spookedbyroaches

@spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New home server: what hypervisor/OS?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Incus better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of capitalisms biggest tragedies⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Less than in Ethiopia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-racism be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they literally cannot do anything that’s not racist.

  Keep: racist appropriation Remove: racist minority erasure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why docker⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use lxc/lxd to get all of the performance benefits of docker and all the freedom of a vm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fish Taco⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your life serves ZERO purpose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think they saw a couple of examples Of stores taking out the self checkout lanes and ran with them. Although you could say the theft that the self checkout lanes allow is a recurring expense, but that’s probably not nearly as much as the saving that the machines give.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s what sucks about this. But you don’t have to really call for intimate messages. WhatsApp cannot read you message since it’s E2EE but they do store and use the metadata. So a casual message and an intimate messages are the same in a WhatsApp server’s eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing is that a lot of people actually do give pins and shit. I know more than a few people that straight up gave me their card and the pin number to buy shit when I was a kid.

  Besides, giving embarrassing information to a faceless billion dollar company does not feel as bad as giving it to someone who judges you if they find that info embarrassing. It’s illogical but that’s how a lot of people think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolfram 🍑♥️🔥⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that my homie Joseph?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Not Store Encrypted Emails in Plaintext Locally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool but I like to have a central client for all my email providers. I’ve decided to go to fastmail which is good enough for my threat model. The thing that really convinced me is their blog post.

  The main thing I care about is the security of the text in transit, and the philosophy of the service I’m using. All respectable mail providers use TLS (even gmail and outlook) but I don’t like their advertiser dependent business model. Proton, tutanota, and I think startmail do respect privacy, but I believe it’s dumb to depend on an external server if you’re that paranoid about your communications that you need to have your email using PGP. Just encrypt your own stuff and tell the other party to do the same. Or self host everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Not Store Encrypted Emails in Plaintext Locally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have to put in your password on every session in protonmail? If not, then that means that either the key is unencrypted and is stored somewhere else as plaintext or the password is stored somewhere also as plaintext, which would defeat the purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Not Store Encrypted Emails in Plaintext Locally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t search encrypted emails, period. The way I see the benefit of encrypting emails is to not have them compromised in the cloud servers. But on my own machine, if someone gains access to the files, then it’s all ogre. Maybe that’s just me IDK.

• Why Not Store Encrypted Emails in Plaintext Locally?
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩ | ⁨20⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we create a new Internet ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no need for a new internet. Every garbage service has a somewhat viable alternative.

  You have peertube instead of youtube Kagi, duckduckgo, marginalia, etc instead of Google search Lemmy instead of reddit Mastodon, polycentric instead of twitter Gitea instead of github Bandcamp instead of spotify There are probably more things but you get the idea. The problem is not the internet itself but that you have to have many people go to objectively less polished or paid services to protect their personal data. I don’t know how that would happen since honestly, the privacy shit doesn’t affect people’s everyday lives, but using different services does affect their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can create another wallet and move all the funds there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with the author is the idea of lumping together some good reasons to avoid Brave and some really bad reasons. The idea that the company behind brave depends on ads for revenue is good reasoning, the fact that they have a volatile cryptocurrency to use as payment is another. But when you mention that the founder is a bigot, or that he was associated with Peter Theil, or that they CONSIDERED a shady ad practice are not really reasons to avoid the product.

  In the end, you want to have some competition in the browser market (that means not using the same base browser with a skin and some features). I would recommend Firefox over Brave for that reason alone.