GekkePrutser (u/GekkePrutser)

GekkePrutser commented on John Carmack Leaves Meta facebook.com/100006735798... · Posted by u/viburnum

ghaff · 3 years ago

My problem with the movie was that it played it straight with a novel that IMO could only be enjoyed as a deliberately over the top "if this goes on" satire. The film really needed some Doctor Strangelove level black humor.

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

I don't know, it's a form of extrapolation IMO. The 1984 of our time. That was also not realistic back in the day but reality overtook it.

However it feels like the time of social media is already coming to an end. With the companies filling our timelines with ever more crap in a futile attempt to 'engage' us, they are only driving us ever more away.

GekkePrutser commented on Apk.sh is a Bash script that makes reverse engineering Android apps easier github.com/ax/apk.sh... · Posted by u/petodo

Abishek_Muthian · 3 years ago

For absolute Privacy (If that's even possible without going off-grid), Then yes.

But if you need to use apps which you trust but it depends upon proprietary Google bits then microG is the best alternative now.

microG > Open Gapps > Gapps

e.g. Signal needs GCM to send notifications, If it doesn't find one it will revert to pull notifications. Pull notifications are unreliable and are subject to being killed by battery management due to power consumption. Not to mention missing notifications during emergencies could be dangerous.

microG is totally configurable, You don't need a Google account to use it. So even if Google knows about your device, It would require parallel construction to identify you personally. I think that's even better than using any Google app on iOS.

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

One thing that not many people know: you don't need to have a Google account to use GCM/FCM even with official Gapps. You can simply not sign in to Google play and push will still work.

It's still running tons of spyware yes but it's an alternative on phones where MicroG is not an option. Eg Samsung phones with Knox enabled.

GekkePrutser commented on Get root on macOS 13.0.1 the macOS Dirty Cow bug worthdoingbadly.com/macdi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

dagmx · 3 years ago

SIP really helps protect people from themselves, and it’s easily disabled for those who need it (but it’s definitely a red flag).

A couple years ago many edit houses in LA suddenly had boot issues because a Chrome update was over writing system files when the updater was run with elevated privileges.

The issue was that these studios used Avid which required disabling sip at the time.

Other houses that didn’t disable sip were unaffected because it protects against exactly this kind of scenario.

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

I don't want to be protected from myself. As the admin I should have full access to the stuff I buy.

Disabling it is ok but the problem with that is that you lose all security. There should be a way to add our own signing keys to persist changes to the SSV (Signed System Volume) and SIP protected folders. It shouldn't be trust only Apple or nothing.

GekkePrutser commented on Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit macrumors.com/2022/12/14/... · Posted by u/alwillis

noisem4ker · 3 years ago

"Pull to refresh" has been in Firefox for Android for years. See Settings > Customise > Gestures.

About not having the full extension catalog available out of the box: it's pitiful, but if you're determined to install non pre-allowed extensions, you can do so using Nightly and with a custom add-on collection. See https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio....

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

Huh, I don't have Pull to Refresh under Settings > Customise > Gestures. I wish I did.

I only have "Scroll to hide toolbar" and "Swipe toolbar sideways to switch tabs"

This is in Firefox 108.1.0 which is the latest.

I know you can mess with Nightly to allow other addons but I don't really like using nightly to be honest. This feature should really be in the mainline too.

GekkePrutser commented on BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration element.io/blog/bundesmes... · Posted by u/nickexyz

GTP · 3 years ago

In The Netherlands, they are implementing a thing which gives the same advantages (i.e. disclose some attributes about yourself without disclosing unneeded data), but uses different technologies. It's called IRMA, you can find an overview here [1]. It can be combined with other applications to do cool stuff, e.g. with PostGuard [2] you can use identity-based encryption to be able to send an encrypted email to someone, but without the need to know their public key in advance, nor having to authenticate it. The drawback is that you have to trust a central server and a third party identity provider.

[1] https://irma.app/ [2] https://postguard.eu/

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

I'm from the Netherlands but I don't like IRMA. I respect what they're trying to do but they're lowering the barrier.

