Veritasium had a good video recently about SS7, and how users can be tracked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y

Yes, that’s why I wrote “relatives”.

But if he was a monozygotic twin, he could have genetic descendants from his brother.

Repost, you were late by 7 minutes :) https://sh.itjust.works/post/29583096

They sold licensed the brand to TCL in 2016, so there were some Chinese android phones with BB branding, the last one was Evolve X in 2018, 6 years ago. iirc they were very overpriced

I won’t watch that neckbeard’s video, only watched the first few minutes. Sorry it’s very annoying.

In the problematic article everything is in conditional tense: would/could/theoretically. Yes, it’s a clickbait shitty “article”, but if you read carefully, nothing is presented as a fact, pure speculation, even the title is “would kill kernel-level anti-cheat” not “will kill”. There was nothing to fact check in that article because it never contained any facts.

And that’s the news section not the in-house reviews. It’s terrible that current tech journalism is this clickbaity, but your comment on an unrelated, and very in depth review is just spreading FUD. If you would comment this on a Notebookcheck news it would be valid criticism.

BlackBerry

Why? They have very in-depth reviews. Were there some controversy recently?

A bit clickbait title:

The boy’s skin was darker than most modern Europeans’ but not as dark as a tropically acclimated person’s, Modi says, and his pale blue eyes match those of other ancient western European hunter-gatherers. The infant also appears to be an ancestor of the Villabruna cluster—a group of post-Ice Age people who lived up to 14,000 years ago—suggesting the Villabruna line began in southern Europe well before the end of the Ice Age, per the study.

I would be interested if some relatives are still living nearby. Remember I read an article about some bog mummy from England, and they found direct descendants living in a nearby village.

qbittorrent

Other benefit of zigbee that devices can’t connect directly to the internet, so you don’t have to trust them, you don’t have to create vlans, they can’t be turned into a botnet. Also in zigbee every device can be a router, so they can more easily cover bigger houses.

I wouldn’t replace a wifi based system with zigbee, but recommend it to anyone starting now. This post wanted to be an advice to newcomers…

Ikea bulbs use zigbee, their prices are very good and they are more reliable than chinese stuff.

It’s up to you how you automate your smart home. My useful light related automations:

• When I arrive home and the light sensor see it’s dark it switches on the living room light
• if I pause a movie in jellyfin it turns on a light, if I hit play it switches it off
• The off timer of a movement activated light depends on if my projector is turned on, it switches off more quickly when the projector is on
• If I’m not home it switches off everything automatically, so I can’t forget any lights on

I have an old wifi yeelight, measured it now because I was interested. 1.4W off, 8.4W full power

For comparison, Ikea zigbee bulb 9.3W max power, less than 0.1 W while off, but switches on instantly. My watt meter can’t measure less than 0.1W so it shows 0.0W.

Zigbee was designed for this kind of usage. I have several zigbee sensors running on 3.3V coin cell batteries, they can report data for years without battery replacement.

These are terrible advices.

All smart lightbulbs have a small router in them, so they all use some electricity while switched off. You can gain some net plus only if you live with people who constantly forget to switch off lights. But you need some presence detector as well. Smart lighting is about convenience not energy usage.

Wifi is the worst wireless standard from energy usage standpoint. Zigbee’s power usage is much less and devices are cheap. Thread and Z-wave power usage also lower than wifi, but devices are a bit more expensive.

Amazon and Google are a privacy nightmare. Home Assistant and Domoticz are two wellknown local first smart home systems.

What was the problem with !lotrmemes@midwest.social?

Quick note, that’s the English term, where Billlion is 10⁹. A lot other countries use the so called “Long Scale” where 10⁹ is called Milliard, and Billion is 10¹².

Comparison of the 2 scales from Wikipedia:

Tldr:

• Captions in videos. They write here it runs on device and available only if your phone has a tensor chip: https://blog.google/technology/ai/on-device-processing/
• image transcription with gemini 1.5, I don’t find more info on it but it sounds like it doesn’t run on device, similar to what already available in browsers.
• stickers in gboard. Wow.
• quickshare images with qr code and bluetooth. I remember we sent images via bluetooth in 2004. I don’t see why is it an interesting feature in 2024
• some scanning app for googe drive, there are countless alternatives…
• gemini extension with spotifiy, so now gemini can recommend you music from spotify. Like if there was a problem here to solve.

So AI things and rewrapped features. I love that on device things starting to work, but at one point goog will see it’s not good for them. If it runs on device, you don’t have to feed them data

There is a community for these: !lemmyapps@lemmy.world

It’s in a lot of program, not just ff. You can also see some letters are underlined in that menu, if you press that letter after alt, it would invoke that command or open that drop down without using the mouse. This is a convention at least from DOS, but I suspect it may be even older.

So actually alt doesn’t unhide the menu, it waits for a letter input to what command you want to start. It just happened that this old type of menu is hidden by default in a lot of programs and alt could be reused for this as well.

They have their own versions with local spyware:

Announcing Windows 10 China Government Edition

You can’t do it on clearnet without some reputation either. I meant that you can register anonymously, than work yourself up to get some reputation and rights, than you can edit your favorite political post. I think the 2 things are orthogonal.