According to Microsoft’s official developer documentation, setting the correct Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag on the application window will ensure that “content won’t show up in Recall or any other screenshot application.”

So I’m guessing that VLC will have a feature flag to enable or disable this setting. Then you play Disney movies that you pirated on loop. Let the lawyers sort it out.

Linux doesn’t protect you from other people you’re having conversations with.

I skimmed through their paper and I can’t seem to find the instructions to download the dataset.

I found this particularly cute:

This study introduces the Discord Unveiled Dataset, a comprehensive and ethically curated resource encompassing over 3,000 public servers and 2 billion messages exchanged on Discord.

Clickwall Removed

I go for a good enough solution. I know better solutions exist but I’m limited by time and empathy.

They released their code as MIT which is far more permissive than I was expecting. I was expecting some sort of proprietary license.

But they need to keep doing stuff like this. Devcontainers for VS Code is still proprietary and keeps me from running codium.

Under the current regime it will be used to suppress discussion of all things that don’t align with the Ministry of Truth

Ftfy

Super true.

I remember when AT&T had “unlimited” data when the original iPhone came out and severely underestimated how much data people used.

Today, every cell phone provider has an “unlimited” plan and in the fine print says “up to x GB, after which you will be throttled.”

That shit should be illegal.

Signal is a messenger service. You can expire messages after a certain amount of time.

They ask for a phone number to limit bots. I used my Google voice number and it worked fine. I like Telegram which banned me after a day of use for using Google Voice.

Messages are e2e encrypted. Metadata is not encrypted.

Edit: I feel the need to qualify this statement. Metadata about your connection may be encrypted at rest but is decryptable given that signal is released metadata to authorities with a warrant/subpoena.

Yeah so bad news. The government has routinely purchased data like this as an end run around the 4th Amendment. The data is collected by a third party, often with the customers “consent”.

This is why we need stricter privacy controls around our data. The fact that this data was collated in the first place is problematic. The fact that it’s being sold for profit is abhorrent.

Or those old Packard Bell yellow-white cases…

That already exists

cat /dev/random

I actually recall a real, not fake, scientific paper (maybe it was an editorial or something but it was legit) that discussed the possibility of a hollow earth.

This was like 15 years or so ago so my memory is a bit hazy.

The thesis was that the working hypothesis of how magnetism and other evidence around the earth with layers can also point to a hollow earth. There was a lot of physics and math. The paper was serious but not like “I have cited sources” but more of an idea.

I suspect that, like most conspiracy theories, the hollow moon took that idea and perverted it beyond recognition.

The problem is that the CEO who believes he just writes code probably believes all a bus driver does is turn the steering wheel.

I waffled back and forth on a docker install. Outside of the initial panic to reinstall the OS (Ubuntu 24.04 for me), it was relatively straightforward outside of the config. It may be worth it to dockerize it so I can git control the config but not sure how easy it is under v6. They really changed how the files are parsed.

Before pihole was essentially a frontend for dnsmasq but it seems like it’s a bit more than that now. I haven’t had the chance to look too much under the hood.

If I’m being honest, I’ve wanted to off-load pihole to my router but lack the time and patience these days. I’ve reached the point in my life where IT isn’t the most important thing anymore and just need it to work.

My company does it and it’s fucking stressful. And just like you said, it doesn’t make a ton of sense.

Occasionally there are certainly people who are just there to ride coat tails but I see this behavior more in leadership than in the front lines.

Literally just had my pihole hard crash this weekend due to a bad update to FTL. Apparently they had a major version upgrade and didn’t bother to read the notes so I had to do a full OS reinstall.

Back up your configs people. Had to dig through documentation to find the sqlite file and then parse through it like some sort of animal.