brisk

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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 59 points 8 months ago

It is a legal requirement in Australia that ISPs record all your "metadata" which will reveal torrent activity. The bittorrent protocol necessarily makes your IP public to peers. Copyright trolls are known to leave bots as fake seeders and peers to collect IPs to mass report people.

Tl;DR: not a good idea

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

But there’s a problem: a majority of the world’s graphite comes from China. While this isn’t necessarily a problem in and of itself, it’s always better to have multiple sources for any particular material, so that one entity can’t throw their weight around if they see an opportunity. And given the anti-China saber-rattling that a certain treasonous reality TV host regularly engages in, it’s entirely possible that global tensions could result in disruption of graphite supply chains, which could then jeopardize the aforementioned burgeoning US EV manufacturing industry (which that same reality TV host/convicted felon seems determined to ensure does not flourish).

There have been so many news articles recently that take it as a given that China having something (mostly semiconductor fabrication) is bad, it is very refreshing to read something like this.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

This maneuver may sound simple, but it involves an entirely new and unique code for which the researchers have sought a patent.

How to make your discovery worthless in a single, idiotic move.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

I have lots of games in my library largely because they are beautiful. None of them have realistic graphics.

Fi is one of the most beautiful games (visually and as an overall art piece) I've played, and I don't think it even has textures

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 8 months ago

Is this real? I have no idea how to even access twitter anymore

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the headline might have changed since you posted. What should they damn well do?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago

They call out making spoofing harder, although they don't specify how.

It's a normal thing for people to sideload apps that are distributed through the play store - that's exactly what tools like Aurora do.

You are right that they are up to developers, but that's the problem. It should be up to users how they run their software on their hardware.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago

The investigation did not spotlight the similarly-named Matrix open source communication protocol.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 15 points 8 months ago

The investigation did not spotlight the similarly-named Matrix open source communication protocol.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 57 points 8 months ago (3 children)

"Security" meaning "preventing users from using the devices they own in the way they want to use them" apparently.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unironically, what is that kind of strap called? I have a (much smaller) PC begging for one.

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