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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
  • Signal’s defaults are pretty good about that. Push notifications are both opt-in and the information they send can be selected by the user. You can have it say “new message” and that’s it. Or the senders name. Or the whole message.

    I agree that it’s not intuitive that that’s a leak to most people, but push notifications are kind of wonky how they work.

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    Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
  • No matter how good the protocol or client encryption, your privacy is only as good as your own physical security for the device in question.

    Given that if you lose your private key, there is no recovery, I would be surprised if there were real back doors in the clients. Maybe unintentional ways to leak data, but you can go look for yourself: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

    They have one for each client.

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    OneDrive deleted my files!
  • I feel your pain man. Our university of 40k people did the same thing “from on high” and we ran into the same problems in our lab. We only had 4 million files to move into a Teams share. Which, btw, takes about 5 weeks to “sync” to OneDrive, which is how we were expected to replace our workflow instead of a shared network storage drive our lab owned

    q_q

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    EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11 (Phoronix)
  • Wait til your table with all the checksums gets messed up on an “older” btrfs install. Happened to me on a VM because I didn’t know copy-on-write should be disabled for large frequently partially updated files. It also slowed that VMs IO down a lot.

    Like most file systems, BTRFS is great if you know the edge cases. I recently moved to ZFS on my new work system, which has been a great change in terms of in-line snapshots and the like.

    If EXT4 meets your needs, that’s awesome. If you understand how to use a different FS well or are willing to learn (and risk), I would also encourage other options as well.

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    Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service
  • Sounds like they could have been lazy and simply disabled/blocked your dns lookups, or stopped providing your route to 0.0.0.0/0. VPN provides new dns provider and a route to the internet at large, and you’re back in business.

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    Baldur's Gate 3 - Community Update #28 Closed Beta
  • the subreddit r/okbuddybaldur is pretty much 50% Astarion porn and 50% Durge/Gortash shipping.

    So yes. People apparently want it. I guess.

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    I just cited myself.
  • In this context, yes, because of the cancellation on the fractions when you recover.

    1/3 x 3 = 1

    I would say without the context, there is an infinitesimal difference. The approximation solution above essentially ignores the problem which is more of a functional flaw in base 10 than a real number theory issue

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    So basically how students write papers
  • I do it AFTER the rambling story.

    “….. short story long, (insert tl;dr verbally)”

    It’s like “and then I found 5 dollars”

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    Good evening I hate Windows. Yes, I have to do this.
  • Please explain why you don’t open powershell and run cmd.exe instead of running bash? This is a strange workaround and doesn’t really make sense.

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    Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while
  • Ironically, in the hands of an experienced practitioner, the pullout method is very effective at preventing pregnancy.

    The problem comes when it’s a kid trying it for the first time having sex, or someone not in full control of their facilities towards the end of sex. Easy to get caught up and “forget” if you’re having a good time.

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    ‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment
  • While it certainly isn’t news to us today, every additional observation that supports a theory is valuable, especially for theories about deep-rooted and hard-to-prove causality.

    We can’t just go out traumatizing children “for science” to find out what the incident rate of mental health as it relates to different traumas.

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    Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th
  • Replaying Fallout: New Vegas. I wanted to do a tale of two wastelands, but I couldn’t get the mods to settle out. It’s a much better game than I remember from my first play through!

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    Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix
  • I haven’t tested those myself, but wine has excellent 32 bit compatibility in general. If it’s on the list at wine hq, then it probably works

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    After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream
  • As a rehabilitated Eve addict, I can tell you that it’s a lot of addiction. MMOs are about two things: people and gameplay.

    In Eve, the PvE gameplay is awful. But the PvP is amazing and the people are amazing. Even though I haven’t logged in in years, I still talk to these people regularly. Like once or twice a month.

    While they’re not my closest friends, I genuinely know them and feel I can share anything I need to get off my chest in a safe place that will hear and respond. Picking a good group of people in a game can make or break your experience.

    After that, 10,000 hours of online social time doesn’t seem so bad compared to the alternative of being alone and still playing games.

    Is it good for you? Absolutely not. But hopefully that puts some perspective on MMOs.

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