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GP appears to be claiming people can tell whether a counterfeit is unsafe. I'm curious how they think that's possible.

How do you know the fake product is safe though?

Not in the news I've been reading - perhaps your news sources deserve a more critical evaluation?

You can see it in action by visiting e.g. https://www.qubes-os.org/ in tor browser

I'd like to see some corrections to the matrix, Kobo can run custom code and does not require an account. Also "DRM: yes" feels misleading - you can read DRM-free files on one just fine.

Windows 10 also features the GDID, telemetry and Edge history syncing.

A Global Device ID (GDID) is a permanent, unique digital fingerprint that Microsoft automatically assigns to your computer when you install Windows or sign into a Microsoft account.

Note the "or"

I own a Windows 10 machine which has never signed into a Microsoft account. It still has a GDID in the registry.

Actual title: Misfits Attic Announces Duskers 2.0 Funded By Stray Signal

The ID is generated even if you only create a local user account. I don't know to what extent that affects tracking/telemetry though.

Edge seems likely. Its settings include:

Send optional diagnostic data to improve Microsoft products [Includes how you use the browser, websites you visit, and enhanced error reporting. Determined by your Windows diagnostic data setting]

Allow Microsoft to save your browsing activity including history, usage, favourites, web content, and other browsing data to personalise and improve Microsoft Edge and Microsoft services like ads, search, shopping, news, and Copilot [Includes your history, usage, favourites, web content and other browsing data]

The About page might be a better submission

https://film-grab.com/about/

Even my Super Nintendo with Street Fighter II pack-in only included a single controller. Christmas day was fun but not as fun as it could have been.

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20101021072500/http://www.bsc.es...

In case you hadn't heard, there's a sizable archive here https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

and I see another collection mentioned on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865

This tells us nothing about whether non-Microsoft browsers are involved

Or even Edge with these options turned off:

Send optional diagnostic data to improve Microsoft products [Includes how you use the browser, websites you visit, and enhanced error reporting. Determined by your Windows diagnostic data setting]

Allow Microsoft to save your browsing activity including history, usage, favourites, web content, and other browsing data to personalise and improve Microsoft Edge and Microsoft services like ads, search, shopping, news, and Copilot [Includes your history, usage, favourites, web content and other browsing data]

I didn't need to do anything complicated last time I backed up a bluray, the software made it essentially "click this button then wait a while"

Maybe licensing existing tech, e.g. https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/01/ai-generated-music-deeze...

forwarded the captured data to an address that does not appear anywhere on the public internet. The script’s source code refers to it as AutoMonitor.

I believe the address in question is https://analytics.infra.ndstudio.gov/metrics

as found in this snapshot https://web.archive.org/web/20260128044924/https://ndstudio....

other subdomains may be of interest: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/ndstudio.gov?scr...

it's common to refer to download-only purchases as digital and discs as physical

I was confused by the instruction to run Asciinema alongside it. The use case is explained on the linked page:

https://nlnet.nl/project/Tau/

if all you need is audio, https://streammyaudio.com/ is also worth a look - a single binary containing the client and server

This page mentions international models, but seems it's still possible to flash them in any case

https://crosspointreader.com/#unlock-tool

also: https://crosspointreader.com/unlocker

If you install koreader on the kobo, crosspoint on the x4 and create a free koreader sync account (or host your own sync sever): yes - but on the x4 you need to manually trigger syncs

Alternatively if you wish to stick with the stock Kobo reader app it is possible to sync via a https://grimmory.org/ instance

Isn't that what they're referring to in the next sentence? >built‑in “volume leveling”

Tom has added you as a friend!

any system with pages you "turn" certainly feels very different to reading a webpage (or PDF) with free vertical scrolling

I just discovered that MacOS was blocking Firefox from connecting to devices on my LAN - there's per-app toggle in system settings.

Access to my router's web interface was not blocked (understandably) but this left me rather confused for a while.

New BSD Games. A package of 21 new, improved, text-based modern games. Some are entirely original ideas.

they got acquired in 2023, prices went up and the free mailboxes turned into a monthly fee

Kobo's devices let you bypass the account signup via a single option in a config file. Whether you do so or not it's easy to install koreader and start writing plugins for it. You can also hack on the linux OS they use