loki

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[–] loki@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Mishaal is on Mastodon too. He mirrors all his posts there. we should stop posting Xitter links.

https://mastodon.social/@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social/111727019696038011

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

It doesn't snow in our city but it used to in a village not too far away, and people would go there in hordes. Come to think of it, haven't gone there since the covid lockdowns, nor heard about it from anyone else.

It sucks, as the bigger picture is weather is getting strange and less predictable on a global scale, but can't complain about it being less cold though, for now, at least. ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't say he develops fennec, he contributes to fennec. relan develops fennec. Mull depends on fennec to remove proprietary blobs and builds it along with user.js from arkenfox.

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

it's always either a hit or a miss. The player UI really needs to show if the instance you're streaming from is online and working or not. Otherwise, you just keep waiting for the loading to complete, but it never does and you go the the preference to check and the instance isn't up anymore. You change it back to another instance, go back to the player, check again and change instance again until it works. Then sometime later the same thing happens again.

Newpipe mostly always works and is good enough for me.

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

the bot is just posting old news again. 🤦‍♂️

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

These articles are very easy to write and you can see how emotional people get. You don't need proof and it always works.

Everytime there's an article about what "China/Russia/India/North Korea/or Whatever Says", social media goes:

haha, so fake!

fake news

imagine believing this

propaganda bs

where's the proof?

we only believe in hard facts

no credibility

chinese/russian bots brigading lmao

astroturfing

And then whenever there is "US Says"

so true

I know someone who knows someone who was doing this

I had a gut feeling about this

The boogeyman is real

They're stealing our tech

They're coming for us

We have to renounce them

They're destroying our economy

Enemy #1

They're ruining our western values

US is numba 1

NO FUCKING PROOF REQUIRED!! Anyone questions?

why would they release the evidence, it's classified

I mean fuck all authoritarian regimes, but it's funny to see how social media (especially in US) reacts to these articles and riles them up. Also great for election season.

Standard hypocrisy from propaganda rotted brains at work

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 39 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I'd rather not use iOS at all. Android is infinitely more customizable, powerful, and privacy friendly (with the right OS).

On the topic of your braindead take in this. Make iOS open source first. It's almost like opensource breeds interoperability and closed source breed cultists who think they're better by default.

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

tldr;

They found a tweet who claims they talked to the leaker, but they can't confirm it? ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ

The closest confirmation of it occurring is reports from vx-underground on X (Twitter), with the account claiming to have spoken to a person who allegedly leaked the code.

Adding to the mystery claims is that aside from allegedly talking to the person who leaked the code, the vx-undergound account also writes that it hasn’t confirmed the leak. The “source” also isn’t sure

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

China and India are renting out their factories to create shit ton of things for the whole world. When the statistics come out, they get blamed for it regardless of the countries profiting off their pollution. why should this be different?

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is essentially some good PR to lower the bad PR they're getting. The damage is already done, whatever narrative they were pushing worked. Now they get to say "We did bad things and we're aware of it. We have an oversight board and we have a system in place. We pinky promise we will continue to improve how we handle these things in future."

Until next time it happens again.

Sorry about what happened to your friend.

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't think you see the difference, Aaron was downloading the data off of MIT servers himself, he was not facing charges for writing the scripts.

From your link:

The Justice Department's press release announcing Aaron's indictment suggests the true motivation for pursuing the case was that Aaron downloaded academic literature from JSTOR and planned to make it available to the public for free as a political statement about access to knowledge.

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Tools that can be used maliciously are generally allowed because they have legitimate uses, using them to gain access or otherwise harm a computer system or network without authorization is criminal.

As I said before, Beeper users are gaining unauthorized access, not Beeper. It is E2EE, they're not the middleman.

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Apple reverse-engineered Office to release iWork. So Apple isn't new to reverse-engineering others proprietary shit when it benefits them. something, something, history lesson, hmm…

I don't know laws in the US but my limited understanding in the case of Beeper is that its users are the ones that grant themselves unauthorized access to the Apple servers. Beeper is a tool that packages pypush to accomplish it. So Apple should sue all the Beeper users?

As an example, there are tons of tools to exploit vulnerable systems in Linux. Metasploit is a penetration testing software and can execute exploits on old unpatched systems. I don't think anyone is suing Metasploit developers for Computer Fraud and Abuse aCt. The users who use it are responsible for the access of unauthorized services and broken ToS.

If Apple thinks Beeper users are exploiting its servers, they should patch them (which they did).

Beeper did try to monetize it, so i'm not sure how it fairs but Beeper is not forcing anyone to gain unauthorized access. Beeper even welcomed Apple to audit Beeper mini code.

And I'm sure Beeper has a legal team that analyzed these scenarios better than anyone of us. And Apple has sued companies for less. They'd have done it the moment the app landed on appstore. They could have crushed it before gaining any attention.

Again, I have no idea how legal it is. I have both Apple and android devices and never use iMessage. But you gotta hand it to Beeper devs. That's some old school hacker shit and I'm here for it.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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