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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Spez could learn a thing or two from russia. That is not how one uses kompromat...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (13 children)

It would seem that the end user has no idea what "cut" means. I never have to "go back to the original directory to delete the originals". That is what "cut" is for.

Besides, as other comments pointed out, one can make a multiple selection, and then, in conjunction with "cut", it will work exactly like the feature described at the end. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

AFAIU - but that is a veeeeeery "skimmed" take on the issue, so please check what I wrote before taking it at face value:

There were legitimate concerns about tiktok (hugely popular platform distributed as a "black box", with very concerning permissions and behaviours, and owned by a foreign actor - tiktok is "unavailable" domestically - that demonstrably uses technology in an extremely dystopian way on their own population), so there was quite a lot of public pressure to "do something about it", and of course politicians jumped on the opportunity to make a (very) broadly fitting legislation targeting it, coincidentally also having utterly damaging and immensely concerning side-effects for the end users privacy and sovereignty of all applications.

Following that, some of the people got (rightly) concerned about the legislation's effect on their rights and privacy, but the vast majority just saw that their digital crack cocaine was being attacked, and started whining with arguments of varying relevance. At the end of the day, though, a given platform is irrelevant. What is, is the abilities given to the users, and the possibilities that those create. But now, we have a deeply concerning platform, still being immensely popular and uncontrolled; a totally unfitting legislation with incredibly wild "side effects"; and a growing, misguided popular movement to "save tiktok" that will only make a legitimate attempt at mitigating it much harder. Yay.

Edit: after quite some digging, I found the bill here (PDF) - source.

Edit 2: to answer your question more directly:

Can anyone get me up to speed what claims the bill gave to justify TikTok must be either sold or remove from app stores?

The justification is "America’s foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States".

Which is IMHO fair. It isn't like the CCP would let American corporations, let alone government controlled ones, run services in China, let alone psychiatrically alienate their citizens, instigate discord and radicalization, potentially manipulate the public opinion, have the capacity to covertly do psyops, and actively, aggressively collect any and all data.

The potential problem I see (and probably what concerns most of the privacy advocates out there) however, is that while the bill is aiming at tiktok in particular (fine), it also targets any "foreign adversary". Meaning that, AFAIU (but IANAL), all the US would have to do to completely and entirely nuke an app (or an entire federated platform!) in the US would be to declare any foreign entity (country, state, corporation, person, etc) their "adversary". Effectively giving them a single "button" to directly nuke any app and services they don't see fit. No matter how legitimate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Be careful with mailbox.org and their "your contract period ends soon" email. It actually means "pay us or your data will be irrevocably deleted under 60 days". The mail sounds inconspicuous enough, is rather verbose, and even contains the phrasing "you may silently ignore this email". And you will not be getting a single warning before your data is entirely, irremediably deleted.

And even if you only wait 30 days, not 60, your account gets deleted (but not your emails), so you lose any and all ways of contacting their support (rescuing your emails after that gets much trickier). Speaking of which, make sure you use a widespread browser on a computer to use their support platform: otherwise you will get a visual confirmation that a ticket was created, but none will ever be.

TL;DR: mailbox.org good, but (A) make absolutely sure you always have up to date local backups, and (B) beware of the unexpected caveats and the clumsy, confusing wording.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Rooted devices are not secure.

This reeks of servitude/wishful thinking mentality. You do realise that vendors have root access, right? So what, when they do it it's secure because of their magical vendor status? Or is it because they hide the implementation details?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

And now you know why French companies are literally pegging users with total impunity. Seldom anyone sues companies in France, and when people do, most of the time it ends up ruining their lives with a giant slapp suit.

ISPs especially, since there are only 4 for the entire country, and consequently, they have enormous resources at their disposal.

To make matters worse, the French judicial system is extremely dated, has no understanding of technological matters, and is slower than the Deutsche Bahn processing a broken engine situation.

This is a far cry from Germany, where there are dozen of ISPs per land or even major city, and where lawsuits can happen over the course of months.

When you think of French administrations, think of people who are playing pretend-beamter, but who have neither the tools nor the skills (save for maybe 10% of them who have to manage literally everything by themselves with a stupidly low salary). No accountability, no expectations, and no barrier of entry aside from the "luck of the draw" ended up creating a system where too many people tried forever to work there, only to be paid better than welfare and do less work (let's be honest, being on welfare is no walk in the park, the state will fuck you up if you keep refusing to take underpaid, exhausting labour "offers").

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean I also don't really care about the temperature of my ram unless it prevents it from working. RAM overclocking isn't that useful, and unstable ram sucks ass.

However, it doesn't matter what the component is: the original difference over ambient is the amount of heat that operating the component generated. The difference after cooling is essentially the amount of heat that the specific cooling solution was able to handle. No matter the component. And dividing the latter by the former gives out the amount of cooling the cooling solution provided, relative to the amount of heat operating the component generated. This works for any component and any cooling solution. Cooling it further than ambient can be desirable for some use cases, that's why chillers exist, and that will essentially give out a percentage over 100.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Becomes". (For those still on twitter - shame on you! - here is an even older "news" about the IDF using robots in Gaza).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I would argue that what makes sense when considering temperature percentages wrt dissipation, is the difference between old and new, divided by the difference between the system at rest and the old temperature.

Which is then a ratio of offsets, rather than a ratio of one offset and a difference with an arbitrarily defined origin.

In this case, it is fair to assume the temperature at rest of the system around 292K, or 19C.

Which would give: (78.5C - 70C) / (78.5C - 19C) = 14.29%, or (351.65K - 343.15K) / (351.65K - 292.15K) = 14.29%.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I use linphone. Not necessarily because it is good, but it works and I have found nothing ~~better~~else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah, this utterly spoiled 52 years old baby sees method acting as an excuse to indulge in his worst and most childish excesses. It is nothing short of a miracle that no one ever asked him to play Ted Bundy. And the depiction would have been a real life Zapp Brannigan playing his character like Chris Kattan played Jed Mosely in "How I met your mother", but unironically. 😐

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