@sodiboo presumably it is intended for people on non-self-hosted instances to communicate with people on instances that their admins have blocled

good morning

@seabass @Remiberry @foone I didn't know non-removable USB mass-storage devices were a thing (or that Windows writes its filesystem cache to random devices instead of just having it in memory). I assume Linux handled it less badly?

@seabass @eri that looks like a doughnut

if you want it to not do this, RFP works. if you want RFP but still respecting dark-mode preference, enable privacy.fingerprintingProtection and set privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides to +AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorScheme (it still reports timezone as UTC with this and you can disable that too but I don’t remember how to and don’t care about websites showing time that’s off by an hour for half the year so much)

why does fennec/firefox android report gyroscope data without asking? websites have no good reason to know this

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/116544740655935047

@solonovamax some second-hand SDM845 phone with postmarketOS? Pixel 3a and OnePlus 6 have headphone jacks.

I think it's probably the best way to get a good OS (I wouldn't really call any Android distro a "good OS", although some are better than others, and SDM845 is probably currently the best option for postmarketOS), but I'm not sure how good the camera support and battery life would be. I only used postmarketOS on a PinePhone and neither was very good, but that's at least partially a hardware issue rather than a software issue.

Living on the East Coast means my radio-controlled atomic wall clock is completely deaf to the atomic (WWVB) signal from Colorado. In the attached video, I am using my smartphone to force the clock to sync to exact Internet time via a clever hardware hack. 1/4

@ChrisJagged I'd probably just say something like "god doesn't exist", but it depends on context. If it's said condescendingly/with a definition of "doing good" that isn't aligned with mine (like saying they'll pray for me because I'm an atheist), I'd be less likely to just ignore it.

@kemona_halftau some sort of speaking clock or time signal radio station?

@kemona_halftau the same reason lenovo removed the trackpoint buttons for the xx4x thinkpads: it allows for more touchpad surface area? it also allows for middle click but I think that's more of a side effect since they could've just added a middle button

@domi I saw it yesterday because someone mentioned it on IRC. they should've waited for a stable release to get the fix before publishing it but I don't think it's quite as bad as the other two since it requires you to actually have the affected hardware and CAP_NET_ADMIN already

@domi that was published two days ago

@maddy GRUB does support LUKS, but currently no released version supports Argon2 for key derivation so you have to use PBKDF2 instead. The latest commit on the master branch supports Argon2 (and there were patches sitting on the mailing list for years adding it (which libreboot has used since 2023) which were finally merged a few months ago).

It's also really slow at unlocking disks compared to Linux (maybe it's improved now though, I'm not using the latest commit), so you might not actually want GRUB to unlock your disks if you care about that.

@kemona_halftau I had no idea thinkpads supported charging at 5V/over USB without USB-PD at all (I assume that's what you mean by trickle-charging)

what laptop did you break the USB-C port on by plugging in a charger? (I'm asking so that I can avoid doing that in case I encounter the same model of laptop)

@dpk @yadt that’s the same exploit as dirtyfrag

good night!

@kemona_halftau thanks. I somehow did manage to pass a different exam before having not done any revision (except accidentally by reading on wikipedia about pylons the night before and learning some relevant information from that) and after hardly attending any lessons.

it's very hard to concentrate on revising without getting distracted by everything

@_r I think this actually might just be the same ESP exploit and the reason they broke the embargo. I initially thought it was something else but the dirtyfrag mitigation prevents this too (I thought it didn't because my mitigation didn't actually work)