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dtx1··on The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)
Cause exploding hard drives are metal AF
dtx1··on HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash
It's quite a thing to behold that the only technological advancement in printing technology in the last decade has been the erosion of ownership to the point of absurdity. In a fair world, this decades long clownshow should have caused the mother of all anti trust lawsuits, yet here we are.
dtx1··on Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction
It's made by a former piratebay founder. When you buy a domain from them, they act as a middleman and keep legal ownership of the domain thus shielding your PI somewhat from legal enforcement. They claim their hosting is "In secret locations in Sweden". Their LLC is located in Nevis (some tax evasion island).

There's also https://1984.hosting/ which runs a similar operation out of iceland.

dtx1··on TUI for Managing WiFi on Linux
I highly recommend nm-applet in arch and sway. Its just so much less pain having a small ui to use
dtx1··on Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure
> But there's not actually zero chance that your random number generation is flawed, and (very much more important) the cost is in making harder the pieces of your system that are probably more likely to fail in the first place.

I don't think it's that hard to get true randomness. Just measure something random in nature like radio static.

dtx1··on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
Money is not the Problem with firefox https://preview.redd.it/r9q69xop8n6d1.png?auto=webp&s=59a1d3...
dtx1··on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
Nice Strawman. My Argument is that it takes likely 10s of millions of dollars to secure a large CPP Browser from the metric shitload of memory safety issues the average C/CPP Programmer leaves behind. If you want to compete with Google, either you use a memory safe language and spend your time securing the other millions of security issues that arise from writing a web browser or you waste time and money to build something no one in their right mind should be using for anything given the state of the modern web.
dtx1··on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
And Google Spend roughly 100 Times more money on making it safe than ladybird will get in funding in total.
dtx1··on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
https://youtu.be/ibA7noX6rnc?t=63
dtx1··on First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
> with stable cycling for several hundred cycles. So an order of Magnitude less than useful batteries.
dtx1··on The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer
We tried to do this by law in germany and it almost ended in a civil war.
dtx1··on Should this be a map or 500 maps?
And its free in fdroid

edit: Don't understand the Downvotes, the Version on F-Droid is a legitimate free version of the premium app version: https://f-droid.org/de/packages/net.osmand.plus/

dtx1··on 'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft
I am sure you can get detailed bioweapons instructions on 4chan already. Aum Shinrikyo figures out sarin in the 90s
dtx1··on Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide
Fun Fact: There are Countries where Spudguns are illegal and treated like a weapons charge. Germany being one of them.
dtx1··on Twonkie: A USB-PD sniffer/injector/sink based on Google's Twinkie open hardware
That's 240W. You could charge an e-Bike via USB-C with that. Insane.
dtx1··on Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic'
> No one ever talks about paper bags. Growing up that's all we ever used and it was easily biodegradable. But stores went with the cheaper solution.

Plastic Bags were banned here in Germany (Maybe EU?) so now you can get either Paper Bags or Plastic Bags made from recycled plastic water bottles. To be quite honest: The paper bags suck because they are fragile and the recycled bags are expensive.

dtx1··on Mullvad browser review – Experience VPN-like security in a browser
I'm sorry but this is low quality blogspam drizzle and the writer barely understands what he is talking about (if at all). Just take this sentence:

> Mullvad browser is perfect for those who want VPN-like security in their browser without actually paying for a VPN.

Do I even have to argue just how monumentally stupid this sentence is? I hope not.

dtx1··on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
Yeah another uneducated take from a new account who'd thought. Hungary is paying thos fines because they currently, actively and willingly violate human right laws.[1] Not because they "build border protections". Even if you want a significantly more strict immigration and asylum law, human rights must be protected.

But that's always the trick of the fascists, First violate the rights of the undesired so you can get people used to it, then violate the rights of the rest.

[1]https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/13/ecj-fines-hung...

dtx1··on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
> That sounds fine for the people of Hungary whom he represents. What should he do, roll over and take it from Germany? The EU is a behemoth that absolutely steamrolls smaller countries into submission. But the squeaky wheel gets greased.

What a uneducated, populistic and stupid take. Just a litle basic statistics about net contributors vs net benificiaries: https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...

