dogs0n
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- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 days ago:
If it can ensure you are looking at the road, that sounds good.
Not sure if it seems as safe as you in full operation of the car for turns etc around town, but its a good safety feature to ensure you arent distracted.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 days ago:
protect occupants
It doesn’t even do that. You crash a tesla and start a fire, it will glady lock you in the car.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 days ago:
I don’t have stats, but my personal feeling is that car safety features trump full self driving.
Eg, you are actively driving (which ensures you are engaged and dont fall asleep, etc), but if the car sees something it can react (drifting out of lane, car slows down ahead of you, person walks in road, etc).
That seems so much safer in my opinion.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
Im probably not wise enough to give advice, but in general I think it’s while you are young that taking big risks is more worth the trade offs.
Im talking risks like career wise or investment wise, business wise, etc.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
A bike
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 1 week ago:
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 1 week ago:
Bad take
- You only have one country (the one you run your vps in).
- Costs more than any vpn provider (which come with many extra features out the box).
- You are not maintaining your OpenVPN installation and having to is likely a pain for most people (you said you “can’t even remember how to login”, which tells you me are not updating your servers OS or OpenVPN itself, which is leaving you open to vulnerabilities in the old software).
There might be advantages too, but I can’t think of any unless you are gonna use the VPS for other stuff too and creating the vpn is basically free then (but I still wouldn’t do it personally).
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 1 week ago:
Maybe I don’t understand, but the fact there is a vote for it (or even just talk about it) is enough for me to warrant everyones immediate action.
I’m glad the media got this to our attention asap, because we were able to react quickly (and stop this… hopefully its stopped and wont continue or come back).
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 1 week ago:
Doesn’t make any sense but ok
- Comment on Backup recommendations 1 week ago:
Agree, I use it myself. My only gripe is that it seems pretty slow, not sure if thats the deduplication part or what, haven’t bothered looking into it because i run the backup after im in bed so not a big deal.
If you are gonna run the backups during daytime might be a problem.
Then again though, could just be my setup (havent looking into it).
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 2 weeks ago:
A hacker stealing your id can do way more malicious stuff like more expertly crafted phishing and identity fraud just to name two.
No one involved in this from the government to the companies is innocent in this chain though in my opinion. A breach is always bound to happen.
- Comment on kya 2 weeks ago:
pubic servants
Need me one of those amiright?
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
I think your reasoning is valid. We are both valid.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 2 weeks ago:
I am starting to agree with the new point. I still think everyone should move to Signal for now because it works and works well, but I see your point that one authority can become dangerous if any one malicious party in power tried anything.
There are probably solutions that could exist because it’s open source (eg a different trusted entity like f-droid managed builds from source for example so Signal themselves can’t add extra code in their builds or just a way to verify that no extra code is present in signals build vs any build from source).
In the future, I would prefer we moved to something more decentralised like what the Matrix protocol is trying to achieve. This could come with further issues, but while those are fixed, Signal is my main go to.
With Matrix I believe we would end up with pretty much the common data models as you were mentioning. Anyone can build their own server and or client and interact with others, knowing at least their software is safe.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
My usual thought process is going to the movies sets you back maybe 10-15 for two hours. If the game is under that it’s usually fine by me, they are usually way under that even though I tend to move on from most games rather quickly.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
So you think the correct price to hours of enjoyment ratio is $15 per decade of playtime?
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
In my head anything above ~40 eur is basically AAA pricing. Personally, I’m not going to acclimate to their new prices being double that. If it’s above 40 it basically doesn’t exist to me.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
Using a VM to check pirated software, but then running it on your main pc if you don’t notice any malware (I think that’s what you are saying?) is not safe.
Running untrusted software only on a vm or machine that you don’t care about with zero personal info is safest.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
100% agree, if you don’t want to support something, then do not engage with it at all. Simple as that.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I don’t get most of your refetences, but sure you can find similarities in wildy different things.
