Notices by Zak :1password: (zak@infosec.exchange)

This is fascinating insight into Facebook's AI slop problem.

https://youtu.be/Cedj8AKI2U8?feature=shared

TIL that if you don't manually set a country code within OpenWRT, it defaults to the "World" profile which restricts the power of your router's antennas to the lowest possible regulated output globally, which for me was 20dBm. Setting it to "United States" allowed me to increase that to 23dBm, which is double the power.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/which-country-is-less-restrictive-on-2-4-ghz-and-5-ghz-signal-channels/131286

@BrodieOnLinux Fedora. The usual.

@BrodieOnLinux This is super annoying. I am curious to see how Valve themselves handle this, since if anti-cheat is done at the hardware verification level, this would theoretically hinder the game compatibility list for a future iteration of the Steam Deck.

With everything going on with Mozilla and #Firefox, it's once again time for me to post about our need for a real, flagship #Linux web browser. Firefox has been it for some time, and while I can absolutely understand why, I think it's becoming more and more apparent that Mozilla's goals don't really align with those of the Linux community. And to be clear, that's okay! Mozilla needs to make money. But Linux distributions and users shouldn't be impacted by that need, now or in the future.

I recognize that projects like GNOME Web are awesome, but I don't see a future in which GNOME Web replaces Firefox and is shipped among distributions regardless of their desktop environment of choice.

As seen on Reddit, X / Twitter appears to be partnering in some way with Brave for search results in their stupid AI thing:

"We share parts of Input Data with Brave Software, Inc., so we can include Brave’s search results in the Service."

https://x.ai/legal/europe-privacy-policy-addendum

Might fuck around and rewatch Andor.

On the web, I've been using elk.zone for Mastodon and phtn.app for Lemmy. Are there any good web applications for Pixelfed?

#fediverse

Ah yes, surely this will save Tinder. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tinder-will-try-ai-powered-matching-as-the-dating-app-continues-to-lose-users/

@dansup Are these being made available on GitHub, as well?

Babe wake up, #fediverse Facebook Marketplace just dropped. https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

Reminder that dating apps are a scam, mostly owned by a single company, and you should not be giving them money.

Reminder that @1password currently has 6 positions open on the Security team, with more likely on the way. If you want to work with me (or, even better, be on my Privacy team), check out the listings here and see if one might be a good fit for you.

https://jobs.lever.co/1password?department=Technology&team=Security

#jobs #hiring #fedihire #security #privacy #passwords

@BeAware This might be worse.

Cool Whip implies the existence of Lame Whip.

I haven't played through a Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy X-2 in like 2005. I just purchased Final Fantasy XVI on Steam. I'm gonna do it. Video games.

@BrodieOnLinux Oh huh, TIL. Well, I hope this doesn't become a common thing...

@BrodieOnLinux I don't know how they'd impose that limitation even if they wanted to. But yeah, I doubt they'll want to. I'd guess that they'll announce it for the Steam Deck, but it'll really just be an officially endorsed version of this. https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.hmlendea.geforcenow-electron

@BrodieOnLinux Something something Nvidia supporting Linux

@BrodieOnLinux Yep, I genuinely can't tell here.