Darkassassin07
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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- Comment on WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history 5 hours ago:
Just what people need; a false sense of security…
You don’t need an export button to save copies of a chat. Even if screenshots are blocked and you’re not running an OS that lets you bypass that, you can always take photos/video of the screen when all else fails.
Once you’ve sent data, it is no longer in your control. Messages, emails, posts, files, replies, encrypted end-to-end chat applications, all of it: Don’t send it if you don’t want someone somewhere to keep a copy. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t; it’s no longer in your control once it has left your device.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 hours ago:
Que dumbasses tossing their iphones in the toaster oven in 3… 2…
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 2 days ago:
Where in the world did you get that idea?
VPNs serve three functions:
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add a layer of encryption so your local network operator and ISP can’t inspect your traffic, its contents and its true destination. (this is what OP is looking for)
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make it appear to the service you are connecting to, that you are connecting from a different location than where you actually are. (for example make Netflix think you’re in a different region to show you different content)
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provide secure access to private services that are not exposed directly to the Internet. IE securely connecting devices on seprate LAN networks together over the Internet via an encrypted tunnel. This is a VPNs true purpose and how they are primarily used in Professional/Comercial settings. (pretty much every corporation you’ve ever interacted with runs a VPN that connects its stores/warehouses/offices together)
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- Comment on finally got static IP from a new ISP 6 days ago:
I really don’t like the idea of every device automatically having a publicly reachable IP.
There’s certainly situations where that would be nice; but I’m quite fond of most equipment and services being behind a router and it’s firewall, requiring explicit configuration to be exposed to the open net.
Nobody outside my home network ever needs access to my toaster… (btw, why tf is my toaster wifi enabled…?)
- Comment on finally got static IP from a new ISP 6 days ago:
My ISP blocks the ports needed for mail hosting :/
Pretty sure I’d have to go through them to get the rdns PTR records pointed at my domain too. PITA
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 6 days ago:
- Comment on How to forward real IP from Caddy server? 1 week ago:
Actually it looks like Caddy is supposed to set those automatically (I’m used to Nginx which doesn’t).
You’ll have to look at why the upstream isn’t accepting them then. I’m not familiar with that particular app.
- Comment on How to forward real IP from Caddy server? 1 week ago:
X-Forwarded-For
And
X-Real-IP
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
Rebooting just seems like a very roundabout, slow and inefficient way to get back to that initial state you describe.
It’s exactly what the reboot process is designed to do; return you to that fully encrypted pre-boot state. There would be no purpose to implementing a second method that does the exact same thing.
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
Much of the data on your phone, including critical information that’s required to run the operating system and make the device function, is fully encrypted when the device is off/rebooted.
While in this locked down state, nothing can run. You don’t receive notifications, applications can’t run in the background, even just accessing the device yourself is slow as you have to wait for the whole system to decrypt and start up.
When you unlock the device for the first time; much of that data is decrypted so that it can be used, and the keys required to unlock the rest of the data get stored in memory where they can be quickly accessed and used. This also makes the device more vulnerable to attacks.
There’s always a trade off between convenience and security. The more secure a system, the less convenient it is to use.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I make a ton of stupid spelling mistakes just because of typing on mobile 99% of the time. For some reason I CONSTANTLY miss the keys I’m looking for, or manage to press them in the wrong order somehow; swapping Ns with Ms, T with Y, R>T, B>N, inserting spaces too early, doubling up characters.
If i nevsr look up and jus tkeep typing, I end of with a garbled mess just liek this sentence is.
This can get much worse if I use the next word suggestions. I’ll spot the suggestion I want, but continue to press the next letter; this changes what’s being suggested, or just moves it to a different position (centered vs the two options to the side) but I still press where I first saw it which is now a totally different suggestion…
Lots and lots and lots of proof-reading. And I STILL fuck it up.
- Comment on China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies. 1 week ago:
I WANT OFF MR BONES WILD RIDE
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
- a single answer fits all the questions asked
- answering one question will make the others irrelevant.
