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TikTok has been sending all the data overseas. As predicted.

TikTok has been sending all the data overseas. As predicted.

did it finally become '''news'''?
like that time it was '''news''' facebook was selling data to advertising companies

Did you know? There's dihydrogen monoxide in the water supply!

did it finally become '''news'''?
like that time it was '''news''' facebook was selling data to advertising companies

Yeah it comes in and out of the news cycle. TikTok is using Oracle 'infrastructure' but they control all the VMs and the software layer, its bare metal setup, so it does nothing, which makes the whole thing stupid. It shows politicians generally have zero clue about technology, yet they make so many of the decisions. There is one new US software engineer freaking out because they thought they were serious about data security.

Suspiciously high paid job means you are not supposed to be suspicious.


Facebook probably is still selling more data to overseas through third parties.


The situation with apps and data reminds me of the apartment building cladding problem here:

Politician: "Can you tell us why this brand of cladding imported from China is such a fire risk and how can we address the problem with legislation"

Expert: "I don't think you understand, since around 2002, ALL cladding used on ALL apartment buildings from ALL countries/suppliers does not meet flame safety requirements. You can consider any building using cladding since that period is effectively covered in fuel/petrol from a fire safety perspective, if you actually care about fire safety"

Government has said their programs do not insure buildings over four storeys and Insurance companies say they do not cover any buildings with 'defective' cladding (all high rise since 2000s).

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jun 21 2022, 00:10

Spurred on by this, I discovered that the Monty Python "Architects Sketch" was based on the Ronan Point disaster.

I assume the cladding you speak of is the kind of thing the Greenfell tower used in the UK?

I wonder if winelib will still work on PowerPC 32-bit. It'd be cool to get the windows 7-zip GUI working on PowerPC linux.

I often think about the necessity of saving everything because despite what people frequently claim, there's no guarantee that everything on the internet will actually remain on the internet forever. Lots of stuff gets lost and no one will ever have access to it again. Even more stuff will vanish in the future.

Spurred on by this, I discovered that the Monty Python "Architects Sketch" was based on the Ronan Point disaster.

I assume the cladding you speak of is the kind of thing the Greenfell tower used in the UK?

Yes, its literally the this is fine meme. Aluminum cladding with polyethylene cores. Or thermite petroleum composite cladding.


In a country prone to catching on fire, we have thousands of buildings that are fire traps.

Apparently Dubai is similar, they have had heaps of fires.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jun 23 2022, 06:38

The anime Paripi Koumei episode 12 at approx 6 minutes 50 seconds triggered me with that "Click of Death" sound. It's a background noise in the anime, but I thought one of my hard drives was clicking! What a relief.

I might have just sourced a working 60GB PS3... one of the ones that can rip HQCD's and Blu-Rays.

Hope it keeps working and I don't have to try a delid.

I found a nice third party driver for powerbook G4's/iBook G3's on Mac OS X that gives their ADB touchpads multitouch capabilities. Wish it had been properly ported to Linux.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 24 2022, 18:24

Scrolling has stopped working in any deterministic manner on my Lenovo mouse. I suspect I just need to open it up, and clean out gunk that's gotten on the wheel or got in around it.

Scrolling has stopped working in any deterministic manner on my Lenovo mouse. I suspect I just need to open it up, and clean out gunk that's gotten on the wheel or got in around it.

That is quite likely.

I've taken mine apart before; to get inside you have to take the rubbery plalstic sticker things it slides on off.

I thought that installing an OS to a slightly old phone would be a kick in the balls, but it seems to be an easy thing if the phone is recent
Modern phones had to have something good

I have fixed three mice so far by taking them apart and cleaning the scroll wheel and switches with alcohol. Sometimes they are a pain to get back together but it has worked so far.

I often think about the necessity of saving everything because despite what people frequently claim, there's no guarantee that everything on the internet will actually remain on the internet forever. Lots of stuff gets lost and no one will ever have access to it again. Even more stuff will vanish in the future.

Which is why things never get deleted on my computer.

I have IRC logs from 2010 on this laptop.

If LaMDA was really sentient, I wouldn't mind a chance to sit down and have a chat with it for five minutes.

Moved all my things away from my UPS to alternative power sources.
While the computer and screen were shut down, I unplugged the UPS, and sure enough, it quickly shut down instead of working on battery, will have to be sent for repairs indeed. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

University uses a MAC address whitelist to allow ethernet connections in student housing. After years of everything being fine, I have had to change my router's spoofed MAC address five times in the last five days to keep it online. Not sure if they're blacklisting my mac addresses so that even when entered into their system I can't connect, or if they're just using the summer to do maintenance work and keep fucking breaking their network authentication system every day of this week.

If this keeps up I'm going to write a script to re-generate spoofed MAC addresses for me. You enter the MAC addresses in via a wireless connection, so I might just leave a laptop running in my closet to handle it.

Stopped using a UDP based VPN in favor of a TCP based one to see if that changes anything.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 30 2022, 15:44

I found a backup disk image of a windows XP installation from an 80GB hard drive for an old laptop of mine . Rediscovered a couple of H games that probably have disappeared completely off the 'net. Pretty neat to find it.

Most of them sucked though.

Also I made a webcomponents toggle toolbar button for seamonkey that should also work in pale moon maybe. Makes Pixiv usable.

[gitlab.com] https://gitlab.com/dragontamer8740/webcompo...-toggle-button/

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 30 2022, 22:10