viking

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[–] viking 6 points 8 months ago

Is it that time of the year again? Those claims are popping up whenever the governing party needs to distract from some internal issues. Been a steady occurrence for the last 20 years at the very least.

[–] viking 23 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I don't understand why anyone needs a software to achieve this in the first place? I've hooked the camera's HDMI out to some cheap random USB-C HDMI capture card, and use OBS to record the stream. Easy, uncompressed, no restrictions to whichever settings their software lets you access.

[–] viking 3 points 8 months ago

Why not? I do very frequently, though recently hotels are becoming the better deals again.

Flying internationally with some broken bulbs in my luggage is a shit way to save money though, but that's the community we're in anyway.

[–] viking 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Series start with a concept for 2-3 seasons at most, nowadays often just one. If it's successful, writers need to come up with an extension fast, since nobody wants to wait for the next one for 5 years. Sometimes they are greenlit halfway through the screening of S1 and they want to start filming half a year later, so there's not enough time for due process with proofreaders, test audiences etc. as you do with movies, where sequels often come several years later.

[–] viking 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Crying is a physical reaction to mental stimulation. Doesn't matter whether the stimulation is positive (happiness, fun, success...) or negative (trauma, sadness, failure...).

Crying also exhausts your body, so in a way it can influence your mood by wearing/tiring you out; but it's not a 'cure' in itself.

[–] viking 1 points 8 months ago

Bypassing copy protection has always been the number one reason, it was never emulation per se.

[–] viking 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely don't know, I have set my browser to download pdfs by default and only open them with Sumatra. There might be a scripting layer active in the browser as well though, quite possible.

[–] viking 8 points 9 months ago

Don't forget sporting goods and kitchen supplies. Heck, you can get a bunch of decent knives in IKEA, better put furniture outlets on a watchlist.

[–] viking 6 points 9 months ago

They run a proprietary protocol that works in China and Saudi Arabia, where other protocols are known not to work. I've lived in China for 7 years, and Astrill never once let me down, while Express, Nord, Proton and a bunch of others hardly ever worked.

[–] viking 3 points 9 months ago

They all claim to be anonymous. And yeah, nobody can independently validate the no logs policy, even Mullvad that has been security audited doesn't let anyone near their production environment, so what they release to the testers might not be identical to what they use live.

Calling TOR anonymous is a big stretch through, a bunch of commits to the code have been traced back to the CIA if I remember correctly, and various intelligence agencies worldwide are running exit nodes and log everything they can get their hands on. Whether they can decrypt it with current tech is another story, but you better believe they don't just delete it.

[–] viking 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah it does. Adobe has a lot of active script support, including java script for example, which can be exploited. If a software can't interpret those scripts at all and simply displays plain text, that means malware won't be executed.

And since Adobe Acrobat / Acrobat Reader are the most common pdf viewers out there, they are a natural target for hackers as well.

[–] viking 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"No CVE entries" should not be highlighted with "NEW SECURITY CONTENT" in bold print. That's just spammy attention seeking garbage.

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