dogs0n
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- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 2 hours 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 22 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago:
Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 5 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
I believe they were streaming on a platform that is built around cryptos
- Comment on Question for Selfhosted mail server 1 week ago:
Hehe disagree, more like a bit more difficult than your random app where all you have to do is start it, but nowadays, with the amount of guides that exist alongside complete mail server packages, it’s much easier than previously. Just gotta have patience mostly and follow all steps.
Once it’s setup though, it’s mostly not touched like most other things until theres an update.
- Comment on Question for Selfhosted mail server 1 week ago:
Don’t selfhost email at home. Tons of reasons why won’t work, this is only the tip of the iceberg you are facing.
I disagree, but I do agree you can’t achieve this without business internet usually.
- Comment on Looking for a simple personal homepage 1 week ago:
+1 for just using html & css if it’s literally just an online business card.
A generator is only really useful if you have blog posts, multiple pages, something that changes often, etc, right?
- Comment on Shh 1 week ago:
I recently saw paper straws for sale in a carboard box with a cutout so you could physically touch the straws. Naturally, I was revolted.
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 2 weeks ago:
There are a few complete mail servers out there now that simplify everything into one package.
docker-mailserver is a great choice in my opinion.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 2 weeks ago:
Never heard of that, but I think the risk of a fire outweighs a “free” UPS. Good to know.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 2 weeks ago:
Usually if a service of mine goes down, I’ll fix it when I or someone else needs it. I think that’s a decent approach for most personal stuff, eslecially when you have termux on your phone, becomes easy to restart stuff wherever you are.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to change anyones mind, I just think laughing at people who aren’t really in the wrong is going to ruin any chance of us as consumers getting more knowledgeable on this stuff, which will lead us down the path of brands doing whatever, which should be the opposite of what you want. So laughing in peoples faces isn’t doing you any good, that’s probably why your family and friends dont listen to you.
A gentle nudge in the right direction is all people need, not being laughed at and mocked.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
In my opinion, we can’t blame the customer because they don’t actually sign up for this treatment. Samsung (in this case) didnt tell these people “yeah, there will be ads soon”, no, they bought this product and THEN the ads came.
This happens with a lot of things, they get you in then close the doors and trap you in.
Not everyone knows this happens, so I think we that do should be doing everything we can to stop it, otherwise we will end up with every fridge being a “smart fridge” and we in the know won’t have a choice but to buy one.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
Thats the plan, though I think the void is starting to listen. The other option of do nothing is better in your eyes?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
Laughing at people won’t help change their minds, it will likely make them reinforce their decisions out of anger etc. So i think you are doing it wrong.
People won’t learn on their own, either we help and things get better (because ppl stop buying this type of garbage) or we laugh and they keep buying poopy for vengeance.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
Samsung is pretty known to be a shit ass company
Im not sure that they are to the general public.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
Feel free to make fun of ppl, but I hope you realise that these type of comments that ridicule the customers just leave the companies out of the fire and let them continue doing this to us.
Not everyone is technically inclined or educated on this type of stuff, not really their fault that these companies prey on them with this stuff.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
“Thats what you get” comments aren’t helpful or productive. Don’t demonize the customer, demonize Samsung in this case. It’s not the customers fault… I highly doubt it said “Advertisements coming soon” om the box when they bought it.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 weeks ago:
You are a kind soul. Your grand grand grand kids (assuming you have them) will be very greatful for your sacrifice.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 weeks ago:
I agree. The only big problem I’m aware of is the length of validity for patents/copyright (and how large corporations for years were getting the laws changed so their IP could last even longer).
After a decade or two, surely you have profiteered enough or at least had enough time to try profiteering from your idea or works? Time for public domain? 75 years (i think it is for copyright) seems crazy to me.
Me not experto though, but I do think lowering the time you can hold your invention or works hostage from the world would be amazing for the general public and advancement of tech (even though when I say that, it sounds like stealing a baby from a mother).
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 weeks ago:
Hm, I’m not so certain that they are stating you should be using a VPN, I think they were addressing someone who was quite concerned and a VPN does mitigate all concerns usually, so it’s simple and common advice for them folk to hand out.
- Comment on Too soon? 3 weeks ago:
His wife and kid(s) were apparently in the audience, this was probably very scaring for the kids if they saw it.
Anyways crazy you’re at negative votes, not very ethical of the downvoters
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 weeks ago:
I think the only advice I have seen is to use jellyfin behind a reverse proxy (instead of directly exposing it), because they are hardened.
Where have you seen this official advice for a vpn?
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 weeks ago:
Same with Plex, except more serious, they have data breach after data breach and I read comments here of people applauding the response and probably most will continue to use it.
If your threat model includes being scared people are gonna guess whats on your server and try playing it, then thats up to you, personally It’s not something I’m worried about in contrast.