- it’s not obvious there are multiple questions (usually down to formatting, or skimming a block of text)
- the person’s just in a hurry, at least answering one is better than ignoring entirely
- Comment on It is deeply bad that a moderator can remove any post or reply. 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you want a private messenger, not a public forum…
- Comment on CEOs are astatic about AI because they can train it to always agree with them. 2 weeks ago:
I think your interpretation is more the exception than the rule.
On the contrary; the good CEOs are just much quieter. The bad ones are in the news every other week with a new story about how shitty they are. We rarely praise kindness and successes, focusing instead on the latest screw up; so it seems like the screw ups are more prevalent because that’s all you ever hear about.
It’s hard to see the light, when you’re constantly pushed towards the dark.
- Comment on Moving from Cloudflare tunnels for media streaming, first plan didn't work out due to double NAT 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
No advertising platform has any incentive to prevent bot traffic; they actively profit from ‘failing’ to prevent it.
- Comment on Best Back Up Solution For Multiple Servers 3 weeks ago:
I will always recommend Borg backup just because of it’s compression+de-duplication algorithms:
550gb of raw data, 18 historical backups going back over a year, only 400gb of disc space used to store them all…
You can backup directly to remote servers via ssh, nfs, or directly between two borg instances, optionally encrypted in transit and at rest.
Borg is a CLI tool normally, but there are a number of GUI frontends you can use if you really want: Vorta, BorgWeb, and BorgWarehouse for example. (I’ve not used any of these, just examples from a google search)
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t suppose you’d be up for a political assassination or two…?
Maybe go visit the Statue Of Liberty, before it gets melted down.
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 4 weeks ago:
Sentry mode records to local storage. It’s pretty difficult to recover data from a pile of ashes.
- Comment on How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? 5 weeks ago:
Create share links allowing anyone with the link (+ optional password) to browse and download individual files, or whole folder contents.
If someone needs to send me a file, I can create a user for them in a few seconds; so they can upload to that as well.
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 5 weeks ago:
No. He explicitly says ‘without even a slight tap on the breaks’ in the youtube video.
Then:
Here is the raw footage of my Tesla going through the wall. Not sure why it disengages 17 frames before hitting the wall but my feet weren’t touching the brake or gas.
- Mark Rober Twitter.
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 5 weeks ago:
From the twitter footage:
This is from the first couple frames showing that Autopilot is enabled, just as the blue lines appeared on screen: 42mph displayed on the center console.
And from the youtube footage:
Again, from the first couple frames as Autopilot is enabled, just as the blue lines appear: 39mph displayed on the center console.
They are very very similar, but they do appear to be two different takes.
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 5 weeks ago:
As much as I like Mark, He’s got some explaining to do.
At 15:42 the center console is shown, and autopilot is disengaged before impact. It was also engaged at 39mph during the youtube cut, and he struck the wall at 42mph. (ie the car accelerated into the wall)
Mark then posted the ‘raw footage’ on twitter. This also shows autopilot disengage before impact, but shows it was engaged at 42mph. This was a seprate take.
- Comment on The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC 1 month ago:
Potato, potato…
Whether we call them ‘undocumented commands’ or a ‘backdoor’, the affect is more or less the same; a series of high-level commands not listed within the specs, preventing systems engineers/designers from planning around vulnerabilities and their potential for malicious use.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 month ago:
I used to like KFC, particularly the popcorn chicken, but it’s declined quite a bit in the last 5-10 years.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 month ago:
I stopped when I got old enough to realize the only thing I actually liked about McDonalds was the play place.
Now I give it a try like once every 3-4 years to remind myself how much it sucks.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 1 month ago:
I definitely recommend it, particularly using docker compose. It’s made it incredibly easy to add, remove, and modify software installs; keeping everything independent and isolated from each other.
This also makes backups and rolling back updates to individual projects much easier when you do run into problems.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 1 month ago:
Hmm, I wonder if the failed updates are only direct installs vs docker.
I run two piholes, a primary on a rpi 3b running pios, and a secondary on my main server. Both are installed via docker and both updated without issue (besides the password thing).
I like having the primary DNS on a separate machine; it’s kind of important and I like to mess with the main server a lot…
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 1 month ago:
Interesting; I’ll definitely have to keep that in mind. Much cheaper than getting basically a whole new set of hdds at almost $30/tb (new nas-grade drives, not referbs).
Thanks!
