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This is just a false statement and just leads me to believe that this article only exists because Grizzly is short on PDD.
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Me on my way to ddos someone with uh... ARP I guess?
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What does a boomer group have to do with DDOS?
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I miss the days when you had to have a certain threshold of tech knowledge to get on the Internet.
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Me too
Including a TCP/IP stack by default was a mistake
RVTURN TO Trumpet Winsock
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Temu is shady as frick. Tiktok is full of pics of nude foids with "scroll for more" and every time you scroll it's temu ad.
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This
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Of fricking COURSE 10 million american r-slurs clicked allow on this app holy shit they deserve literally anything that happens
But a lot of that list is r-slurred cherry picked non-vulnerabilities.
Sending the mac address in a json string? Yeah it's also included in every Ethernet layer packet sent by all traffic out of your device hundreds of times per second how is that one of the "worst ones"
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ive come to realize most normies dont know shit about how technology works
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Wait why the frick do Amazon and Ebay need write external storage and my MAC address![:#marseythonk: :#marseythonk:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseythonk.webp)
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To safeguard democracy, chud
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truth can be humorous at times, comrade![:marseyshrug: :marseyshrug:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyshrug.webp)
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so what your saying is I should download tiktok
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Fingerprinting for banned accounts probably.
External storage app install is pretty normal on android, I assume theyre just looking for it to be called anywhere in the app
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Amazon provides direct link to installation / prop65 PDFs, I'm sure that's a factor in external storage
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All Chinese apps are spyware
Oh no no no![:marseyemojirofl: :marseyemojirofl:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyemojirofl.webp)
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That's literally the opposite of how it works. Precisely because MAC addresses are assigned by hardware manufacturers and are globally unique, you can only talk to something using its MAC on your local network. To route a request to another network you need to use IP addresses (Inter-net(work) Protocol) because those encode certain details of the network topology. Nobody could know how to route a request to some random MAC address.
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Grizzly Research knows how to![:mars!eyshapiro: :mars!eyshapiro:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyshapiro.webp)
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honestly thought this shit was fake
I unironically bought like $300 worth of garbage for like $25 because of a stupid promo they had
Will never buy again though, without the coupon I think it came out to like $75 and it really is just a bunch of random junk
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Ive seen the advertising for it in shitty mobile games alongside crypto scams and buying gold and selling people drugs.
Holy shit amerikkkans will buy anything
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People's desire to constantly by wish-tier crap to save a couple bucks is probably my biggest pet peeve in first world countries because it drags the quality of literally everything else down. It makes it impossible for those who want to pay more to even FIND nice stuff sometimes.
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Amazon is a great example of this.
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BOY I LOVE TYPING IN "ITEM" AND GETTING 200 OF THE LITERAL EXACT SAME THING WITH A DIFFERENT NAME SLAPPED ON THE BOX AND HAVING NO WAY TO FILTER IT OUT THATS THE IDEAL SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
OH I KNOW MAYBE I CAN GOOGLE PEOPLES RECOMMENDATIONS, OH WHOOPS NO ITS JUST 6 PAGES OF PEOPLE WITH NO CREDENTIALS POSTING TOP 10 AMAZON AFFILIATE LINKS NEVERMIND
I just want "enthusiast" amazon where each category has one neurodivergent who only picks out stuff from well known brands and local businesses in the industry. When it's stuff I know fine I'll do it myself but when I'm just trying to raise my standard of living and it's not a hobby I really want the input of someone who knows their shit to help me
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Just add reddit to the product name and google. They tend to have some fairly informative threads, esp anything to do with electronics.
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Used to do that but those regards start repeating themselves if they find one decent product. I always found that checking another webshop that is more reputable and only carries brandnames works better.
From there just sort by most sold and check reviews on Youtube, filtered on uploaddate so you get amateur vids from regular people.
Frick man why is shopping so hard these days
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I miss The Wirecutter before it was bought out by the
York Times. Except for headphones, everything I bought that they recommended was excellent. I've been using the phone mount they recommended (Ram X) for over 10 years. It's so much worse these days.
Amazons search is so fricking bad and filled with wish tier garbage. The site is nearly unusable unless you know exactly what you're looking for. I only use them because everywhere else takes like a week of βshipping label createdβ before fedex swings by to drag your box down the street.
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Just go to an irl store
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Where do I buy a 54-pin APIM extension cable retail?
Why am I paying $250 retail for a cheap analog camera when it's $15 on Amazon?
The electrical distributor only sells the genuine $500 crimper when I'm only going to use it twice a year and there's plenty of $25 crimpers from China
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Just make your own knives.
Only internet addicted losers don't have their own smithing cowtools capable of making knives out of Magnacut 65 HRC carbon steel!
