ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 6 days ago:
Can they still not tell the screen’s size if you never fullsize your window? I 'member that advice from back in the day using Tor.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 6 days ago:
Oh then I must, because I can run those two at least. Still gonna check when I get home though, thanks!
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 6 days ago:
Wait, I’ve been on fedora for a few years now and never noticed any ffmpeg problems, am I missing something? Maybe I ran the command at install and forgot, but I don’t remember that being one of the things I did on set-up.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
First guy on the list:
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein was the son of a doctor and was of Jewish descent…
In August 1937, while he was living in his apartment at 38 Rubinstein Street, St. Petersburg, Bronstein was arrested after having had his legs broken by his captors as part of the Great Purge.
He was convicted by a list trial in February 1938 and, executed the same day in the basement of the Leningrad NKVD prison. The exact reason for his arrest remains unknown, and contrary to some claims, he was not related to Leon Trotsky.
Yeeeeeaaaaah I can see the “nazi” part but it’s the NKVD not the Jewish theoretical physicist.
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 1 week ago:
and every now and then they find another way to fuck half the internet.
Like literally today lol, it has been giving me shit all morning.
- Comment on Is it bad if I'm 31 and I feel genuinely sad and empty that a mythical creature isn't real? 1 week ago:
Is it Mothman? Cause he’s not evil, he warns, he’s nice!
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 1 week ago:
Not just digital, necessarily. Sometimes it’s both.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I wouldn’t mind if I could use my flipper for it, but the big issue is “if flipper break get fucked.” I can back up my .kdbx file in 14 luks encrypted locations, I can’t backup a whole ass flipper as easily.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 2 weeks ago:
Speaking of fires, what time does that store close and the people leave?
More than one way to skin a building.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 2 weeks ago:
You cannot stop me, that’s false imprisonment and you have no authority in this jurisdiction. I will be leaving, or I will be pressing charges. Your choice. That’s not even close to enough for reasonable suspicion (which is debatably actionable anyway in most circumstances).
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 3 weeks ago:
LOL wearing condoms is copium now? Have fun with your STDs!
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I understand where you’re coming from, they absolutely shouldn’t log IPs. BUT, if you’re committing crimes or even doing legal things the government doesn’t like, it would behoove you to put in the absolute bare minimum of OPSEC at least.
Like, some people know they have STDs and don’t warn people and spread them, right? And while the spreader is obviously the problem there, some commonly accepted advice to the victim is “you should have worn a condom anyway.” And they should have worn a condom to protect themselves (and also the spreader should be held liable.)
Like the previous example, anyone using any online service (for secrety things) should know to put a VPN condom on before they put their data inside that sexy, slutty server rack. And like how contraceptives were that knowledge needs to be spread.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 weeks ago:
Well I never said it was, I said that was probably why “warnings.”
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, he probably was looking for drunks, and when you clearly weren’t he just played it off (poorly).
- Comment on Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network 4 weeks ago:
But it won’t include linux drivers
*rimshot*
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 4 weeks ago:
Screens would get in the way of my many magnets with notes. Not only does it not “need” one, I’m actively anti screen in this case.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 4 weeks ago:
Tbh I agree with them on that, bans don’t work.
But also I say the same to them regarding the ones they do want. Just because they’re hypocrites doesn’t mean I have to be!
Ban bans lol.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 4 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet that, since that happened right as onlyfans took off, most of the amateurs were already looking to onlyfans as a way to monetize their hobby. Surely “no amateur content” on pornhub likely pushed them more to it but I think it was really inevitable with all that, and the affordability of decent camera equipment I’m sure helped.
That said, I’m fairly certain that you can still have “amateur” content on PH you just need to verify it as you somehow, and then there’s always xhamster, erome, and m*****less (iykyk, and if not, leave it that way) and a myriad of other sketchy as fuck sites that don’t care the source of their videos.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 4 weeks ago:
As you’ve accurately identified, they can’t. Best they have is say “nooo you can’t” and hope sites comply out of pure fear. Even if they could, VPN.
They also completely bungled prohibition, drug prohibition, and the states with restrictive gun laws are bungling that. And women from the anti abortion states can still get out of state abortions.
Bans don’t actually work, especially when there’s already an abundance and the banned thing in question is easy to produce.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 4 weeks ago:
Monotremes
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 4 weeks ago:
I’ll piss right on the ground, fuck it. Der Strom lässt sich nicht aufhalten!
