It’s almost like people see “don’t comply in advance” and think that it means “except for me!” or it will somehow benefit them if they do it anyway.
The latter, presumably, being the reason people love licking boots, boosting wealth hoarders, voting against their interests, etc. They’ll get some crumbs from the table if they do it hard enough, surely.
If Allbirds (referenced in the article) is an example of a PE-led company being made to pivot from a product manufacturer to data goldrush bandwagoneering, this has to be the home-baked budget version.
It’s so… 1980s electronic tat for kids by comparison. As if the Amazon Alexa inventor and Fisher Price had a baby while they were both unemployed. So bizarre.
“Photo Metadata Remover” by Syrupy on the Play Store was the tool recommended by the security team at a previous workplace. I rarely need it, but I see it’s added ads, so I’d be more tempted to check for a FOSS alternative.
There’s always ImageMagick on PC, if you don’t mind dealing with them there. It strips EXIF and Adobe metadata from images very well. Or the old “screenshot of a digital photo” trick is still peerless.
I’ve been using Wallabag for years, after leaving Pocket, then just sharing links between devices using browser bookmarks or sync, and trying another solution that was shiny but lacking (can’t recall the name).
Wallabag has extensions for most browsers, apps for iOS and Android (that hook into the “Share with…” functionality), and runs in a low-resource Docker container. The web UI isn’t pretty, but it’s functional.
I have SWAG+Authelia (another Docker stack) and Cloudflare sitting in front of it, so has all the SSL and MFA needed.
I wonder if that’s true. Two generations after his death, people are likely to remember the brands and buildings that still bear his name and assume he was a Good Guy.
In the same way that people do with, say, Edison, Ford and Rockefeller today. Rather than as the monstrous pieces of shit they were.
Good grief. The Bastard Operator From Hell" (BOFH) really nailed it with their random explanation system back in the 90s. “Why is…?” “Solar flares!”
Anything to get them off the phone so the next sucker who picks up when they call back will have to do the work.
You can. But guessing all the variations of nicknames for Trump, for example, is a never-ending game.
God forbid anyone there use a ‘politics’ (or even ‘uspol’ in my example) hashtag…
I followed a science starter pack, thinking it’d be, well, wall-to-wall science with a bit of random everyday stuff mixed in. Right?
Nope. Turns out, thanks to American current affairs, almost all of its members post political content almost all of the time. Close to the last thing I want to see on social media. (I don’t blame them, as they’re being hit hard by it all.)
To make it worse, most Bluesky users don’t “do” hashtags or content warnings (unless it’s promoting something - remember to like and subscribe!), so it’s incredibly difficult to filter out the clickbait and rage-sharing. 😟
That’s the one. And fair enough.
Had a couple of users tell me it crashed their PCs, but that was my only reference.
Just reading this gave me a flashback to the old Windows 9x issue where, if you left a machine running “too long”, it would crash. 😅
Can’t recall the number of days, though. 38? 68? 78? Something like that.
We’ve all moved over to Wayland already…
Have you seen the apt sources list that CW generates on boot? It’s semantics. 😊
Agree, though calibre-web exists and runs in a single Docker container. I’ve been using it for a few years, and it’s great.
Sure its a whole Linux server under the hood just to run Calibre and the services required to give it a web interface and API for reading apps - making it way bigger than it needs to be - but it does the job.
The article doesn’t mention it, but I’m assuming this was older kit with a factory standard user/pass and “remote support” enabled without source IP control.
Terrible idea then; worse idea now.
Yet ISPs still do it and complain when you fix it at your end. 😬
That’s whataboutery, no? “X did a bad thing.” “What about Y doing the same/similar things?”
Both can be true at the same time. Whataboutery only serves to distract from the original point.
This is a fair point. But I thought there was some uncertainty surrounding signed binaries, Play force-scanning APKs (regardless of source), and such?
Absolutely fair correction. 👍🏻
SmartTube is pretty good on AndroidTV: SponsorBlock, DeArrow, no ads, etc.
At least while we’re still able to sideload… 😔
Awesome! I’m glad it was useful for you. 😊
Before you ditch that app… If it’s FOSS, have you considered filing a bug report to the developer? They may be unaware and find your feedback useful in fixing it for their users. That screenshot will probably help, too.
FWIW, I switched to self-hosted GitLab in Docker when Microslop borged GitHub and found it to be resource hungry and slow. Seems like it’s just a wrapper around their unoptimised, monolithic, warts-and-all enterprise product with a few flags changed.
And it’s entirely dependent on the ongoing goodwill (and competence) of GitLab, ie. subject to “we’ve altered the deal; pray we don’t alter it any further”.
Migrated it to a Gitea container soon after, which is light and fast. If I was making the same decision today, I’d switch to Forgejo, but that’s more of an ideological position than technical or UX one versus Gitea.