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ProtoAES256··on Mozilla, Microsoft yank TrustCor's root certificate authority
CNNIC was caught signing fake Google certs.
ProtoAES256··on “You don't have a voltmeter. Do you have a potato?”
Did someone said about The Great Potato Cannon?
ProtoAES256··on What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
Damn you Bobby Tables!!! (fist hanging in the air)
ProtoAES256··on RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative
Zerotier is my goto tool too(I use tightvnc server even on Windows instead of RDP)!

But the downside is that they had downgraded everyone in the free tier to only 1 hosted network, which is sad since now I can't do different groups.

I used to have a group for each circle of friends so that we can play LAN games together and now I need to ask one of them from each group to set a network themselves for me to join.

Self hosting (Moon instances) introduced basically nothing since our network wasn't super reliable. With their current pricing it wasn't that useful to us so I'm now in a love-hate relationship with Zerotier.

ProtoAES256··on You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)
People like me who are obese(I'm Obese III) can't control the urge to keep intake food, which is a death spiral loop(we know!).

I suspect that this is partially influenced by gut bacteria, which sounds like pointing fingers to blame something instead of not enough "self-esteem".

It's more of multiple factors in motion, while the effects apart from self determination are heavily downplayed.

I'm currently trying to shake down some of my weight, but as soon as I started consume less, my mind gets fuzzy and work will not get done. And my blood sugar gets dangerously low. Counterintuitive I know, heh.

I hope for that one day I'll break the vicious cycle.

ProtoAES256··on Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
I absolutely hate Nvidia on my Ubuntu machine geared towards development. It's been about 4 years since I've entered the CUDA(and cudnn) scene for AI development.

You'd think I'd be a guru in the installation process by now but I still occasionally make my system unbootable for one reason or another with new releases, or the whole thing "just don't work" outright.

It is really, really frustrating since every solution is basically "try again or start anew, we don't have the source so can't help you much sorry".

ProtoAES256··on Facebook promised poor countries free internet: People got charged anyway
I guess it wasn't news to me. They did that exact thing to 0.facebook when Facebook was the hot new nerdy thing 10 years ago at my area. I would keep my prepaid in at the lowest denomination of currency possible (think 0.01) to be able to browse 0.fb since it charged for my browsing even though it was supposed to be free.

Overall I find it actually suprisingly usable, which is a habit that I more or less carried until the "modern" times where I browse Facebook on my Android Firefox instead using the bloated app and Messenger.

ProtoAES256··on CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
Chinese messenger ID-as-username mostly starts from q(QQ - counterpart FB Messenger) and s(Sina Weibo - counterpart FB/Twitter). Others(a - admob, b - bilibili etc.) are quite rare tbh so I don't think that's the case here.
ProtoAES256··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
I use it often to calculate... Stuffs. They are great in calculating but I really need to envelope them with at least 6 layers of bracket for it to parse my equation correctly or it will use some weird notations/arrangements.
ProtoAES256··on I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case
Ditto. My family and I are all fully 2 dose vaccinated, and I didn't go out from my house for nearly a month. I caught COVID(via my mother) last thursday. The facilities are long overrun since a few months ago, so my symptoms which are: blood coughing, nausea, chest pain, ~93%SpO2 are considered "quite mild" and "home quarantine only".

In the wake of other variants like Delta, I doubt that people who didn't/can't get the vaccine can be protected by herd immunity alone.

A few of my friends are getting breakthroughs too, which seems like a lot in comparison to the global statistics, so it might be just anomalies.

ProtoAES256··on FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
Yes, but if only the system doesn't pop up the Play Protect button every few install, and words that discourage users instead of educating users about sideloading apps. Then I'll consider sideloading on par with installing from the Play store.
ProtoAES256··on An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
Apart from spam, scams too. Fake login pages, to the tech-illeterate are virtually indistinguishable from the real site.
ProtoAES256··on Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server
The first thing that come to my mind is: "How will this fare for a long term daily backup?" A few of my old phones and SD cards died due to the flash being used up(can't write new data, ro only).

That said, with some magic linux command sauce, external drives can be used(part 2 of link), then software RAID, offloading data to them to prolong flash writes lifetime, then more stuffs like AnLinux can instead be used to add functionality to it.

Interesting read indeed.

ProtoAES256··on Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO
Pardon for my misinterpretation. Although I don't use google much these days, but I'd assume it be due to location/preference tailor.

And yes, I don't see the hash in the page too, I should read it more carefully before commenting. Sorry for the confusion.

