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Comment on Android Quick Share can now work with iOS’s AirDrop in ~tech
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Comment on The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping | Official teaser in ~movies
lynxy LinkHaving rewatched the trilogy relatively recently for the first-time since release, they hold up reasonably well! They hit the story beats from the books well, they're well cast, and the production...Having rewatched the trilogy relatively recently for the first-time since release, they hold up reasonably well! They hit the story beats from the books well, they're well cast, and the production holds up.
Unfortunately, what was one of my main criticisms of the stories overall is only magnified in 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' in that they're start well, they carry the story fine, and then they just sort of.. fall apart into chaos. When I was a lot younger and I read the books, trying to recall the ending felt like a jumbled dream in my mind.
Potential spoilers for TBOSBAS
I loved the introduction of Snow's character, and the actor did a good job of seeming sympathetic, of displaying a growing unease with the concept of the games as he befriended the tribute he was to mentor; but it felt like it would be difficult to instigate the complete about-face that Snow must do in order to become the ruthless character in the original trilogy, and I guess the writers agreed because they didn't even bother? I remember something about Snow messing up a communication and then.. he loses his fuckboi haircut and ends up chasing his tribute through a foggy forest for what felt like an hour? I don't know, I sort of lost interest.
I hope the new film does not continue this pattern but I will probably watch it regardless. They have a lot of redeeming factors, and I'm certain that Ralph Fiennes will be one of them.
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Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp
lynxy Link ParentI have been wondering about the utility of this mechanic in a smart home for more comprehensive presence sensing (we've been having issues with the Aqara FP2..).I have been wondering about the utility of this mechanic in a smart home for more comprehensive presence sensing (we've been having issues with the Aqara FP2..).
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Comment on V for Vendetta - 20th anniversary | Announcement trailer in ~movies
lynxy LinkAdapted by the Wachowskis (of Matrix fame) from Alan Moore's 1982/1983 graphic novel, V for Vendetta warns of a near-future totalitarian regime- a police state in the year 2020, reeling from a...Adapted by the Wachowskis (of Matrix fame) from Alan Moore's 1982/1983 graphic novel, V for Vendetta warns of a near-future totalitarian regime- a police state in the year 2020, reeling from a world-wide virus (prescient?) which has left most of America dead, and which relies on surveillance and violence to crush protest and dissent.
On the 20-year anniversary of the film's release, on the 5th of November (remember, remember), it has been announced that on the same date in 2026 the film will re-enter theatres. Perhaps, given the current UK government's approach to political protest and the growing paradigm of distrust, combined with an exponential growth in surveillance and a rightward swing in the politics of the UK, the EU, the Americas, and further afield, it is even more relevant today than it was on release?
Either way, it's a rather enjoyable film with a great cast including Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, Roger Allam, Stephen Fry, and John Hurt (rest in peace). If I can, I'd love to catch it in the cinemas and watch it on the big screen.
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V for Vendetta - 20th anniversary | Announcement trailer
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
lynxy Link ParentIf the only operation the server will perform is file storage, I'm sure a Pi will work just fine- you can grab an 8/16 GB Pi 5 and a small-but-fast SD card and it will run most storage solutions...If the only operation the server will perform is file storage, I'm sure a Pi will work just fine- you can grab an 8/16 GB Pi 5 and a small-but-fast SD card and it will run most storage solutions reasonably well.
I do heavily recommend storing the files on an external HDD, though, as you mentioned. SD cards don't have a great reputation for robustness, and I myself have lost data after an SD card was bumped and a hairline crack rendered it inoperable.
If, however, you want to host media on Plex or Jellyfin, I'm not certain the Pi will suffice. Maybe if you never transcode the media on the fly, as the GPU is underpowered for this use-case.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
lynxy LinkI'm slowly moving some of my projects from plain-old "bare" git repositories on my server machine, cloned over SSH, to a personal Forgejo instance I spent a couple of hours spinning up and...I'm slowly moving some of my projects from plain-old "bare" git repositories on my server machine, cloned over SSH, to a personal Forgejo instance I spent a couple of hours spinning up and configuring. Most of the projects will stay private / hidden, but there are one or two which I might host publicly, and for these I've been looking into and debating different permissive licenses- and diving into the complexities of the git rebase functionality.
