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Richard

@ ricdeh @lemmy.world

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19M from Germany

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • So what? Doesn't refute their point. People that actually care will not have a Smart TV or other surveillance tech at home, if they can avoid it.

  • Google is requiring mandatory developer verification for all Android apps in 2026

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  • Main-line Linux phones are really not the way, at least at the moment. Android is fine, AOSP really is an amazing project and easily one of the most impressive software projects ever advanced by humanity. AOSP-derivatives like LineageOS or GrapheneOS are just as much FOSS as any traditional Linux distribution.

  • Google is requiring mandatory developer verification for all Android apps in 2026

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  • I see this take repeated again and again it is simply not true. LineageOS and other FOSS AOSP-derivatives are the best, most-supported and most-accepted FOSS mobile operating systems that we have available to us. And no, you neither have to give up on contactless payments nor on internet banking or government apps. There are many applications that don't play nice with FOSS Android, but if you make the effort to choose your service providers with intent, so that they are compatible, then it is very much possible to daily-drive a fully de-Googled phone.

  • Working outside

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  • Also doesn't really happen to LCDs. It depends on the liquid crystal alignment technology to a degree and the backlight, but realistically, an LCD will not fail without operator error.

  • Lutris dev says he's cool with AI generated bugs because his code is already full of bugs

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  • The title is a complete misrepresentation of the happenings. This is, in the truest sense of the word, fake news.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • Sorry for necroing, but why can't you fall back to SMS? There are plenty reliable FOSS SMS messaging apps.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • Unfortunately, SailfishOS is not FOSS, and FOSS must be the basis of all trust, or else you have no idea to tell what kind of software (spyware) the vendor is operating on your phone. At least Jolla is starting to open-source some traditionally proprietary components.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • But how is that significantly more secure than LineageOS? I have read through countless blog posts from GrapheneOS developers and have not yet encountered an explanation that is sufficiently convincing. Outside of additional security hardening, which is definitely a big pro, GrapheneOS doesn't have many things that LineageOS doesn't. LineageOS is fully FOSS and telemetry-free. They introduced the "Trust" control panel for managing all sorts of privacy and security matters. They have PIN scramble.

    The only major, obvious security vulnerability lies in the proprietary driver blobs from the device vendors / OEMs. But AFAIK Google Pixels also have those, right? So outside of doubtlessly valuable measures like restricting malicious reprogramming / access through the USB port, in what ways is GrapheneOS actually more secure than LineageOS?

  • Your car is here.

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  • More like LFS

  • Is Home Assistant the recommended default for smart homes?

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  • There is also OpenHAB, but I think Home Assistant is the more mature one of the two.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • In principle the messages themselves could be E2E encrypted, but the closed-source WhatsApp client could transmit decryption keys to Meta HQ without anyone finding out. As long as the client or the client device is unsafe and not trusted, E2EE is not really effective. Which is why one should always demand a FOSS client for E2EE.

  • Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III

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  • And apparently Microsoft originally wanted to buy the rights all the way back in the 80s! It only took them 40 years...

  • It's always been women in STEM.

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  • The oldest continuously operating university is in Bologna. The one that the post is about was actually a mosque and did not become a university until less than a century ago.

  • The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge

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  • Yes screens on fridges are stupid but... The display will definitely last more than 5 years. I'd even go so far as to say that it will last longer than the compressor of the fridge. Where do people get the idea that displays fail very easily?

  • The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge

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  • Unfortunately lots of affordable projectors are also "smart" these days, running some kind of Android TV

  • The Good Trek

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  • Despite all the hate he faces from Lemmy Trekkies, Berman's era generated the best Star Trek to date.

  • Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpas

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  • And Rogue. I rarely hear Rogue mentioned but it's my favourite. I find the story the most appealing, and it comes with so much moral ambiguity.

  • EA Says It Will Retain Creative Control Following Saudi Sale, But, Like, Come On - Aftermath

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  • There's trash and then there's even trashier trash. The Saudi government is definitely trashier than the American one.

  • YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT) model, which does not match with many studies.

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  • no, you still need rare erath metals, you need good quality silicon

    That does not compare in the least to the environmental damage and resource depletion that mining uranium causes. Unlike solar or wind power plants, nuclear power plants must constantly be fed a fuel that is only available in limited quantity, while the power source for renewables is realistically infinite (for our purposes). Uranium-235 is way scarcer than natural gas or oil, so power generation through nuclear fission is almost by definition less sustainable than even fossil-fuel power generation.

    Finally, there is the matter of nuclear waste, which accumulates over the lifetime of a power plant and does not get smaller, but rather larger every year that the power plant is in operation. Getting rid of this waste is so difficult because it will radiate for thousands of years, and you can't guarantee that its containers will last that long, so you need geological structures that are 100% known to remain stable into the far future. These are difficult to find. I want to underline that this problem is already here, and for every new fission power plant you build, it gets worse. There is no reverse direction this process can be taken.

    Thus, I would even go so far to say that this statement of yours: "everything is better than fossil fuel for practical purposes." Is wrong. Even natural gas would be preferable over nuclear, FAR preferred, in fact. In Germany, nuclear fission was successfully phased out for cleaner natural gas, without adverse effects on power grid stability, and with cost savings in the long run (natural gas comes with its own problems, I am aware, especially with regard to the supply chain, but that is not much different with regard to uranium).

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    CVE-2024-6387 OpenSSH Server Authentication Bypass

    cve.mitre.org /cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Have you ever been unable to pay by direct debit through PayPal?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Linux on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The Verge

    Apple is a $3 trillion company — again

    www.theverge.com /2023/6/30/23779783/apple-3-trillion-market-cap-iphone-mac-vision-pro
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    The Verge

    You don’t have to freak out about aspartame in your diet soda

    www.theverge.com /2023/6/30/23780115/aspartame-iarc-who-food-safety-carcinogen