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fenaer commented on Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon disk-scout.com/... · Posted by u/matansfb

matansfb · 8 days ago

I built a tool that tracks SSD prices across Amazon US. It calculates the real cost per GB and lets you compare new vs used drives.

The tool updates every few hours and lets you filter by capacity, form factor, and condition.

Would love to hear your feedback!

fenaer · 7 days ago

First feedback is that it's limited to Amazon US! It looks like you've planned more regions as there is a selector with a single element, but it would be good to support more countries.

fenaer commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

ExpertAdvisor01 · a month ago

There won't be a reasonable way to bypass it as it requires a Google authenticated manufacturer to leak the keys or an TEE exploit.

All public key boxes are banned and Google regularly bans new ones . That endpoint contains the list of revoked keyboxes : https://android.googleapis.com/attestation/status

fenaer · a month ago

I'm not a security researcher, but I do believe in the ingenuity of others. If all else fails, this kind of law in my own country would lead me to running apps within a virtualised environment (if possible), or a dedicated cheap device in a drawer with my actual device still being mine.

fenaer commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

TZubiri · a month ago

I'm assuming you would do this out of a political reason, or as a very technical and privacy aware user.

But you are providing an alibi for malicious users who, for example, might try to brute force logins from unidentified devices.

That would be one reason aside from the law. You are essentially positioning yourself on the same side as intruders.

fenaer · a month ago

You're claiming that the only legitimate use of rooting is criminal activity, which is not true. Your argument is based on a faulty premise in my eyes.

fenaer commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

alephnerd · a month ago

> Unfortunately the answer here is to not abide by the law

You realize in Viet Nam this means getting a "friendly" visit by the MPS/BCA, and if you continue eventually getting branded as a troublemaker.

fenaer · a month ago

> [...] and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught [...]

Hence my qualifier. I'm not trying to incite anyone into personal danger.

fenaer commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

fenaer · a month ago

Unfortunately the answer here is to not abide by the law. If there is a reasonable way to bypass this (as the cat-and-mouse game always seems to continue), and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught, then I see no moral quandary with ignoring such a consumer-hostile rule.

fenaer commented on Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager github.com/Aperocky/tascl... · Posted by u/Aperocky

fenaer · 2 months ago

Looks great but a configurable date format to support the European standards of dd/MM/yyy would turn it into something I could actualy use

fenaer commented on Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet kyle.cascade.family/posts... · Posted by u/meatmanek

mkesper · 3 months ago

How do you manage node settings k8s does not yet handle with Talos?

fenaer · 3 months ago

Talos has it's own API that you interact with primarily through the talosctl command line. You apply a declarative machineconfig.yaml with which custom settings can be set per-node if you wish.

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fenaer · 6 months ago

Never before have I wished I was a designer more. This ad is the best I've seen in a long while.

fenaer commented on Encryption Is Not a Crime privacyguides.org/article... · Posted by u/freddyym

kubb · 10 months ago

There's an abstract argument template that I've noticed floating around. It goes like this:

  1. There's a thing T in the world, and that thing has negative outcomes X, Y, Z, and positive outcomes A, B, C.
  2. Some people believe that Y and Z are so bad, that they want to partly compromise C to diminish them.
  3. However that will never work! And they'll definitely also take B if we let them mess with C.
  4. Besides, C is so important, that we should accept Y and Z to have it.

I've heard it many times before. Reading this post feels like watching a rerun of Friends.

fenaer · 10 months ago

Are you saying that this template is what the article is presenting?

If so I don't believe it applies, in particular because you have stated that only a partial compromise on C is needed to prevent Y and Z.

There is no "partial compromise" on encryption, so this argument is flawed. There is no way to have encryption that "only the good guys" can break. It is either secure, or it is not.

fenaer commented on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive deathbyai.gg... · Posted by u/overactor

fenaer · 2 years ago

The AI can be tricked into filling in the blanks so you win, by being super generic and confirming to the expected output (i.e. including a twist).

This prompt has won every time I've used it:

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."