I've somewhat got a handle on how to interactively rebase an entire project from the root commit, rewording and squashing commits, as well as flattening certain files so that the state looks consistent through the project history*. Another clean-up step which took me some time to figure out was the claiming of all commits in a project history (re-authoring) without resetting the authored / committed dates.
*This allows me to retroactively license code which has yet to be published- I know retroactive re-licensing is a touchy subject, but for code which is entirely written by me, and not-yet publicly accessible, it feels reasonable, and it will hopefully reduce confusion re:licensing of specific tags / versions, etc.
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Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp
lynxy Link ParentYes! The idea of providing instructions to set the verification cookie to noscript users, who are more likely to be technically-knowledgeable enough to perform said steps, did cross my mind and it...Yes! The idea of providing instructions to set the verification cookie to noscript users, who are more likely to be technically-knowledgeable enough to perform said steps, did cross my mind and it seems a reasonable solution to me.
As for search engine scrapers- I imagine you could just pick scrapers who are well behaved / publish the IP ranges that they scrape from (I'd rather Google not scrape my sites, to be honest), and carve out some exceptions to this scheme. I believe Kagi publish enough data for this.
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Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp
lynxy LinkThis is a tempting solution- I'm sure the same operation in Nginx (my reverse proxy / web-server of choice) is just as simple to implement- but I do worry about the effect this will have on users...This is a tempting solution- I'm sure the same operation in Nginx (my reverse proxy / web-server of choice) is just as simple to implement- but I do worry about the effect this will have on users of noscript-type add-ons (also clearly an issue when using Anubis).
But then, blocking all scripts is a rather extreme approach, and if you do this then maybe you should expect swathes of the web to be inaccessible to you. I entirely understand the dislike of large third-party hosted frameworks, and the concerns about the possibilities of malicious JS, but I am all for minimalist same-site custom JS solutions. Vanilla JS has become quite powerful over the years, and can do some pretty cool things.
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Comment on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading in ~tech
lynxy Link ParentCertain Linux tools, such as Waydroid, work well enough on arm64 Wayland devices that it would be possible to run an environment for apps for which there is no non-Android alternative- apps which...Certain Linux tools, such as Waydroid, work well enough on arm64 Wayland devices that it would be possible to run an environment for apps for which there is no non-Android alternative- apps which require Google infrastructure to work- but it would be better if this were not necessary, and I don't know the path to that ideal.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
lynxy LinkNow that I've caught up with a bunch of university units (cryptography is.. slow going), I'm looking at finding the energy to re-build the solutions I use for fetching content from certain stores....Now that I've caught up with a bunch of university units (cryptography is.. slow going), I'm looking at finding the energy to re-build the solutions I use for fetching content from certain stores. I'd like to wrap access to the given back-ends in APIs which are publicly accessible and authenticated so that I can fetch files wherever I am, without having to worry about making back-end-specific code for interfacing with these stores portable.
Currently I use apkeep to fetch files from the Play Store, but the developer of apkeep is relatively opinionated and doesn't believe that implementing a function which returns the currently available version of an app is a useful endeavour- though to me it seems like it would be useful to prevent fetching large files which I already have locally. The split/legacy APKs are then stripped of signatures, merged (side-note, the split APK paradigm is yet another push by Google to phrase a change which complicates side-loading as a customer-friendly change), re-signed, and hosted on a private fdroid repository. I've looked briefly into the undocumented protocol which devices use to fetch content from the Play Store, and a minimalist bridging API shouldn't be too complex.
Another back-end which I want to bridge is Deezer (which I pay for, but the Android app is a broken mess), as I prefer to have my music locally.
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Comment on Removing obfuscation in Minecraft Java Edition in ~games
lynxy LinkWow- I'm actually shocked and impressed. I understand that there exist a plethora of tools which, by this point, work around the obfuscation reasonably well, but this is just going to smoothen the...Wow- I'm actually shocked and impressed. I understand that there exist a plethora of tools which, by this point, work around the obfuscation reasonably well, but this is just going to smoothen the process a bunch, especially when debugging.
Though I'm honestly shocked it wasn't done sooner, before the Microsoft purchase. Minecraft has always been a foremost example of a game which endures at least partly because of the size of the modding community, aided at least in part by the fact that the codebase is Java.
