Areldyb [he/him]

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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • If your router isn’t even a Linksys router, then it’s most likely a false positive result and can be safely ignored. If you want to be extra sure, you could attempt to actually exploit the vulnerability with routersploit and see whether you get anywhere.

    In general, the fix for a vulnerability in an end-user network device is some combination of “update the firmware” and “disable the vulnerable feature”.





  • My second proposal — and this is a wild one — is that promotional notifications should just not be allowed. Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea!

    The author calls out the Starbucks app here, but doesn’t mention how blatantly dark-patterned its notifications really are. Android allows apps to set up multiple notification channels, so you can selectively prioritize (or, more often, mute or block) notifications based on their content. Starbucks uses this feature… to create a single channel called “Promotions & order status”. You wanted to know when your order’s ready? Fuck you and your concentration, get double stars today!

    I appreciate the notification controls Android gives me, and I use them aggressively. If an app pushes a notification that doesn’t actually require my attention, I block that channel, and if it does it again, I block notifications for the whole app. I agree with the author, though: I shouldn’t need to do that.











  • It’s a very uneven game (some 9/10 “this is cool!” gameplay loops bundled together with some 3/10 “how did this ever get released?” segments) and definitely not for everybody. The object pop-ins were noticeable, the sudden 2D-perspective-locks on later islands were worse, and it took me a while to really find a groove and get into the game, but once I did I had a great time with it.

    If you want to continue playing, I recommend hunting down and completing all the “?” map challenges (edit: or just a lot of them, because some might not be reachable yet for story reasons) before working on other objectives. Some of them are designed to train necessary but non-obvious skills, and having a full map makes it a lot easier to get around and pick your battles.

    Also, starfall events give you so many fishing tokens that Big’s fishing minigame becomes the single best way to gather resources and level up. It’s totally gamebreaking but it’s Big the Cat so it’s great.