Engineer in industrial cybersecurity by day. Interests include Unix, security, cryptography.
Non-technical interests are climbing, records, beer, and whisky. Oh, and MTG.
Will toot terrible puns in either English or French.
Trans rights are human rights. Fascists can rot in hell.
PSA: Meta (Facebook) is offering a new “feature” where it asks you if you want to opt into “cloud processing”. If you say yes, you’ll be giving it permission to upload your entire camera roll and use AI on them to make suggested posts.
I’m just spitballing here, but I’m pretty sure most of y’all would not want to give Facebook all of your photos to use with their AI.
Time to divide and conquer.
@dangoodin To remove the Gemini app, even on devices that do not allow you to disable it in the Apps menu:
𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗔𝗗𝗕
1. Enable Developer options
- Launch ⚙️Settings
- Go to About phone then Software information
- Tap Build number seven times
2. Enable USB debugging
- Go to Developer options (in ⚙️Settings)
- Enable USB debugging
3. Install Android Debug Bridge (adb) on your computer
4. Connect to phone via adb
- Connect with a good USB cable
- Run adb devices
- Click OK on Allow USB debugging?
5. Disable Gemini app (left
- adb shell pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.bard
6. Disable Developer options (recommended)
- Go to Developer options (in ⚙️Settings)
- Disable by toggling On to Off
@catsalad @dangoodin neat, thank you.
Am I slowly replacing the old trusted tools on my personal laptop with the new shiny things because I'm considering switching to Wayland over there after a month+ using it on my work laptop?
Maybe I am.
@AlbertBorneo "je peux pas venir patron j'ai une vignette crit'air 3 mais le gouvernement recommande le télétravail alors pour le chantier j'avais pensé à installer bétonnière simulator 2024 vous en dites quoi ?"
@alacrity_marker Yeah, it's definitely done in a way that convinces me they don't want people to subscribe. At that price point only professional instagrammers can really justify it.
I also wish the guy behind the fediverse clone wasn't insufferable.
Jesus Christ, Meta. I wish you ceased to exist and climbers went elsewhere to post their updates.
@GossiTheDog I foresee projects will end up just banning vuln reports from accounts who have not been vetted.
This is what I started from, which was a bit less acceptable.
The xy plane was tilted, typical from situations where I lifted the z position myself. I roughly repositioned the gantry, but micro adjustments were obviously required.
Borked something with my 3D printer badly enough that I had to remove my extruder and replace the print head.
I had forgotten that ABL is finnicky. I'll call this good enough.
In the 1960s, this absurdly large camera was used to make masks for integrated circuits. The layers of the integrated circuit were drawn at large scale and then optically shrunk to make the glass masks that were used in manufacturing.
Also, it's been over a month since I've been trying out Wayland (with Hyprland) and so far it's so much smoother than I feared.
I might even consider dropping awesomewm on $PERSONAL_LAPTOP.
My main pain points come from a quirky behavior with split-monitor-workspaces, and from the middle click paste thing not working with electron apps (element, obsidian). Pretty minor things all in all.
Colour me surprised.
@sparkwade Thanks. Yeah, a bunch of factors were involved in my depression but work was a major component.
It's been over a month and despite my best efforts to make terrible jokes I haven't gotten fired yet.
(And yeah, it's far better than the previous place. Very refreshing to not have my skills questioned every time I say something that should be obvious to anyone with a sliver of competence.)
People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP
@dolmen (early sources we found of Aesop's fables were in Latin and Greek)
@dolmen I happen to know a thing or two about the history of the French language, yes, but it is irrelevant as Aesop was living in ancient Greece, and the original version of the fable is attributed to him. :)
@AlbertBorneo C'est anormal. Le lecteur de cartes est peut-être défaillant. Que raconte "dmesg" ?
