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sildur··on Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
Cloudflare is awful, I get tons of captchas while browsing with tor.
sildur··on Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules
> because so many of our explicit deps have implicit dependencies themselves (and some refuse to fix)

I usually create a fork in those cases.

sildur··on Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
All those "jokes" are exhausting. I usually don't have the energy to finish reading an article. I assumed it was a problem with myself, lack of attention. Until some day I read an article from beginning to end, it was captivating. I found that weird, then I checked the date of the article: 1950.
sildur··on Everything has changed in iOS 14, but Jailbreak is eternal [pdf]
The EU is pretty resistant to Apple bullcrap. They will order Apple to switch to server-side scanning on unlocked devices.
sildur··on CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
B, of course. The FBI may or may not control that specific group of people. But you can bet it controls that company with thousands of developers.
sildur··on On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
The mobile web interface of Google Maps is hideous and unusable. I had to use it from time to time, when OSM didn't have the data I needed, and I regretted every second of it.
sildur··on Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
I've read that people intentionally bomb telegram groups with CP. Telegram automatically downloads shared images. This is going to be a crapfest.
sildur··on Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) as a Way to Increase Food Volume and Satiety
> Is it possible to make a substance that is universally 100% excreted by every organism?

First of all, it is very unlikely. But even if it could be theoretically possible, I very much doubt anyone would spend money to make it universally excretable. They will stop at humans, and maybe (luckily) at mammals.

sildur··on Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
Thanks! I had no idea, this is going to simplify my backups a lot.
sildur··on Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) as a Way to Increase Food Volume and Satiety
This is going to add a fair amount of impossible to decompose microplastics to the ocean.
sildur··on Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data
A backdoored phone IS a joke, like android, or iOS.
sildur··on Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data
People don't caring about surveillance is more sinister than it looks. Because most people don't care, the ones who do (out of necessity or choice) stick out like a sore thumb.

"This citizen here, he shows in the cameras, but doesn't appear to have a cellphone/has two cellphones, let's investigate him!"

sildur··on EU to ban cryptocurrency anonymity in anti-money laundering plan
Well, no, but I can easily exchange monero with money and viceversa with another person.

Argentina has been trying to ban people from exchanging pesos and dollars for years and it worked as well as you could expect.

sildur··on EU to ban cryptocurrency anonymity in anti-money laundering plan
This is going to work as well as the ban on sharing copyrighted media.
sildur··on Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90
What's the use-case for desktop Linux in 2021?
sildur··on Our lawsuit against ChessBase
That wouldn't be necessarily bad, though.
sildur··on Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021
Well, I installed it in a Samsung S10, but here is a guide for your phone:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sunfish/

sildur··on Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021
Try it, it works. Parent probably tried a very old version of LineageOS.
sildur··on Online ID / age verification: the death of online search
That doesn't work if the user manually enables DoH:

> Note: The canary domain only applies to users who have DoH enabled as the default option. It does not apply for users who have made the choice to turn on DoH by themselves.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...

sildur··on PowerTOP – diagnose issues with power consumption and power management on Linux
I have a MBP from 2018 and it's awful with wifi6, it always timeouts after a few minutes and I have to restart the wifi on the Mac. It happens on iOS too. No idea why, I'm still investigating.
sildur··on First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta
At least Google Photos works on android and iOS. Apple Photos only works on iOS/macOS.
sildur··on Check If Email Exists
But... I could also fish for valid addresses by trying to send an email and waiting for a bounce...
sildur··on Alpha-Gal Syndrome
Ah, now I understand. Yes, it's more complex than simply having alpha-gal in your bloodstream.
sildur··on Alpha-Gal Syndrome
But we could force the cells to produce alpha-gal via mRNA, right? And once the alpha-gal is in the bloodstream, the end result is the same as if it would have been injected by the tick, a immune reaction.
sildur··on Alpha-Gal Syndrome
> Side note, here's a free idea for a book: ecoterrorists conduct underground gain-of-function research on Alpha-Gal, making it transmit from person to person rather than from tick to person

I would hack into a covid vaccine factory and modify the mRNA code so it produces the spike protein and the alpha-gal protein.

sildur··on Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
Yes, basically that. I set up mail servers for a company in 2001-2008 and then it was way easier. I tried to do it again five years ago, for my personal server and quickly found the landscape changed a lot. But it is doable.
sildur··on Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
> In my case, inserting a SIM card from ALDI’s carrier used to auto-install some weather, news, and similar stuff. Luckily that stopped recently.

Surely there is a prompt. I never had apps silently auto-install in my phone. If that is true, one more reason to go with the custom rom way.

> The only risk is governments not returning the power they got during this pandemic, but that’s more of a worry in 3rd-world-dictatorships.

In my life I've seen a lot of just-for-emergency-temporary-only laws that become permanent once the outrage subsides. In supposedly first world countries

sildur··on Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
Me installing a custom rom without google play, and with aurora app store is the logical conclusion.
sildur··on Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
> There’s nothing worrying about that. You get tons of apps installed without consent (including whatever spam your network provider pushes on you).

That is different. They are pre-installed and I can list them and disable them. They do not install suddenly by themselves months after buying the device. If they did so, there would be an outrage.

> This app can actually save lives without sacrificing any privacy, pushing it to users is something that has no drawbacks.

Yeah, "for our own good". Next time it would be an app that sends an alarm when an excon is near you. And next time it would be an app that sends an alarm when someone who shows dangerous opinions (ie. against government) is near you. No thanks, please unsubscribe me of this Chinese dystopia.

sildur··on Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
It has 167 reviews, but they seem to be hidden.
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