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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t break very many cables myself, but I’ve certainly broken a couple of Apple cables - they seem particularly delicate.

    All it takes is picking up your phone without realising it’s still on charge and getting unlucky with force/angle. That won’t destroy it but it’ll damage the interface between the cable and the plug enough that it’ll start to deteriorate and eventually come apart.




  • dan@lemm.eetoProgrammer Humor@programming.devOrder
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    Lossless compression algorithms aren’t magical, they can’t make everything smaller (otherwise it would be possible to have two different bits of input data that compress to the same output). So they all make some data bigger and some data smaller, the trick is that the stuff they make smaller happens to match common patterns. Given truly random data, basically every lossless compression algorithm will make the data larger.

    A good encryption algorithm will output data that’s effectively indistinguishable from randomness. It’s not the only consideration, but often the more random the output looks, the better the algorithm.

    Put those two facts together and it’s pretty easy to see why you should compress first then encrypt.



  • They collect:

    The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself

    The information collected includes categorized web browsing history that shows how long and how often you visited specific categories of sites (i.e. social media, personal finance, or news). All site visits are classified into one of 30 categories. We do not collect URLs, web pages titles, or user-specific content without explicit permission from you.

    Software usage: for example, frequency and duration of application usage such as Intel® Driver & Support Assistant, but not the application content itself such as specific actions or keyboard input.

    Feature usage: for example, how much RAM you usually use or your laptop’s average battery life.

    Other devices in your computing environment

    Includes universal plug and play devices and devices that broadcast information to your computer on a local area network: for example, smart TV model and vendor information, and video streaming devices.

    (the emphasis is mine, as is the minor reordering to not hide the browsing behaviour stuff at the bottom)

    Yeah that’ll be a no from me there, bud.