haywire7

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Forgive me if this is an overly simplistic view but if the ads with cookies are all served on Google's platform say then would all those ads have access to the Google cookie jar?

If they don't now then you can bet they are working on just that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There are a lot of games that work. Still some that hold out, mainly due to their shitty anticheat software.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Great. So managing printers, network settings and quickly comparing settings from two places becomes a weird game of screenshots and guessing.

Remote support workers of the world collectively shake their fist in despair.

No way on this planet I will be able to explain the new UI to your average office worker.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 5 months ago (32 children)

AI generated content is great and all but it drowns out everything else on there. Anyone can type a prompt and generate a great looking image with a couple of attempts these days it seems.

The people spending days, weeks, months and more on a piece can't keep up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

When it comes to WiFi Mac's mobile phones have fudged them for "privacy" for years, if this goes main stream I see the same thing coming in for Bluetooth.

They promise the macs are random but I don't have much faith in that.

Looking up a real Mac to see what manufacturer it came from is something I do almost daily sorting out network issues for customers and really is not difficult. From there it takes a leap to guess what the device is if it's name doesn't help but more often than not it's easy enough to see what's out there, the random macs of phones stick out like a sore thumb as they don't come back as anything usually so you can then track that around the network and see what they are up to that way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, they may have a rule about anything without the original plug/cord I know places near me do. Still a shame it ends up going to waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I acquire the MP3 of the song I want from where ever I can find it. Be that buying it, YouTube converter or elsewhere. Then copy it to the SD card on my phone to listen to. No ads, no data connection needed. I even bother to set the album covers and tags up so it is all searchable in the Oto app I use on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

RIP you butt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was expecting some exploit of the ancient underlying OS but that looked relatively simple.

The fact the exploit was able to infect config backups to persist is interesting too.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I've been using Firefox at home for as long as I can remember. I've not found anything I can't do with it yet.

If something doesn't work you can always try it in edge of something either way.