For MAC spoofing, just do what Apple does; randomly generate a new MAC every minute or so.

let’s hope your headphones and such are doing that too. but realistically, probably they aren’t.

Strong, secure identification would change the nature of most of these problems. It would make anonymity a choice instead of an illusion,

wrong. it would take away the choice.

The value of any given contribution is the same, regardless of whether the code was written by a seasoned developer, a neophyte as a first project, an LLM, a team of high school students learning the language, or space aliens - the code is the code, it helps or hurts exactly the same when merged with zero connection to who or what wrote it.

Caring about who or what wrote the code is applying prejudice. Prejudice works well in a lot of cases, but it’s no guarantee.

the blog post is not about who actually wrote the code, but whether it’s worth the effort to do a thorough review. if an actual person made it, then yes because they can learn from it and the world becomes a slightly better place. if it was a vibecoder just using an LLM, then explaining what needs to be done and why does not add much to.the world, but it possibly helps to make the LLM company richer

interesting. but they are still doing the project, just not reading the github issues.

actually they even disabled the issues and the pull requests, which is unfortunate because earlier discussions also become inaccessible.

sounds better than an electronic payments only dystopia tbh

this can be useful too! https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tu_darmstadt.seemoo.nfcgate

probably requires root though

Talon Voice sounds to be an interesting thing.

I think wayland developers could be further motivated to implement support for input accessibility tools by telling them it would help a lot for automation software too. Accessibility software can help the healthy users too, like in a form of a password manager that automatically fills out forms. Or like AutoHotkey or many other tools known from windows.

even about their departure from the public project.

what do you mean by that?

Fortunately thay’re pretty safe for most of their lifetime unless you break tgem or they start falling apart.

what about the hailstorm?

don’t forget my summer car

Corruption exists everywhere, but such blatant criminality in public office seems to me possible on this absurd scale only in the land of superlatives.

Hungary. 16 years. It did end, but I still don’t understand how did it end. and there were no riots, just an election.

I can’t understand how this can be tolerated

that’s what you do when (you feel) you can’t organize.

but to be fair there are other things I can’t understand how can it be tolerated, yet people are cheering for it, as if they are tired to bear their agency and consequences.

you probably shouldn’t feel that safe, because people you chat with probably do use it

This in itself is, of course, a scandal that in any reasonably functioning country would inevitably lead to the government’s downfall.

so, none, in the age of algorithm driven nonstop brain massage

you can scroll faster with the scrollbar, and it is useful

Anonymity - whether or not someone can see what’s behind your door.

that’s also privacy. anonimity is whether the neighbors know who lives in your house

user error? what user error? mount a network drive, disconnect the network, then try to unmount it. best part? most programs will stall for a long time when it tries to access the directory.

that’s a different thing. if you delete a file that is still opened by a process, the space will not get freed up until that process also closed the file. until that point the filesystem still keeps track of the file, it is just not present in any directories anymore.

and what about QR code login? I think MAS is required for that

first paragraph:

They can also be done on Android, using pretty much any communications platform in existence today.

this probably relies on the gemini spyware sending all your notifications to google

The idea is that the victims will dismiss the foreign-language question as a bug or a glitch and will simply proceed as if nothing’s happened.

but sadly this is not a 0 click prompt injection

while, yet again, trampling on human rights, out of convenience no less.

I mean! they could be even more convenient, and just order it online! and what do I care if that’s what they do. this tech is really not so necessary.
but of course I am the scumbag if I don’t like the blind person scanning my face with the Google Lens app just so they can politely greet me by my name.