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The physical media selection at Sony's Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup gutted in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 week ago

Sea shanties intensify

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, presumably this is all device-side on the stick.

It mounts the two partitions separately, and presents them separately. It doesn't need to pass through the actual SD card to the host system at all.

If you dd the decoy partition you only ever see the decoy partition. Because the decoy partition is presented as a complete device, not just a partition, to the host system.

Why would this be incompatible with linux? If this is done the way it seems it is done, it's not a filesystem trick.

It's two partitions on one SD card being presented as two separate devices by the microcontroller that has actual direct access.

The real vulnerability would be that you could just crack it open to find the SD card.

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Great news! We've the created the Torment Nexus, from the hit sci-fi series "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"!

SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In case you're unaware, that's literally why they took to calling it that.

Technically correct, easiest to market back when people were first starting to have doubts about setting stuff we found underground on fire.

Using the word "natural" was very much a deliberate choice.

Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

OMFG.

Gemini is neat, but it SSUUUUUUUUCCCKKS at being a voice assistant.

It will frequently produce a fucking essay in response to being asked to turn the lights on or off.

I just gave it a go again, 30% of the time it pretends to do what you ask without actually doing it. 20% of the time it flat-out refuses while never failing to mention that I really should enable gemini activity tracking. 40% of the time is claims this functionality does not exist, even though it was given the ability to "ask assistant" to do things only it can do (like identify music by listening to it). 10% of the time it will successfully hand off to assistant, which will then instantly do as asked.

Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Worse.

It will fucking lie and say it set a timer or reminder, and if you ask it "wtf" in response when it clearly didn't (if you notice), it'll fucking explain it's just roleplaying at being a voice assistant.

Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hell yes.

It's fucking open source, this is no different from games with intrusive anti-cheat refusing to run on Linux, except in this case it's not even a different OS.

It's monopolistic and anti-user.