MonkderVierte

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no law expert, but as far as i know, there were laready similiar cases. Reasoning (german law): Software required to run the product is not “licensed to use” but part of the product, which was bought, belongs the user and not the company. Remotely making the device unusable would indeed violate that term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In germany there’s the “Computer sabotage” crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux is so broken.

  Then don’t break it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking about buying a dotzen cheap (from companies throwing away almost new) laptops, flashing Fedora with activated auto-update and bottles and selling them for maybe $100 more on ebay or wherever.

  Good idea?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit header image. They don’t want to delete your data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Title is wrong. It’s just about having no AI summary about Trump but having one about Biden. Could be any other technical reason too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And one for AI crawlers please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, defragmenting still did help with NTFS even kn SSaD until MS made it a daemon in Windows 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SSD still simulate HDD, because OS would need to adapt otherwise, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Micro/SD-cards have a very simple controller (no wear leveling, trim) and thus need no heat spreader. This one would need one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Google copied and adapted them, on Android and in the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure do. They’re on my disk and without DRM or removed DRM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp. Still was an interesting journey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah wait, this doesn’t work with DVD and DVD burners?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this: tomshardware.com/…/new-tool-burns-images-onto-com…

  Btw, the technique is called DVD data art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How to burn that? It’s a SIMH track, Xfburn/Brasero don’t recognize it as valid audio track and data burning provides no image. The software-proposed cdrecord command errors out; doesn’t recognize my two USB burners (one of them Verbatim Bluray, the other at least 10 years old).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using old discs for something neat.