[–] 2 points 2 months ago*

Nice. That is what I did, at first, as well.

One thing I discovered is that the vast majority of 2FA uses a shared open standard. I was able to cut way down on the count of 2FA apps I had to install, and just use Aegis for almost everything.

Aegis runs fine on GrapheneOS, too.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Great point about bank apps.

    Thankfully I never got in the habit of tap to pay with my phone.

    The amount of data that bank apps want to slurp up in the name of "security" makes me uncomfortable, anyway.

    I just bank via web browser, today.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Nothing is perfect.

    But every alternate Android ROM I have tried has given me a dramatic speed boost over what shipped with the phone.

    I guess there are other definitions of "good", haha.

    For me good==fast, and GrapheneOS is the most responsive phone OS I have used, and therefore the best.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    As a fellow former CyanogenMod user, I run GrapheneOS. I like that it gives me the most control over my hardware, of any of the Android variants I have tried.

    Edit: I buy phones specifically looking for GrapheneOS support, now. But for non-pixel phones, I have found LineageOS to be fine.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Yes. And then sign another authorization for each other topic - another for disposal of my property if I die, one for my funeral preferences, one to pick up my prescriptions, and hope I don't forget any.

    Or, courthouse, one time, 15 minutes, and done.

    A marriage license acts like a super convenient combination of othet legal documents.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    If we allow Discovery as evidence, Klingon technology has been in steep decline for centuries, only recently falling to as primitive as 24th century Federation technology.

    It's possible that Kligons had better medical treatments available in the 21st century than in the 24th.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Sure!

    But I don't expect it to change much.

    I could already do that, by hand as well.

    It's a bit like how there's so many different superheroes who are obviously just off-brand SuperMan or off-brand Captain America.

    Minor changes to avoid intellectual property law and branding has always been an option.

    And I suppose all of these are easier now with the remixing slop-o-trons.

    But they weren't terribly difficult, or particularly uncommon, even before.

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    Inpsired by a recent post about extending Luanti towards SurvivalCraft, this is my favorite non-video guide to getting started writing Luanti mods.

    There's some great video guides too, but I don't have those links handy right now.

    Everything needed is free, and I think pretty well available on any PC platform (Linux, Mac, Windows).

     

    An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.

     

    I got tired of having to search and sign up for wherever my favorite movie is streaming this month, so I'm going back to DVDs for the foreseeable future, until the streaming overlords get their shit together. So... maybe forever. But at least for now.

    It's nice. I put a disc in, and press play, and it plays.

    I hadn't quite realize how much messing around the streaming services had added to my movie nights.

    (Recover password, verify my email, sign up with a credit card, authorize the TV, remove the old iPad because of a device limit, sign in at least one extra time for no certain reason, sometimes discover I chose the wrong service and start over.)

     

    My commentary: An AI that can be trusted with sensitive information remains a tantalizing but unattainable "holy grail".

    And a quote I love from the article:

    "As long as machine learning and generative AI is being deployed in production systems, we predict a heartwarmingly lucrative job market in AI security."

     

    Cory Doctorow details the path to the enshitifications of Facebook and Twitter.

    "This is what changed: the collapse of market, government, and labor constraints, and IP law's criminalization of disenshittifying, interoperable add-ons. This is why Zuck, an eternal creep, is now letting his creep flag fly so proudly today. Not because he's a worse person, but because he understands that he can hurt his users and workers to benefit his shareholders without facing any consequences. Zuckerberg 2025 isn't the most evil Zuck, he's the most unconstrained Zuck."

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    Since Game Changer is the best thing that ever happened to game shows, I wonder if there's any chance we can get coverage of a recreational league sports team?

    I don't even care what sport, and I don't care if it's not live.

    Televised Pistol Shrimps games or some such would be a delightful addition.

     

    This came across my GamingOnLinux feed, and I figured y'all might share my interest.

    I'm excited for this dock release because my simple JSAUX HDMI dongle has always been a more reliable SteamDeck dock, for me, than my official SteamDeck dock.

    I understand recent patches to the SteamDeck official dock may have solved many of the issues I was having.

    But it's still cool to see a brand I already trust adding a targeted SteamDeck product.

    I don't see whether it accounts for my habit of keeping my SteamDeck in a protective case, though.

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    Uh...I guess this is a public service announcement.

    "Ultimate Spider-Man" is really good.

    Core Concept

    The Maker has remade a world with no heroes for his evil cabal to rule over.

    Iron Lad sent a series of time machine gift bags to people who would have been heroes - including Peter Parker - giving them the option to bootstrap their life to their former heroic destiny.

    This subverts my expectations, while offering new insights into established characters.

    Detailed spoilers

    • J. Jonah Jameson is a better man with Ben Parker alive to mentor him
    • Harry Osborn is probably either batshit crazy or destined to be the greatest bromance in Peter's life...and maybe both.
    • Peter and MJs kids are adorable and perfect.
    • The comic completely fails to address how this version of Peter got his webbing, and the suit that Iron Lad provided is capable of an awfut lot of Venom's abilities...Might Iron Lad have cut a dangerous corner in his desperation?
     

    "We need policies that keep middlemen weak."

    stood out to me.

    Many of my influences have railed against middle men, and I think that's unfair. I've worked with plenty of middle men that made everyone then better off.

    I've also had the unique displeasure that at least half of all links shared with me in recent years have been to a site called "Instagram", where I am unable to access the content without an account (which I refuse to make because Zuckerberg is a creepy stalker.)

    I find it deeply weird that such a locked ecosystem now controls so much attention.

    I find Cory Doctorow's thoughts on the problem and potential solutions to be both hopeful and cathartic.

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    Kind of an inflammatory title, but I like to let it match for accessibility.

    I've been enjoying Ed Zitron's articles lately, because they call out CEOs who aren't doing their jobs.

    I'm sharing this partly because I'm honestly surprised to see criticism of Satya Nadella's leadership. I think Satya has been good for Microsoft, overall, compared to previous leaders. And I was as convinced as anyone else when the "growth mindset" first hit the news cycle. It sounds fine, after all.

    TL;DR:

    • Satya has baked "growth mindset deeply into the culture at Microsoft"
    • Folks outside of the original study authors have generally failed to reproduce evidence of any value in "growth mindset"
    • Microsoft is, of course "all in" on their own brand of AI tools, and their AI tools are doing the usual harmful barf, eat the barf, barf grosser barf, re-eat that barf data corruption cycle.
    • Some interesting speculation that none of the AI code flaunted by Microsoft and Google is probably high value. Which is a speculation I confidently share, but still, I think, speculation. (Lines-of-code is a bat shit insane way to measure engineer productivity, but some folks think it's okay when an AI is doing it.)
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