Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

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  • For those that don’t know:
    It was a jump-scare flash game.

    The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.

    Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.

    Personally, it didn’t make me flinch much though,
    but I guess it affected some others like OP.


  • If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.

    I agree that it’s hard to enforce the rules,
    and that some would still ignore them.
    However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.

    It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
    But that’s also not that important imo.
    Most pirates are rather poor folks,
    just trying to watch/play some content which they can’t afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.

    However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.




  • *Don’t Use Session,
    if your threat profile includes government’s spending ±100k to crack your encryption, since their encryption is not the best out there.

    Which they likely won’t for an average privacy conscious user, but they might for high ranking criminals.

    It was a good read though,
    I won’t invite new people to Session due to it.

    But the title is a little click-baity,
    “Session’s encryption is not the best”,
    would be a more honest title.


  • There’s 2 parts to this:

    • Android Auto app (on your phone)
    • Android Auto Head Unit software (in your car)

    Both of which are currently proprietary,
    and would need to be written as FOSS from the ground up by reverse engineering the above 2, which would be a huge undertaking.

    Also flashing custom Head Unit software to your car will be very hard, is not well documented, and likely will void your warranty, giving low incentive for developers to even attempt it :/

    The best you can do right now is aa4mg (Android Auto 4 MicroG),
    which at least allows to replace the proprietary Google Play services with a privacy respecting FOSS alternative and Android Auto’s dependencies with empty stub packages:
    https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

    Full disclosure,
    I helped with writing aa4mg :)