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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It seems to me that switching SIMs provides little privacy benefit, because carriers, data brokers, and the adversaries of privacy-desiring people whom they share data with are obviously able to correlate IMEIs (phones) with IMSIs (SIMs).

What kind of specific privacy threats do you think are mitigated by using different SIMs in the same phone (especially the common practice of using an "anonymous" SIM in a phone where you've previously used a SIM linked to your name)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

this isn’t remotely how this meme is used lol

"Robin Holding a Whiteboard" meme format with left column labeled "people who use this meme format correctly" and a tally of one, and the right column labeled "people who use this format like glasses dog" and a tally of 21

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Otoh, the Washington Post and their "experts" didn't think any of those civil rights movement direct actions they're celebrating now were reasonable at the time either 🤡

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

python -c 'print((61966753*385408813*916167677<<2).to_bytes(11).decode())'

how?

$ python
>>> b"Hello World".hex()
'48656c6c6f20576f726c64'
>>> 0x48656c6c6f20576f726c64
87521618088882533792115812
$ factor 87521618088882533792115812
87521618088882533792115812: 2 2 61966753 385408813 916167677

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

i guess maybe if you're using a device with a tiny screen and a lemmy client that doesn't let you zoom in on images

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

17 × 59 = 10003

you've got an extra zero in there, and you forgot the 1, but the rest of your divisors match my crude brute-force approach:

>>> n=31521281
>>> d = [ x for x in range(1,n//2+1) if not n%x ]
>>> d
[1, 11, 17, 59, 187, 649, 1003, 2857, 11033, 31427, 48569, 168563, 534259, 1854193, 2865571]
>>> yours=list(map(int,"11+17+59+2857+11033+534259+1854193+2865571+168563+48569+10003+31427+649+187".split("+")))
>>> set(yours) - set(d)
{10003}
>>> set(d) - set(yours)
{1, 1003}
>>> sum(d)
5518399

same conclusion though: 5518399 also ≠ 31521281

bonus nonsense

>>> isperfect = lambda n: n == sum(x for x in range(1,n//2+1) if not n%x)
>>> [n for n in range(1, 10000) if isperfect(n)]
[6, 28, 496, 8128]

(from https://oeis.org/A000396 i see the next perfect number after 8128 is 33550336 which is too big for me to wait for the naive approach above to test...)

spoiler more bonus nonsense

>>> divisors_if_perfect = lambda n: n == sum(d:=[x for x in range(1,n//2+1) if not n%x]) and d
>>> print("\n".join(f"{n:>5} == sum{tuple(d)}" for n in range(10000) if (d:=divisors_if_perfect(n))))
    6 == sum(1, 2, 3)
   28 == sum(1, 2, 4, 7, 14)
  496 == sum(1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 62, 124, 248)
 8128 == sum(1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 127, 254, 508, 1016, 2032, 4064)

:::

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

shoutout to the person who reported this post with "Reason: Bot meme, you can't even read it. whoever replies is a bot too" 😂

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

/r/shittyaskreddit wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual 🙄

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

np, you're actually early

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14733630

image descriptionStandard "they don't know" meme format, featuring line art of "That Feel Guy" wearing a party hat standing in a corner while other people are dancing. An image of an icosahedron formed by three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles sits in front of That Feel Guy. The caption text says "They don't know that three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles, with edges connecting their corners, form a regular icosahedron."

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regular_icosahedron&oldid=1219666251#Construction

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

E: old thinkpad gang input: take the time to reapply thermal grease to the cpu at some point. It makes a huge difference.

What’s a “gang input”?

😂 it's an input to this discussion from a member of the group of people ("gang") who have experience with old thinkpads. and yes, if your old thinkpad (or other laptop) is overheating and crashing, reapplying the thermal paste is a good next step after cleaning the fans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

screenshot of notification from facebook found in article, but with the word "if" highlighted in the sentence "If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward." and three red question marks added under it

If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

shoutout to the multiple people flagging this post as misinformation 😂

(I don't know or care if OP's screenshot is genuine, and given that it is in /c/shitposting it doesn't matter and is imo a good post either way. and if the screenshot in your comment is genuine that doesn't even mean OP's isn't also. in any case, from reading some credible articles posted today on lemmy (eg) I do know that many equally ridiculous google AI answer screenshots are genuine. also, the song referenced here is a real fake song which you can hear here.)

 

image descriptionSide-by-side pictures of actors Judge Reinhold and Alan Tudyk, labeled with blue text in a Star Trek-reminiscent font "Judge Reinhold as Tom Paris" and "Alan Tudyk as Paul Stamets"

 

image descriptionAn infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including "identify who", "expression", "description", "colour", and "interesting features". The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

via https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14334283

transcriptScreenshot of github showing part of the commit message of this commit with this text:

Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094).

While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting
a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was
created, it's good to remove this anyway:

  - The executable payloads were embedded as binary blobs in
    the test files. This was a blatant violation of the
    Debian Free Software Guidelines.

  - On machines that see lots bots poking at the SSH port, the backdoor
    noticeably increased CPU load, resulting in degraded user experience
    and thus overwhelmingly negative user feedback.

  - The maintainer who added the backdoor has disappeared.

  - Backdoors are bad for security.

This reverts the following without making any other changes:

The sentence "This was a blatant violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines" is highlighted.

Below the github screenshot is a frame of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski with the meme caption "What, are you a fucking park ranger now?" from the scene where that line was spoken.

 

transcriptScreenshot of github showing part of the commit message of this commit with this text:

Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094).

While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting
a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was
created, it's good to remove this anyway:

  - The executable payloads were embedded as binary blobs in
    the test files. This was a blatant violation of the
    Debian Free Software Guidelines.

  - On machines that see lots bots poking at the SSH port, the backdoor
    noticeably increased CPU load, resulting in degraded user experience
    and thus overwhelmingly negative user feedback.

  - The maintainer who added the backdoor has disappeared.

  - Backdoors are bad for security.

This reverts the following without making any other changes:

The sentence "This was a blatant violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines" is highlighted.

Below the github screenshot is a frame of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski with the meme caption "What, are you a fucking park ranger now?" from the scene where that line was spoken.

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