Pup Biru

software should be a trade, and treated like apprenticeships… some theory is needed, but it’s wild that anyone thinks 3 years of just theory is going to produce decent software engineers

+1 davinci… it’s incredible what you get in the free version, and the studio version is getting more and more worth the money in a value add way rather than a need it way

to really hammer home this “many ways to hide”: the PDF is kinda just like a container… it contains other things like images (the patterns for example)… these patterns are probably vector graphics (made up of lines rather than pixels)… this means you can magnify them basically infinitely… and they can contain transparent lines and all sorts of things. they could easily embed that same text in the SVG image, at tiny scale (less than a pixel at 100% scale), and make it transparent… no PDF editor is going to touch the image data: it simply doesn’t really understand it to that degree - it’s an image; not a PDF after all… so that information will remain even after you’ve removed all visible/reasonable marks

this is just 1 example of practically infinite places it could be - and remember, this text is just lines in an image! it’s not like you can ctrl+f for the text necessarily… you’d have to go through every image manually and inspect every single line, and even then there are no guarantees (perhaps they encoded that information like morse code in bumps in some lines that are only barely visible at 1000% magnification)

which they handled about as well as you can: prompt and clear notification without trying to pass the buck

the potential of a data breach is just a fact of life with any SAAS product - bugs happen… and it’s exactly the SAAS part of the product that makes the invites/login/aggregation of servers so smooth

there are some admin endpoints that are authenticated using any local IP, but the method they use allows spoofing the IP so those endpoints become accessible essentially without authentication

there were some other issues to do with unauthenticated enumeration and playback of content i believe too

i’m not likely to wrangle installing and maintaining wireguard on my mums cheap smart tv

and if that’s the solution, as i said you get plex local playback so that’s free still anyway

my main issues

• jellyfin has known security vulnerabilities and shouldn’t be run on a public network. that means everyone using your server remotely needs to be on a VPN… and then you may as well use plex because it’s “local” so the remote streaming thing doesn’t apply
• swiftfin (which i need for apple tv) doesn’t support media segments

the thing that everyone always glosses over is that jellyfin should not be run on a public network. it has known security vulnerabilities… that includes VPN remote proxy, so now you have to have external users on your actual VPN, and if that’s the case then plex will work fine because it’s “local”, and has a lot more features

(and my main issue: media segments don’t work on swiftfin)

the mozilla foundation is largely responsible for the whole adtech and ai slop nonsense that nobody asked for

the mozilla corporation is responsible for firefox. there is no way to support firefox development

we have meaningless standards for a lot of things… just ask someone on the spectrum what they think of social norms and they’ll have a huge list of things that don’t make any logical sense that people just do

i’m not saying it’s right, but it’s just something that humans do

it’s the same kind of statement as saying that, for example, politicians should wear suits… we tend to have expectations that everyone is dressed to a similar level for the context they’re in. in public, that expectation tends to include a shirt of some kind. shirtless is a similar level of “should have to” as arriving at work or a party dressed too casually

imo in this case the offence wouldn’t be the “a bit rude” part: nobody likely got fired for speaking another language before the rule… the offence would be breaking company policy/rules

if you’re taking about charlie kirk with that “civil conversation” bit, those conversations were using misleading half truths to publicly debate people he disagrees with in order to convert the people around said debate to his cause. i wouldn’t call that civil… civil is healthy, truthful debate on the merits: not winning at all costs

honestly the text kinda looks like it’s AI generated… has weird kerning, things aren’t quite right

you might be able to try a live version of a distro to see how your hardware functions before taking the plunge

amazing! thanks for the clarification

that’s correct. part of the reason mac doesn’t have the same gaming community as linux with proton does afaik

apple silicon has specific changes to amd64, and some extra instructions to help with x86 translation afaik (1 of the main things i think is how memory is laid out is different somehow? so every memory access needs extra clock cycles to accomplish in standard arm64)

but in general, rosetta2 is incredible: very little performance loss… i thiiink it’s something like 2-10%, which is made up for by the cheaper cores

from what i understand, graphics is more of a problem… metal just isn’t well supported - i think the standard thing is you have to do direct x <-> dxvk <-> vulkan <-> moltenvk <-> metal, which is a huge overhead and is far from perfect in its translations

the grift shop

that’s not entirely true for windows. windows does have containers natively, and there is a native docker engine for windows that runs native software

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-docker/configure-docker-daemon

they also support containerd and some other runtimes

in certainly not an advocate for windows, but it does exist if you’re a complete masochist