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Zak

zak@infosec.exchange

<p>Privacy Analyst formerly at 1Password and Jolicloud. I live at Disney World. Opinions are mine, you can’t have them.</p>

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    Needed: SponsorBlock for podcasts.

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    I&#39;ve gone ahead and installed RomM to see if it can simplify and improve my game emulation experience. It&#39;s still scanning but it looks really nice so far. https://romm.app/ #FOSS #gaming #selfhosted

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    RE: https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/117345567399291312 AI still can&#39;t tell you how many letters are in certain words.

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    I need a software recommendation: my aunt has brought over an absolute ton of old photo albums going back to the early 1910s. I&#39;d like to turn them into digital copies before they totally deteriorate. What can I use to do that? I don&#39;t own a scanner or anything on the hardware side. But I figure a good enough app might be able to get it done.

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    Notice how, when a company wants to show off how great its AI model is, it doesn&#39;t tell you how it&#39;s going to make your life better, easier, or how it&#39;s going to do anything generally good. Instead, the model is described in terms of coding ability, agentic workflows, and its plugins and hooks into tools like Salesforce, Slack, Canva, Figma, Airtable, Asana, Linear, and a host of other corporate tools. AI isn&#39;t being made for you.

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    A new fork of Geary just dropped. This looks like a great email client for GNOME. https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.donnybeelo.Convey #FOSS #Linux

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    Open source is cool because most people have like Facebook and WhatsApp on their phones and I&#39;ve got Syncthing, LibreOffice, and a yt-dlp client because why not. Computers.

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    I&#39;ve decided that I really want a Thinkpad X1 Carbon as a travel laptop. But I don&#39;t want to get one that&#39;s too old because I value battery life a lot. So I need to find a decent balance. But they&#39;re so lightweight that they&#39;re hard to resist. Framework 13 Pro seems nicer in a lot of ways but is way too expensive right now.

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    Gamers Nexus did an absolutely massive piece on LG Smart TVs. And if you own one and this doesn&#39;t make you angry, I don&#39;t know what will. https://youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA #Privacy

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    I wish I had an original Nintendo Switch that was a bit easier to software mod. I&#39;ve got the second generation with the better battery life, which is fine, but it requires a hardware mod which I&#39;m not at all up for doing myself.

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    Those Xteink ereaders have looked really appealing because apparently they&#39;re bootloader unlocked and so you can flash alternative FOSS firmware on them. But I already own a Kobo Clara BW so I&#39;d find it a bit difficult to justify another ereader.

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    Bilmuri tonight with @BaSinghSe@infosec.exchange

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    I hope that one of the Motorola devices that ends up supported by @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social is a smaller one. I&#39;m so tired of massive phones and it&#39;s getting really hard to find a decent small one.

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    I&#39;m once again trying to use Linux to resurrect my 2010 MacBook Pro 6,2. I&#39;m not expecting anything good.

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    Proton appears to be back up for me.

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    Taken exactly 15 minutes apart.

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    @jcrabapple@dmv.community This is a particularly good one.

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    Sometimes it&#39;s funny how wrong software gets things. Setting up this new phone, Google Contacts suggested that I add some people to my favorites for quick contact access. One of the four suggestions was my grandmother, who has been dead for four years. At the very least, Google should probably know that I haven&#39;t been texting her very much lately.

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    Hey there, it&#39;s us! Massive smartphone corporation! We made our phone even bigger and less friendly for real, functional human hands this year because we know you love when we do that. It&#39;s also $100 more expensive this year because that size isn&#39;t free. Still not enough room to fit a headphone jack, though.

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    Some news: I&#39;m ditching Pixel devices. Despite running GrapheneOS, which I love using, the hardware itself really doesn&#39;t improve year over year. The Tensor series has been really disappointing for a few years now, and aside from the camera, I&#39;m not sure that Pixel phones are the best at anything at all. They&#39;re built for AI and not much else. I&#39;ll be moving to a (debloated) Galaxy S26 Ultra. Despite also being heavy on AI, at least it&#39;ll give me enough power to have som...

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    This is the longest period of time in my entire adult life during which I have not opened Slack.

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    I&#39;ve missed wearing a little smart thing on my wrist, but all I ever use them for is phone notifications, alarms, and counting steps. And so I couldn&#39;t really justify buying something like a Pixel Watch or Galaxy Watch or whatever. So I started looking into alternatives. I ended up spending only about $50 on a Xiaomi Smart Band 10. It&#39;s a weird looking device compared to most others, which I like. Gets crazy 21 day battery life because it runs an RTOS instead of Android Wear. And th...

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    I just moved my gaming PC upstairs to my living room so that I can use it a bit more like a game console. Gaming at 4K on a 4K TV is genuinely nuts. Shame no one will ever be able to afford anything like this ever again, including me.

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    On Android I was using Voyager for Lemmy for a long while, but I&#39;ve just swapped over to Summit and it&#39;s been awesome so far. https://github.com/idunnololz/summit

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    Saw the new Spider-Man movie with @BaSinghSe@infosec.exchange. Pretty good, but as a pro tip, bringing an infant to an opening day Marvel movie has the chance of ruining the experience for a lot of other people.

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    Using your phone with a telescopic game controller has gotten insanely good. In particular, GameNative for Android is witchcraft. My phone&#39;s GPU sucks chunks and GameNative is still in its early days but I can still already run 2D and light 3D titles.

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    RE: https://mastodon.opencloud.lu/@BrideOfLinux/117005117124596894 &quot;A Linux desktop environment in Swift&quot; is nuts.

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    Disney with @BaSinghSe@infosec.exchange today.

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    @Viss@mastodon.social This is genuinely the reason that I didn&#39;t go to see this movie.

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    I&#39;ve been using Windows on this ROG laptop for a few days now and I keep accidentally trying to use Bazzite keyboard shortcuts.