emotional_soup_88

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[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Is this meme implying they have TWO bathrooms?! Fucking bourgeois.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ah... I will never forget the first time I stood up to my bullies. Grabbed a badminton racket during recess and smashed his fucking front teeth out. Somehow I was still the bad guy, got detention and was forced to write an apology letter to the piece of shit's parents and a letter to my mom explaining what I did wrong.

Holy shit. Now THIS is pod racing I mean a great hack!

I think I had this same webcam about... Ten years ago? Full HD, autofocus... If it is indeed the same product, maybe the included "pamphlet" is old as F too.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I hate what popular culture has done with our perception of hacking. Hacking almost always involves social engineering as a means to open a backdoor into a system: you trick the end user into for instance giving up login credentials or installing a program that "phones home" to a command and control center. You'll have to research the details on your own, but depending on what information has been "phoned home" or in other ways acquired by the adversary (login credentials, IP address, hardware and software identifiers, etc.), the adversary can then deploy further tools that either exploit known programmatic vulnerabilities or that elevate the adversary's privileges on the target system, with the goal of attaining enough control to do whatever the objective was in the first place (gathering PII, bank info, leaking private media, distortion, what have you...).

Android is great at a very specific task, which is to isolate processes into something I can't seem to recall right now... Maybe "zygotes"? Basically it gives the user granular control over interprocess communication. It also effectively reduces attack surface by isolating infection/damage.

On Windows, for instance, programs are allowed to elevate their own privileges - for the convenience of the end user, I suppose - which is of course INSANE, considering that the greater Windows user base probably don't have the cyber hygiene required to operate safely within those premises.

I'm too sleepy to go on, but "google" and read: hacking, backdoor, exploit, social engineering, privilege elevation

Ahahahaha yeah xD well, at least it makes me happy that this is more than not enlightened community :D

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Probably a "grey hat" scam. As in, three months for free, but probably requiring a credit card, which then automatically gets charged after the first three months, hoping that the user simply doesn't have the patience to unsubscribe or something.

 

It came with my Logitech C922 webcam.

No idea what this shit is, but if you want it, here you go.

c19d3f86-1e7f-41b9-bbaa-0f940c6ad573

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My guess is that there definitely could be some sort of underground market for them, but as I understand the legislation, using them would be illegal.

But then again, if one really requires privacy, telephones and SMS are some of the worst options for communication. In the current state of things, I'd simply use an end to end encrypted chat app, preferably one that implements the Signal protocol.

 

I had one SIM-card left that had been "grandfathered" into the current system, in which you are required by law to have the card registered with your social security number. Because Gestapo, that's why. Anyway, I was keeping it hidden away in my wireless earbuds' case, taped under the lid, but it must've gotten loose. Ah well... I wasn't really using it for anything, keeping it around just in case.

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Given the recent controversies surrounding Discord and the fact that the end user is a product of Twitch, I wonder if there is any "bare bone" solution to stream my gaming session to a friend who's on Windows. I'd rather that they didn't have to do anything except clicking on a link or perhaps installing a piece of software but with no need to do any configuration. From their perspective, it should "just work.

On my side
Should I set up a webserver into which I feed an OBS stream? Or can perhaps ffmpeg work as a server on it's own? I'm on Arch Linux, playing games on Steam, within dwm within X11.

On my friend's side
No idea how a windows user is supposed to receive such a video feed.

Edit: text and voice chat, we're considering Signal for.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/48310133

This is a shoutout to the app QuickTiles and the developer and contributors thereof.

While at first glance it may not seem like a privacy focused app, however, ultimately, improving digital privacy is more often than not a balance between convenience/ease of use and, well, privacy^[There will always be know-it-alls and above-it-alls in the privacy community who trashtalk normies and/or beginners, acting like this and that is never a tradeoff. If you happen to be one of those, think about whether your attitude helps or hampers our efforts.]

I was almost about to let out a big sigh, thinking do I have to learn kotlin and java for this...? and then I found this app. It has some neat "add-ons" for the quick tiles panel on Android systems. Personally, I was looking for a quick setting to enable/disable data saver. This app had a "data usage" tile, which reduces the amount of requires "clicks" from 5 to 2.

 

This is a shoutout to the app QuickTiles and the developer and contributors thereof.

While at first glance it may not seem like a privacy focused app, however, ultimately, improving digital privacy is more often than not a balance between convenience/ease of use and, well, privacy^[There will always be know-it-alls and above-it-alls in the privacy community who trashtalk normies and/or beginners, acting like this and that is never a tradeoff. If you happen to be one of those, think about whether your attitude helps or hampers our efforts.]

I was almost about to let out a big sigh, thinking do I have to learn kotlin and java for this...? and then I found this app. It has some neat "add-ons" for the quick tiles panel on Android systems. Personally, I was looking for a quick setting to enable/disable data saver. This app had a "data usage" tile, which reduces the amount of requires "clicks" from 5 to 2.

 

It's 10 PM. I'm gaming, in my head I'm preparing to go to bed. It suddenly hits me, "I want icecream." I go out to the nearest grocery store that miraculously closes at 11 PM, buy some chocolate chip vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce and some honey coated almonds and peanuts.

You're welcome. I'm welcome.

Nite.

 

Ugh...

Trying TES music and white noise for now.

 

...all the engineers and construction workers out there! Without you, we wouldn't have much comfort in our lives. And I think that we often take you for granted.

I don't really understand what's going on in the above picture, but maybe they're changing old pipes for new ones?

 

In the episode The Deep South, Bender sings a little melody after one of the Atlanta mere people says that folks around these parts call him "the colonel".

I wasn't able to upload the clip to Lemmy, so here a link to it:

https://buzzheavier.com/oadra7fq82l2

I'm not from the US, if that's relevant here. Please explain the bit! :D

 

I'm thinking Deviant and Pixiv. I also know of Wallhaven, but there, it's harder to filter out AI slop.

Bonus if it's a site through which I can directly support the artist!

Double bonus for simply suggesting artists and pointing to their Patreon etc!

 

Edit: holy shit I turn my head around for one second and I got 40 replies? THANK YOU ALL :D <3

I just rewatched Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy and following Bane's and Miranda's story made me realize that I'm a bit saturated in regards to playing as the hero, the protagonist, the "good guy" in PC games. While I love saving the world as much as the next person, I'd love to play as some perhaps self-righteous villain, or antagonist, or simply somebody portrayed in a way that's meant to make the player sympathize with questionable morality or, at the very least, be conflicted about why you suddenly find yourself rooting for them.

I'm mostly looking for story driven open world single player games, but any recommendations are welcome. :)

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/48079645 because it was headshotted within five minutes without any explanation. :/

In the laundry room where I live, there is this machine.

The fan in the back blows air onto the heating elements that heat up the air, which in turn hits the laundry, speeding up the evaporation of the water.

I have no formal education on electricity, I'm just extremely interested and eager to learn. I think I understand that the rods heat up because enough current is "pushed" with enough voltage through this material that has enough resistance for it to heat up.

If these are the hot and neutral rods next to each other (which I visually believe I confirmed) with no insulator in between, why is there no arcing?

What are prerequisites for arcing? I guess, if arcing occurred so easily, then we would have a lot more ground faults and short circuits all over electrical installations?

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