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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I find what they are offering interesting. But I myself use Thunderbird on my pc, spark on my phone, to get the emails from Gmail and yahoo mail.

    Skiff isn’t compatible with imap, and from what they are saying, is because it’s an encrypted service, and using imap would require to unencrypt them.



  • The bad news is that Android is still likely affected. Similar to Apple’s ImageIO, Android has a facility called the BitmapFactory that handles image decoding, and of course libwebp is supported. As of today, Android hasn’t released a security bulletin that includes a fix for CVE-2023-4863 – although the fix has been merged into AOSP. To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I’d expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.

    So a no-click device hack?



  • I am sory for not living in a giant home without any 2.4ghz neighbors around me.

    Also I myself use 2.4ghz for low bandwidth devices, and other connected devices which don’t have 5ghz. And there are also the neighbors who cast their 2.4ghz network they may use how they will around me.

    But I didn’t have many issues on most of the headsets I tried. At least higher end.

    There were still some outliers and with bad unreliable connections, even on high latency (jbl tour one m2 for example).

    Others like corsair headsets had issues at “high” range (like 10-15m through walls), but no issues at close range, but that is expected from their specs.










  • System76 is a bit strange. Their laptops are more expensive than other windows brands, while offering Linux. I’m not sure if it’s really worth going with them, as a lot of other laptops ca work with Linux. Tho maybe I missed something about their laptops.

    Framework I think I saw some Poole saying it has some issues running Linux with some component incompatibilities. Tho you may want to do more research, maybe even opening some reddit threads and dodging useless comments.





  • Do you have lots of cash to support the copyright and maintenance fees? The Web archive (I think, or another similar website) got sued for having knowledge and book contents on their website. You can’t just publish hacked books.

    Most likely you would need a way to generate money for a “business”.

    There would be some ways like advertising (can be OK, but not always the best, it depends on how many adds, how scummy ads, and how much tracking/data selling).

    Donations? = pretty much no expected revenue. The amount of revenue you can get is very low.

    Paid features, but what features could be paid while keeping free access?



  • It can be compared and added to the argument of an European country which proposes to scan all photos sent to detect if it contains illegal children photos.

    However, to do so, is a huge privacy issue, and as the ai has a very high risk to not work as expected, a lot of false positives could be sent to be reviewed by a person.



  • That is because recent laptops don’t “sleep” like before with s4 (hybernate) or other sx.

    They have some sort of tucking clock waiting for windows to wake up to check for updates.

    In theory it allows to keep everything up to date while people are not working.

    However un proactice, it drains battery and overheats laptops, because Microsoft implemented that feature like crap, or the partners did some stupid things.

    It was supposed to only activate when the laptop was plugged in. However if the laptop was plugged in, put on sleep, then unplugged, windows still believed that the laptop was plugged in.

    Now I don’t know if windows ever solved that issue after people brought it up and Linus from Linus tech tips complained to Microsoft.