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Notices by karl (karl@soykaf.com)

  1. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 23-Sep-2016 20:19:35 UTC karl karl
    https://wire.com/ Great bullet-points, lots of positive pro-privacy buzzwords. They even offer a direct download of the APK for those who avoid google apps on their phones. But, as usual for all free-to-use large-scale centralized communications services:

    What's the business model? Who's paying the bills?
    In conversation Friday, 23-Sep-2016 20:19:35 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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    1. Wire · Modern communication, full privacy. For iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and web.
      HD quality calls, private and group chats with inline photos, music and video. Secure and perfectly synced across your devices.
  2. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 22:57:09 UTC karl karl
    I just went from being 99% sure my next PC isn't a mac to 100% sure. OSX 10.12 doesn't allow users to run unapproved programs unless you do some command-line stuff to enable running unsigned programs. I'm not afraid of the command line, but I *really* don't like the mentality behind this decision. And the fucking Apple fanboys are eagerly metaphorically fellating Apple for this user-hostile decision because it "keeps people safe!"

    Fucking hell, I have no idea what I'm going to do a few years down the road. Every last photo editor on Linux is totally inadequate to my needs. (And believe me, I've tried them ALL.) Windows 10 is unacceptable for more reasons than I can count, and I have no faith that my squirreled-away retail copy of Win 8.1 will work on hardware years from now. And Mac OS is going down the road to full-scale "open your wallet and do as Apple commands, you stupid user" IOSification.

    Just so tired and angry at the whole mess right now. Hell, I may go back to a fucking darkroom and 35mm. Maybe the luddites are on to something here.
    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 22:57:09 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  3. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 22:32:45 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • Annah
    Not yet, but any decade now GIMP will have support for 16-bit colourspaces. And if development continues at its breakneck pace, we'll have adjustment layers before the turn of the century!
    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 22:32:45 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  4. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Sep-2016 04:31:21 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • robek world
    The Vulcans are Germans. Stoic, technologically advanced, and theoretically pacifist as a reaction to a super-nasty super-violent history.
    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Sep-2016 04:31:21 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  5. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Sep-2016 14:47:34 UTC karl karl
    Dear slack-jawed yokels who have apparently never live in a city before: front doors of buses are for loading passengers, back doors are for unloading passengers.

    Friggin rubes.
    In conversation Monday, 19-Sep-2016 14:47:34 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  6. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2016 18:20:55 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • Annah
    This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12512190

    I'm really curious to find out what really happened. Given RMS&co's generally socially-progressive attitudes, I'd be quite surprised if he or one of the other senior FSF people would actually fire anyone for simply being trans. More facts are needed.
    In conversation Friday, 16-Sep-2016 18:20:55 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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  7. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Sep-2016 04:08:17 UTC karl karl
    • Voat /v/news
    Colin "I Helped Fabricate Evidence To Stage Invasions" Powell wants to lecture people on decency?

    Trump's a psychotic xenophobic grade-A fucktard that I hope never holds public office more prominent than county rat-catcher, but it's not like neocon-insider-extrordinaire Colin fucking Powell has any business judging what is and is not a disgrace.
    In conversation Wednesday, 14-Sep-2016 04:08:17 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  8. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 20:52:21 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • wakarimasen
    Works out-of-the-box with Conversations, too. No fiddling with settings necessary. https://soykaf.com/wiki/index.php/Site/XMPPServer
    In conversation Friday, 09-Sep-2016 20:52:21 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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  9. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 15:05:05 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • Christmas Personified as a Catgirl
    @moonman Raggamuffin?

    Wait, there's an idea. When your partner wants you to talk dirty, use only insults and slurs from more than a century ago.
    In conversation Friday, 09-Sep-2016 15:05:05 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  10. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Aug-2016 19:06:14 UTC karl karl
    Funny: https://soykaf.com/attachment/68539

    Funnier: https://soykaf.com/attachment/68540
    In conversation Friday, 26-Aug-2016 19:06:14 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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    1. https://soykaf.com/file/520d03624bfb93f6072bf48e48494724bccb380ad7963e4fb93918a9cc6bdfe6.jpg

    2. https://soykaf.com/file/ed849d440c4b1027e654aca997b50ec00cc7e3814e2860af57479f9f9e9d267b.jpg
  11. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2016 17:21:05 UTC karl karl
    https://soykaf.com/url/63060 "Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update"

    Short version: only webcams that encode using YUY2 will work with the anniversary edition. Anything that uses MJPEG or H264 won't. Microsoft claims it's for performance reasons.

    Fun fact: YUY2 was developed internally at Microsoft.

    End result: Are you a company that wants to make a webcam that works with Windows 10? Time to pony up some patent royalty cash!

    Welcome to the world of monopolies and mandatory updates. #wexit
    In conversation Friday, 19-Aug-2016 17:21:05 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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    1. Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update
      By Brad Sams from Thurrott.com
      With the release of the Anniversary update earlier this month, Microsoft has accidentally broken millions of webcams after it removed a feature that was used by HD webcams.
  12. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2016 14:46:00 UTC karl karl
    Tried a twitter-related experiment last night. I signed up for a twitter account using one of my email domains that I've never used for twitter before (so no history of spam or abuse from that domain). I followed all the suggested celebs that it pre-checkmarked for me in the signup process. Basically I did the twitter signup equivalent of "next next next install".

