TWeaK

@TWeaK@lemm.ee

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TWeaK , to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Erm, WhatsApp would suggest otherwise.

WhatsApp was the vector for zero click access to a target's phone from Israel's weapons grade hacking Pegasus toolkit. They would send a video call, typically in the middle of the night, and with no input from the used they'd get full access. My personal belief is that they used functionality WhatsApp itself uses to access user data.

There was also an encrypted phone called ANOM, which had this trick calculator app with a hidden encrypted messager. "Made for criminals, by criminals". Except, when the guy started his business he got investment from the FBI and Australian Federal Police to pay for the servers and some of the phones themselves. Basically every time it sent an encrypted message it sent a separate encrypted message to the ANOM servers. It's entirely possible (perhaps even likely) that WhatsApp would do this also.

As for Google, they're truly insidious. Lots of banks now require you to connect to Google captcha servers - they don't give you the pictures, it's just the back end, basically the tracking parts. Then there's the controversy about them collecting location data when users have said no. They absolutely do collect data they shouldn't.

TWeaK , to science in First proof of leeches jumping captured on video

Article: there's a video, but we're not going to show it, just trust us!

TWeaK , to Australian News in Picasso artworks put in female toilet as part of art gallery response to court ruling

No she thinks it's fair for women to discriminate against men, "for at least 300 years".

TWeaK , to News in US family sues Nasa for $80,000 in damages after space debris hits home

I dunno, if a car kicks up a rock from the road and smashes a windscreen, that's considered no one's fault. Even though the car in front kicked it up.

In this case, NASA have assumed that things would burn up in re-entry, based on past experience and modelling. For some reason that didn't happen here. However, that might not be enough to prove liability - if NASA is considered to already make reasonable efforts to prevent this.

TWeaK , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Construction equipment is going electric. Here’s what it’s like behind the wheel.

I'm guessing you don't actually work on the sites. Generators are often in containers and not necessarily obvious, or out of the way. Depends on the site and what the job is, though.

In general, a site would prefer to have a proper connection (cheaper), but more often than not it's not available.

TWeaK , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Construction equipment is going electric. Here’s what it’s like behind the wheel.
  1. It's not always practical to get power to a site, depending on the utility and whatever upgrades they need.
  2. Solar doesn't generate enough, and doesn't generate at all overnight (when plant would be charged).
  3. Most plant lives on site and transporting it off site to charge is just going to add to costs and likely increase pollution (you need lorries to move them).

It's a good idea, and one that's growing, but it's still niche and it will be a long time before construction sites are fully electric.

TWeaK , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Construction equipment is going electric. Here’s what it’s like behind the wheel.

Yeah I was aware of that as I posted it. I work on construction sites. More than anything I was highlighting how vehicles isn't the only problem.

TWeaK , to World News in Jordanian reporter gets one year in prison under draconian new cybercrime law

The Netherlands is also a monarchy, and Denmark.

TWeaK , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Construction equipment is going electric. Here’s what it’s like behind the wheel.

Lol how do you think construction sites generate electricity to charge the batteries?

TWeaK , to Fediverse in Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed

If you want lemmy to work well, speak with /u/sunaurus@lemm.ee, he'll sort you out. Dude is a legend and runs the best instance, IMO, but is always willing to help other instances.

TWeaK , to movies in Daniel Radcliffe is now a Tony Award Winner

Oh I almost forgot about Dirk Gently! Wish that would come back.

His furry feet in LOTR were something else.

TWeaK , to movies in Daniel Radcliffe is now a Tony Award Winner

Not closely per se, but bits and bobs. Horns was awesome, as was Guns Akimbo, and Swiss Army Man was a good laugh. Good Omens as a show I don't really like overall (they basically abandoned the idea pitched in season 1 and changed things every season) but the scene with him in the Western season dancing to She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain while wearing assless chaps, and the general character in the Mad Max season, both live rent free in my head. Also the Weird Al documentary perfectly presented Al's on again, off again relationship with Madonna.

I would love to see him in a musical, but I don't really go to those. Maybe not the one where he had to get his cock out on stage, but I love that he did that. Still need to see Book of Mormon (Radcliffe had nothing to do with that).

I would lose my shit if he and Elijah Wood did something together.

TWeaK , to movies in Daniel Radcliffe is now a Tony Award Winner

Absolutely well deserved.

TWeaK , to Technology in Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register

I'm in Europe, and I don't use banking apps. For the most part anyway, one of my credit cards pissed me off by switching to app only, then eventually I relented with one bank because I wanted a 2nd account that required the app.

Banks either verify by SMS (lol) or provide a passkey fob.

GrapheneOS should provide some measure of protection. You can also perhaps disable some tracking features using something like Warden (requires root) - although this hasn't been updated in years and probably misses stuff now.

TWeaK , to Selfhosted in Never buy .xyz

I mean, a jellyfin server is typically full of copyright protected material. I also wouldn't expect them to notify you in advance, however they should still send some notice when they stop providing the service you've paid for.

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