- Comment on egg time 4 weeks ago:
I know of such a man. Makes a convincing argument too, that I’ll be wholly unable to properly articulate, but my dumbed down understanding is that (in addition to other things) the “feathers” could be decomposed collagenous fibers from the skin of dinosaurs rather than true feathers, and we’re not actually sure even though feathers are the pushed theory. And he also doesn’t believe in flight evolving ground up, but rather trees down, basically not from creatures jumping away from predators but from them gliding away to another tree. His theory being that one actually works well to get you away from predators while the other would be less likely to be successful and more likely to get eaten before passing on the genes. Also something about the Yi qi.
Idk if he’s right, but tbf idk if the other people are either, who knows.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 5 weeks ago:
And they do also use bean bag guns sometimes, but typically when they’re using the taser or bean bags they’ll still have lethal cover.
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 1 month ago:
I do, but idk how that effects that problem since I stopped using it due to that problem. Also, ironically, removing sms support killed a big selling point, and the fact that phone numbers are still required is pretty lame.
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 1 month ago:
Well facts lol, or any phone because telcoms have been keeping records since at least ~1982.
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 1 month ago:
Yes, but this is where threat modeling comes into play.
Right,:
If you need nation-state level secrecy, rule #1 is don’t associate with idiots who can’t be bothered with at least the most basic opsec. I shouldn’t talk to this motherfucker at all were that my case, or at least not digitally. Thankfully at worst we talk about me middlemanning him some weed, and even local PD dgaf.
Though btw speaking of:
Can the size or metadata
Plenty of people have been drone striked (struck?) simply because the metadata said they were talking to the wrong guy. Frankly if you need that high of a level of secrecy, you’d be better served using tails/tor, or hell even snail mail with false return addr and a book cipher. But for:
all ISPs, WiFi networks, CDNs, VPNs, script skiddies with Wireshark, and network admins in the path
Then frankly either signal or jabber+encryption (or for that matter, simplex, briar, yadda yadda) should be fine.
Signal also benefits from the network effect, because someone trying to get away from an abusive SO has plausible deniability if they download Signal on their phone (“all my friends are on Signal” or “the doctor said it’s more secure than email”)
But then again, it’s more likely to be known as an encrypted chat which may be a problem for them, while the abusive SO might just think XMPP is some outdated IM they know what signal is, and “my friends” can use jabber just the same as signal.
Alas, this is an issue with all messaging apps, if people delete the app without closing their account
Except not. XMPP not being tied to a phone number, if my buddy Steve deletes Conversations, while I may not be able to message him on jabber I can fall back on text. However (and again maybe now this is fixed), on signal if he deletes the app, I can no longer signal message him, nor can I SMS him because they get lost in limbo as signal messages, I’d have to email or use XMPP to get him to redownload signal, delete it properly, and THEN I can SMS him again. (Maybe no longer now that “no sms,” but also “no sms now but still give us your phone number” don’t sit right with me.)
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 1 month ago:
Tbf, can’t the other party mess it up with signal too? I have a friend with a Samsung running stock samsung android, bloatware and all; how can I trust there’s no google or samsung keylogger, which I’m pretty sure at least one of those companies installs? With copilot existing now, how can I be sure that, when that makes it’s way to stock android, it won’t capture the signal convo? The man uses windows, how can I be sure he won’t surrender our chats to current copilot?
If you need nation-state level secrecy, rule #1 is don’t associate with idiots who can’t be bothered with at least the most basic opsec. I shouldn’t talk to this motherfucker at all were that my case, or at least not digitally. Thankfully at worst we talk about me middlemanning him some weed, and even local PD dgaf.
My main issue for signal is (mostly iPhone users) download it “just for protests” (ffs) and then delete it, but don’t relinquish their acct, so when I text them using signal it dies in limbo as they either deleted the app or never check it and don’t allow notifs. Now maybe somehow with the removal of SMS maybe that is fixed, but also removing SMS took my biggest selling point to “normals,” so, fuck me.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 1 month ago:
Classics!
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 1 month ago:
I could see myself filling a bottle of tylenol with tic tacs and trying to sleight of hand them into my mouth in a fistfull in such a way it looked like I ate a bunch, tbf. Y’know for the lolz.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
I buy physical copies if available, usually only if available in a local store or directly from their bandcamp or a show, otherwise yarr matey.