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Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Well I would ask you to reconsider reconsidering. It's a very neat technical fear, arguably even an important one... but you would be giving money to Meta. So unless you really have to, because you work in the domain, maybe try to recycle a 2nd hand headset for a cheaper price and tinker with it as much as you want? Maybe even contribute to the rooting process by finding ways to remove the Meta account requirement altogether?

TL:DR: nobody needs a XR headset but if you do and you want to get a Meta one, get it 2nd hand.

OpenAI eyes world’s largest valuation for private company in stock sale talks in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Rational economical actor hypothesis? Nope we're just back 4 centuries at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Rift isn't standalone so "just" using OpenHMD should work, cf https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/hardware/#xr-devices for more comparability checks.

SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Because of physics.

Pfff, physics, pesky detail! Clearly you are not a true visionary like Musk! /s

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Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years (github.com)
 

Meta XR headsets are very cheap for the performance they give. Unfortunately they require a Meta account and one can assume as much data as legally possibly is sent back to the advertising company.

For years now, since the Quest 1, those Android devices have not been rooted except for some specific version number of the Quest 2.

This recent work https://github.com/FreeXR/eureka_panther-adreno-gpu-exploit-1 makes the latest headset with a rather recent update (but NOT the very last ones, so be cautious!) rootable.

The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

puts on evil hat CloudFlare should DRM their protection then DMCA Perplexity and other US based "AI" companies to oblivion. Side effect, might break the Internet.