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searx.be and results in Russian? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thing is that searx.be has been remarkably good for my use case since a long time. With other instances YMMV.

searx.be and results in Russian? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The mentioned server side changes (e.g. A server move you mentioned but could also be server settings, provider settings, etc).

I guess that is the case. According to https://searx.space/ the searx.be server is in Austria but might use some proxy to talk to Google and similar to avoid quick blocking. The maintainer of searx.be also maintains yewtu.be and that one uses proxies (The proxy names can be seen when blocking auto play of videos in Tor browser).

Also getting results in Russian here since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German.

searx.be and results in Russian? in c/[email protected]
Death of Piped? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Indeed. I tried on mobile with LibreTube and with Mull and both fail. And also fails now in Tor browser. The list is getting shorter.

Death of Piped? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Now I've tried almost all of them in the Piped instances list (Several domain name for sale and server not found errors) and only the smnz.de one works for me. :( I am wondering whether a freshly installed self-hosted private Piped video instance will work fine.

Death of Piped? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Works for me still (Using Tor browser. I'm Europe located).

Death of Piped? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The instances list is not up to date :

https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c

There's probably more working instances.

Plan B : I guess running your own Piped instance and not sharing it with a lot of people could be worth considering.

Personally I'm sticking to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yt-dlp#Faster_downloads for the video downloading I do.

What are your thoughts on passkey login? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Was about to post the great blog post from my bookmarks, but another commenter beat me to it (t y !). Here's comments on that blog post on Lobsters and HN :

piped.video works, invidious doesn't, why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Tested playing a video with an Invidious instance right now and it worked. Did you try another instance ?

I2P 2.6.0 Release - Blog - I2P in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s because you’re using it for a purpose it wasn’t intended. I2P isn’t designed to be used to browse the regular internet, for that it’s better to use TOR. However for anonymous torrenting or accessing i2p-sites, it’s quite fast imho.

Okay, good.

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There's more to it. The mono-culture is one thing, but rolling out the update to millions of computers on the same days sounds like a bad idea.

Fun fact in 2008, with nuclear submarines, the mono-culture was not that bad yet.

It's interesting to note the UK went with a Windows XP variant and not Windows Vista, which is marketed as the more reliable OS. The USA never made the same calculations: The American Navy runs on Linux.

[Question] Font fingerprinting -- even tor browser is vulnerable!? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess the important thing is in the unique versus total in for example 200 fonts and 150 unique metrics found.

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EU biometric checks for foreign travellers delayed again (www.theguardian.com)
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Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering Secret Logs, and GPL Violations (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14981035

But as I and others looked closer, and thought about it more deeply, things became concerning.

These logs include:

Your precise GPS locations (which are also sent to their servers).
Your WiFi network name.
The IDs of nearby cell towers (even with no SIM card inserted, also sent to their servers).
Your internet-facing IP address.
The user token used by the device to authenticate with Rabbit's back-end API.
Base64-encoded MP3s of everything the Rabbit has ever spoken to you (and the text transcript thereof).
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X (former Twitter) lost court-cases about shadowbanning after critical post about EU and CSAM (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/163062

Last year Danny Mekić wrote this article : https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance which was published in a newspaper and then the author got shadow-banned on X. Today the same Dutch newspaper reported that Mekić won two court-cases about this.

X is not allowed to shadow-ban users easily the judge said. Only during the court-case X explained why the account of Meki was shadow-banned : He had shared an article about the CSAM law on X. "I still
do not understand why X this only said in the court hall, rather than telling me right away when I
asked about it" Mekić said.

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Shoelace: Alternative frontend for Instagram's Threads (sr.ht)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9961019

Hello Lemmy! Yesterday I released the first version of an alternative frontend for Threads: Shoelace. It allows for fetching posts and profiles from Threads without the need of any browser-side JavaScript. It's written in Rust, and powered by the spools library, which was co-developed between me and my girlfriend. Here's a quick preview:

A screenshot of Shoelace's homepage, showing the logo on top, the title "Shoelace", the subtitle "an alternative frontend for Threads", an input bar with the tooltip "Jump to a profile...", and at the bottom three links: "hub", "donate", and "v0.1".

Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Shoelace, showing three posts: One showcasing columns on the official Threads frontend, another congratulating himself for 1.2M+ downloads in his company's new AI software, and the glimpse of a post related to the "metaverse" Post by münecat on Shoelace, announcing the release of a video essay criticizing the field of evolutionary psychology

The official public instance (at least for now) is located at https://shoelace.mint.lgbt/, if y'all wanna try it out. There's also instructions to deploy it inside the docs you can find in the README. Hope y'all enjoy it!

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‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
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When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains (inti.io)
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OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)
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Entering a New Phase of the Web, with Citation Needed’s Molly White (flipboard.video)
 

https://flipboard.social/@mike/112452374982317735

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Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings (berthub.eu)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15662912

https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/112444298499426055

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Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings (berthub.eu)
 

https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/112444298499426055

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BBC World Service - lite (mastodon.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15637085

My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow). They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS. Page sizes drop significantly:

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BBC World Service - lite (mastodon.social)
 

My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow). They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS. Page sizes drop significantly:

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