Otherwise they wouldn’t have pirated thousands of porn movies

https://zipline.diced.sh/

I wonder if someone will be able to actually remember that during duress

My home alarm has a duress password but I’m never able to remember it

Fun fact: tencent removed any kind of cloud backup from WeChat, even if that data would be so valuable for ai training. Or they could monetize it by having users pay for storage. Probably they got fed by too many government access requests. Btw I’m sure that the ccp is simply siphoning all the unencrypted chats (the app of course doesn’t offer any kind of e2ee) at the server or network level and doing automatic “backups” in real time for every citizen

Why windows 11 silently and automatically sends back to Microsoft servers the decryption key for bitlocker?

Why WhatsApp is asking every fucking month to enable unencrypted “backups” on Google drive?

Users have the convenience of Easy data recovery but also someone else.

I bought a drive like that from Amazon Germany for that price, found it using diskprices.com. It was “brand new” and indeed the smart reported 0 hours, but it died within a few hours when I sent a dd wipe operation to stress test it.

Conclusion: it was a scam, the drive was already dead and had thousands of hours of life in a server. They used some low level diag tool to reset the counters and make it look like new instead of having 50k hours of life

Fun fact: they shipped it in a paper mailer, completely inappropriate for an HDD. Probably in this way they can blame Amazon warehouse “it’s them, they packed it like that!” if someone reports is as DOA. If instead it still works after 50k hours of 24/7 abuse and shipping it across Europe in a paper mailer, then it’s indestructible and will outlast the user.

As an user that paid for windows home server, why windows home server 2(011) was a complete failure

1. Updating to whs2 required a full wipe - unacceptable by everyone
2. Updating to whs2 required to pay full price and not upgrade price - lol
3. The system drive wasn’t covered by redundancy and you would lose all the settings if the drive died
4. The data drives also couldn’t get any kind of redundancy as they REMOVED the feature from the server and moved it to clients! What the fuck? It was the main selling point! Easy raid for everyone. What’s the purpose of the “home server” if it couldn’t pool drives, while the clients with Windows 8 home instead could set a massive, redundant, pool of 10 drives???
5. They removed the useful feature that backed up automatically all the windows computers in the network
6. They removed the basic features like the media gallery and such, to see that you would need windows media center… but 6 years after they killed windows media center

They had the right product at the right time. No other free or paid alternative was that user friendly in allowing laymen in mixing and matching multiple disks and having redundancy

Doing that with pure Linux command line at the time it was inconceivable for 99% of users (at most a raid1 with mdadm over two drives could be easily attained) and windows home server initially was an alternative but Microsoft was completely misguided and “improvements” in Windows home server 2 completely killed it

Then they added docker support and it was even easier to self host everything.

But if they tried to launch today, with how mature are free alternatives, they would never reach critical mass adoption to be sustainable.

For example, I don’t think that the paid fork of truenas that LTT has economically backed is going to be successful

It’s the same Asus that doesn’t allow bootloader unlock anymore for “stability concerns”?

So, basically that article has been written with the purpose to show their users the BlueStacks sponsorship, while bashing on slow and clunky emulators like BlueStacks 😂

And can only use that 15% off in their boutique store where stuff is more expensive than other outlets

9.5 years is ancient for smartphones, not for something that is supposed to work indefinitely like a switch

Also, that time is the best case scenario. When they stopped selling those switches? 3 years ago? Unless they discontinued them almost immediately after launch, there are customers with a much shorter timeframe

I read the title as "Logitech will bring new smart home buttons on October 15” and I thought “hmm new proprietary iot shit, I wonder when they’re going to brick them”

lumbar support? I mean the back strap that keeps the sandal firm on the feet

someone that cares about the safety of the car occupants and especially pedestrians. Many accidents are caused by improper footwear interfering with the pedals.

One thing is a tourist driving 10 minutes with slippers to go to the beach, another is a gig worker doing a 10 hours shift

Genius plan to distract the customer from the fact that someone that drives around people for the whole day for work is using slippers instead of proper shoes or at least a sandal with back support

Ahow many updates receives an app, is now considered a “good” metric somehow now. So now if dependabot pushes a PR, it’s a new release on the app stores (of course without testing)

The algorithms on the app stores now consider the app “active” and push the app “up” in ranking

There was a certain billionaire bragging about his app getting 3 vibe-coded updates a day while the competition “only” got 3 a week

So, they can’t write a real change log. What can they write? “Dependabot updated leftpad from 1.1.3.2 to 1.1.3.3” “untested: updated Gradle from 8.14.2 to 8.14.3” “200mb update to change a comma in the Hungarian translation”

If I connect to the same server via my own VPN I don’t have the disconnections, so I’m thinking it’s tailscale cutting connections after too much traffic. But connecting via tailscale is so much more convenient 😢

I tried to use it via tailscale but it disconnects very easily - is to be expected?

Pay a fee of 0.30€ to receive the otp via SMS every time they want to login without the proprietary otp app and 0.30€ for each payment to authorize