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Spunkie commented on Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/... · Posted by u/JadedBlueEyes

palata · 13 days ago

To be fair, the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful.

Spunkie · 13 days ago

Yeah normally the CF blog ranks as one of the best in the world in my book, so a post of lower quality and potentially AI slop really stands out here.

That said I think the concept of a full matrix server running all on CF infrastructure/services is an awesome blog post from CF.

Honestly I wish CF would simply unpublish/retract this blog post, put another engineer on it to help the PM, and spend another couple of weeks polishing the post/code to republish the same blog post.

Spunkie commented on Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix) xmrcat.org/steam-invisibi... · Posted by u/xmrcat

bigyabai · 20 days ago

> Their logic: You have to be friends with the user to receive this packet. Therefore, a "trust relationship" exists.

That logic is acceptable. You could also DM an offline friend a tracking pixel to reconstruct their activity, a lot of this endpoint security is entirely up to the user.

Spunkie · 20 days ago

    > You could also DM an offline friend a tracking pixel to reconstruct their activity, a lot of this endpoint security is entirely up to the user.

Only for as long as they have the steam chat window open and your tracking pixel/message is a recent enough message to be actually loaded. I don't use steam chat enough to remember if they do any of these, but your plan also ignores any possible automatic security/scanning/proxy shenanigans on steams part that will muddy your pixels tracking data or just break it.

    > That logic is acceptable.

I completely disagree. I use invisible status all the time on steam. I very much have an expectation that when set to invisible my friends would not be able to track my online status.

Spunkie commented on Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% electrek.co/2025/12/29/te... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

danity · a month ago

Take anything on electrek.co with a grain of salt, it is a wildly anti-Tesla, pro-China website.

Spunkie · a month ago

I don't have any comments on their supposed slant, but I do know electrek.co articles often contain mistakes or inaccuracies.

When I comment on the articles or email their authors/editors about the inaccuracies they never respond, nor fix the article.

So yeah... Take anything on electrek.co with a grain of salt.

Spunkie commented on GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust mullvad.net/en/blog/annou... · Posted by u/km

intsunny · 2 months ago

Its funny, this is another of the billions of reasons why Mullvad should be the VPN of choice. But so many fucking people can't ever get over that their favorite social media influencer/Youtuber is offering a code for 200% off of NordShark VPN, now with extra AI.

Spunkie · 2 months ago

I love and use mullvad myself but I don't think they are very competitive for the average person. They mostly just care about getting around geo blocks on websites and streaming services, which mullvad puts 0 effort into facilitating.

Spunkie commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

devilbunny · 2 months ago

If you want the cassette experience without the massive downsides of cassettes, pick up an old Minidisc recorder. Physical media that are nearly infinitely re-recordable (unused ones are expensive but used ones from Japan are not) and nearly indestructible. The NetMD ones have been bid up in price because of transfer speed but older ones that only do real-time transfers are not hideously expensive.

Spunkie · 2 months ago

If there is one old format that actually should have a revival, it's minidisk. I was really holding out for their production keep on until that revival came but they gave up the ghost this year.

Tiny digital CDs packaged in little neon jewel floppy disks is the neotokyo future we all deserve.

Spunkie commented on Wine 11.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wi... · Posted by u/neustradamus

haunter · 2 months ago

>#58037 Photoshop CS 2 installation never completes

Hah so I'm not the only who is still using CS2

I downloaded everything CS2 when Adobe "accidentally" made them available (the activation servers were shutdown). The Mac versions don't work anymore (PowerPC) but the Windows versions are more than good still today.

Spunkie · 2 months ago

Did you get the UI scaling in PS CS2 working?

I wasn't able to so it's unusable for me on 4k or 1440p.

Spunkie commented on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dut... · Posted by u/robtherobber

aquariusDue · 2 months ago

PDF signing is the bane of my existence, luckily I can get by with a cloud solution but it's nowhere near how easy I wish it would be. Sadly I'm still forced to use a Windows VM or dual-boot because the tax authority in my country requires a root/digital certificate for login to their web system, at least for incorporated entities.

Spunkie · 2 months ago

I can find a dozen solutions to sign a PDF on linux without much trouble. Now redacting seems a whole nother story.

I've failed to find even a single option on linux that does real PDF redaction like adobe acrobat. Most don't do redaction at all or worse they say they redact but it's actually just black highlighter on black text or some other kind of overlay that leaves the underlying text data intact.

Spunkie commented on Molly: An Improved Signal App molly.im/... · Posted by u/dtj1123

akerl_ · 2 months ago

For a security app, it's pretty rational to need to be updated. One of the most common patterns in basically every technological attack is to take a freshly discovered vulnerability and target devices that haven't been updated yet.

Spunkie · 2 months ago

It sounds good in theory but signal updates are beyond excessive, sometimes multiple times a day but almost certainly every few days.

Most of the time there is zero explanation for the update. They are just training their users to auto accept updates with no thought about why, which in itself is a security risk.

If signal really is pushing these updates for "security" then it must be one of the most insecure apps ever built. I legitimately can't think of another app or program that updates more frequently... Maybe youtube-dl?

Spunkie commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

hobofan · 2 months ago

> So you are ok with 2FA, right?

Yes. Are you not? It's one of the most effective measures to prevent a whole class of supply chain attacks. On Github the 2FA is also flexible enough to allow non-hardware passkeys, so you can choose a privacy preserving option with good UX.

Spunkie · 2 months ago

Last I looked a couple of years ago, GitHub 2fa has a lot of shoddy gotchas actually. There are a handful of GH issues on it with tons of comments.

For example it was impossible to remove/delete a phone number 2fa, even if you registered multiple other 2fa sources like security keys.

Spunkie commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

oaiey · 2 months ago

Not everyone is that robust. People get hurt over things like that. Not everyone is a wizard who does not give a fuck and does not need to care.

These are people for God's sake. Empathy!

Spunkie · 2 months ago

    > These are people for God's sake. Empathy!

One man's empathy is another man's hatred.

From my perspective your take and actions in this thread is itself completely devoid of empathy.

The reason for colorful language breaking through professionalism is because there is real human emotion behind those words. Real pain and suffering, lost time in the life that will never be regained, an ever widening bald spot from the stress. That type of thing yearns to be expressed in a way that generic corpo speak is by design unable to communicate.

Your response to these emotions is to simply stick your head in the sand(aka refuse to read the blog post)? Worse yet, even without that context, you are here trying to convince those around you to also stick their heads in the sand?

To dream up scenarios where theoretical someones in a giant faceless corp might maybe possibly be offended? Instead of trying to listen and understand the person already in front of you who has actually been offended?

Again everything is a matter of perspective, but from mine your comments severely lack the empathy you supposedly call for.