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71bw

607 karma · joined August 13, 2022

meet.hn/city/51.1089776,17.0326689/Wrocław

Interests: Blockchain, Books, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Gaming, Healthcare, Investment, Open Source, Remote Work, Startups

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Trying to read something actually valuable while procrastinating at work.

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71bw··on Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
The truth is that Gatekeeper should go the way of the devil.

It is my machine and I paid for it, why does the OS care about what I do with it? The only thing this leads to is making sure your customers grow into good little lemmings.

71bw··on OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
>and completely devastating the labor market.

? lol

71bw··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
...and yet overall its done better than on Mac, because in full-screen apps or 3D games it doesn't start covering your view:-)
71bw··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
It's a bit slow for me, in my experience. Sometimes doesn't want to copy the image to the clipboard. Saving is also wonky. Really wish I just had sharex on Linux
71bw··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
> That machine takes 30 sec to decrypt the disk encryption key (stupid proof of work functions!),

I think my Ryzen 7500F takes a similar amount of time and it is, by no means, old nor underpowered.

71bw··on MacBook Neo
>If the brand equity wasn't there, the Galaxy S would have out sold the iPhone 4, but it didn't, it sold half as much.

Which means just *one* of the Android flagships - which are a much, much more segmentated market! - sold half as much as the iOS competitor.

71bw··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Battery life and thermal performance.
71bw··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
Adults do not waste their time arguing about the "superiority" of one platform - based on subjective choices - online.
71bw··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
Can't use my bank.
71bw··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
Off-topic, but thanks for hosting all the gcam ports for all these years.
71bw··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
...and then you look into what devices they are using and what they are ignoring that could have been resolved by tinkering.

My father-in-law has just had an issue where Xiaomi's camera app took up 95GB of space on his phone. Not the photos - just the camera app. Uninstalling updates for the app resolved the issue, all the space was magically back.

71bw··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
>What is it in your life which makes it 'impossible' to use free software, Google-free AOSP-derived Android distributions being part of this?

Play Integrity and Google's monopoly on providing "hardware attestation".

71bw··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
It's because the 8sg3 is a terribly botched chip, to the point where it requires comically overengineered cooling to function properly.
71bw··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Both Gemini models answer correctly for me in Polish: https://i.imgur.com/1QbK9eU.png
71bw··on NetNewsWire Turns 23
HSTS issue, can't access.
71bw··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
>I've heard, but haven't confirmed, they also detect you opening developer tools using various methods and remove your auth keys from localstorage while you have it open to make account takeovers harder. (but not impossible)

No, they just keep moving it between updates. It's still there. It just gets harder to extract.

71bw··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Have they finally added persisent, usable text channels as well?
71bw··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Just dropping in on a completely unrelated note to thank you for developing PortableApps - as a kid with no UAC access almost two decades ago now it helped me immensely to develop my interest in IT :-)
71bw··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
And video calls + screen sharing.

No alternative platform does this.

71bw··on More Mac malware from Google search
Money. This is all thanks to AdSense.
71bw··on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
>Also to this day there is no crack to Diablo 3

Look into Blizzless :-)

71bw··on IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)
> One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per packet.

:D

71bw··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
> like what we do on OSX.

...which is so much of a complicated nuisance that most people simply give up. If this will go the way I think it will prepare to have to skip 10 things, write 3 ADB commands and submit a video of you spinning around for 30 seconds just to install your pirated game.

71bw··on The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?
Is there some other music artist that has been present in the Congress as prevalently as Zappa...?
71bw··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
>CDPR got huge amount of trust after Witcher 3

...which was a complete shitshow on release as well...

71bw··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
To cite what might be deemed the lowest quality source possible: [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe

71bw··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
No, the new system allows multiple users to play the same game at the same time (unless the publisher explicitely opted out).
71bw··on What an unprocessed photo looks like
This is VERY interesting and I am glad you posted this, as it is my first time coming across this.
71bw··on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Ported to the Browser
Running on an i5-7500T in Firefox with a lot of stuff going on in the background (work PC running Win11) the game maintains a completely stable 60 FPS. Its insane, given the native build of the game sometimes hitched on my 7600x+6900xt combo at home when loading assets. None of that here!
71bw··on Super Mario Bros. Any% in 4:54.415 (New world record, 9 frames from perfect) [video]
Wondering how much more until we reach perfection.
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