Gemany pays shitloads of money into the EU so that places like hungary can benefit. If they feel that's being "steamrolled" into accepting things like the contracts they fucking signed they can fuck back off into irrelevance. As a German tax payer i'd appreciate that very much.

dtx1··on TikTag: Breaking ARM's memory tagging extension with speculative execution
> No problem, I was told, it’s not intended as a mitigation technique, it’s intended for at-scale debugging. Then certain companies decided it was a security technology.

Yeah and it did work well for that usecase. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112066872276203917

dtx1··on Asus' first Snapdragon X Elite laptop (mostly) blows away the MacBook Air M3
> Geekbench 6 single-core > Snapdragon X Elite 2418 > m3 3082

Tells you all you need to know about this chip. And I bet Microsoft's ARM Translation layer will be Garbage as usual.

dtx1··on Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
> The NPC population doesn’t know about this and doesn’t care. They haven’t heard of this and they don’t know what “e2ee” means. They have “nothing to hide”. They are your parents and grandparents, and your friends from work.

You got it right: They do not care. They do not care that privacy, democracy and freedom are taken away from them because they never cared that they had that in the first place. It's the eternal conservative vote that will never consider an alternative regardless of fact.

They vote Republican in the US and CDU here in Germany. Doesn't matter if they vote for a convicted criminal or that they ruin the future of their children and grandchildren. They got theirs, fuck everyone else. Doesn't matter what I do there's a block of at least a third to half the population that is not open to argument, reason or even facts.

Fuck those People!

dtx1··on Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
I for one blame the NPC Population that can't think more than 5 Minutes ahead in terms of policy.
dtx1··on The Four Kinds of Research-and-Development Teams
That spy team sounds fun to be on. Any advice/reading recommendations to built such a team?
dtx1··on Confronting Asus Face-to-Face [video]
Asus has been fucking over Customers in their RMA for years (Personally had it happen to me like 10 years ago).

Steve had them on their Radar a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7af_LGtD_jc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJKzKbqxa0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbGfc-JBxlY

Then waited a year to see if they have changed and low and behold still scummy af: They scammed Gamers Nexus when they did an undercover Repair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

Knowing Asus is run by headless chickens, the inevitable bullshit response comes out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3DwhTc7Z4o and it's victim blaming as you'd expect.

Steve than revealed that Asus is already on the FTCs Radar and talked to a few lawyers on camera explaining just how fucking illegal Asus tactics are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdtpU8FKO8

And finally, with this Video, he straight up bullied them into giving him an interview with executives to make them finally fix their shit

dtx1··on You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents
There are some server hosters that you can buy with a locally bought paysafe card. They mostly cater to young gamers that want to host private servers but don't necessarily have access to the banking system yet. They will however very likely nuke your server the second they get a dcma notice. So you need a vpn setup on that server too. Several providers offer bitcoin payment, with mullvad you can buy scratch-off tickets on amazon, which would be the most anonymous option. Of course setup has to be done on a public wifi and requires some custom setup.

Alternatively, there's /r/seedboxes over on reddit where most vendors accept bitcoin and get you a complete setup.

dtx1··on You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents
I suspect in part it's the required capacity. This Project is far beyond what even the largest private trackers could host but if anyone comes even close to be able to keep this alive when the copyright mafia comes it's the torrent community.
dtx1··on ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
This could be pretty awesome. I've been looking for some form of Desktop OS that can hold a candle to the Privacy and Security Features of GrapheneOS and they are intimately tied to the Pixel Chipsets.

Now, a ChromeOS Notebook or even better an Android Tablet with a ChromeOS style Desktop mode getting the GrapheneOS Treatment would be an instant buy for me.

dtx1··on Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
>So, there you have it. Arm wants Qualcomm to stop shipping the product it's been contesting, but to be honest, that's not usually how these things end. It's unlikely that any product will be delayed from hitting shelves. These cases tend to end with one company giving a bucket of cash to the other, and everyone moves on.

Yeah, basically this. Though it seems rather risky of Qualcomm to essentially byte the hand that feeds them. If I was ARM, I'd consider not extending any licenses given to Qualcomm this.

dtx1··on Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)
> Procrastination isn't poor time management; it's poor emotional management. Be gentle with yourself. Know that you can be scared, frustrated, or angry but don't have to let those emotions define you. CBT works really well here. Don't define emotions as "good" or "bad". Define them as "useful". If the emotion you feel isn't useful, acknowledge it, but realize it's fleeting and let it pass on. Some people like to visualize emotions as clouds drifting by.

As someone who has suffered from depression and related procrastination, thank you for your kind words.

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