Debian 12. Guess I’ll look into that first. Might be interesting if ppl could choose between FTP or mounting with SSHFS.

    (edit) found this guide

    Thanks for mentioning it. It encouraged me to look closer at it and I believe it’s well suited for my needs.

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?

  • MakeMKV is a freedom shitshow itself. No source code and the binaries are Cloudflare-jailed

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  • Well it’s still the same problem. I mean, it’s likely piracy to copy the public lib’s disc to begin with, even if just for a moment. From there, if I want to share it w/others I still need to be able to exit the library with the data before they close. So it’d still be a matter of transcoding as a distinctly separate step.

  • MakeMKV is a freedom shitshow itself. No source code and the binaries are Cloudflare-jailed

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  • What’s the point of spending a day compressing something that I only need to watch once?

    If I pop into the public library and start a ripping process using Handbrake, the library will close for the day before the job is complete for a single title. I could check-out the media, but there are trade-offs:

    • no one else can access the disc while you have it out
    • some libraries charge a fee for media check-outs
    • privacy (I avoid netflix & the like to prevent making a record in a DB of everything I do; checking out a movie still gets into a DB)
    • libraries tend to have limits on the number of media discs you can have out at a given moment
    • checking out a dozen DVDs will take a dozen days to transcode, which becomes a race condition with the due date
    • probably a notable cost in electricity, at least on my old hardware
  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    MakeMKV is a freedom shitshow itself. No source code and the binaries are Cloudflare-jailed

  • Is this Instance Down? @infosec.pub
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    linke.social back up, but (some?) users accounts mysteriously locked

  • Is this Instance Down? @infosec.pub
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    Mastodon host linke.social down

  • Is this Instance Down? @infosec.pub
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    Mastodon server ieji.de has an onion service, which is down

  • Finance @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Bank deactivated my card because a fraud dept. worker mistook a balance inquiry as a transaction. Any ATM experts around? Is there an ATM bug?

  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ml
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    Using OSM for navigation w/external GPS (GPS→NMEA over bluetooth→FOSS phone)-- Can any FOSS platforms do this?

  • cybersecurity @infosec.pub
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    (PDF neutering) Not all PDFs are documents; some are apps! Insurance company sent me a form to sign as a PDF with JavaScript Java. Is it a tracker?

  • Finance @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Anyone short-selling pro-Trump stocks?