Signal being easy to rely on is its biggest benefit. No one will adopt something that’s more complex, but I don’t think extra complexity would offer better security for the average person. More complexity just means more things to go wrong.
People can be deceieved anywhere in their life, this isn’t synonymous to an end to end encrypted chat.
Backdoors do exist and they are obviously bad, but Signal choosing to leave the market before implementing one sounds best to me.
state security service once told me that in those services cryptography is never the basis of a system. It can only be a secondary part.
Obviously I’m no smarter than this person, but without cryptography how is any “secure” project actually “secure”. The only thing more important that I can imagine would be the physical location of a server (for example) being highly protected from bad actors.
In the end, I personally think having an easy to use platform that is secure gives everyone amazing power to recoup their free speech wherever is it eroded.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 2 weeks ago:
What do you use other than text and voice chat. Forums exist but thats weird.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 weeks ago:
Supply and demand: There are seemingly new messenging services that pop up every day, so I’m not sure why you think Signal existing is stopping progress. It isn’t.
Security: For 99.9% of people, the security and privacy granted through using Signal is amazing and it is worthy of being called secure. I mean it’s secure enough for government officials to trust using. With how Signal is currently, an official data request from the government for Signal data returns pretty much nothing except the phone number used, which is great.
I think ‘revolutionaries’ (protestors) are already using Signal. I haven’t heard of any cases where something has gone wrong for them, but again, there’s no way for your messages to be read unless they get access to your phone (if you are smart you will make sure your messages auto delete and that you lockdown or shutdown your phone incase of arrest).
I can’t see how Signal isn’t safe for anyone.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 weeks ago:
Even if signal was insecure and had no privacy (which it it secure and private), wouldn’t you still prefer people needed a warrant or some form of document that had to go through the court before your messages could be read?
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 weeks ago:
I get it messenger = gun wow i didnt know!
Holstering my phone now thanks
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 weeks ago:
Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 weeks ago:
As for the government ID thing, it’s hardly an authoritarian’s dream when almost every country on planet Earth does it already. You may not realise it, but we’re very much in the minority for not having this already.
Just have to say, being in the minority for something does not mean it’s all of a sudden a good thing and that everyone else must do it.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 4 weeks ago:
100% agree, my server has pretty much nothing except docker installed on it and every service I run is always in containers.
Setting up a new service is mostly 0% risk and apps can’t bog down my main file system with random log files, configs, etc that feel impossible to completely remove.
I also know that if for any reason my server were to explode, all I would have to do is pull my compose files from the cloud and
docker compose upeverything and I am exactly where I left off at my last backup point. - Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
I believe you said it was easy in the first sentence of the comment I replied to, though maybe I am reading it wrong and you are speaking on something else.
Nevertheless, they surely have the money to make some type of sandboxed environment for us to run games in, but I can also see why they haven’t since they have so many other things in the works right now and I believe they famously don’t have that many employees (they could hire more, but that could ruin their workflow, etc, not sure). Still, I would like to see this somewhere in the future so I can be a bit more carefree when running less known games.
Maybe this is something that operating systems need to do for us though, I don’t know. Xbox can do it because Windows/HyperV allow it to, but they are created by the same company so the lines are blurred a bit. Not to mention use cases for PC gaming are much wider in scope, so the sandbox environment would have a lot more things to consider (probably).
Anyways I still think this would be sorta far fetched, but I can dream it will soon exist.
Not sure how I feel about making software distributors liable for the malware (it would make any smaller stores go out of business straight away for sure).
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
It isn’t easy as you say.
If they could let us run games in a sandbox/virtualised area that would be amazing though. That’s a very big ask though.
I do know that xbox consoles run games in their own hyper-v vm which gives extra protections to us from most malicious code.
Obviously this would be hard for Steam to implement, but it would be a very nice measure.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
I believe they were streaming on a platform that is built around cryptos