Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)

@Em0nM4stodon It makes me so uncomfortable knowing that there are family members in particular who have lots of info about me and make exactly zero effort to protect my info from their Meta apps and etc. Perhaps former friends too. And there is not one single thing I can do about it. I've talked to them and talked to them, but they just don't listen.

@jessew What about when the car that was going faster goes slower and the car that was going slower goes faster?

Though most of the time they just go the same speed.

@skinnylatte My parents used to have one cat that lived to something like 25 who never realized she was old. She'd still jump around and everything.

Really, the only big sign she aged that most of us could even tell was when she started losing her hearing she started to meow very very loudly, lol.

@InfiniteHench @hobbsc @scribblemacher I hate to tell you this, but they're all just as bad...

Like SONY straight up taking a company down for selling stuff out of region without opening the packages and changing out the power plugs that came with them. Taking out emulators and stuff was no strange thing for them either. And not to mention the gaslighting over the PS3 YLODs.

And Microsoft being Microsoft...

Unfortunately, we have to take the bad with the good or take nothing at all in this respect.

That said, 90DNS, patient waiting on updates, and a CFW go a long way.

@hobbsc @scribblemacher @InfiniteHench I think Nintendo has more or less disconnected the 3DS anyway?

I can't see any reason at all they'd attack 3DS users at this point. That would be utterly pointless. I can understand attacking Switch CFW users because a lot of that carries over to stuff they're working on with the Switch 2 which they surely don't want to be exploited faster than necessary, but the 3DS they literally no longer profit from in any meaningful way. (Inb4 I said meaningful.)

Plus they'll end up paying out for some bricked consoles too. They can misdetect, but also I'm not 100% sure they actually legally can brick. I think it's more of a hoping people will take it at face value kind of thing. (That works surprisingly often!)

@hobbsc @scribblemacher @InfiniteHench I think more than anything else it's a scare tactic. And Nintendo has used those to very good effect many times.

Did you know a lot of people think emulation is illegal? I kid you not. These companies actually have people believing that. That's how effective these tactics are at scale.

Anyway, if they insert timebombs, people will find and block them over time. Just be patient before updating. Or use 90DNS for now.

@InfiniteHench Didn't it already say something to that effect in the past though? Or am I just remembering wrong? (Or maybe it was the 3DS that said it?)

@amszmidt @cstross @saliaku Yes. They added it quite a few years ago. 365 supports the v1.4 format even.

I really thought I saw that they were saving as it by default. I guess not then?

@amszmidt @cstross @saliaku I think we're talking about different things. I'm talking about the OpenDocument formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument MS didn't have anything to do with those...

It was my understanding Office defaults to saving as those now? I don't run Office and wouldn't touch it, so I apologize if I was mistaken about that.

@cstross @saliaku WINE can run a lot of Windows software. Open source programs have a lot of dealings with proprietary formats. But it really depends on what sort of format you're even talking about. You left that as such a vague all-encompassing statement, but a surprising number of things don't use proprietary formats anymore. Even, somehow, Microsoft Office went to an open format. (Not sure how anyone got MS, the jack of proprietary, on board with that.) A lot of CAD/etc stuff that is proprietary has Linux builds too.

Of course some companies have things super specialized running in various forms that are super proprietary. Many of those are so specialized and so proprietary they may even be running on DOS or Windows 2000. That isn't applicable to this discussion however...

@moelassus @Em0nM4stodon I'm pretty sure that this is actually exactly the kind of thing being looked for here.

I think this came up in reference to the earlier post about The Last of Us having the tech of that time period without all the modern enshittification.

Cars are a wonderful example of this.

@Em0nM4stodon @moelassus I've been wondering what he heck is going on with this really. Like no one seems to care? Really? No one? People aren't... hacking them or something at the very least?

Apparently someone recently (Subaru I think it was?) got the point on buttons at least. Probably still spies though...

@davidbisset I'm a bit confused about some of the article though. Like they show some such as LibreWolf making only three connections on initial install, but then go down to list a bunch of connections, most of which are obviously extensions making the connection.

They also say they're not talking about what is good or not, but then explicitly declare that making connections is bad and I must strongly disagree when some of those connections clearly shown are for uBlock Origin to download its blocklist (that's a minimum standard! You should never browse the Web without an ad blocker in 2025!) It's good for you to start off with a bare minimum safety margin, otherwise even just that quick lookup of something before initial setup is dangerous.

@catsalad I sure hope so. Right now this passing is like a score of kidney stones...

@skinnylatte Well, it was the fried component I was wondering about. Rice in the morning I absolutely understand. I don't really eat breakfast (just a weird thing I have, not regional or otherwise) but I imagine those carbs can really help one power through the early hours.

@skinnylatte Huh. Ok. I'm definitely not an expert when it comes to food. ... Anywhere...

@skinnylatte Isn't fried rice a bit excessive for breakfast though?

@GreenSkyOverMe @ami_angelwings I dunno... I feel like they'd end up only talking about their favorite foods and teas and then Janeway would get into an argument with Picard about whether coffee was better than tea.

I don't even think anyone would bring up the Borg, much less the Dominion.

EDIT: Or maybe something like this, lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8_cKxJZJY

@inthehands ?

You mean you set it to not disable crawling?

Regardless though, a lot of people are complaining that these "AI" services ARE crawling their sites even though told not to by robots.txt.

@inthehands I find it intriguing that even though they're ignoring robots.txt they're still properly identifying themselves. Weird that they breach one trust/protocol but not the other.