Right now most platforms don't do ID validation because users hate sharing their details. By making it more privacy-safe more platforms will do it because the barrier is lower. I really hate that, I think the internet should remain anonymous. So I can pick whatever nick and even have multiple.

GekkePrutser commented on Nuclear power is too slow jackdevanney.substack.com... · Posted by u/jseliger

S201 · 3 years ago

Is that not only an issue when a plant is permanently decommissioned? That seems like a fairly easy problem to solve as well: Bury it like you would any other nuclear waste that can't be reprocessed; or melt the steel down and use it in a new reactor.

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

elting it down doesn't make it less radioactive. It's still a significant health hazard to work with, making new construction with the remolded materials prohibitively expensive.

GekkePrutser commented on Nuclear power is too slow jackdevanney.substack.com... · Posted by u/jseliger

vlovich123 · 3 years ago

> of course sometimes things like Chernobyl happen

Chernobyl is an older design than plants we builds today. if I recall correctly Chinese plants include a lot of passive safety features especially in the wake of Fukushima (gen III / gen III+). Fukushima by the way, despite repeatedly ignoring warnings of the risks of not being prepared for realistic tsunamis and earthquakes it might experience, survived relatively well all things considered. If I recall correctly they used a mildly updated design than Chernobyl.

It’ll be interesting to start seeing gen IV reactors coming online since they have an identical safety profile to fusion. If anything goes wrong the reaction stops rather than the runaway reactions common to traditional reactor designs that are basically fission bombs hooked up to a steam engine.

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

> Fukushima by the way, despite repeatedly ignoring warnings of the risks of not being prepared for realistic tsunamis and earthquakes it might experience, survived relatively well all things considered.

Yes most nuclear incidents involved risks being ignored. But I don't see how this is an argument for nuclear. This will keep happening as long as we have this stuff built and operated by the lowest bidder bound to make as much profit as they can.

GekkePrutser commented on John Carmack Leaves Meta facebook.com/100006735798... · Posted by u/viburnum

harrisonjackson · 3 years ago

I interpreted this as coerced positivity and forced happiness. Not organic actual emotion from feeling fulfilled and successful within their role.

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

Yeah the book "The Circle" (now of course a major motion picture :) really captured that culture well, I thought. A lot of these companies are really like that.

GekkePrutser commented on Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/tapper

acidburnNSA · 3 years ago

Fossil and biofuel are the ones that kill 8M per year. Not just coal.

That nice smell of wood burning in the air is pretty deadly, sadly enough.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_2

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

Death tolls aren't the only impact of a nuclear disaster. Denial of land use for tens to hundreds of years, cleanup costs, mutations, denial of water supplies if it reaches ground water (the prevention of which was one of the things that did work out well at Chernobyl). All with cleanup costs a magnitude higher than those of industrial spills.

We're all going to die eventually of something and of those 8M many would have died soon after of other causes. Look at how many people still smoke packets full of hazardous fume sticks on a daily basis. That's how much we care about that risk.

GekkePrutser commented on Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/tapper

acidburnNSA · 3 years ago

Nuclear is unique due to its physics advantage in being able to run 24/7 on a tiny land and material footprint. A good nuclear fleet doesn't need backup or storage. Nuclear plants can follow load to the tune of 2-5% full power per minute, rain or shine, without depending on regional weather or seasonal rainfall.

Furthermore we know the overall risk profile after operating them for 70 years. The numbers are in and they're excellent.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

It's wild to want to not use this.

GekkePrutser · 3 years ago

> The numbers are in and they're excellent.

Those numbers could have changed a lot this year if Russian shelling at Zaporizhzhia had worked out a bit differently.

And this was a military adversary that wasn't explicitly trying to cause nuclear damage here. The next one might go all out or try something as a false flag.

Those 70 years have been in relative peaceful times. And they don't include the 200 years of cleanup we've externalised to the future. We just learned a very painful lesson what externalisation to the future can lead to with global warming.