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I ONLY WANT THE NAMEBRAND STUFF CAUSE IF I DON'T HAVE A LOGO TO SHOW OFF WHAT'S THE POINT OF LIFE![:hysterical: :hysterical:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/hysterical.webp)
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I don't want name brand stuff I just don't want cheap stuff.
If I buy a nice $150 kitchen knife I'm not "showing a logo off" I just want a nice knife. And pretending the $20 chink dropshipped one is just as good is cope
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it's better actually and you are losing money if you don't buy 10 of them
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Come on cone
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Sounds like you want a brick-and-morter specialty shop![:marseyhmmm: :marseyhmmm:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyhmmm.webp)
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Yeah that's usually what I do but sometimes I just want something off the cuff and don't want to go across town to find a bar specialty store for a cocktail shaker or something
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I just want to buy the best version of a product, which usually costs the most. But the algorithms push the cheap options in a desperate attempt to get people to stop using them.
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Thankfully with inflation amerikkkans are paying top tier prices for the lowest quality goods possible
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You just gotta go irl. Anyone who would sell you that quality of trash irl, would be so disgusting you'd know right away.
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I did the same thing.
Bought a coat off there. It's kinda shitty, but it was cheap, so![:#tayshrug: :#tayshrug:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/tayshrug.webp)
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I've bought some nice shoes from aliexpress that I still wear, slightly unique and decently made my family calls them "those gay shoes" tho LOL
but I don't know if Temu has reviews where eastern european grandmothers cuss out the factory and take pictures of every seam
AliExpress reviews can be brutal, which is helpful
you still got to pay $20 at least for a good shoe
I just checked Temu and I saw a suspicious lack of brutal reviews something I know aren't that great
it first stopped me with a sketchy "spin the wheel to win a prize but you gotta do it in 10 seconds" "OH WOW U WON $100 WOW"![:marseyeyeroll2: :marseyeyeroll2:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyeyeroll2.webp)
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then it fricking LOGIN WALLED ME upon clicking another listing and wouldn't let me invesigate another product![:marseyannoyed: :marseyannoyed:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyannoyed.webp)
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lolll i did too. the only thing i even remember getting was a winter hat that i've not worn cause global warming. or maybe cause it's just been summer, idk.
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Good thing I do all my shopping on good old American aliexpress![:marseysaluteusa: :marseysaluteusa:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysaluteusa.webp)
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I'm sure TEMU is Chinese spyware but what do the Chinese want with a bunch of info on poor Americans who shop on TEMU lmao. Imagine the NSA started gang stalking rural Chinese rice farmers. Like yeah I'm sure they could but why?
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All kinds of data sources are useful when aggregated in enough numbers. I don't know anything about large dataset optimizing but theoretically you could track silos, figure out installations, naval exercises if you aggregate enough geospatial data. Not to mention actually executing the demokkkrat wet dream of showing targeted political ads to rural chuds based on their browsing history.
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Seems plausible. "Hmm there's a section of prime farmland that is suspiciously empty, with a road maintained better than usual leading to it. Probably government"
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Can someone explain to me what in the heck this means
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It means democracy is under attack sir
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This person is just r-slurred. You can install apps on your SD card in android therefore the app needs permission to write to the folder it's installed in. How do they think this is scarier than the permission in the list to install other apps?
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BECAUSE CHINA BAD
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ye and android does a decent job with containerizing an app's write directory if I'm not mistaken so an app can't write to a directory outside of its own Android/data/app folder unless you explicitly let it. On 13 at least it's even folder-specific, too, so any new directory will need another popup to ask for permission.
What I don't get is what they mean by Apple, iCloud, private relay.. Tf do clouds have anything to do with app storage and permissions
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Sounds like they want Apple to serve as the broker for all data going in/out of an Apple device
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How do you install playstore apps onto SD? I haven't been able to figure it out at all and guides just say some r-slurred things that doesn't work.
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Some phones and android versions have slightly different methods and some apps just don't let you. In my old one you have to install to the main one and then the app settings just has a move to SD button.
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IT CAN STORE DATA ON THE SD CARD
DADDY APPLE SHUT THIS DOWN
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And it's gonna install trojan horse things![:marseyaaatranslaser: :marseyaaatranslaser:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyaaatranslaser.webp)
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No its not that simple. If basic android permissions were that exploitable it wouldnt exist
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this is fricking my surprised face.
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Must be a day ending in y
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Oh wow what a surprise.
My brother kept trying to get us to sign up so he could get a "free gift".
I lied and said it's faulting out.
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It's just a shittier aliexpress
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This looks like a bunch of bullshit
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Why is it chink spyware apps are the only ones willing to shell out the money needed to advertise on youtube?
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I just got an ad for them and its all random useless trash. Who even buys this shit?
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Doesn't the android app need permissions to do most of that anyway from the user? Like you can run it im pretty sure and not give it permissions for audio n shit.
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Poors deserve this.
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