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riedel commented on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

yaro330 · 6 days ago

Elaborate please. PI on its own is just an insurance API for banking and similar apps to ensure that they can do secure compute on the device. It can also be used to check if the device that the app is running on is a genuine Android device, since no VMs or custom ROMs can pass hardware integrity.

riedel · 6 days ago

What sense is does it make to certify an insecure device that may be subject to all kinds of remote exploits and elevated code execution as 'unmodified'. The argument of the banks is: the device is insecure (even with the latest patches). We all know the whole compliance is a bit more complex, so it might make sense on that level...

riedel commented on EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results bbc.com/news/articles/crl... · Posted by u/hackerbeat

pjmlp · 6 days ago

There are plenty of European businesses, our salaries don't grow on trees.

riedel · 6 days ago

And those pay our taxes. I think of there was a decent digital tax, the EC would also have a better motivation to just move on...

riedel commented on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

ycombinatrix · 6 days ago

Play Integrity is just spyware - it does not provide any degree of security.

riedel · 6 days ago

Sorry for my irony. While I do not think it is spyware on itself, it sure is a way to force vendors to bundle spyware.

riedel commented on Springer retracts nearly 40 publications on 'bonkers' dataset thetransmitter.org/retrac... · Posted by u/riedel

Jtsummers · 6 days ago

As jjgreen pointed out, the submitter made a bizarrely editorialized version of the title that multiplied the title's number, 40, by a million to get their "40M" version of the title.

riedel · 6 days ago

Also bizarre to myself. i shortened Neural Network to 'ML' because NN did bot look right. '40 ML' somehow got '40M'. Could it be server side. Sorry, I did only check now.

riedel commented on Springer retracts nearly 40 publications on 'bonkers' dataset thetransmitter.org/retrac... · Posted by u/riedel

jjgreen · 6 days ago

That's "40" rather than "40M"

riedel · 6 days ago

Yes, sorry this seems like it was some unintentional autocorrect

riedel commented on Springer retracts nearly 40 publications on 'bonkers' dataset thetransmitter.org/retrac... · Posted by u/riedel

riedel · 6 days ago

Seems like I cannot edit the title. I think I posted '40 ML' and it went to 40M for some reason.

riedel commented on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

ptx · 6 days ago

Never mind the December security patches, Samsung haven't even released the November patches yet, the ones for the critical severity RCE. Unless you have a "major flagship model" [1], because apparently only the richest users deserve to be secure.

[1] https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

riedel · 6 days ago

Why would you want security, if you get 'play integrity' for phones that received no updates since 2 years. Google's current security practices are more than dubious IMHO. Now they are not releasing any source for security patches for 3 month, to 'protect' vendors that are too slow updating. As if there is no chance for bad actors to reverse engineer those patch sets.

riedel commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture

DrammBA · 9 days ago

Storage template is not deprecated https://docs.immich.app/administration/storage-template/

Also according to https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge the notify issue was fixed July 2024.

riedel · 7 days ago

Great news! I triggered the discussion with WAL at the time but lost interest. Great to see that deva understood the problem! Kudos. Will give it another try asap!!

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

PaulRobinson · 8 days ago

Feels like a project covering some of the same ground as task warrior [0], which I've used on and off over the years. The main thing I've appreciated is integration with various tools - I had access in both vimwiki and the macOS task bar for a while which was nice - but all these tools miss the key thing that stops me using them all the time: integration with tools on my phone. It's great having cli access to tasks and in other places, but without ubiquity, given the way I work, it might well just be another place that ideas of tasks I need to do go to die.

[0] https://taskwarrior.org

riedel · 8 days ago

I tried to use task warrior, however, a) I need a way to creat task quickly when I think about them (I guess I am being a bit on the attention deficit spectrum) b) I need a way to integrate a bit with time boxing on my work calendar . The problem is that the task warrior android or mobile eb apps app on mobile are really a bit of a UX nightmare compared to the cli interface. And while the plugin landscape of task warrior is broad, support for typical work settings is not really great out of the box. In the end all 'solutions' only seem to be a road towards meta-procrastination, instead of getting things done...