context: now that he’s dead and no longer controls many media outlets in UK, it came out that Mohamed Al-Fayed raped over 100 female employees

that conspiracy was pushed by him and his media outlets

Why smaller attack surface? Bigger attack surface. For an attacker is way easier to hack a single developer and publish a malicious APK on their GitHub (or alternative) rather than hosting malware on the official fdroid repository.

The first just requires a phishing email (trojanize a random Dev with poor opsec, get his apk signing key and his browser cookies) while the second is way more complex (get full access to fdroid build servers)

it completely negates the usefulness of a site like that

why on their website they still link their (now abandoned) xitter account instead of the active bluesky account?

edit: their xitter account is dead, right? The latest post that it shows without log in is from 2022

Aren’t they “silently” migrating to a different but identical app called lemonade or something like that?

There are a lot of websites that pretend to give you a hacked version but all the download button does is to show more ads. They just automatically fill pages with automatically stolen content from play store

“for sale in Asia except Japan” => they wrote all the text in Japanese (and latin for the Lorem Ipsum on the back)

In the gbatemp thread they wrote that this guy flew too much near to the sun:

1. Reused his username everywhere to the point that his name and the fact that he was from Arizona was public

2. Sent back to Nintendo multiple switches to repair using that name with an Arizona address

It wasn’t hard for them to dox and sue him as he literally gave them his real address multiple times…

Yes, it depends. In my case my server is underpowered so I didn’t like how much resources other galleries used (not only immich but also librephotos, photoprism)

I really like Ente.

Disadvantages:

• the photos that you’re self hosting are encrypted so if you want to have good sleeps you need to do daily exports
• Videos are also encrypted so no transcoding is possible. Client needs to download whole file before starting play (they say they have a solution coming for this)
• ML stuff is done client side so if you had a beefy server it will sit unused
• Exact duplicates are catched immediately (hash comparison before upload) but visual duplicates detection is trickier. Clients have a feature to find duplicates but it’s not as good as other software

Advantages:

• requires very little resources. The web album is static HTML and you can host it anywhere, even on GitHub pages, for free. Photos are saved in any S3 server, I chose garage. Then it has a postgresql database and a very light coordinator service. In total takes like 100mb of RAM.
• All the ML stuff is done on the client side when you’re browsing your photos so you don’t need a powerful server (on mobile devices it’s disabled by default in order to not kill the battery)
• Desktop client can be set to automatically backup all your photos in background
• Desktop client can be set to bidirectional sync a directory. Add or delete files from gallery automatically
• Mobile client takes track of what’s uploaded and can remove local files if a cloud backup is present (not automatically, need to press the “free up space” button
• Because it uploads to S3 and S3 natively supports chunked uploads you can upload files bigger than 100mb if using cloudflare free (immich uses a workaround for this but only works on desktop)
• Uploads are resumable
• Doesn’t have breaking changes where you need to use specific docker images like other galleries

If you pay them, they host it for you: one copy on B2, one copy on wasabi and a backup on scale way.

If you don’t pay them, you need to provide a S3 compatible endpoint for storage, a postgresql database and a coordinator. Doesn’t need fancy stuff

never say never, i also assumed that sackboy would never be ported but they did it (2 years after the launch on ps5, of course)

astro bot on pc might increase sales of dualsense controller

I Hope for astrobot PC

This could be an option but a little cumbersome to keep updated perhaps?

Debian on auto update with minimal packages lasts for years

Another option that I’m using is this:

1. I do a encrypted backup with Borg on a separate drive on my server
2. On my work desktop PC, Windows, at boot it connects via ssh and syncs that Borg backups on a new HDD that I purchased and installed, one way sync, silently and without prompts (We are a small business and I am allowed to do that, if you’re not allowed to do that it could be your parents PC)
3. Success syncs are pinged to healthchecks.io which emails me if after too many days (configurable) the sync hasn’t been completed
4. Errors are also sent to healthchecks.io
5. Company group policy settings then keeps my backup server automatically updated

Using the Yuzu case for guidance, dumping encryption keys, regardless of the source of those keys, is illegal

This is false, as the case is non existant, because it has been settled out of court. It has to be proven in court that is illegal, as there’s no law that says that dumping the keys from my own hardware that i paid with my own money is illegal.

At $12/terabyte/month it seems pretty expensive for media collection (I mean: family photos are irreplaceable but generic video?)

Other options are to use “glacier” tier S3 which is cheap to rent but ultra expensive to recover (but hopefully you won’t need that)

Or just put a pi+HDD hidden somewhere at work/parents and copy to that

How to make money with shitcoins 101:

1. Pay some $100k to some dev to create something the slightly differs from the existing ones

2. Pay some millions of dollars to some marketing agency to find a way to get this shitcoin popular. A funny name, a funny icon, or some solution in search of a problem. Something like “this shitcoin can lower the transfer fees of other shitcoins and also if you hold the bag you get 69% APR”

3. When it launches you immediately buy it for pennies, or even directly access some premined quota (like 30% of whole distribution) that the dev left for you

4. When idiots buy it, raising the price, you slowly dump it

5. Clueless people did the staking (lock them for a year) of millions of “cat coin”, worth $1 each at the time thinking that they are going to get 69% APR. They actually get the 69% APR, but the problem is that each “cat coin” after a year is worth $0.000001 each

It’s already the moment of selling high. Buy low is when they’re introduced. Shitcoins are generally going down with value. If you buy now you will end losing money 100%

None of them have a real practical application, it’s 100% speculation

I have a revolut account and for some reason they give $1 in shitcoins if you answer some questions like “bonk differs from the other shitcoins because it’s made for the lolz” or “floki does exactly the same of other shitcoins but slightly different”

Nice try, openai bot (/s)

I can’t believe everyone knows such an obscure reference