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  • When I was a kid I used to think Horseshoes were actual boots that you put on horses feet, and I didn't see them on any horses in movies because the horses would fling them off at a gallop speed

  • Toil away maintaining servers at work, and then toil away maintaining servers when you get back home. The bonus for doing it at home is you're not even getting paid.

    UGHHHH Imagine having to make a JIRA board at home to keep track of your projects

  • Hey, if you're using the hot bowl trick, make sure you pay attention to it; if you leave it to get hot and forget, it will be even harder to unstick it because the escaping hot air inside will make a partial vacuum when it cools down.

  • I had to say this yesterday, and I guess the universe didnt like that.

    My laptop shit the bed today morning. My work laptop, running Mint booted into a black screen, had to clean install to get the screen back on.

    It broke again in the evening, but then I had TimeShift snapshots to recover with.

    Need to figure out some way to either make it nimble enough to recover from the black boots quickly or fix them for good.

  • Ah, fair play. As time goes on we seem to be going on a negative spiral. Not just about firefox, but all things in life, in general. If you'd asked me 10 months ago how life was I'd have said it was shit, but now I yearn for ten months ago.

  • Hey, what's your usecase like that requires sleep in the first place? I've never used Sleep since I moved to using an SSD as a boot drive. My computer boots in around 12 seconds with the SSD that it just made sleep unnecessary.

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    Tangent5280 @lemmy.world

    Check your android devices for an app called "Android system Safetycore"

    People are noticing that their phones are getting an app called "Android System Safetycore" auto-installed without notice or consent. Check your phone for the same, it is likely it's a slow rollout instead of every device getting it installed all at the same time.

    Google has all the same old reasons that they drone on about, but the actual reason is likely to harvest your messages data for training AI models.

    Uninstalling seems to remove the application, and there aren't any malicious activity reported so far as I can see, but naturally that can change anytime.

    Has anyone noticed this in their applications lists? Did straight up uninstalling them work? I've had some trouble removing systems apps in the past, but uninstalling this one seems to have worked straightaway - I don't see them in the list anymore.

    URLs below for Reddit posts about the same: From 2 months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1gpdhwz/guys_help_some_app_called_android_system/

    From 2 days ago: htt

    Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Tangent5280 @lemmy.world

    Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?

    Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here.

    What apps do you recommend I install first to remove my dependence on closed ecosystems?

    What is my vulnerability surface ie, which sort of apps should I watch out for?

    Are there any bad faith companies in the open source sphere?

    Fitness @lemmy.world
    Tangent5280 @lemmy.world

    List Open Source Workout Trackers you use here.

    Does anyone here use any Open-Source Workout Trackers? I've been using hevy, but their high fees, the fact that they are a company that holds my health data and has made no commitments to open source, User privacy, or fair trade practices like user data import/export has me looking around. I wanted to see if anyone had reliable open source alternatives.

    Tell me your workout tracking stories here! Tell me what you liked and what you disliked.

    Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Tangent5280 @lemmy.world

    Piped link to Fireship's video about C2PA

    piped.video Piped

    An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

    Piped

    Useful because now you'll be able to tell that something is human-generated instead of AI-generated, and content creators and people with a large public presence will now be able to police their own likeness being used by randos.

    Scary both because now whistleblowers or reporters could get their cover blown because the image has metadata linking them to it; or they could strip off this metadata and get the evidence dismissed entirely as fraudulent; and also because of the possibility that any regulatory government body that enforces C2PA will also determine what is real and what is not, meaning anyone on the inside will be able to generate AI content and pass it off as real to the vast majority of the population.

    Can't help but think they shortened it to C2PA instead of CCPA because of the similarity in acronyms of the latter and the big bad no-privacy country.

    What do you think? Non-issue, Slightly concerning, or apocalyptic?