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  • The bad news is that Android is still likely affected. Similar to Apple’s ImageIO, Android has a facility called the BitmapFactory that handles image decoding, and of course libwebp is supported. As of today, Android hasn’t released a security bulletin that includes a fix for CVE-2023-4863 – although the fix has been merged into AOSP. To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I’d expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.

    So a no-click device hack?



  • On the website :

    Wireguard is clearly seen by firewalls as a VPN by only allowing UDP packets

    However proton Vpn în their app, they have a “wireguard TCP” setting.

    Which is also confusing as on their wireguard marketing page, there is a faq where they say openvpn supports tcp in a ways as it supports TCP but not wireguard.


  • Yeah it’s pretty easy to understand that the 84 is the professional reviews. I guess there aren’t just 64 people who put a comment, but 6190 who put a comment (from the image in the post).

    The more professional reviews come out the more the score has a chance to go down compared to the first reviews if they were very high. And give some sort of average.

    However profesional review scores don’t always align to what most users think, as people like different things, but also the users get very much bothered by a bad start. While the reviewers will give a score on the entire game.





  • That is not true at all.

    Epos “still” has great mics on the h6 pro.

    Corsair has very good mics on the premium headset (virtuoso), and the wired hs80.

    Razer also has a very good mic on the blackshark v2 pro 2023 (not the old one).

    Hyperx has a very good mic on their wired cloud 3.

    Drop x Sennheiser has a good mic on the pc38x.

    Beyerdynamic has a very good mic on their mx300 gen2

    Audio Technica has be best ever mic on a headset currently on the m50xsts (or other with the same mic, not sure if they have other similar ones).

    And all of these mic sound better than what modmic has currently not discontinued.


  • Sure with the budget, space, and maybe even enough noise isolation or when you can get open headphones…

    But how much would a good enough studio headphone cost? Because from what I understand from studio headphones it’s perfectly calibrated headphones?

    Now image your someone without the proper budget to get 1k$ headphones, and no space for open sound. what would you buy?

    Maybe beyerdynamic? But for me the clamp force is too high.

    Akg? They are cheap, but damn it was impossible for me to wear the akg371 as they were too shallow and had no protection for the driver plastic, and the way they were build made sure I had holes for the sound to get out…

    Sadly audio is very subjective, on comfort, space, and sound.



  • Because “gaming” headphones often aren’t “just” headphones. They are headsets with a built-in boom mic

    And a boom-mic is often way better than a crap wire mic or bluetooth headphone non boom mic.

    There are still the trash ones, but there are also very good ones.

    And a built-in mic is extremely useful on multiple situations : console gaming, tight space gaming (no place for a mic), or when there is only a single port on a device (tho a splitter, or hub could be used for a jack port or usb). There is also the convenience of just having a mic.

    The issue now with all these headsets being “gaming”, is because of the marketing.

    Some headphones brands have put mics on theirs, to make them headsets :

    Beyerdynamic with the mx300 : the tight clamp makes it a bit of a no go for me. The mic is as just between ok and great. The voice is full, but there is a lot of noise in there from the reviews I saw.

    Audio technica : they have multiple of them. Latest one the ath-m50xsts. It looks like a circum aural headset, but is not. It’s a on ear headset with ear isolation like a circum aural. Which is pretty bad for me. Tho the mic is the best I’ve ever heard on a headset.

    They are both wired only.

    And other brands not marketing as “gaming” headsets are either extremely expensive with strange mics, or have most of their production budget into audio and they pair the headphone with a trash mic to make it a headset.

    In gaming headset brands, there are multiple ones providing software, mic, and wireless features enhancing the experience of the user. For example low latency high bandwidth wireless (proprietary, wifi-like 2.4ghz) connexions only exist in gaming branded headphones/sets. (high bandwidth = higher than bluetooth for the same latency).








  • Per connexion would be pretty bad. Per network.

    Let’s say you want to set a static DHCP ip from your router. The only way to do so (from the router, I’m not talking from the phone), is by assigning an IP to a MAC address.

    If the address is randomised per connection, affecting a static DHCP ip would be impossible.

    Another thing a router often has is some sort of dhcp memory. It remembers the ip it gave to a certain MAC address for some time, then when the device connects back, it assigns the same IP it had before.

    So if the ip changes each time either the MAC address changes each time (not sure it’s default), or the router has no memory.