ProtoAES256··on Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO
It's on the [0] link, with the line

4ba4fbf7231a3a660e86892707d25c135533a16a ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso 2.67GiB 120 8 1 2.67GiB

ProtoAES256··on Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak
If you find discrepancies between those tools, you can go through the dataset by yourself since they are all over the internet now... I checked the set and didn't find myself in it but most if not all of my close-kin are in it.
ProtoAES256··on Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021
I whole-heartedly agree on Apple being the douche here. But discussions should be treaded carefully to a constructive theme instead of another flame war. I still hold my opinion but I did see your point.

Edit: Your edit seems to align to my view. Ignore this comment

ProtoAES256··on Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021
This might be an unpopular opinion, but Apple is a company, not a charity. They shouldn't be held high moral standards. In this kidney-rich person scenario, if the homeless person donated(open source) the kidney without hoping for forced payment in any form, who is it to blame the rich person for not handing out money? They gave only a little sure, but they really really don't have the obligation to donate.

It is morally wrong, but morally wrong stuffs are not the reason to got pitchfork on them.

My view is that if they donate a huge lump sum of money, great! If they don't, fine by me too.

ProtoAES256··on Problems with low DNS TTLs
A new subdomain normally will do the trick, but might be suboptimal due to the work needed to be done according to scale/tech/job involved. For example, doing this as a sys in a big company requires jumping through bureaucracy hoops, not to mention setting up ssl for it(I know there is letsencrypt but you know, some coporate doesn't want them). A short TTL will just be "Well just try it again in 10 minutes and it'll work."
ProtoAES256··on Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
You do realize that in 10 seconds your computer can achieve a lot of stuffs right?
ProtoAES256··on GitHub was down
In the wake of recent events, are there any methods to do CI/CD which will fallback to other providers/local automagically as a result?

My heart can't handle another rollercoaster of unicorns for long...

ProtoAES256··on Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
Wow, guess I live in and being booted from the USA without me even knowing it now... IMO living is all about compromises, that way we all benefit from it as a society. But clearly not by being ignorant.
ProtoAES256··on Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
I sent a 5GiB file from my android phone to my laptop, my phone hungs for nearly a minute before it starts the sending process. My hypothesis is that it needs some 'processing' from and to the browser and the phone storage.
ProtoAES256··on Remove auto renew from my account
I second to this. I had been a loyal customer to their service since Teamviewer 5, recommending friends and family to use the service due to the snappiness and ease to use interface. Then I got struck by the notorious COMMERCIAL DETECTED thingy and will disconnect my session every minute or 5 or straight up won't work at all.

At first, an appeal fixed that rather quickly, but after 5 similar incidents in just 2 years around Teamviewer 14, they straight up deemed my personal account as commercial even though I bought the commercial version on my work computer and strictly use my personal computer as, well, personal. After a few emails back and forth, I was very frustrated about how I'm wrongly accused for something I didn't do. So my wise choice was to ditch it and head to the Zerotier + VNCServer ever since.

Recently I stumbled upon this gaming streaming called Rainway, and are quite fascinated by their approach. The stream is smooth and I might use then more.

(I'm not affliated to any companies mentioned above, this is a personal opinion and not a sales pitch.)

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ProtoAES256··on Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4
Thanks for the heads up, will certainly do!
ProtoAES256··on Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
I never had an account on reddit, and I never had problems with browsing/expanding the comments too. I am not from either US/EU so by the looks of it and the input of others it might be more of a regional thing rather than a universal one thus the conflict of information in discussions.
ProtoAES256··on Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
I can read full comments, but not some subs. Is there some a/b test going on?
ProtoAES256··on Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
This is actually nice! If only CTRL+W didn't kill the tabs... We still got a long way to achieve the glorious web everything but progress is progress and I'll give them that.
ProtoAES256··on Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install
It gets even more notorious with time. I bought a new laptop recently and with Windows 10 Home instead of my Pro norm with it, and was very shocked to see how much control did I lose if were I a normal user. The mandatory and force restarting updates, web results in searches, king games, nag-ful notifications, edge self promotion, telemetry etc. I can't imagine what [profanity] that normal users had to live on with in most recent Windows. I'm waiting for the last straw that is gaming and am ready to ditch Windows completely.
ProtoAES256··on Tencent replaces PUBG with a Chinese government-friendly alternative
The new version contains a small banner at the left corner for PLAAF(People's Liberation Army Air Force) recruitment. The old to new game process is just replacing the old PUBG application with the new one and the update process suggests that the maps are just modified by a little, mostly the same. Most of my old game data are migrated to the new game. My player level, guild, achievements, war record, old season battle records- hey, this is just another skin for the game to met the legal requirements like how the green blood works before!
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