circuscritic

@circuscritic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still way too many niche communities on Reddit that just haven’t taken off on Lemmy e.g. alternative a. Non-team sports.

  There’s a ViolentMonkey script that can automatically delete all of your Reddit comments. I just run that every few days.

  It’s not ideal, but it’s the best that I can do if I value access to those communities, which I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a QEMU specific vulnerability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I skimmed most of the article, glad to see it’s been patched.

  It looks like the attack vector requires access to a VM on the host machine i.e. public cloud/VPS.

  So maybe not a huge risk exclusively for self hosted configurations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Khalife stole UK military secrets for Iran and made list of SAS names, trial told⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… It sounds like he turned himself in, albeit in the dumbest way possible.

  He had been spying successfully for Iran, and looking to defect, or at least back and forth on that.

  At some point, he gets orders to deploy to Fort Hood. It’s either around this time, or during this appointment, he reaches out to British security services offering to be a double agent or just be debriefed on his espionage activities? Basically admitting that he was actively compromised, but that he wanted to return to a normal life…

  No, I’m not calling him stupid. He doesn’t seem stupid he just sounds like a kid who got in way over his head, and under all that pressure, may even dumber choices until he eventually got caught.

  I don’t know anything else about the story other than what I heard on the news during his escape back when, and what I just read, so it’s possible I’m missing some important information in that summary, I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can enable IIS, or at least a version of, under Windows Features for Windows 10 Pro/Edu installs.

  But someone can correct me if I’m wrong about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DoD already started this with their Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).

  And I agree, the government should use its power to force interoperable and open standards wherever possible and relevant.