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whitequark

@whitequark@mastodon.social

catgirl shaped object

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧
✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦
✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶
✷ nothing else matters ✷

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foone, to random
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I should be able to charge my phone over PoE from my laptop. I don't know why it would have this feature, but it should

whitequark,
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@massa @foone

whitequark,
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@massa @foone spec here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120414204800/http://www.usb.org/developers/expresscard/EC_specifications/ExpressCard_2_0_FINAL.pdf

why on earth it is on usb.org i have no idea

whitequark,
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@foone this is why glasgow has 5V available :3

whitequark,
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@foone @massa terrifying

the spec even says PCMCIA

whitequark,
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@tauon @foone https://glasgow-embedded.org

whitequark, to random
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man, my life sure is horrifying

poppyhaze, to random
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holy shit, chainsaw man hilariously good this week

whitequark,
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@poppyhaze this is the manga right

whitequark, to random
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i like collaborating with angel girls

whitequark, to random
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> It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

this has nothing to do with microsoft recall! anybody you send stuff to can have it compromised. you message your high school friend, she gets caught at a protest, now cops have all that data

you can never control the data you give to somebody else, recall or not

whitequark,
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i get that recall is a wake-up call for many people about this, but please use your reasoning abilities?

half the queer people you talk to might have a secret receipts folder they put dirt on you in so they can complain about you later

this should be a part of your threat model already

whitequark,
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@dequbed i didn't say "friends" <.<

whitequark,
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@dequbed

  • i don't know who might be doing that or not
  • i know some are doing it
  • therefore i must assume everyone does, and anything i say may be used against me later

this isn't normal?

whitequark,
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@dequbed ... well, I guess I'll try to convince my stalkers of that

whitequark,
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@dequbed thanks >.>

it's a little stressful

whitequark,
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this is a reasonable point https://mastodon.social/@Gaelan@cathode.church/112558808313017574

I also guess I'm a little too used to being in awful situations in general

whitequark,
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@MarkAssPandi yeah I guess my point was that the degree of worsening is barely if at all noticeable for me, but a few others have pointed out that for an average person it is noticeable

whitequark,
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@unlambda ... but nosy partners installing malware is already a part of my threat model?

(i've had several people tell me that they installed malware on the computers of their parents/enemies/exes/etc. in most of the cases this instantly identified them as awful beings, but that still only underlines the need to have it in my threat model)

mjg59, to random
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The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

whitequark,
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@mjg59 @mcc i know this very well but at the same time: why should i care?

whitequark,
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@mjg59 @mcc makes sense

azonenberg, to random
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Finally got around to making a proper image version of the meme.

whitequark,
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@azonenberg since you're using it for flash: nah it's fine. violence is the only way it knows to communicate with, and you are shielding yourself from it

entirely reasonable

whitequark,
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@azonenberg but a data trap caused by a peripheral isn't necessarily a memory safety violation? it's just a spicy interrupt imo

whitequark,
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@azonenberg (this is subjective and i think reasonable people can disagree; this is just my view)

whitequark,
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@azonenberg yeah I think this is a spicy interrupt and you're doing something completely reasonable

mcc, to random
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Gonna upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 24.04… expecting that, like everything else I have done on this laptop involving Ubuntu, I am going to regret this

whitequark,
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@mcc so unfortunately pipx doesn't install its own copy of python. maybe it should

whitequark,
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@SnoopJ @mcc conda feels like this

whitequark,
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@ohmrun @mcc pdm can install python (pdm py install 3.11) but you first need a python to get pdm

if recent pdm was packaged in ubuntu that'd solve it. unfortunately~

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