Hahaha. Not gonna lie, I really hope we will see as much similar stories as posible. Will make for at least slight case against mandatory age verification for other countries, to not follow in UKs footsteps.

If I got a Copilot license, I’d definitely make sure to expend my quota every single day and use it as much as possible. Especially if I was “highly encouraged” to use it.

Just run a markov chain and let it talk to the thing. It’s expensive to make the queries, for MS.

IIRC there is at least one dumbphone that runs signal, https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/, but that’s expensive and not something you’d usually get if you think dumbphones.

But yeah, the point of having a dumbphone is not security or privacy, at least for me and most of the people I spoke with about it. The point is you have your phone as a backup emergency comms, and just learn not to use and rely on instant communication and internet access. Maybe an occasional “I’m running late” messages, but other than that, the point is you just wait until you get to a PC.

And even for emergency comms, I had a dumbphone that can make a 4G hotspot, and had a GrapheneOS smarthphone without a sim or internet powered off in my bag. And if I needed to sort out anything, I just fired up a hotspot and turned on the second phone.

The fact that it was annoying several steps was the point, so you do it only when absolutely neccessary, and eventually quickly learn not to do it. It has improved my life by a lot, getting rid of this “always online” addiction/reliance.

I only found out about ODD recently, and it explains so much. It should be talked about more.

I know almost nothing about the situation, and I vaguely know it’s a geopolitical mess, but do I get it right that it’s basically a situation that can be (in a very simplified methaphor) compared to a Police, that solves a hostage and an active shooter situation in a Hospital by first sieging and starving everyone involved, then shelling and leveling the building along with a school next door, and then capturing and torturing all involved that managed to survive, including the hospital staff and patients?

This of course ignores the geopolitical aspect, but it’s basically what’s happening, no?

I’d say it’s the other way around - you’re paying extra for not consenting to tracking, so it’s similar (and even worse) model that i.e Facebook has. There’s no way the discount card discount is not factored in the normal price calculation, and I vager most shops are counting on the product not being sold for a bit until it’s it’s turn for a discount.

How does IronFox compare to LibreWolf?

Am dumb, missed the “for android” part.

The biggest step you can take is making sure that you are hosting the repo anonymously, and that it can not be linked to you (or anyone), so they can’t go after you.

Github probably isn’t a good place for that, but I don’t know if anonymous alternatives exist.

You can just host your own decentralized instance, right?

Right?

Don’t they already have your ID/details, assuming you paid them with your credit card?

That’s rich, coming from a company that got caught with .cursor file in their public repo.

Is it working for you now? I didn’t have any issues for the past few months, but they changed their anticheat to denuvo in a yesterday’s patch (or rather, do a technical test for later rollout), and I’m getting security violations now.

Haha, “backlash”. Yeah, sure.

People don’t give a shit, they will forget that it’s happening once news articles move to a different flavor of the week topics.

And the people that get into a choice of “prove with a photo/Id you are old enough or you can’t watch this video” will just begrudgingly comply and never think about it again.

My absolutely favorite take about art is the one from the edge of the 19->20th century, where they got obsessed about art having to be absolutely separated from reality, to be even worth considering, since that would only taint it, and just be perfect.

So in that case, I have no issues with separating the art from the artist. Or, since they also tried to make art out of their lives (the whole dandy thing), which made basically professional posers, I also don’t mind separating morality/reality from the artists and viewing their life as art. For example, Motley Crue were extremely bad people to be around, but their lifestyle was portrayed well enough that it does sound kinda fun (as long as you don’t actually live like that in reality), so I don’t judge and kind of appreciate them trying.

On the other hand, if someone is a dick as an artist without their behavior being refined enough to pass as an art/pose/dandyism, I make sure to not give them any money whatsoever, or promote their products, and just shittalk and laugh at them. Even if their actuall art is good, which I will probably enjoy, but will definitely not pay for.

Is it a good take on the question that makes sense? Probably not, but it does work for me.

KryptEY, an android keyboard that adds PGP encryption into any chat provider.

So, once ChatControl passes, this will be the only way how to keep your chats private. So, you’ll be able to send PGP encrypted messages through messanger/instagram/discord/whatever.

It has some issues, no group chats, but once chatcontrol passes, this will be the only private way.

As soneone who does 3rd party Red Teamings, I’m looking forward to it. That recall file is going to be a goldmine for our engagements, which are getting harder and harder thanks to EDRs and general advancements in the field.

True, I forgot that in asymetric crypto, you can simply send a meta/service message “give public key or install extension”, and that should work in most cases.

Although, the main threat profile is Chatcontrol, and that could be MITMd by the chat provider, if the extension would get popular enough.

I wonder if there is a way how to establish keys over public chat provider, if the provider has active interrest in breaking your encryption.

I was thinking about similar concept - E2E encrypted chat, but build on top of other existing services, through a Browser extension and PGP. The extension would just handle message encryption and decryption with PGP, and the rest can be sent through Messenger infrastructure, or anything like that.

The only issue is key exchange.

How do you handle secure key exchange in this case?

I’ll probably stop using as much as I can.

Research VPNs, more importantly get up to date about stuff like Snowflake, to have a backup once VPNs are illegal.

I’ll probably look into getting a residential VPN from somewhere where the verification isn’t required, for as long as it will be feasible.

Get back to pirating music and all the other content they won’t let me access.

Is it a problem anymore with proton?

Or rather – is testing the game on Linux via proton sufficient, or do you actually look for native Linux builds?

I’m honestly interested as a dev who recently released my game I worked on free time, and I decide to go the route of single Windows build + proton, since it makes the build and release process a little bit easier, since I have a custom CI/CD pipeline and adding a Linux support into it would take some time.

And as someone who has a Linux as a daily driver and game only on Linux, having the game run on it was important to me, but I honestly didn’t see a reason why go with a native build and the additional trouble it would cause with testing - because now I can just test one windows build on my Linux desktop through proton, and be fairly sure that it runs OK on both.