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- Comment on Beware 3 weeks ago:
Stop fucking Larry
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 4 weeks ago:
They used to say “one carry-on and one personal item” (which included things like a purse or a backpack). On my shorter trips, I could travel without checking a bag under this policy.
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
Nothing about this outcome was a surprise
- Comment on Odo is a barrel of laughs 2 months ago:
It really bothers me that Odo didn’t choose to be the same plastic blue barrel than nearly killed Worf
- Comment on What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? 3 months ago:
I want an instance already established, very populated, and proven to last long term, so I don’t have to create another account
- Comment on All I Know Is Rejection. When I Was A Kid, My Yo-Yo: It Never Came Back 3 months ago:
Back to School, definitely. Well, not really badmouth, but it was fairly mediocre.
But really I meant to praise his standup and say his movies didn’t do him justice. He was just funnier when doing his own material
- Comment on All I Know Is Rejection. When I Was A Kid, My Yo-Yo: It Never Came Back 3 months ago:
His standup was definitely better than any of his movies
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think it would be wise to have a partner, first to be a backup child-watcher in case your attention focuses in one direction. And the legal witness isn’t a bad thing to have also.
- Comment on AI is like a hammer 4 months ago:
Complaining that it’s called AI is like complaining that smartphones are called smart. There’s no stopping it, you just end up sounding like an old man yelling at the cloud. (Which isn’t really a cloud, but we still call it that)
- Comment on Is everyone here leftist? 4 months ago:
Not everyone. But it’s definitely very overrepresented here, including some large communities of extremists that I don’t typically see elsewhere.
- Comment on People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are 4 months ago:
I’m shocked at what an unpopular thought this is. Like… If you go out in public, there’s a very real risk that people in public will see you. If that’s a concern you have, then you should take steps to not be seen in public. To me, that would mean not making my presence obvious when visiting a bar.
Camera or not, if people are looking for you, they will find ways to look for you in public places. You should always assume you’re being watched, because you probably already are.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 7 months ago:
A lot of people talk about the decentralization being a barrier of entry, but I don’t think it is.
Generally speaking, your average social media user won’t care about that one way or the other. You tell them an instance to look at, they will check it out.
Where I think it goes wrong is the general Lemmy attitude of curating your own feed. Your average Lemmy user will say the best part is that you just block the communities and instances that you don’t want to see.
Your average social media user on the other hand, doesn’t want to spend an hour or a month blocking people and communities to make the site useable. Most folks will come in, see a feed full of tech bros, repost bots with zero discussion, 30 different fetish porn communities, Star Trek memes, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they’ll just leave.
The only way I see Lemmy overcoming this is for instance admins to heavily curate the default experience so the feed is friendlier to new users. This would likely require some more tools in place to allow for this, possibly even a default block list that users can customize after they are already drawn in
Also the sorting could be better.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 7 months ago:
Yeah anyone wanting to get into the series should begin with asylum. It’s got a more horror vibe which I think holds up incredibly well still.
But the other games are mechanically better, so it’s hard to go backwards and enjoy it quite as much
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 7 months ago:
This is a very good time to pick up one or more Fallout game. The release of the show brings sales on the games.
- Comment on the internet 7 months ago:
What exactly are they arguing over? I probably shouldn’t ask, but I’ve been fortunate enough to not encounter any of this controversy on my social media
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 8 months ago:
Bro aren’t you on Lemmy.world?
You’re already defederated from Hexbear, you don’t have to ignore it
- Comment on Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination. 9 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s a grapefruit soda. Definitely not everyone’s favorite flavor, but it’s a thing
- Comment on Report: Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat 10 months ago:
It’s free, so when I need to ask about something in the news today, I’ll use Bing. Granted I use a browser extension that lets me use Bing in Firefox.
These are useful tools, but not useful enough that I’m willing to pay for them when there’s free options.
- Comment on If the borg were a religion 10 months ago:
Readable images are irrelevant. Your text will be assimilated into the background of the meme and add its distinctiveness to our own.
