Just came here to say that this also affects any applications that use the libwebp library.

That includes many apps that most people don’t think of as “browsers”.

Electron based applications all use chromium under the hood, and are quite common/prolific these days.

https://www.electronjs.org/apps

Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.

I hope everyone reading this knows that you can just not connect a “Smart” TV to the internet. Leave it as a “dumb” TV.

Get a separate device like a Roku or AppleTV or Amazon Fire or whatever. The garbage hardware that TV manufacturers slap inside a TV so they can advertise its “smart” features will always be inferior to a purpose built external device.

To say nothing of the security implications of having an unpatched probably unsupported IoT device running on your network for years.

BetterTouchTool (which isn’t free but is worth every penny) lets you do everything rectangle does. Also lets you configure your mouse buttons to do whatever you want. Also infinite custom hot keys and shortcuts.

Also Raycast as a replacement for Spotlight.

ah, damn. thanks for the info!

Have you used an Apple Silicon machine before? They are a huge leap in performance. Even a “bad” one is likely to run circles around your Intel one.

(I upgraded from a 2019 to a 2021 M1 Max. It was a night-and-day upgrade.)

Basically max out everything you can afford to max out. GPU is more important lately than CPU for most things, get as much of that and as much RAM as you can afford.

Trying it again… (actually posting from it right now) – you’re right, whatever it was that I encountered last time seems to be gone. yay!

I recall downloading Arc — being interested in a fresh take on browser UX, but then being very put-off by the fact that it wanted me to give it my credentials to numerous services.

Maybe I should try it again, but I’m very cautious about signing into Google, Slack, Discord, etc. via a 3rd party app…

The video takes a long time to say this:

There’s a new (and concerning) service known as “Plist FMI off” which appears to be able to unlock an iPhone that would otherwise be locked and useless to thieves.

Disabling iCloud lock / Find My iPhone lock should be something only possible by someone working from inside Apple – thus implying that there’s likely an insider involved in this. Or at the very least, a security flaw in Apple’s network that’s allowing this to happen.

The Youtuber seems to think that Apple should be forthcoming about declaring this vulnerability exists. IMHO, he is wrong to think that. Declaring the flaw before it’s been patched would only create a rash of iPhone thefts.

Ideally, Apple is now aware of this situation, and is doing internal investigations to correct it.

Mona is great on mobile!

I use https://elk.zone on desktop though.

Wow. Thanks for mentioning this.

I wish there were some sort of bonus thank you points on Lemmy. I guess I’ll just give you a 🍟

Pretty much anything by Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens, Homo-Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Taken as a trilogy of sorts, they manage to do a great job of explaining how humanity got to where we are now, and assuming current trends continue, where we’re headed in the future. All without being super dense and academic.

oh! that’s a good idea… I guess I just figured it would be awkward to clutter up a single community with multiple languages? maybe that’s the whole point though. 🤷

ah! that’s what I was missing, the patience part of the equation! 🤣

I’m pretty sure there’s https://lemmy.world/c/sysadmin already. :)

uh… how do I make a link to another community?

I just created !nyto@lemmy.world … which hopefully someday will be useful/amusing.