Synnr

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you running a Tor Relay?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t run an exit node? We need more guard and relay nodes anyway. I fail to see the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, but it takes a lot to set it up and keep your email reputation solid and DKIM/SPF records, and Spamhaus and Google/MS are basically those controlling corporations, for email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook was all those things in the beginning.

  Reddit was all those things in the beginning.

  Twitter was all those things in the beginning.

  The Internet in general was all those things in the beginning.

  I’ve never used IG/TT but I assume they were all those things in the beginning.

  Lemmy will probably be said to be most of those things in the beginning.

  With age comes wisdom, once you’ve seen the pattern happen enough times, which can only come with age.

  Sincerely, One of those old people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Y2K38 Epochalypse bug hits 2 years early due to Windows’ rushed implementation of Windows Subsystem for Linux under CEO Elon Musk, causes all Windows systems to combust due to a combination of the bug, and a cyberattack on the new chip fab plant in the state of Mexas. The only widespread choices after that are WacOS and Ubuntrue, both parent companies owned by Elon Musk after winning his presidential election and removing all antitrust legislation. However there is a hobbyist Unix distribution still being passed around called Briarch, but you have to be in close proximity to someone with it to get it, but they fixed the 2038 problem in 2025 when development started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Year of the Linux Desktop! 1999-2035!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a terrible day to have eyes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 1. Peeling skin

  Step 2. Orange Gatorade

  Step 3. Small flower

  Step 4. ???

  Step 5. Profit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For folks who write for Medium.com, what's your engagement like, and how much do you make?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, that’s about standard or even better than most, unless you’re doing it full-time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For folks who write for Medium.com, what's your engagement like, and how much do you make?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you’re making more than $16 each month (most are not making anywhere close to that) from Medium then you’re just choosing another company to profit off of you. It’s also more work and takes a lot (arguably, depending on your technical comfort level) more time.

  Do you own the content that you publish on Medium?

  Yes. Everything you publish on Medium, that is rightfully yours, belongs to you and you can republish, delete or choose to convert it into other forms without worrying about anything because Medium gives you the ownership. They have clearly explained this in the Medium terms of service.

  Medium (company) might use your content to redistribute, translate or modify, and they need your permission for this. They need licensing for this because of the Medium rule; “You own your content”

  Medium is like an ocean in part because it’s so easy and free. There are some really spectacular fish and animals and rare finds and even shipwrecks full of gold and treasure. There is also a metric shit-ton of mediocrity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re looking at it very black and white, as if you can’t live in a peaceful more remote area but still visit with friends and have them over, socialize at work, etc. After all, if you live in a city you don’t live with or talk to all the people you see, they’re just there, noise in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For folks who write for Medium.com, what's your engagement like, and how much do you make?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing about medium is that it’s a trusted domain + mailing list + blog + search engine in one. All you have to do is sign up and start writing, for free.

  Sure you can have your own domain, and spin up a cheap VPS which has WordPress or other blogging software, pay MailChimp to actually inbox your emails, use Google Analytics or some open source complex privacy-focused analytics, and then set up your advertisements if you actually want to make money from it. That’s a lot of time invested and very expensive relatively (compared to free).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For folks who write for Medium.com, what's your engagement like, and how much do you make?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, if you’re struggling that much, I’ll pay for a few months for you so you can try it out. $15 for 3 months, or do you have to pay yearly? I have no experience with medium but I get a ton of good info from medium articles and it’s a great resource.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The news did it first⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The ultimate shitpost, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new favourite password manager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory, if I were to use an online solution, bad actors wouldn’t be able to pull my vault from memory.

  It’s the same issue once you login to your vault via browser extension. Even if they don’t store your vault password in memory, they either store the entire vault (unlikely for size reasons) or a more temporary key to access the vault. Local compromise is full compromise already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new favourite password manager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, I have been using KeePassXC locally since the first big LastPass breach. I thought “password manager company… they know encryption” and then kept some of the most important things stored in my vault including notes of Bitcoin seedphrases etc. Thought "even if they get hacked, they wouldn’t let anyone exfil the huge amount of data from the USER VAULT SERVER… thought “my passphrase is like 25-30 chats long, nobody will crack that”…

  5 years after my last login and I find out the breach happened, user vaults were exfil’d, the encryption was absolute shit, and the notes weren’t even encrypted.

  I don’t trust cloud companies to keep promises or know what they’re doing today. and anything self-hosted isnt Internet accessable unless it’s on dedicated hardware subnetted off and wouldn’t matter if it got hacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought NewPipe only worked with decentralized services? Does it work with YouTube proper?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a native app, or webapp? I thought there was a native app, in fact I know there is and it’s called Kuhmbus. Nobody can correct me because I’m right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick someone post that 3rd party YouTube interface. I need it.

  This is the Internet so let’s settle this quickly and effectively.

  The best 3rd party YouTube interface is called PeerGhastly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder that only 8% of USA prisons are for-profit (I.e. private prisons).

