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AnimalsDream

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  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • Secure from what? Security isn't a dick measuring contest, it's a living process and arms race. If someone is trying to tell me, "My stuff is the mostest of the biggest security because, hard!" - what I'm hearing is that their threat modeling is ill-defined, maybe not defined at all, and something misleading is going on. Especially when the lead dev of a platform appears to be screaming and shouting about everyone else with a dubious persecution complex.

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • So in the drama between the Graphene team vs every other privacy-focused Android dev - who should I trust?

  • Put it to the right next time, I dare you

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  • I want a controller with A-south, B-west, X-east, and Y-north.

  • Put it to the right next time, I dare you

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  • Yeah, the original system had logic to it. The square also symbolized menus, and triangle was tertiary.

  • Put it to the right next time, I dare you

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  • This.

  • Put it to the right next time, I dare you

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  • Yup, functionally the cross is more like an A, and the PlayStation layout is effectively the same as the Xbox one in actual practice.

    Which is incorrect in the first place. Circle was supposed to be the accept/enter button originally.

  • What the fuck is a gentoo?

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  • The concepts they're referring to have more to do with Ken Thompson's Trusting Trust essay. Laurie Wired recently came out with an episode about it. It's a rather intractable problem in computing, and unfortunately, even with the best practices to overcome it, you can never be 100% sure that your system is completely free of compromise.

  • What the fuck is a gentoo?

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  • I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly, the Thinkpad x61 was the last version to ship without Intel ME, and I assumed the meme was a nod to that.

  • What the fuck is a gentoo?

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  • Tower's explanation of blobs is kind of strange and not really correct. In a general sense a binary blob is just a situation where you have open-source software that is combined with proprietary components.

    Most relevant example to the meme is that the Linux kernel is open-source, but can sometimes contain drivers that are proprietary and don't have source code available. Those proprietary drivers would be the blobs.

    As a counter-example, the linux-libre kernel that devfuuu linked to, is a version of the Linux kernel that has had all the blobs removed.

  • What the fuck is a gentoo?

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  • The Snowden docs proved that the NSA was intentionally weakening some encryption standards to make them amenable for cracking.

    Then there's also the constant pressure from the FBI to make it law that encryption technologies must have backdoors. These are both public record.

  • The Outer Worlds with ray tracing can't hit 60FPS at paltry 540p resolution with an RTX 5090 and 9800X3D - ray tracing 'performance' mirrors Borderlands 4 fiasco

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  • I'll care about ray tracing if it ever gets efficient enough to run at 60+ fps on an entry-level apu.

  • What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?

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  • You would probably be interested in occult philosophy. Some groups are more organized than others, but they tend more to organize around orthopraxy (same practices/rituals) rather than orthodoxy (same beliefs) which is more typical of conventional religions. This way they can encourage more free exploration, debate, and creativity.

    Most of these belief systems are predicated on concepts of reality being made of layers of "planes" with higher beings existing more predominantly on higher planes, and it being a goal to aspire toward those higher planes.

  • Installing a browser in the big 2025

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  • Sounds more like a computer education deficiency problem. I actually think that regardless of which OS a person uses, learning the difference between source code and executables, and getting some practice building software from source is something that should be incorporated into elementary school.

    Basic commandline skills too. And I'm not even good at doing things in a terminal.

  • Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing

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  • The Steam Controller 2 Got A New Icon And It Further Confirms The Layout

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  • Ouch. Yeah I jumped on that deal as soon as I saw it. Then tried the controller for a few days, could never get used to it, and now it's collecting dust somewhere.

  • The Steam Controller 2 Got A New Icon And It Further Confirms The Layout

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  • Even as someone with big hands, that does not look like a comfortable controller to use. I'll wait for the next $5 clearance sale like I did with the original Steam controller. 🙃

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • Also a very underrated flavoring that's unjustly stigmatized because of racism is MSG. You can get really big bags of them for super cheap, and it's an easy way to make any meal taste savory.

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • You said, in a thread about eating inexpensively, and to a vegan. Here's a reminder that you can stop being part of the problem right now if you want, and time is running out.

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • In my experience, they're usually kept in the same section as baking goods. You know that shelf that usually just has a bunch of Bob's Red Mill products? If your grocery store carries tvp, it's probably there.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    AnimalsDream @slrpnk.net

    What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    AnimalsDream @slrpnk.net

    Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    AnimalsDream @slrpnk.net

    Is it possible to just run a pirate video streaming site from Kodi?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    AnimalsDream @slrpnk.net

    Do retro handhelds have untapped potential for privacy and security?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    AnimalsDream @slrpnk.net

    Best or least worst choices for cell phone service?