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kurtoid commented on Framework Laptop 16   frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd
DiabloD3 · 10 hours ago
Kinda wish you guys didn't have an Nvidia product at all. It's only really useful for Windows users, but openly hostile and offensive to Linux desktop users.
kurtoid · 10 hours ago
Choice is good, IMO. I've had good experience w/ Nvidia cards with the new open drivers on wayland
kurtoid commented on Framework Laptop 16   frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd
kurtoid · 10 hours ago
I just bought a Framework 16 7840HS last week and now it's 7% off. Guess I should have waited a little longer. Glad to see they're committing to upgrades for it, though, so I guess it was still a good investment
kurtoid commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
kurtoid · a day ago
How does this affect installing an APK to an offline device?

Will there be a local override?

kurtoid commented on Anubis_offload: Userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code   github.com/DavidBuchanan3... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
kurtoid · 2 days ago
I use the extension linked in the README. I had to patch it to handle a few sites, but it's seamless otherwise
kurtoid commented on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network   techno-fandom.org/~hobbit... · Posted by u/pilingual
surajrmal · 16 days ago
I think that's more likely to get companies to remove mics than to make them secure.
kurtoid · 16 days ago
good?
kurtoid commented on Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)   bitestring.com/posts/2023... · Posted by u/xrayarx
kurtoid · a month ago
Their opt-in doesn't work - go to a few of their customer sites (listed in their blog/success stories) and they make a lot of calls to revenueroll IPs without asking. Some of those call contain PII responses too. Trying to contact them, but they've been brushing me off
kurtoid · a month ago
If you find the right API endpoint, you can spoof the `Forwarded` header to get different results. Big PII leak IMO but they seem to think it's intended behavior?
kurtoid commented on Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)   bitestring.com/posts/2023... · Posted by u/xrayarx
gausswho · a month ago
I notice they have an Opt-Out form here: https://app.termly.io/dsar/ee5088c4-5eb2-475c-a9ea-9376f1b70...

It's pretty hilarious legalese and tells you nothing about what it even achieves. Maybe makes you a Very Important Marketing Target.

One thing that struck me was the 'Under penalty of perjury, I declare all the above information to be true and accurate'. Shame they seem to require validating request by email. It'd be fun to take a PII breach and throw all the emails you find at 'em.

kurtoid · a month ago
tried the form for shits and giggles - 6 days ago and no response yet
kurtoid commented on Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)   bitestring.com/posts/2023... · Posted by u/xrayarx
kyle-rb · a month ago
There's a company, currently called Tie (meettie.com), formerly known as Revenue Roll, who promises to "de-anonymize your highest value web traffic", which in practice means that they give you an email address for retargeting, for a user who visited your site without ever explicitly providing any identifying info.

The old site had a blog post [0] where they explicitly said they were using fingerprinting, and even called it "privacy-compliant".

I'm sure they're not unique in the service they provide, but that was the first time I'd seen someone brag about browser fingerprinting.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20240527125312/https://www.reven...

kurtoid · a month ago
Their opt-in doesn't work - go to a few of their customer sites (listed in their blog/success stories) and they make a lot of calls to revenueroll IPs without asking. Some of those call contain PII responses too. Trying to contact them, but they've been brushing me off
kurtoid commented on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience   myvolvoex90.com/... · Posted by u/prova_modena
jorlow · a month ago
I had a horrible experience with my XC90 plug in hybrid. It took months of back and forth with the dealership and thousands of dollars to find out that it's dangerous behavior (refusing to stop without flooring the break with all my might) was due to a wire harness a critter had chewed on. Very similar response from Volvo in my case. No accountability and very low competence. Avoid Volvo.
kurtoid · a month ago
I'm shocked that that didn't trigger any kind of warning or alert
kurtoid commented on Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org   blog.openstreetmap.org/20... · Posted by u/ikawe
eulgro · a month ago
I had no idea what vector tiles were and the page doesn't explain it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_tiles

kurtoid · a month ago
Here's how I understand it: Previously, OpenStreetMap's tile endpoints would serve pre-rasterized PNG images, so zooming in on a tile could cause it to get blurry, until your client requests a new, zoomed in tile. Now, they can serve tiles in SVG format, which scale better

u/kurtoid

KarmaCake day153February 15, 2022View Original