    And then I did absolutely nothing. No DMs, no tweets, no updates to the profile. And I left it overnight.

    Logged in again this morning, and whaddya know:

    https://soykaf.com/attachment/62929

    Twitter really, really, really wants peoples phone numbers.
    In conversation Friday, 19-Aug-2016 14:46:00 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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    1. https://soykaf.com/file/7b32678f367820d30368c19955959ce3b0293874d4c83b556611cdf72b8b02ee.png
  13. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2016 22:34:53 UTC karl karl
    • TheCharmingAlbino
    @thecharmingalbino Ah, good old-fashioned electric-universe quackery. I was wondering when I'd see one of you pseudoscience cranks showing up.

    Thankfully, your brand of insanity is relatively harmless. You're not actively harming society like the anti-vaccination assholes. Shine on, you crazy diamonds.
    In conversation Monday, 15-Aug-2016 22:34:53 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  14. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-Aug-2016 22:30:10 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • Annah
    I love how low-tech Canadian voting is. Paper, pencil, a literal ballot box, and a whole lot of eyes on each physical ballot as they're counted. I don't care if it costs more and takes more time. It's a safer process.
    In conversation Sunday, 14-Aug-2016 22:30:10 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  15. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 17:24:34 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
    • wakarimasen
    @wakarimasen @bobjonkman  Way ahead of you. :) Every encrypted drive I have has a backup of the headers and keyfiles for all the other encrypted drives.
    In conversation Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 17:24:34 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  16. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 17:16:11 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
    • wakarimasen
    @bobjonkman @wakarimasen Yeah, periodic verification is key. And having both offsite and onsite backups is also vital. My onsite backups are on drives with luks/dm-crypt'd full-disk encryption, I consider that safe enough. I use Duplicity for the "backups of the backups" that are going offsite.

    I used to use owncloud's encrypted storage, until I looked deeper into it and realized how PANTS ON HEAD RETARDED it is. The encryption may be fine (I have no idea, I'm no cryptographer) but they don't obfuscate filenames.

    "La dee da, I'm a bad guy who's got a folder full of encrypted files from someone's owncloud install, let's see, there's a little file called passwords.txt, gee, I wonder what file I'm gonna aim my password cracker at first?"
    In conversation Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 17:16:11 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  17. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 15:52:05 UTC karl karl
    in reply to
    • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
    • Eric Duhamel
    @clacke @ericxdu23 I've never bought that excuse by messenger-app makers. They could just as easily use an email address as an ID instead of a phone number. It's not a new concept.

    The only reasons to choose phone numbers over email addresses is to track real-world identities and limit people to one account. Combining those two aspects is a data-miner's dream. Why do you think so many web-based services are trying as hard as they can to get users to supply their phone numbers?
    In conversation Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 15:52:05 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  18. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 05:45:24 UTC karl karl
    • Eric Duhamel
    @ericxdu23 It's not so much about authentication, as it is about needlessly collecting highly-unique personal data. Combine one's phone number with one's network of contacts, and traffic analysis becomes trivial no matter how good the encryption is.

    Given that Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, and all the rest never actually use the phone network (except for a one-time account setup authentication), there's no technical reason for requiring a phone number. All those services run entirely over data networks after account creation. Collecting phone numbers is entirely about connecting social graphs to real-world identities, for the purposes of law enforcement and advertising data mining.
    In conversation Thursday, 04-Aug-2016 05:45:24 UTC from soykaf.com permalink
  19. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2016 04:58:26 UTC karl karl
    Wow. Owarimonogatari is one of the most brutal arcs of the whole Monogatari series. No supernatural stuff, no fanservicey moments, no sight gags. Just pure realistic emotional gutpunches, one after the other. In a series filled with broken birds, Oikura takes the fucking cake.

    https://soykaf.com/attachment/48394

    And the direction is stunning. Shinbo is a fucking master. Why the hell don't more anime directors take advantage of the literally infinite camera framing possibilities of animation?
    In conversation Wednesday, 03-Aug-2016 04:58:26 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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    1. https://soykaf.com/file/36954616c0cd67bb58338df453021db5c096e5c4681fe680eaf07dd8a1ee284d.jpg
  20. karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2016 01:41:37 UTC karl karl
    https://soykaf.com/url/48288 "Hackers break into Telegram, revealing 15 million users’ phone numbers"

    GEE, I WONDER WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES OF REQUIRING PHONE NUMBER REGISTRATION AND HALF-ASSED SECURITY COULD POSSIBLY BE?

    Kids, this is why when a service asks you for your phone number, you walk the other way.
    In conversation Wednesday, 03-Aug-2016 01:41:37 UTC from soykaf.com permalink

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    1. Hackers break into Telegram, revealing 15 million users' phone numbers
      By Ken Yeung from VentureBeat
      Hackers break into Telegram, revealing 15 million users’ phone numbers
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