  Also a reminder that 2 out of every 3 workers in state and federal prisons still have jobs creating for-profit things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I chuckle inside and exit the room at the first chance when someone non-jokingly refers to themselves as an alpha male. And that’s not because I’m afraid of them–the fact is that I’m the alpha male.

  /s

  Humans in packed cities could be described in a similar way though, if there’s not a social reinforcement in place, by the community elders who are respected and followed, to keep them from it.

  Put any one species into a [packed] depressing [space] with way too many strangers and way too [varied amounts of resources per individual], and they will fight and establish a pecking order eventually. This has nothing to do with how the same species would behave in the wild and with enough resources to live comfortably.

  I grew up in the country with tens of acres and my nearest neighbor was a mile away. Separated from the small town nearby by a river and surrounded by thick hedgerows going miles around in every direction, with a huge open space (fields) between our house and the hedgerows. I’ve never been happy in the city. No matter where I am, I feel like I’m in a cage. I’m not agoraphobic but there’s a sense of being ‘watched’ when I leave my house that just isn’t there when you live in a remote area. All the people, sights, sounds, smells can be incredibly overwhelming at times.

  I am only capable of attaining a true level of peace when I’m in nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former soldier searched Google, Reddit for spying tips, prosecutors say — Investigators say they found a document on the man's computer titled: “Important Information to Share with Chinese Governme...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have proper full disk encryption and know the caveats, it really doesn’t matter what you name your files. If you’re the anal-retentive spy handler type, you are probably very organized, and you name files with exactly what’s in them.

  He was a spy handler who handled secret and top secret documents and worked in intelligence for a number of years. I’m sure he knew how to encrypt his hard drive.

  He may have even used a VPN, or tor for the searches which has (had?) a very curious ongoing network-wide DDoS attack (very useful if you wanted to do timing attacks) for at least a year in 2022-2023. The tor project themselves tell you that if your adversary is a nation-state, you need to use more protection than just browsing from your normal laptop on your home network.

  I imagine he at minimum used private browsing to search Google and reddit for this stuff, but they logged the search and the DoD was later able to easily get the customer details of the IP from his ISP at the time the searches took place, and also all other searches during a time.

  But it’s also just as likely he thought he’d be in the clear, knows how incompetent the beurocracy seems since he was inside of it, but something he did tipped them off and he was scrutinized (maybe his VISA application for China and plans to travel there yearly).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom Hanks Warns Fans About ‘AI Version of Me’ Promoting Dental Plan: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With It’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Very slight off vocal inflections that you subconsciously know aren’t him because you’ve seen the real him act in so many movies.

  Plus, you knew it was a fake when you clicked it. If you hadn’t then chances are it would seem like a regular ad you’re trying to skip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do surge protectors continue to draw power from the wall even if switched off or if nothing's connected to them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I was aware they made surge protectors without battery backup, but I wrongly thought they were both just ‘surge protectors’ and wondered if OP somehow left out that his had a battery backup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do surge protectors continue to draw power from the wall even if switched off or if nothing's connected to them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely you thought of this, but a lot of surge protectors have (used to have?) a battery backup for short outages. Keeps the PC on so you can save your data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of animal skulls from Africa seized at Paris airport⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just turn them into alien mummies and have Mexico pay for it.

  Get it? It’s a multi-disjointed joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This explains the 4 different “Hey! I got your number at the XX meetup.” and “Hey, let’s go play golf tomorrow!” type texts ove gotten this week. Trying to validate info

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Respect isn't earned. You receive the amount of respect you give.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also not an equal trade, so no one gets it wrong. Not treating someone with respect won’t get them to respect you, but treating someone with respect won’t necessarily get them to respect you, either.

  For any young autists that needed it spelled out. Keywords being “treat them with a base level of respect.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug dealer flew drone carrying $75K in opioids, porn-filled USB drive into prison yard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it is Australia, have you seen their drug prices?

  I bet they counted the cost of the porn too. Special collectors edition DVD box sets, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MGM Resorts computers back up after 10 days as analysts eye effects of casino cyberattacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pay the ransom!

  • Ceasers board members
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT for more background. This is the result.

  Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist and critic of the Saudi government, was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2, 2018. He had gone there to obtain documents related to his upcoming marriage. However, once inside the consulate, he was brutally murdered by a team of Saudi agents.

  The details of how he was lured vary, but it is believed that Saudi officials, including the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were involved in orchestrating his murder. Khashoggi’s murder sparked international outrage and led to a significant diplomatic crisis.

  Consequences for the murder have been complex. Some individuals directly involved in the killing were put on trial in Saudi Arabia, and several were convicted, though the trials lacked transparency and were widely criticized. Internationally, there were sanctions and travel bans imposed on Saudi officials, but the extent of the consequences remained a subject of debate. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reportedly concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination, but he has denied any involvement.

  The Khashoggi case has had lasting implications for Saudi Arabia’s international reputation and its relationship with other countries, particularly the United States. It has raised questions about human rights, press freedom, and the role of the Saudi government in suppressing dissent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  THank you; i appreciated this.