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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • For Android: learn the hard reset combo for your phone, especially if you encrypt it.

    After rebooting, pattern/PIN will be required to decrypt the phone. Biometrics won’t work for this step. This is what graphene does for security, tries to keep the phone in a “before first unlock” state by rebooting on a timer. You can’t even read anything over USB/ADB, it’s scrambled until you unlock the phone.

    The only drawback to just keeping your phone in this state is none of your apps are loaded, so no notifications/updates/processing at all.




  • Nintendo went after a emu dev team that was actively (and demonstratively) enabling piracy for something they are currently selling. On top of that, the dev team is making significant money off of that work, to the tune of 30k/mo. Every other dev is probably thinking “finally, the other shoe drops on this obvious outcome”, most avoid making money off it, and also avoid current systems, both for just this reason. The relieving part is Nintendo’s argument isn’t about the emulator specifically, there’s nothing in the injunction stopping yuzu from continuing, and a settlement means no legal precedent.

    Edit: Read more, the settlement includes stopping development.








  • Nook Simple Touch. You can get one with backlight for less than $40 usually.

    It takes microSD, android 2.1 (lol)

    There’s an easy app to root it, then you install whatever (fbreader, moon, etc), or use it’s built-in reader. The ancient android version means you’ll have to dig for apks that work with it, but once it’s set up, it’s done.

    The biggest draw vs newer stuff, is… it’s tiny and light. there’s almost nothing to it, it just works. No browser, no apps, just book.









  • I’d really like to understand this in a different light than I currently see it in…

    1. People post stuff made by other sites on facebook, sometimes even the creators of the stuff. Facebook never posts these things on their own. Facebook makes money on ads on it’s site, this covers hosting, employees, coding…

    2. People read stuff on Facebook, instead of creator’s site, and don’t view creator’s ads.

    3. Creators want compensation, legislation forces it from Facebook.

    4. Facebook disallows OTHERS from posting the stuff, so that they aren’t liable to creators for what those people (who are sometimes the same creators complaining) are doing. (Duh?)

    5. The creators, now unpaid and standing to earn, posts this negatively everywhere and amplifies it on their platforms.

    6. Canada is pissed?

    Obviously if clicking through is desired, legislate that they can only show the link and title. Forcing companies to pay for what users post… Very obviously would end up with disallowed posting.