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lemmyvore

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  • beaconDB is an open, and privacy-friendly network location service, replacing Mozilla's defunct location service

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  • Seems to be working nicely. It's indeed a drop-in replacement for Mozilla NLP plugin, just with the added ability to customize the endpoint.

    If anybody else needs to check their NLP plugins, the My Location app can show location fixes individually per location source.

    I'll start using the NeoStumbler app to contribute back to the API – hopefully it's well optimized and won't be eating too much battery.

  • Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back

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  • Maybe you meet the conditions for it? It hasn't been possible to access their API without meeting the conditions for at least a year now.

    You don't pay directly for the API, the latest conditions AFAIR are 20+ domains and $50+ on account balance and $50+ spent in the last 2 years.

    They also want you to whitelist the IPs that access the DNS which makes it unusable for DynDNS, but at least they have a separate URL for that.

  • beaconDB is an open, and privacy-friendly network location service, replacing Mozilla's defunct location service

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  • How do you use it with microG? Is there a NLP location plugin that uses it?

  • Bots can now solve CAPTCHAs better than humans

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  • Seriously, we probably need to dig into some parts of the human senses that can't be well defined. Like when you look at an image and it seems to be spinning.

  • Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper"

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  • Because there are people who got put there to try to push that stuff.

  • Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog), 2004

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  • A lot of us were running Debian when Ubuntu came out. It was polished and integrated to a degree that Debian wasn't. It became popular for very good reasons.

  • Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back

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  • If I ever changed my email domains I'd have to go change a lot of online accounts.

  • Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back

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  • Or people who use it for email and basically have their online identity tied to them.

  • Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back

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  • Namecheap has extra rules if you want to use an API (minimum money spent with them, minimum of domains managed with them etc.) — GoDaddy style.

    Keep that in mind, if you need an API (for DDNS or for obtaining wildcard TLS certificates) you'll have to use a separate service for DNS.

  • Android 14 is here. Here's what's changed. - Fairphone

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  • Jumping to a new major version takes more effort than releasing incremental updates for a version they already have in production (presumably for several models).

  • Android 14 is here. Here's what's changed. - Fairphone

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  • If they are 10 (11?) months old on major systems version jumps, the fuck are they doing for monthly security patches?!

    Wait, what does one have to do with the other? When a new Android version comes out it doesn't mean that the previous one stops getting security fixes. You can stay on a previous version and still be up to date on security.

  • Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service

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  • I mean, they just have to appeal until they get to the Supreme Court, then give the judges an RV and they'll rule that all service providers must police their customers or some other far-reaching shit like that.

  • Use plain text email

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  • They just need to tunnel the data and let the client decrypt it. Basically what Proton does with their bridge app. And also basically what Tuta's client does.

  • [Question] anyone used eu.org subdomain

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  • It's just one person managing eu.org and at some point they seem to have been overwhelmed by all the requests and have either stopped approving them or taking very long to get to them.

    If you need a cheap domain there are other TLD you can get that function normally. .eu.org is not a regular TLD, it's just subdomains offered by the owner of that domain.

  • Privacy.com in Europe?

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  • You can also delete the payment token that was issued to that website.

    My bank lists the currently valid recurrent tokens explicitly next to each card, and lets me revoke them individually (but I can also re-add a card to the merchant if I want to).

    In the Revolut app it's a bit wierder, you have to go to a card, tap on a past payment, and then you get a "block future payments" button that prevents that merchant from ever using that card, but there's also a "subscription payment" toggle that only revokes the recurrent token for that particular payment.

    The "block future payments" feature is severely limited on the free Revolut accounts, you can only do 3 blocks per month and can only have 5 total overall active. So you probably want to turn off the subscription toggle instead.

  • Privacy.com in Europe?

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  • My bank will assign cards to specific accounts and only draw payments with that card from that account. And they let you make multiple cards and multiple accounts, naturally.

    So for me the easy solution is to simply not keep money in that account (because it's a debit account and will simply refuse payments when there's no money).

    The other simple solution is the fact that the bank also lists the tokens currently associated with each card, and lets you remove them. Once the token is gone the website has to ask for explicit permission again.

    For those not familiar, nowadays websites can no longer store actual CC details (it's a huge compliance violation) and in fact they never even get to see the CC details anymore. You enter the CC details on the processor's page (which is a separate entity), they send them to your bank, the bank verifies them, asks for a 2FA confirmation from you, and if everything checks out they issue a token to the website.

    The token can be good for a one time payment, or for recurring payments. If it's a recurring token my bank will list it next to the card involved and let me revoke it. The website can use the token for as long as it's still listed – if I delete it they have to ask for a new one.

    I suspect that this is the main shortcoming of Revolut's one-time cards, they issue one-time tokens (naturally) and it's easy for the website to see that it's not a recurring one.

    Edit: I should also mention that in the EU this token mechanism is NOT used for utilities. For utilities (and for other EU recurring payments) there's a similar but explicitly separate mechanism called SEPA. It's similar in the sense you can set up the payments and you see them listed next to your account, you can revoke them at any time, they also use a tokenization system, but they draw directly from an account, there's no CC involved and no CC processors, it's a system that works directly between EU banks.

  • Everything wrong with DroidCam and how to solve it

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    • You’ll see "DroidCam" in the list of webcams.
    • It works with Skype+Chrome without the need for exclusive_caps=1.
    • The install scripts will configure v4l2loopback-dc to auto-load after reboot.

    But you're right, it also works with the standard v4l2loopback module that comes with most distros.

  • Everything wrong with DroidCam and how to solve it

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  • Yeah most distros should have the droidcam module available as DKMS module, meaning you don't have to prepare it yourself.

  • Privacy.com in Europe?

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  • We use them to pay online, of course. But the payment mechanism is different because most of the time they're debit accounts not credit.