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Comment on Supermarkets intentionally charging full prices on sale items in ~food
lynxy Link ParentHe is also the father of Sam Reich, of College Humour / Dropout fame!He is also the father of Sam Reich, of College Humour / Dropout fame!
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Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp
lynxy LinkJust checking into this thread one last time to thank everybody for their suggestions, including the Vim users in the audience. I really appreciate all of your perspectives. I've been using Zed...Just checking into this thread one last time to thank everybody for their suggestions, including the Vim users in the audience. I really appreciate all of your perspectives.
I've been using Zed now for about a week and after a couple of days configuring it to my liking- configuration which is now included in my dotfiles- I'm very happy with it! It ticks all of the boxes, and runs so smoothly (except when chugging through Java language server processing, but whenever is that not the case?). Once again, thanks :).
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Comment on Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers in ~tech
lynxy LinkThe only word that comes to mind is schadenfreude, to be quite honest. Injection attacks have been a known concept for a couple of decades or more at this point. I'm not shocked that the...The only word that comes to mind is schadenfreude, to be quite honest. Injection attacks have been a known concept for a couple of decades or more at this point. I'm not shocked that the organisations intent on haphazardly shoving AI into any product they deem semi-marketable have failed to do so in a way that protects the user. The sooner this bubble pops, the better. Maybe then the few sensible use-cases for AI, both in the LLM sense and the more traditional sense, can get on with it without the surrounding bullshit.
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Comment on This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin in ~humanities.history
lynxy Link ParentThere are beaches and other public areas on the south coast where it's taken-as-read that most unexploded ordnance has been removed, but the unfortunate thing is- you never can be completely sure...There are beaches and other public areas on the south coast where it's taken-as-read that most unexploded ordnance has been removed, but the unfortunate thing is- you never can be completely sure an area is clear. A lot of the waters off the coast are still filled with ordnance, and a lot of it is known and marked and monitored, but given the amount that was dropped during the war periods there statistically must be so much more out there. Very rarely does it actually cause an issue, or any injuries, though.
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Comment on This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin in ~humanities.history
lynxy Link ParentThe thing Tom brought to the table was information, presented in an interesting manner, without the video feeling like the equivalent of the video in which a truck hits a bollard but the camera...The thing Tom brought to the table was information, presented in an interesting manner, without the video feeling like the equivalent of the video in which a truck hits a bollard but the camera cuts to a different view just before impact every time.
I find so many other imitators unwatchable- I've already clicked on the video, stop trying to bait me. This guy is reasonably good at presenting the information directly, but there were a few instances where I just hoped he would get on with it.
Otherwise, a very interesting video! He even mentioned a pillbox near where I grew up that I never knew about!
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Comment on Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say in ~tech
lynxy Link ParentI suppose it depends on who you consider as customers- yes, primary customers have a choice of what cloud service they use (until it's revealed that non-AWS cloud services are just AWS cloud...I suppose it depends on who you consider as customers- yes, primary customers have a choice of what cloud service they use (until it's revealed that non-AWS cloud services are just AWS cloud wrapped in a different branding, a la Apple cloud).
The end users, however- the customers of the customers- end up stuck relying on potentially sub-par service as large swathes of the net are knocked out for half a day or so every now and again. Because everybody just uses AWS at this point; because it's seen as the industry standard. Because it's easy to pay somebody else to do the work that used to be done in-house.
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Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp
lynxy Link ParentI've just spun up Zed on my x86_64 machine, and played a little with the customisation options, and wow. This might be exactly what I was looking for! I've also installed it on the arm64 machine...I've just spun up Zed on my x86_64 machine, and played a little with the customisation options, and wow. This might be exactly what I was looking for! I've also installed it on the arm64 machine and it looks to run just fine :)
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Comment on GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back in ~tech
lynxy Link ParentI have used LineageOS for years (though my current device doesn't have a build), and in my opinion it is a reasonably clean ROM with a great amount of flexibility. There are often problems with...I have used LineageOS for years (though my current device doesn't have a build), and in my opinion it is a reasonably clean ROM with a great amount of flexibility. There are often problems with non-official builds for devices for which there is no official maintainer, but it's an active community of very smart people.
Any device which is listed as officially supported will just run out of the box.
Is this limited only to devices running the full Google stack, or is this a part of AOSP? I'm guessing, by the priory / early access for Pixel devices, that it's the former.