lurtbancaster

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> Pretty sad to have to install a tool like that to get security on a platform that is used by billions of users.

You click on a banner ad inside an app, and if you have Intent Intercept installed, it won't immediately register as an "impression" and take you to wherever the banner has been programmed to take you to by default. Since Intent Intercept also affects the ad industry(of which Google is a big part), I don't expect Google to build a similar less-nerdy tool into Android by default.

> Installing random tools to hopefully get more security, though is risky also. Hopefully that tool doesn’t get compromised as it is privy to all intent activity.

Intent Intercept is open source(Apache License 2.0 https://github.com/k3b/intent-intercept) and its release binaries are hosted on F-Droid, arguably the most trusted Android "store" for Free and Open Source apps. So I'm not too worried.

lurtbancaster

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> ad tap (just clicking an ad, potentially a misclick aiming for a tiny X button, with no Install button even visible on screen)

> AppLovin’s X’s are unusually tiny, so mis-taps are especially likely

This is why I use Intent Intercept - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.k3b.android.intentinterce...

It tells me exactly what's about to happen from my tap(accidental or intentional), and gives me the option to undo my tap.

Every privacy/security conscious Android user should have Intent Intercept installed on their devices already.

lurtbancaster

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Having watched the video in its entirety, it is an FAQ in a powerpoint presentation format. It's not a rambling FAQ video.

There are several slides in the video that would not translate well to a text/image only blog post. It's technically possible, but I think it would look bad.

Fortunately, Ross Scott's voice is very "speed up"-friendly. I finished watching in under 25 minutes.

It would behoove several people who've had questions in this thread[1] to watch the video.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41159063

lurtbancaster

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Title needs changing to "Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Apple Propaganda Video".

lurtbancaster

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Question for rsync users on linux. Does your rsync preserve creation times --crtimes ?

I'm aware ext4/3 filesystems don't store creation times. But I want to use rsync on Linux to sync files between an NTFS(supports creation times) and a Btrfs partition(also supports creation times) without losing the creation times.

Currently rsync just sets the creation time to the modification time on the destination directory. Which is not what I want.

When I use `--crtimes` I get a "This rsync does not support --crtimes (-N)" error.

Weirdly, just using `cp -a` works. But it doesn' t have any of the checksumming and differential copy bells and whistles of rsync.

How do you rsync on linux while preserving creation times(on supported file systems)?

lurtbancaster

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Admittedly my only exposure to the Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol(SSB) is through manyver.se [1] - a FOSS private(optionally) social media app. And the syncing issue you mention has been one for me too. Sometimes it's even worse - it fails to sync entirely until another app restart. Maybe this is a manyverse issue, maybe a SSB issue. Either way, hitherto at least, it doesn't seem reliable.

If there are alternative ways to have an offline(over Wi-Fi/bluetooth, not internet) social media/messaging app, that works on both Android and ios, please do let me know.

Thanks.

[1] https://www.manyver.se/

lurtbancaster

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Couple more things wget can do that curl can't.

1. wget can resolve onion links. curl can't(yet). You'll get a

    curl: (6) Not resolving .onion address (RFC 7686)

2. curl has problems parsing unicode characters

    curl -s -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0" https://old.reddit.com/r/GonewildAudible/comments/wznkop/f4m_mi_coño_esta_mojada_summer22tomboy/.json

will give you a

    {"message": "Bad Request", "error": 400}

wget on the other hand, automatically converts the ñ to UTF-8 hex - %C3%B1 - and resolves the link perfectly.

I've searched the curl manpage and couldn't find a way to solve this. Please help.

I'm having to use `xh --curl` [1] to "fix" the links before I pass them to curl.

[1] https://github.com/ducaale/xh

lurtbancaster

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I have no problem with javascript. I think javascript can greatly add to the web experience.

"Add to" being the keyword there. Not "in lieu of".

You want to add javascript to enhance UI/UX outside the scope of what can be accomplished with plain html? Great!

You want to use javascript to add a feature that simply can't be done over plain html? Great!

You want to use javascript to hide a bunch of text on a public webpage, so those who have javascript disabled on their web browsers can't see the text, and will be forced to enable javascript, just to look at some text on a webpage? Unforgivably garbage design!

I will remind you that github used to work perfectly fine without requiring javascript merely a year ago. At least for basic perusal.

I think it is extremely silly design if I'm required to enable javascript, just to look at some text on a public webpage.

Again, nothing against javascript. But don't make it mandatory is what I'm saying, especially for casual browsing.

lurtbancaster

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

A page such as this[1] requires javascript to be enabled to be viewable on github. Viewing any and all "/blob/" pages on github requires javascript to be enabled now. It didn't used to be this way ~1 year ago but github is slowly making javascript necessary on many pages for some annoying reason. I could set up a redirect to the '/raw/' pages but then the syntax highlighting is gone.

The same page is perfectly viewable over plain html on gothub[2] though.

Github also seems to be hiding their "Assets" (binaries et al) on the "/releases" page for some projects behind javascript(especially older versions).[3] Something else that wasn't the case about ~1.5 years ago.

Would be great if gothub could unshackle the links to those as well[4], but that doesn't seem to work at the moment[5] .

This project appears to be a more performant(measurably so), more privacy friendly(as Microsoft won't have a record of your interest in certain projects) alternative front-end for "non logged in" github users.

I like it, but it still needs work.

[1] https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255ae14...

[2] https://gh.bloatcat.tk/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255...

[3] https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/releases

[4] https://gh.bloatcat.tk/mikf/gallery-dl/releases

[5] https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub/issues/74

lurtbancaster

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I only discovered this because of an accidental keyboard malfunction ~10 years ago.

I pressed Ctrl+Shift+Escape to open Task Manager. And then I was confused that the list wasn't moving around. Sorted by CPU usage and still, the list just wasn't updating.

Thought I'd discovered some rare bug. So I closed task manager and then when I tried to open it up again using Ctrl+Shift+Escape, I realized the Ctrl key was already pressed.

Thank you to the grime in the walls of the key housing of my Ctrl key in my uncleaned membrane keyboard. Wouldn't have discovered this feature without you.

lurtbancaster

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Mozilla presumably collects this operating system version data on new installs of Firefox upon first run.

I wonder how the analytics of Firefox forks are tracked. If they can even be tracked.

Tor Browser, LibreWolf et al privacy friendly forks, block Mozilla's data collection on startup and they spoof the user agent to Windows NT 10.0 regardless of if you run them on Windown 7, 8, 10 or 11.

lurtbancaster

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