- Comment on Creamy centres 10 months ago:
Don’t you even take the bones out?
- Comment on RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed 10 months ago:
Generally commercial drive encryption solutions, like Bitlocker, usually has a backup recovery key that can be used to access the encryption key if your TPM is reset, or if your device dies.
So I guess the short answer is most of these solutions don’t fully protect it from being moved to another device, they just add another layer of security and hassle that makes it harder to do. And without the TPM as part of these solutions, you would be entering a 48-character passphrase every time you boot your device, which has several security flaws of its own.
- Comment on RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed 10 months ago:
Assuming you use bitlocker on your PC, how do you know the entire content of the TPM (your bitlocker encryption key, etc) cannot be fetched from the TPM by the manufacturer or any third parties they shared it tools and private keys with?
The TPM specification is an open standard by the Trusted Computing Group, and there are certification organizations that will audit many of these products, so that’s a good place to begin.
As with any of the hardware in your device, it does require some amount of trust in the manufacturers you have chosen. These same concerns would apply to anything from the onboard USB controllers to the CPU itself. There’s no way to be absolutely certain, but you can do your due diligence to get a reasonable level of confidence.
And because it is hardware based, how do I as a user know that it does what it claims it does as I would with a software based encryption software that is open source (like truecrypt/veracrypt).
This is a reasonable thing to think about, although very few individuals are qualified to understand and audit the source code of encryption software either, so in most cases you are still putting your faith in security organizations or the community to find issues.
When it comes to security, it often comes with a trade-off. Hardware devices can achieve a level of security that software can’t completely reproduce, but they are a lot harder to audit and verify their integrity.
In any case, the TPM is something that software solutions have to explicitly call in the first place, it isn’t something that activates itself and starts digging into your hard drive. Which means if you don’t want to use it in your security solution, then it will sit there and do nothing. You can keep using your encryption keys in clear memory, visible to any privileged software.
I don’t know specifically about the XBox and how it uses it, but the TPM absolutely can be used as part of a DRM scheme. Since the TPM can be used to encrypt data with a key that can’t be exported, it could be part of a means to hinder copying of content. Of course this content still has to be decrypted into memory in order to be used, so people looking to defeat this DRM usually still can. DRM as a whole is often shown to be a pretty weak solution for copy protection, but companies won’t stop chasing it just the same.
- Comment on RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed 10 months ago:
Well I have good news for you, the TPM can’t do those things. The TPM is just a hardware module that stores cryptographic keys in a tamper-resistant chip, and can perform basic crypto functions.
In of itself, it can’t be addressed remotely, but it is usually used as a component of a greater security scheme. For example, in full disk encryption, it can be used to ensure that disk can’t be decrypted on a different device.
There’s been a lot of FUD surrounding TPMs, and it doesn’t help that the actual explanation of their function isn’t something easily described in a couple of sentences.
There’s no reason to be afraid of a TPM, and for the privacy-minded and security-conscious, it can even be used as part of a greater security scheme for your device and its data.
Of course at the same time, it’s not a feature most home users would make full use of, and as for not liking Windows, carry on. There’s plenty of reasons to avoid it if those things are important to you
- Comment on xkcd #2870: Love Songs 11 months ago:
“I Will Always Love You” is further left than I would have expected it to be
- Comment on Exxxocomp (NSFW) 11 months ago:
This is the future.
It clearly gets repurposed as fuel for the internal sploodge core, which powers the device
- Comment on The safest way to travel 11 months ago:
Well yeah, what are they gonna do, take the tubes? I’d sooner ask for a site to site…
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 11 months ago:
You should have seen how mad people were over the time Discord slightly changed the shade of the icon
- Comment on isEven API 11 months ago:
That’s not even supported by the enterprise version. You’re going to need a special agreement with the iseven people to support numbers like that
- Comment on Remember: 9 months until we build a statue of this guy. 11 months ago:
All hu-mons look alike to me
- Comment on Have you tried... 11 months ago:
Putting “Riker’s Beard” on Deanna in the second panel implies they have a very different sort of marriage than they let on