Add conditioner for me because I have super hard water. And my soap is body wash. But yeah, same principle.

The second move is for target acquisition and often precedes a pounce. The wide pupils let in more light, enabling a more precise pounce.

Why the cat’s body is preparing to pounce is entirely situational. Maybe it’s a hunt, maybe it’s play, maybe it’s just because the cat is being a little overenergetic derp. When you spend time living with a cat you usually learn to identify them pretty reliably. Especially the last one.

Actually, yeah. Apparently the kind of lockout the replacement firmware works around has been defined for BD from the beginning but has only really been enforced for UHD BD.

Being insecure is fine. Being insecure and then never shutting up about how great you are and how everyone should be like you is deeply annoying. Lie to yourself if it makes you feel better; everyone does that. But don’t insist I should be part of it.

Practically yes, although they still market it as a multi-device OS.

Most newer drives won’t give you the kind of direct access you need for an accurate copy. Some disc areas necessary for dealing with copy protection are inaccessible except by specially blessed playback software.

Some older drives ignore this restriction but newer ones, especially all 4K-capable drives, don’t.

There’s an alternative firmware called LibreDrive that enables a low-level access mode where an application has direct control over the laser assembly. That plus ripping software aware of this mode (MakeMKV) will get the data off the disc. Add known decryption keys and you can get at the raw video files.

You do need magic firmware for BluRays.

It actually is, although Samsung only released Tizen phones from 2015 to 2017.

A Backstroke of the West screenshot is definitely an inspired choice for the “keep above others” feature.

That’s just misinformation. I put some shows onto a Jellyfin instance and not a single one has disappeared. Not even an email about something being dropped soon. So that’s a core part of the Netflix experience you’re just not getting with Jellyfin.

Heck, it doesn’t even randomly force me to watch in 1080p or 720p despite being on the 4K plan and the show/movie being available in 4K. It’s like Jellyfin isn’t even trying.

Mind you, stealing the internet worked because they effectively had the sum total of human knowledge as a training set. I don’t think that there’s nearly as much detailed data on the minutiae of running a business.

You don’t need a double-blind study to determine if acoustic emissions are the culprit. You just need to measure specifically for infrasound (and ultrasound, for that matter). It’s an unusual form of pollution but very much measurable if you know to look for it.

Unlike the things you mentioned, infrasound is understood to be a thing these days and is sometimes considered in construction. It’s not exactly witchcraft; most equipment (including decibel meters) just isn’t built to account for very low frequencies.

If the data center does put out noise at very low frequencies that’s probably some kind of unintended resonance that they’ll have to stop. It might be as simple as slightly changing the RPMs of some cooling fans or installing sound proofing in specific places.

Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn’t commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it’s also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building’s ductwork.

It wouldn’t surprise me if a data center’s AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.

Files containing login credentials should be encrypted, yes. You will also find that password managers tend to relock their database after a period of time in order to limit the opportunity for an attack. That’s not the controversial action you think it is.

Besides, I find it interesting how Microsoft disabling a protection mechanism Chromium ships with has turned into a debate about the applicability of layered defense to cybersecurity in general.

Nothing beyond shipping laptops with NPUs, which isn’t unusual since that’s what Intel’s and AMD’s laptop CPUs come with these days.

That is one way an attacker can gain access to the browser’s memory. It’s not the only way.

Besides, administrative access does not necessarily mean that the attacker has complex attack code for every possible scenario included with whatever they’re running. The more work they have to do to access your data, the less likely it is that they’re doing that specific work.

Leaving stuff lying around in the open because an attacker potentially could have a specific countermeasure to more strict safety measures is equivalent to giving up. At that point you can just forego security at all because whatever you have might potentially have an exploit.

As does Arch AFAIK. It’s still very niche, though.

You see, that’s just inaccurate. GNU/Linux is not equivalent to GNU+Linux. That would be addition; this is division. The bigger Linux gets, the smaller GNU/Linux becomes.

That’s why they’ve developed GNU/Hurd. Hurd is unlikely to ever amount to much, meaning that GNU/Hurd will never evaluate to a small value. And that is cold, hard mathematical fact.

The staff ate it later.

You assume malware that comes from somewhere else and has full access to the entire system by the time it tries to attack the browser. If your default scenario is that the system has been completely compromised by arbitrarily complex malware, there’s no point in security measures at all because they’ve already failed by definition.

What about malware that runs inside the browser, e.g. after exploiting a vulnerability in the JS runtime? Peeking at the browser’s memory would be easier than breaking out of containment and obtaining control of the entire system. It would even be easier than obtaining control of the browser to a degree where you can access credentials without user intervention. Even if we assume that it’s as simple as reading the key from an easily found location and the credentials from another easily found location, that’s more work than just reading the credentials. And it becomes harder if the locations are less easily found.

Also, a defense doesn’t have to offer perfect protection in order to be worthwhile. It’s all a game of likelihoods; making an attack harder means it’s less likely to be done. Any additional step the attacker needs to take offers more protection because the attacker actually needs to take it. Microsoft actively worked to reduce the number of steps an attacker needs to take, which is worth calling out.

Defense in depth is important. Don’t insist that one single safety mechanism should protect against everything when layering them is known to be more effective.