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wolvoleo··on Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
SELinux is what Android uses internally anyway.
wolvoleo··on Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
Maybe that's regional but here in Spain it's very popular for clubs. We use it for our makerspace and also for several other clubs. The moderation and access tools are way better than WhatsApp's.

It's not end to end encrypted but for big group channels that anyone can join that doesn't really matter.

Here it's all WhatsApp and Telegram. iMessage isn't really a thing at all except for expats. Because most locals use smarties. I don't accept sms or rcs either.

wolvoleo··on Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments
You could use shrink tube around the solder connections. That would limit water ingress though it's not perfect. It's what I always do, it also gives more mechanical strength so you don't break off the the wire easily.
wolvoleo··on Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments
Yes I've used that too but it has some drawbacks. It's way less flexible for starters, and not as bright. It's not dimmable unlike the leds.

Also it needs much higher voltage around 100V compared to leds so you always need some bucket converter. And there's a minor risk too when it comes to wearables though in general the wire is well insulated.

wolvoleo··on Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments
Yeah I do kinda the same but I embed them into latex prosthetics. Like horns or protrusions for the face that you glue on. They're really good for a cyberpunkey vibe. I'm just casting some at the moment actually because we're coming up on Halloween soon.

They look great but they're difficult to solder. Too little heat and it doesn't attach, too much and it damages them. The strip has some annoying coating that repels the solder.

Some of them have metal crimped contacts that solve this but at the expense of end flexibility. And those usually have contacts at each end, i prefer them with both contacts at the same end so I can cut the strips to size.

They're also prone to breaking and the silicone is very resistant to glues and it keeps jumping around when you try to fix it in place. Embedding totally in liquid latex helps but if you use a lot it takes ages to cure.

I tend to just drive them with an ESP powered by a simple power bank. Just like the OP but I tend to leave out the drivers, for short lengths 3V is ok directly on the ESP. The WLED firmware with an ESP-S3 and a MEMS microphone can even do audio reactivity.

I combine them usually with ws2812 strips too which have individual RGB. These flexi strips of course don't.

Ps one annoying thing is that some strips are much brighter on one side than the other, and some are not. But on AliExpress it's really hard to determine which ones you end up getting.

wolvoleo··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Ugh yeah try to get through a DPIA review!
wolvoleo··on I think we might lose public key cryptography
They can stick their chatcontrol where the sun don't shine, I don't expect people to play along with it. People will just move to apps that don't play ball with these backdoors.

But we'll need some decentralised ones. Signal leaving Canada is exactly the problem with centralised networks like theirs: there's a single entity to go after for compliance. So they can be forced just like telegram was forced by Durov's arrest in France.

But there's already good options that aren't centralised. I think people will move to those. At least that's what I will do and I hope most people follow suit.

wolvoleo··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
People have lived all over the planet without these things, I don't think you can say we have no business living there.

Think of the aboriginals and nomads roaming the deserts and the inuit in the icy north. All before hvac.

And hvac isn't really as much of an energy problem as heating is. Because when hvac is needed it is during a time of abundance of sunlight.

wolvoleo··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
There's nothing shameful about nipples anyway.
wolvoleo··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
Laser is painful too even when it does work :(
wolvoleo··on A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
And the Atari XL
wolvoleo··on PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace
Yes me too. But I doubt it. The EU's own software like the age check refuses to work on rooted android phones. Pretty stupid because I as the owner should be able to decide whether I want to take that risk or not.

A jailbreak is similar to a root on Android. I think the EU is very happy to have us locked in by big tech unfortunately. They do enforce Apple to open up for other stores but I don't think they're going to go much further than that.

wolvoleo··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
Phi was more of a research project. Not trained on real world data but synthetic input. That's really good to control if you go for strict limits but it also loses a lot of originality.

But it was never a SOTA model.

wolvoleo··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
Microsoft is not a frontier AI shop at all. They just resell others' models. They don't have anything of their own worth mentioning. They missed the boat and tried to acquire OpenAI and failed, and now they pivoted their strategy to be a model-agnostic middleman.

And meta is only arguably so. Not really in the same league as OpenAI and Anthropic. More second tier like Google and xAi. (and of those Google is pretty close to the top two at times)

wolvoleo··on Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
Meh I'd play 2 hours a day or so. So 60 hrs should really be plenty for the main storyline.
wolvoleo··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Like the other reply, I would expect them to just move the project to a different country then instead.

Honestly, the OS that prides itself on "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" is not going to introduce a remote hole on purpose, that'll be one cold day in heck.

This is really the least thing to worry about.

wolvoleo··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Knowing openbsd and Theo de Raadt I'm sure he will never ever comply with an order like that.
wolvoleo··on Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
Does that mean I can play the game without owning an xbox? That would be nice as the pc version will take forever. I could just subscribe for a month or so.

Ps couldn't read TFA as it's paywalled

wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Hmm no, everyone really was.

I would visit people who were totally not technical and they'd have a PC in their livinroom with FTD on it (which was the typical Dutch piracy tool at that time). Popcorntime was there for the even less technical people. It was as easy as click and play, really. They didn't really know what they were doing but everyone has some smartass nephew who can set stuff like that up.

I find it very hard to understand that people who had no issue using windows 95 or XP and installing something like FTD can now not find anything.

I have to agree that it's harder to find Anna's archive than I thought, when I type "Download books for free" in duckduckgo it doesn't come up with Anna's Archive (or Z-Library or library genesis for that matter), if I type the names it does come up though.

wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Absolutely but buttons on the device itself are far more useful than this.
wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Yes like a gallery color screen instead of those mediocre kaleido ones.
wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Also, real leather ages a lot better than all the fake varieties. They're definitely lower quality products IMO.
wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
I'm honestly surprised that people don't manage to find Anna's Archive when they can save a lot of money there.

I'm not sure about where you are but in Holland everyone was downloading movies and TV shows in the early 2000s. When Netflix came to Europe that changed though I do expect it to go back to that now that the content has been spread over tens of platforms with every rising prices and annoying ads.

wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Pocketbook in particular if you want an open ecosystem. Kobo doesn't meet that either.

Pocketbooks just run Android and you can install what you want without any issue.

Also pocketbook are a Swiss company so that also helps if you're trying to buy European which I do.

wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
I've seen it in a lot of Filippo restaurants too, even here in Barcelona. And Chinese shops. As it's usually eaten with milk I don't go for it but it's not bad apparently
wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
They should have really added hardware buttons on the device. That would make me buy them (though I'd still jailbreak as soon as I can).
wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
If it's a years old paperwhite I'm sure you can run it :). Only the latest model is difficult.
wolvoleo··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
You can load KOReader on most of them. Just not the latest ones. I run it on all of mine. Even have page sync back now with Kavita that supports opds sync.
wolvoleo··on I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
I've noticed that a lot of smart people in tech jobs are neurodivergent. And that neurodivergent people have a very different take on sex. More open and direct, things like polyamory, bdsm etc. This tends to be frowned upon by neurotypical people, especially of the religious or conservative kind, and associated with bad morals.

But I don't think that's true, in fact I see a really strong focus on consent in these communities. It's not what conservatives want to see, they want to see everyone in a marriage, with kids and a family home etc. Because that's what their ideal world looks like. But there's nothing really wrong with it if someone wants a gangbang for her birthday as mentioned in that article as an example. As long as everyone consented and the evidence provided mentions elaborate interviews and STI tests.

Also I think this is more correlation than cause and effect. We all know the saying that furries built the internet and it surprises nobody.

wolvoleo··on Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
They could have mined enough. They controlled the czech republic which provided a lot of the Soviet's nuclear materials.
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