[–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Let me fix that headline for you:

Auburn police officer suspended with pay, but not arrested, for repeatedly punching helpless detainee in the head on video.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    If you wanted to test it, you could try sandboxing it to run as an unprivileged user with access to nothing else on the operating system. They claim it will run without needing sudo or root.

    I'm not gonna test it though. I'm not willing to use a distro that doesn't let me compile and install my own kernel modules.

    [edit] I read a bit more, looks like they are allowing unprivileged code into the kernel. That's apparently what eBPF does.

    Stay far away from this project.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    The car was in Full Self Driving mode,

    which requires constant driver supervision and isn’t technically considered capable of driving on its own

    The authorities just let them get away with these lies that kill people.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Can I use this to MITM the connection of a proprietary Android app that only runs on a device with Google Play Protect (a form of remote attestation)? And then reverse engineer the API?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The ones I've seen, in order from favorite to least favorite:

    1. TNG
    2. Lower Decks
    3. SNW
    4. The Orville*
    5. DS9
    6. TOS
    7. Voyager
    8. Discovery

    Discovery's the only one I really didn't like. I knew in 2 episodes I didn't like it. There's really nothing you need to avoid preemptively.

    You can watch them in any order, but watching at least one episode of TOS might give you some good context for SNW. And likewise watching some TNG/DS9 would give good context for what Lower Decks is building from. Lower Decks is mostly a parody of the TNG/DS9/Voyager set.

    TNG probably the most popular one for people to reference, so is a good pick if you want to fit in with Trekkie culture. (DS9 too.)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    You do own the game, for most games sold on GoG. (Not the copyright assignment. The "game", or "copy of the game", however you want to refer to it.) If you buy a game as a disc, in a store, you own it until you take it home and find an EULA contract that takes away that ownership. I don't believe a clickwrap contract has any legitimate effect, but I don't think the courts would be on my side.

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    Our colony rescued Ferco from a drop pod crash and nursed her back to health. A day later, I looked closer at Ferco's stats, and saw she had no Adult Backstory. Oh, she's only 17, that's why.

    Child backstory: Child star. "Ferco was well-known throughout her homeworld as a child actor in films and TV shows. Her fame put her in contact with many different kinds of people, but also tended to get in the way of her education."

    What, as a nudist!? She arrived with no clothes, the Nudist trait, and the "Happily nude" moodlet. Is Ferco some sort of horrific brainwashed slave?

    She also had severe alcohol addiction (at age 17), and arrived with 5 beers as her only possessions.

    So Ferco, in a moment of lucidity, managed to escape from the Butdainor faction that was abusing her. She stole a transport pod, launched to anywhere, and happened to crash into our colony. A colony where my pawn Haplo lived.

    But Haplo was the father of Penny Hancock, Prime councilor of Butdainor. And when a Butdainor trade caravan came to our colony, Ferco was handed over to the care of the trader, who did not give her any clothes, though the temperature was 6 C outside.

    There's some fucked up shit going on in Butdainor, and Haplo is complicit.

     

    I'm planning to buy a new phone, and would like advice. I will probably get one of the following:

    • Pixel 8a running GrapheneOS
    • Pixel 8a running CalyxOS
    • Fairphone 5 running CalyxOS

    Either one of these phones will effectively be without warranty from the start. I can't file a warranty claim for a Fairphone 5, because they offer no warranty in my country. I can't file a warranty claim on a Pixel 8a, because I can't create a Google account.

    Free open source software is important to me, and these are the free-est phone OSs I could find.

    I'm planning to install Magisk to root the phone. I need adb root at a minimum. Will this prevent automatic updates?

    Why do the GrapheneOS people say that rooting breaks the whole security model of Android? I can't understand this, because only a few specific apps are granted root access, or possibly only adb.

    Reasons I need root access:

    • I need a comprehensive backup system. Non-root backup systems skip files.
    • I want to block connections using the hosts file.
    • I want to study the filesystem to learn more about Android.
    • I want to mess with apps' internal states.
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