The bad news is that Android is still likely affected. Similar to Apple’s ImageIO, Android has a facility called the BitmapFactory that handles image decoding, and of course libwebp is supported. As of today, Android hasn’t released a security bulletin that includes a fix for CVE-2023-4863 – although the fix has been merged into AOSP. To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I’d expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.

So a no-click device hack?

It’s way too big for this little amount of people, and somehow I stumbled on a porn drawing…

Sadly not everywhere. On mobile it lacks behind. Even more on video content and low power cpus.

Chromium is slightly better in a way where I could clic on the video buttons without lag : On my android TV, (sideloaded) Firefox had issues with video buttons. So I tried using kiwi browser (for the extension support), and it worked well for buttons. The video wasn’t a lot smoother, but it just seemed maybe just slightly better.

I don’t use it because of mobile adblock only. There are multiple private chromium browsers which have mobile adblock, and also one supporting extensions : kiwi browser.

I use Firefox because it’s a competing engine to chromium, and it looks good.

I also have all the synced bookmarks from my PC Firefox, which I use for the same reason, and because I got used to it.

Being grateful to a free service is a bit hard when a lot of those services use scummy marketing tactics…

There are some interesting, others well, maybe their free services are useful, but their tactics do not align and so it’s difficult to want to support them just because I could. (mostly vpns have real trash marketing). I’d rather donate more to a charity.

There are services open source or free closed source which are in need of donations.

VPNs do Not need your gratitude. The cost of running a VPN per user is extremely low (just look at the market prices to subscribe to a vpn). Even less for a for profit company. For vpn I would use one offering the best services for the needs at lower cost.

Making a donation to an open source or free service (which doesn’t try to scam you, or get your wallet) would require more effort, but bring more satisfaction because it would keep that open source useful project afloat.

Tho if you like a service and you need more from it, do pay for it. I’m not saying you shouldn’t.

p7zip doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore, 2016 seems to be last update (direct link to source forge from the 7zip website).

However a direct official cli port seems to have been created. Not sure if it can be installed through a repo, or if it has to be downloaded from the 7zip website.

I saw some older threads saying it wasn’t maintained anymore

Isn’t there a command line 7zip for Linux + custom gui for it, or from another compression manager software?

Because you don’t wash them in a good way lol

Or because you have the worst clothes ever.

When you wash clothes look for the instructions at which temperature you need to wash them. If you can put them in a drier…

Dont let clothes dry in a dryer machine, only let them a bit, then let them dry on a drying rack or whatever it’s called. Careful with clothes which aren’t rated to go into the drier, use low temperature, and never let them a long time if you put them in a dryer machine.

If they seem chemical, or have a bad smell, check if the washing machine washes well, or use another program to wash them more, or a short program to wash them again, only with water.

Maybe try another detergent, or put less of it.

Also, if as other comments said, if you use a softener, try without.

Bitwarden is very good. And it is not getting hacked every year as Lastpass… (another free password manager).

I also saw that proton has launched proton pass as a password manager. Seems to also be free, but only the app, I think is open source, and not the server. It also works less well than bitwarden, being new it can be expected.

Equalizer APO + Peace equalizer (as the interface) + AutoEq (for the automatic equalization).

It allows to change do advanced and automatic equalization on audio devices, being audio outputs or inputs as mics.

AutoEq is the automatic part. It is more focused on Headphones/earbuds/iems presets. It’s an automatic tool trying to equalize measured (by a compatible reviewer source, which is already in the database) headset to match the target the user wants, Then export a file for the software someone uses (peace for example).

As a common preset, the harman over-ear 2018/in-ear (depending on the device) is pretty good, but other presets are available too.

MPC-HC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc (the still maintained one).

For me VLC struggled on very high bitrate videos. While MPC-HC was smooth and used less resources.

However it is not available for Linux. So if it’s a software for Linux, I guess VLC is the best choice.

MPC-HC instead of VLC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc (the still maintained one) (windows only)

For me VLC had issues to stream very high bitrate content on my pc. MPC-HC used less resources while being smooth too.

At one point I was searching for a way to compress pictures in bulk while still conserving their readability, and I found this app, photo compressor and Resizer. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photocompress.photoeditor

It has many downloads, but just in case (because it doesn’t need it) I disabled Internet access to the app.

The size reduction is huge while still keeping a lot of the quality (it is also possible to chose a target size).

By default, the picture looks like it was taken with an older device with lower quality. However it still looks good enough. Not sure how to describe it.

On a picture of my car, it went from 4.8mB to 428kB. I can see most of the useful detail and identify most of elements in the picture. However some individual leafs or reliefs on some berries in the background or side are harder to see, or lost.

For the rest you can also put the pictures on a specific hosting website, and then just paste a link.

Per connexion would be pretty bad. Per network.

Let’s say you want to set a static DHCP ip from your router. The only way to do so (from the router, I’m not talking from the phone), is by assigning an IP to a MAC address.

If the address is randomised per connection, affecting a static DHCP ip would be impossible.

Another thing a router often has is some sort of dhcp memory. It remembers the ip it gave to a certain MAC address for some time, then when the device connects back, it assigns the same IP it had before.

So if the ip changes each time either the MAC address changes each time (not sure it’s default), or the router has no memory.

Like it is useful… Open ai already got all the useful info out of the websites.

Tho maybe for the sites generating new content it may have a use. But all the content before that is already lost to chatgpt.

I may have learned things about tech and computers on reddit, but I don’t remember the posts, only the knowledge.

Also I learned that redditors in the comments are 75-90% stupid and useless in any post. I sometimes had to answer tech related posts just because the other answers were completely wrong and did not help the OP.

Tho sometimes there was some useful info. But only sometimes…

Also asklemmy is not for support. [email protected] is a support for Lemmy.

If you are using an app, you would want to search for a community on your app.

Here is an article on a book of a professor of philosophy and neural science about this subject :

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/17/virtual-reality-is-genuine-reality-so-embrace-it-says-us-philosopher

One issue with learning and training, is that you’ll have the same limitations as now. You are still human, just connected to a machine and time cannot accelerate to learn faster.

However if we could move, change time to whatever place we want, create whatever we want. And still look real.

Then that would maybe make something very interesting for learning and training. It wouldn’t be faster. But for example a teacher would be able to create a world where they can help the students learn better, with images, simulations, stories…

However that may also create some issues where it wouldn’t be wise to recreate wars, death and other things which can be shocking for people. Because of that realism, it would be very hard to distinguish between a simulated war/death and a real one.

Tho it would maybe create a huge benefit for training for flying a plane for example. Cheap and no risks to break anything.