Didn’t find anything from me… Then again I’m using a private tracker, which should insulate me from that. (Random people knowing, the ISP probs does know… But I don’t think they care)

Btrfs works with different hard drive sizes, with 1 disk failure with no data loss.

Developers deserve to be paid for their time though…

Sure for many it’s nothing but a hobby and they’re happy to create something for free. But that doesn’t mean every developer needs to do the same.

And yes ads are a privacy nightmare and putting them into your app is bad. So either you only use apps from hobbyists or you pay for access (whether that be a set price for a finished product or a subscription for a service).

It’s always been a thing that the only way to completely be safe after malware is yeeting the old system and getting a new one…

And even then there have been actively exploited issues where the system gets re-infected when reloading the data from a backup. (My memory is a bit rusty on that one, but it was just data being restored, nothing that should install anything)

What’s with all the ads here lately

Wait, that’s illegal

2026 though…

What should be done is that every time a new format comes out all images in existence are re-encoded in that format. Hopefully that will cause artifacts, clearing everything up in terms of image age.

Anddd… You use wifi to connect to their servers, so they’ll have your residential ip (unless you got a VPN on at all times… And even then there’s probs some way to fingerprint you enough). Partner uses the same wifi network and your profiles are linked again…

There really just is no way to completely escape. Blocking all ads and trackers on a DNS level (using a pi-hole or external service like nextdns[paid, but its pretty good]). Is a good solution though, at least you won’t need to actually see ads

The clicking of correct tiles or entering the right text is merely a small part of the test after all

In practice, there are several types of CAPTCHAs: text-based, image-based, audio-based and behavior-based.

Computer scientist writing an article about captchas doesn’t know that proof-of-work captchas exist… Such a joke.

Of course those don’t do much against automated fake form filling, but against DDoS they’re THE solution.

Proof of work (PoW) captchas make the (computing) cost for the attacker exponentially higher than for the website. Basically the website creates a challenge, which has to be solved by the client/attacker before getting access to content. Best of all the website can set the difficulty of the challenge to anywhere from instant to seconds to solve, so normally the users don’t even notice it (as it runs in the background) but once someone starts DDoS’ing the difficulty goes up.

That just illustrates a more fundamental problem

So instead of spending money on extravagant expenses they could have fired 5% less people this round… Compared to what the money is spent on that still sounds good.

Though it indeed makes little difference in the big picture, this is still a bad image.

I use it all the time for the one time use cards, and it’s been effortless to use.

The data breach is of course bad, but no company is completely immune to those.

Privacy policy… Is not a great look (especially with the marketing being opt-out and having a convoluted process…) I honestly hadn’t heard about it. But even now I’ll continue to use it because weighing the marketing vs my CC details out there is still not a hard choice.

Depending on where you live Revolut might be an option for you. Unlike privacy.com its basically just an online bank where you can open an account and send money to/from, but they offer a one-time-use credit card (which changes every time you use it).

Best of all captchas which require human interaction are completely redundant anyways. From a security perspective anyways (blocking bots generating huge amounts of traffic)… For training your next LLM however…

For me it’s that a game I regularly play really needs their rootkit to run before they allow me to start it… If that ever changes or I stop playing it I’ll take a long hard look at Linux.

Permanent ad free for boost is less than a cup of coffee in a Starbucks… The dev deserves to be paid for their time (especially as a Lemmy app actually requires maintenance for updates to Lemmy).

Sure hate on shovelware games or games with 15 DLC’s that should have been part of the base game… But don’t hate on proper apps like boost.

It’s more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file.

Lock the settings app behind a passcode too, there’s ways to block things like settings… Not sure if that works for individual screens in there though