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IMO, they should have made it a simple mailed print/postcard subscription with an email newsletter with the jpg wallpaper. You could even provide access to a private wallpaper app that changes it for you monthly if people want that.

LTT has the right mentality that supporting an influencer should give you something physical for your support or when asking a superchat on a livestream that may or may not get answered.


Youtubers regularly swap the video thumbnail + title. Youtube even has tools to A/B test various thumbnails + titles nowadays for different users.

I can confirm that the title "I Hacked My Friend's Phone to Show How Easy It Is" was the actual title when the video was uploaded. However you're right that it now looks like it changed to "Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System" a day later.

Watch an older Veratasium video about Youtube's title+thumbnail clickbait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng


This was news to me. Yeah now their title says "Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System".

+1 for explaination above.


Feels like SS7 was deliberately left vulnerable from requests within the country for tracking purposes. A lot of the security seems to be done with firewalls within the walled garden so it's easier for the five eyes to track cell phones live without giving direct access to the databases.

That said, the real world example Veratasium used was chilling.

Having LinusTechTips as a 2nd example (whos showing off his new apple phone) was a nice counter too. I'm pretty sure LTT uses multi factor+user auth though so I'm guessing that sms 2fa email was an alt email for personal use.

Gonna have to watch that 2014 presentation on ss7 it seems.


These vulnerabilities are something we know and is already scary. I wonder how much 3 letter organization are capable.


I had the same thought on SS7 being kept vulnerable on purpose. With continuous attempts in EU and elsewhere on tapping the E2EE communication and the fact that email remains insecure despite so many proposals makes me think this really is one of those things that get agreed upon behind closed UN doors. And I am NOT a fan of conspiracy theories.

I think that lack of information, i.e. any effort to remediate this, is an information in itself.


It’s kind of nuts, with one of those SS7 tickets you could easily use a bot to drain 1000s of bank accounts an hour based on the 2FA vulnerabilities.


How? It's 2FA not 1FA. I have yet to use an authentication system that only required and SMS code.


Lots of authentication systems use an SMS code to reset your password, thereby essentially becoming 1FA.


Can you give an example? I don't think I've ever seen that, especially not from a bank!


Banks usually have information they can ask like Social Secuirty Number (which is inevitably in some leak).

eBay is the first one that comes to mind. I know I've run into it a couple of other times where a website will just offer to text you a code, but usually there is a small link you can click that says "use my password instead".

Facebook and Amazon don't have my cell phone number, but I bet they have an option.

I don't usually try to reset my passwords since I use a password manager, so it's probably more common than that.


Chromium/Chrome can also get ChromeOS and it's hardware division since most of the complications in chrome are there to reimplement a Phone/Desktop OS.


> What of the small, but important, products that Google hasn't killed yet? ... But what of say, Google Fonts?

Google Fonts can act as a tracking pixel, the bandwidth cost is probably offset by the slight amount of user data it obtains.


Samsung A15 has a headphone jack, 128gb storage, OLED screen, and SD card slot in the SIM tray.

It should have 4 years of updates too, which at $270 CAD is $5.63 per month of support.


https://www.redditstatus.com/

> Comment tree processing is delayed

* 19:17 PDT Investigating - We are aware that newly posted comments are not showing up immediately in comment trees. We are currently investigating this issue.

* 20:26 PDT Identified - We've identified the underlying problems and are working on addressing them.

* 21:08 PDT Update - We are continuing to work on addressing the issues causing comments to be delayed.

* 21:31 PDT Update - A large spike in traffic caused some scaling issues, which delayed new comment display across the site. All comments posted during this time will be displayed as the servers work through the backlog.

* 22:05 PDT Resolved - Comment processing has now fully caught up. Thank you for your patience!

This makes sense why https://old.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ worked but the nested comments in threads don't.


https://www.redditstatus.com/

> Comment tree processing is delayed

* 21:31 PDT Update - A large spike in traffic caused some scaling issues, which delayed new comment display across the site. All comments posted during this time will be displayed as the servers work through the backlog.

* 21:08 PDT Update - We are continuing to work on addressing the issues causing comments to be delayed.

* 20:26 PDT Identified - We've identified the underlying problems and are working on addressing them.

* 19:17 PDT Investigating - We are aware that newly posted comments are not showing up immediately in comment trees. We are currently investigating this issue.

This makes sense why https://old.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ works but the nested comments in threads don't.


Not sure if this timestamp is when the topic was locked or when reddit broke. The thread has 56015 comments.

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dq5s2f/discussio...

Edit: New comments seem to be slowly appearing.

2024-06-28T02:26:10+00:00 = 22:26 EST (First loaded around 23hXX EST)

2024-06-28T02:35:37+00:00 = 22:35 EST (Loaded at 00h09 EST)

2024-06-28T02:35:41+00:00 = 22:35 EST (Loaded at 00h19 EST)

2024-06-28T02:41:17+00:00 = 22:41 EST (Loaded at 00h19 EST) This might have been when the topic was locked since there's a mod comment at the top now.

However it seems the "all comments" still shows the last few comments in a subreddit (without the context).

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/

https://old.reddit.com/r/all/comments/


https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0996.html

> Leia: Chewie, get up here! We're going into an asteroid field! > Han: That's no problem. Just don't hit whatever asteroid might be within a hundred thousand kilometres. > Han: They're in nice stable orbits too, so it's easy to avoid them. > Leia: Okay, fine. We're going into a massive region of randomly moving, closely packed, enormous giant space rocks. > Han: Gaaaaaah!


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