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arcterus

@ arcterus @piefed.blahaj.zone

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  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • Obviously it's deceptive. But if you individually encrypt the messages you're sending, the one you send to the receiver still can't be decrypted by Meta, only the copy sent directly to Meta can, so the copy sent to your intended receiver is still "E2EE."

  • Til Rachel Robinson, widow of first black MLB player Jackie Robinson, is still alive at 103

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  • Apparently his phylactery isn't enough to stop mental decline.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • So, is it basically treating every message as a "group" message where it sends it to some system WhatsApp account and then also to your intended receiver? This is what I'm assuming based on them supposedly being able to see deleted messages. Also would let them say it's technically still "E2EE" since it's indeed E2EE to your receiver, but it's also E2EE to them as well.

  • Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance]

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  • I mean the person I'm responding to seems to want a traditional Unix experience given how they're talking (and given they use suckless software). Linux generally isn't that, and it never really has been (or at least hasn't for many years). If you want something more traditional, there are a bunch of available options like the BSDs. If you insist on using Linux, you can use distros that don't use Wayland, systemd, flatpak, etc., but the support for them is lower, and if you need to use something that isn't packaged for example you'll need to deal with getting it working with e.g. systemd on your own. A bunch of software makes assumptions that stuff like systemd is now included if you use Linux. I'm currently using a distro without systemd and am seriously considering swapping back to my old one because it's such a hassle.

  • Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance]

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  • I still use x11 with suckless dwm

    I can tell from the way you write, no need to mention it.

  • Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance]

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  • I'm using gnome rn and it doesn't crash much anymore. When I used xorg, there'd be crashes that brought down the entire desktop (or the computer as a whole) too. Also, generally every time I have a crash now it's from using xwayland to play a game and having certain extensions enabled at the same time (although those issues seem to have disappeared recently too). All the other issues I either don't care about or are supported with some extra work. For gnome, some of the issues are just because they have a phobia of exposing settings and you need to use stuff like dconf to deal with it.

    Jesus what joke of an implementation, it's the anti theist of Linux. Everyone got fooled and allowed GUI developers implement the rendering backend...

    As you mentioned earlier, it's a protocol. Implementation issues are due to how gnome/kde/whatever implemented their compositors. I think it's pretty much standard for Linux given that stuff like systemd and flatpak exist. If you want to use something more traditional unix-y, maybe you should use a bsd or solaris derivative or something.

  • Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance]

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  • Took a while, but Wayland is basically at a point now where it generally just works. I'm glad I don't really need to deal with weird tearing issues or the X server not starting for whatever esoteric reason after a driver update anymore.

  • “This is a f—ing disaster”: Generational Republican family loses its 95-year-old Sawmill as Trump’s tariff chaos wipes out jobs

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  • Kind of drives me nuts how many of these random articles there are and the people interviewed still say they'd vote for Trump. Like, what is the point of your interview then? You got what you voted for?

  • Vanilla Ice

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  • If you aren't arguing that white people have only begun protesting/caring about things now because they think it affects them, then your comic does not make its point clearly.

    In any case, after double-checking, two of the non-white people you directly point out as shot and killed by ICE were undocumented. I'm not actually sure one was even shot since skimming a few sources indicates he fell off a roof and died from that during a raid. Obviously being undocumented doesn't justify getting killed, but that's another difference (citizen vs. undocumented noncitizen) between Good and Pretti that you've chosen to ignore in favor of solely basing your comic on them being white or not.

    Also, AFAIK the Porter incident doesn't have video footage (can't remember if the others do either). The Good and Pretti cases have significant footage, so it's particularly easy to spread clips over social media.

  • Peter Thiel comes to Paris to speak about the Antichrist

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  • "a moderate Orthodox Christian and a humble classical liberal, with one seemingly minor deviation from classical liberal orthodoxy: I worry about the Antichrist."

    It's disturbing that he considers himself "moderate"

  • A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

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  • If this were true (which is nearly impossible since you said "all"), stuff like Anubis wouldn't exist since you could just toss up a crowd-sourced robots.txt and be done with it.

  • A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

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  • This issue is largely manifesting through AI scraping right now. Additionally, many intentionally ignore robots.txt. Currently, LLM scrapers are basically just bad actors on the internet. Courts have also ruled in favor of a number of AI companies when sued in the US, so it's unlikely anything will change. Effectively, if you don't like the status quo, stuff like this is one of your few options.

    This isn't even mentioning of course whether we actually want these companies to improve their models before resolving the problems of energy consumption and potential displacement of human workers.

  • A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

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  • Corporations want the existing copyright system for their own products but simultaneously want to freely scrape data from everyone else.

  • Backing up Spotify

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  • I mean, they say earlier that music is actually well-preserved, but it's disproportionately popular music. If the goal is then to preserve everything, I'd expect them to go for stuff that isn't likely to be in some random audiophile's collection or whatever then.

  • Backing up Spotify

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    1. Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.

    • We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
    • For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
    • For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

    Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but is this not a little backwards? Since unpopular music is poorly preserved, shouldn't the focus be on getting the least popular music first?

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    TIL: 91% of Venezuelans Hold Unfavorable Views of Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

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  • Dunno if the polls are fully reliable, but this doesn't surprise me since the few views I've heard her express have been pretty shit.

  • Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

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  • Shock.

    Anyway, the article only specifically mentions MTG and Mace as feeling like they aren't taken seriously. I think it'd be stranger if they both were taken seriously since they're fucking clowns.

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • The politicians in this country are completely out of touch with reality.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Yeah, sure, but a number of them still exist. They're just mostly reliant on word of mouth now (or using something other than Google). There's some old Star Wars forums that seem to still be surviving, for example.