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TaviRider

@ TaviRider @reddthat.com

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  • Some ideas re: age verification

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  • I think you described what Apple implemented for its Declared Age Range API. The API has one additional privacy protection, which is that the API only gives age bracket information rather than precise age.

  • It really is

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  • You can search for your birthday tree in San Francisco here.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Well now you have the FBI’s word for it as well.

  • Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways

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  • Unexpected to AI true believers.

  • Prusa Printers Firewall Logs

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  • A 4D printer would need to know the time.

  • Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

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  • This RCA message archiving feature is on “fully managed” Pixel devices, which are COBO: corporate owned, business only. You shouldn’t be doing anything personal on such devices.

    There’s also “work profile” which is a different kind of management for mixed personal and work use. With work profile, the admin has no visibility into the personal side of the device.

    It’s simplest and safest to follow what you wrote and never bring personal and work anywhere near each other. But there’s downsides to that, like having to carry two phones. I think there’s some situations where most people will feel safe doing personal things on a work device.

  • What are your favorite fake video games?

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  • Could Quantum Computing be accurately described as being "binary fractals"?

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  • No. Fractals are self-similar at different scales. I’m not aware of anything like that in quantum computers, theoretical or actual.

  • (Spoiler Thread) Your top 10 video game protagonist deaths

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  • Several of my top ten are from Dragon’s Lair.

  • Saw this ad - what do we know about Cape?

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  • Previously discussed three months ago at lemmy.ml/post/33176527. Not sure how to format that link correctly though…

  • New US Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

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  • [The bill] includes language that could ban not only VPNs but any method of bypassing internet filters or restrictions.

    It sounds to me like I2P and tor would also be illegal.

  • Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap

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  • Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap

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  • Honeypots

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  • Honeypots

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  • New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

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  • Life is a special form of complexity: It has the ability to create more complexity and to maintain organization against the tendency toward disorder.

    No, life isn’t special in that way. Life exists because of an increase in entropy elsewhere. We don’t consider a planet to be special just because it is bathed in light from its star, but it’s the same pattern: Increasing entropy in the star leads to organization (light) on the planet.

    If dark energy means we have an unending input of exploitable energy into the universe then life can potentially continue forever, but there’s nothing special about life that lets it do that.

  • Reddthat Update: August 2025

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  • According to https://reddthat.com/post/25633 there’s payment options for librepay, ko-fi, and a few different crypto options. This post mentions ~A$22/week in total income revenue, which matches what librepay reports. What’s the income from all the other sources? Are they all ~A$0?

  • US Privacy Focused Carrier Cape.co

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  • We secure your account against SIM swaps…with modern cryptography protocols.

    This just dosent make ANY sense. Sim swaps are done via social engeneering.

    See this for details. Their tech support people do not have the access necessary to move a line so there’s nobody to social engineer. Only the customer can start the process to move a line after cryptographic authentication using BIP-39.

    proprietary signaling protection

    If they wanted to be private, it would be Open source.

    I’m really tired of this trope in the privacy community. Open source does not mean private. Nobody is capable of reviewing the massive amount of code used by a modern system as complex as a phone operating system and cellular network. There’s no way to audit the network to know that it’s all running the reciewed open source code either.

    Voicemails can hold sensitive information like 2FA codes.

    Since when do people send 2fa codes via voicemail? The fuck? Just use signal.

    There are many 2FA systems that offer to call your number so the system can tell you your 2FA code.

    The part where I share your reaction to Cape is about identifying customers. This page goes into detail about these aspects, and it has a lot of things that are indeed better than any other carrier out there.

    But it’s a long distance short of being private. They’re a “heavy MVNO”. This means their customers’ phones are still using other carriers’ cell towers, and those can still collect and log IMSI and device location information. Privacy researchers have demonstrated that it is quite easy to deanonymize someone with very little location information.

    On top of that, every call or text goes to another device. If it goes through another core network, most call metadata is still collected, logged, and sold.

    If we accept all of Cape’s claims, it’s significantly better than any other carrier I’m aware of, but it’s still far from what most people in this community would consider private.

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    TaviRider @reddthat.com

    Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/