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Oui

I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software

The king is dead, long live the king!

Plausible deniability

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FTFY

Here you go

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/

Edit: I didn’t see the other comment, oops

Hey, you might want to team up with Sony…

Line go up

IIRC the default for the root of the drives in Windows is an analog to Linux / which should be root:root 755.

The difference: When Windows displays the UAC dialog and asks you to elevate, it will (mostly?) just add your user to the ACL list instead of elevating your file browser while you access the drive. If ACLs are inherited from other folders below, that can have serious side effects…

I’d be rich if I had a penny for every time a savegame or config file is stored somewhere totally whack.

Fun thing of you enable protected folders on windows: No app can get write access your Documents folder (or Images or Videos or…) unless you put them explicitly on the whitelist. That means you get to experience all the programs that are crashing or hanging or… just because they’re simply assuming that that’s the best place to dump data and because these folders always exist, you don’t need proper error handling in case you cannot access them…

The rules are the rules. At least one person read IATT Bulletin 1147 before their trip ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Narrator: They use arch btw.

Instructions unclear, D stuck in printer

Something something something leopards eating faces

Help me, I’m stuck in the drawer!

Wait until you discover the Nightcore version of it

Meta/Facebook made a Twitter/X clone called Threads. They enabled activity pub, so that Fediverse users can be followed from Threads and vice versa.

At 38C3, there was a talk about Volkswagen - a German car manufacturer - that didn’t correctly secure the data it collected from its vehicles and what you can „learn“ from this data. The talk can be found here, it’s in German but there’s also an English translation in another audio layer

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen

Also, depending on which device you use to watch: if you download the movie/episode and play it, you won’t see ads. Not every of their apps lets you download, but depending on which app (on which device) you can use, that’s also a neat workaround for non-children-titles