jarfil

joined 2 years ago
[–] jarfil 1 points 8 hours ago

The typical guides for installing Jellyfin and friends, stop at the point where you can access the service, expecting you to secure it further.

Turns out, the default configuration for many (most) routers, is to allow external access to anything a local service will request it to allow, expecting you to secure it further.

Leaving it like that, is an explosive combo, which many users never intended to set up, but have nonetheless.

[–] jarfil 1 points 9 hours ago

Depending on where you live, it can be up to "all and anything that you may come into direct or indirect ownership of, for the following x years". Get a job? No salary for you. Want to drive a car? Can't have insurance on a car that's not yours. Inheritance? Nope. Get married? Now half of your spouse's salary is gone. And so on.

You better hire a good lawyer if you want to declare bankruptcy... and how are you going to pay them?

[–] jarfil 1 points 17 hours ago

You're right. Please tell me more.

[–] jarfil 2 points 3 days ago

Kind of. Personally, I started using them precisely because I can be reasonably sure that I'd get some without nicotine. My favorite active compound is menthol and "cool effect", with other flavors from time to time.

Used to be an "After Eight" chocolate fan, but a vape juice bottle plus any random chocolate, is way cheaper.

[–] jarfil 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A random Google search would find you these articles:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2763273/vapes-ape-comics-to-lure-kids

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11436029/FDA-cracks-e-cigarettes-child-friendly-packaging.html

I'm not going to discuss recent history revisionism, circular argumentation, or the illusion that your country is the only one in the world. Have fun!

[–] jarfil 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

You call it "bullshit propaganda", because you haven't seen black market disposables from China advertised at you local vape shop? Have you considered that, maybe, you haven't seen them... precisely because they were stopped at customs?

No, I'm not even going to look for a SKU listing, just for your dismissal. Go believe it's FUD if that makes you happier. Ask your government agencies to lift all bans, for extra un-FUDding.

[–] jarfil 8 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Can you elaborate in detail on what makes it "toy shaped?"

If you didn't get the memo about marketing targeting, there are courses for that. You can drop the sarcasm.

[–] jarfil 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you don't want to use AI in WhatsApp, make sure you keep your hands off the AI button that appears right above the new chat button

There, that's how you turn it off: exert self-control.

[–] jarfil 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Red herring. QDs are not a measure of display quality. These ones are:

  • Resolution
  • Dynamic range
  • Contrast
  • Gray-to-gray transition time
  • Color gamut
  • Viewing angle

Add power usage and price, and I couldn't care less about it being CRT, TFT, IPS, OLED, QLED, Laser, or hologram.

[–] jarfil 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The KGB became the FSB. Historically:

  • KGB officer 1975 and 1991: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
  • FSB director 1998-1999: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
  • First premier 1999: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
  • Acting president 1999-2000: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
  • President 2000-[...]: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

...and so on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

[–] jarfil 15 points 3 days ago

Nothing new. Working for the UAE, Saudis, Kuwait, etc. has always been the same: they take your passport, and/or withhold payment, and/or you need to get your employer give you permission to leave the country.

Unless you're wealthy enough to hire people to work for you, never ever go to work there.

[–] jarfil 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not into nicotine (menthol extra cold nasal cleaning is my thing), and after comparing prices... went with the 100% modular Vaporesso: mod, pod, coil, custom juice. Initially it's slightly more expensive, but pods last forever, grabbed some coil packs at a good discount which pretty much offset the rest, and after almost a year still haven't gone through a full bottle of juice.

In EU, Spain in particular, we get 3 years of warranty on customer devices, so the mod itself better last that long!

 

a number of popular extensions that enable things like dark mode and adblocking in Google’s browser have been hijacked by hackers, putting 3.2 million Chrome users at risk.

While all of the extensions listed below have since been removed from the Chrome Web Store, you will still need to manually delete them if they’re currently installed in your browser

 

A Republican group is hoping to rally support to change the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to seek a third term.

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1951 following the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected to four terms between 1933 and 1945. The two-term limit for presidents was introduced by Congress to prevent potential abuses of power.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by jarfil to c/usnews
 

The official White House social media accounts on X, Instagram and Facebook soon quoted his post, all sharing a fake magazine cover depicting an illustration of Trump smiling in a suit — and wearing a bejeweled golden crown.

 

"Press with both hands"

...just when you thought this timeline couldn't get much weirder.

 

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in discussions with Phoenix-based Willscot about leasing the company’s mobile structures to house undocumented detainees, the people said. Willscot’s products are commonly used as construction-site storage and office space.

 

Brace for impact.

 

Israeli troops and tanks launched a brief ground raid into northern Gaza overnight into Thursday, the military said, striking several militant targets in order to “prepare the battlefield” ahead of a widely expected ground invasion

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jarfil to c/support
 

It's unnerving to find an interesting post, with an interesting conversation, only to see it deleted (not even mod removed) with hanging replies in the inbox and no way to reply back.

Is there any feature that would allow continuing those conversations? Other than direct messages, which get "black holed" (no way to see own replies). Could these conversations be somehow continued, either recovered in Lemmy, or maybe via Mastodon?

 

The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google's cloud services.

While it may seem like Enhanced Safe Browsing is the better way to go, there is a slight trade-off in privacy, as Chrome and Gmail will share URLs with Google to check if they are malicious and temporarily associate this information with your signed-in Google account.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jarfil to c/technology
 

This time, straight from a patent granted to a blockchain company, with no accompanying paper or proof.

Edit: after reviewing the patent, and as pointed out by @floofloof@lemmy.ca, this is an incredible amount of BS. The patent's initial date is Feb 2020, issue date Dec 2021. It has no proof, because it claims to speculatively apply a possible theory by someone else, onto how to make a flexible Type II semiconductor out of a Type I semiconductor, in case this ever happens to be possible with that theory. Basically a patent troll waiting to see if someone happens to make possible the elements they've used in the patent, then jump in and claim an application.

Honestly, didn't know speculative patents like this were possible.

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