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Metz@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays.English
38·1 month agoJust as an example:
https://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my/
“Some devices can still send their location for up to 24 hours after they’ve been turned off or have low battery life.”
https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/exclusive-google-find-my-device-feature-phone-off
“Google began rolling out this feature as “Powered Off Finding” with the Pixel 8 series, letting users locate their phone even when it’s switched off by keeping the Bluetooth chip active.”
And those are only some of the official known possibilities
Metz@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays.English
45·1 month agoThere is no such thing as “off” on modern Smartphones. Even if you power it down things like the baseband prozessor and bluetooth still stay active most of the time.
If the battery is integrated into device there ist no real way to completely shut this things down.
Metz@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"English
28·3 months agoI got 150 hours out of this game and I think that is very much all i will ever play.
For a good while it was even quite interesting because there were still a lot of new things to discover.
But then you started to do things just to get them done not because they were particularly fun or interesting.
If they don’t implement some fundamental new way to play this game or combine existing mechanics better together I don’t think anything could pull me back.
And i hope procedural generation starts to die very soon. Throwing the same basic ingredience into a mixer does not give you something new but more of the same. It’s boring.
…virtual note takers? we don’t even write our own fucking notes anymore?..
edit:
Okay, okay, I get it :D AI indeed has some uses.
Metz@lemmy.worldto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Google has made it much harder for GrapheneOS & CalyxOS to update to Android 16 English
1·6 months agoPostmarketOS seems to support many devices
3 devices. They support 3 devices under the “main” branch. And those are not even real devices but emulated on PC.
Every single smartphone they support falls under the “community” branch. that means it was made available by volunteers in their free time. some will never see further updates after getting them to work once.
And the list looks like this:
Release Year Name Missing / Broken or not tested Features 2021 Fairphone 4 Battery Status / charging, Wifi, Audio, Camera, GPS, NFC 2021 PinePhone Pro Partial Battery Status, Camera, SMS, Calls, USB-OTG 2020 PINE64 PinePhone Camera 2020 Purism Librem 5 Camera and so on. there is none newer then 2021 and then it goes very fast down to 2012. see yourself: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Phones
It does run on many phones, but e.g. support for Camera is very very rare because that is one thing you most of the time only get a binary blob for as driver and not the source code. and it is a god damn nightmare to get those things working.
Metz@lemmy.worldto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Google has made it much harder for GrapheneOS & CalyxOS to update to Android 16 English
0·6 months agoThis would mean that all the necessary drivers for the entire hardware would have to be recreated by reverse engineering. that would take years until you have an even halfway working device.
In the end, you have to poke around randomly in the hardware until at some point a light goes on somewhere. and so on. takes freaking forever. some devices don’t have working support after a decade and more of work.
Metz@lemmy.worldto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Google has made it much harder for GrapheneOS & CalyxOS to update to Android 16 English
1·6 months agoIts not about popularity. to be frank, the performance of Pixels is mediocre at best. It is neither particularly fast, nor does it have a particularly long battery life, nor is it overly stylish.
The strength lies in the dedicated security hardware and the fact that you can re-lock the bootloader, which is extremely rare. plus 7 to 10 years support with updates.
In terms of privacy and security the combination of Pixel Hardware and GrapheneOS Software could be considered the holy grail. There is just no other hardware right now that comes even close.
Metz@lemmy.worldto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Google has made it much harder for GrapheneOS & CalyxOS to update to Android 16
2·6 months agoFor fucks sake. Got me a pixel not even a year ago especially for Graphene -_-
Metz@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Opposition to the butchery in GazaEnglish
1·6 months agoHow fast we forgot Syria. Erdogan still bombing Kobane for example.
A good chunk of them are autistic, or ADHD dominated interest groups, like FOSS, or various hobbies. It also includes the LGBT+ crowd.
I call bullshit on that. There may be a slightly more than average representation (maybe not even that) but i have not seen even a single robust proof that indicates it is a “good chunk”.
This whole FOSS and LGBT+ or autistic or whatever is a meme, nothing more.
It’s fucked up to take picture of random people and post them online without consent. In germany that would even get you jailtime.


Hell yeah, moding Skyrim was a absolute pain in the ass. Will definitely give your tool a try. Thanks!