I pushed a friend to format an external hard drive with exFAT and not Apple’s filesystem for compability, but something with the M2 MacBook eventually messed up the filesystem and it couldn’t read it. Troubleshooting and reading forums, found there’s something with the new Macs and exFAT. Ended up having to use an x86 apple device to recover the data.

Maybe this is launcher specific, but on Pixel phones, when pulling up the list of apps to switch to, there’s a screenshot button, which is way easier and can be done with one hand.

Agreed, I’m not saying it’s impossible to detect the OS, but it’s even more trivial for an adversary to regex the User Agent and serve the malware for that OS. The average user doesn’t even know what a User Agent is, and that’s who the drive by malware websites are counting on to infect because they’re easy targets.

Just like a real fingerprint, that will only identify the fingerprint to a person, not tell you that the fingerprint is from someone who is European. Fingerprints are used to track you across different websites, and build a profile of you for advertising.

Generally browser fingerprinting is used to identify individual browser sessions across IP addresses. This mostly takes into account reported features and capabilities of the browser and OS to the website. Fingerprinting isn’t looking for specific info your browser reports, it’s taking it all and hashing it to get a unique id specific to the browser. Because it’s hashed, it can’t be reversed to identify the OS from the hash.

Sure a malicious website could Ignore the user agent and probe for some hardware capabilities that are specific to Linux, but that would be a lot of effort to probe various things which are set differently across all different browsers. I can’t speak for bad actors, but I wouldn’t spend the effort to check if the user agent is spoofed, if 95% of the time it’s accurate to get the OS type.

And also not be backed by venture capital firms expecting to make infinite profits. Private or Public, if the company shareholder’s only goal is to continue to receive 10% gains on their investment after already making back 20x their principal, they’ll squeeze the company for all it’s worth.

Found the post on the forums. The screenshot omits the comment from Craig who said “I ended up wiping windows and installing Ubuntu instead”.

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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

It may be obvious to some, but this is a fake tweet and the only post today is some early bird pricing for a conference: https://xcancel.com/nvidia/with_replies

Other than the Nvidia stock price, the joke is that the contents of the tweet were something the Intel CEO did tweet after a similar stock plunge! https://xcancel.com/PGelsinger/status/1820129317122080977?lang=en

$4404 contains 404 though, i.e. 404 Error: Profit Not Found, which makes me chuckle.

According to https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Truth-About-Emanuel-The#tab=summary , the domestic box office was $4,404

Me on Jan 19th vs me on Jan 21st

Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?