Quexotic
@Quexotic@infosec.pub
- Comment on The resemblance is uncanny 1 day ago:
I remember thinking when I was a kid that without the costume, she’d be really pretty.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 day ago:
I get this is just a shit post but this really gets at the unreality that has been manufactured for us. a lack of stability that makes everything just a little bit more unbelievable.
- Comment on AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers 1 day ago:
I mean, they’re into endless attention from sycophantic yes-men… Pretty sure they all are/do.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 1 week ago:
Personally I don’t see how they keep up with all those different contradictions. It’s very confusing.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 1 week ago:
Free coffee at meetings?
Seriously though, a club sounds nice. Individualism is overrated.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 1 week ago:
Yeah. The AI search engine is dumb and included at least 1 apart tv, but here are examples perplexity.ai/…/i-m-looking-for-dumb-tvs-A8yqzSZK…
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 1 week ago:
Is look for a hospitality TV or some other dumb tv, at least 120hz refresh, excellent contrast, 4k.
- Comment on Chicken Of The Woods 1 week ago:
Will it kill you?
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 week ago:
That’s something I’d want to use on a dumb phone as soon as it’s out of beta.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 week ago:
And soon Veilid
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 week ago:
I hadn’t even thought of it from this angle. That’s a hard stop for me right there.
Any flip phone you can basically hook up to bitpim or a cellebrite or whatever and copy its entire contents in a matter of seconds. There’s no challenge. There’s no security whatsoever.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve got that as a backup plan too.
- Comment on How've you been ? 1 week ago:
So tired. I’m trying to get things back in order so I’m not so exhausted all the time.
Been going through it™ lately.
I’ll get there.
- Comment on Supreme Court Gives ICE License to Hunt Mexicans 1 week ago:
Kind of like saying falling out of an airplane without a parachute is somewhat risky.
I appreciate your gift for understatement. 💛
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 week ago:
They must be color-coded.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 week ago:
Stop thinking about left and right start thinking about up and down.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 1 month ago:
guardianproject.info/apps/org.witness.sscphase1/
Above you will find the link for an app called a obscure cam. It’s open source and made by the Guardian Project. It allows you to sensor faces and automatically removes exaptata from your photos so that you don’t put your geolocation on dating apps.
If all of the Tea users used this, that breach wouldn’t be even a quarter as bad. Also would help if they didn’t post their fn drivers license to a dating app.
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 2 months ago:
Arrrrrrr
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 months ago:
This was my first question too! I thought heat makes them wear out faster.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 months ago:
Interesting. I’ll have to look for that. I don’t believe I’ve actually seen the prompt yet.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 months ago:
Goddammit… Right after I got the lifetime pass…
- Comment on I felt sorry for them 3 months ago:
Can’t wait till they get the ability to decrypt all the shit we’ve been sending over signal. Shits gonna get real interesting.
They’re just storing that shit up, waiting for the day…
It’ll be a bloodbath.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 4 months ago:
Never tried. I’m a ps guy now, but the point is that there shouldn’t be region codes to begin with.
Anywhere I’ve ever seen a region code to be changeable you only get to change it a certain number of times before you get stuck in a region. This is why you’ll find TBD players that have been firmware flashed to be regionless.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 4 months ago:
Uh, we kinda tricked rocks into thinking using lightening and learned to use rocks to make AI…
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 4 months ago:
They’re the Disney of gaming, really.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 4 months ago:
So, this is a basic security principle. If the system of access is too “secure” or too inconvenient, people will create workarounds.
Need keys for all the doors every second of every day? You’ll find duct tape on all the latches.
Password is 15 characters and changes every 60 days? You’re going to find post-its under keyboards.
Spread all digital content across 8 streaming providers that cost about $180/y? Torrent time.
Nintendo wants to brick users for trying to play an out of region game they paid for? They’ll never pay again and will reverse engineering your shit out of spite.
Same thing we saw with the music industry utterly failing to embrace internet distribution. Limewire and bearshare are their fucking lunch.
When will they learn to just make access easy? People, generally, would rather pay than pirate but when you start making shit difficult, nobody wants to play your games anymore and you see massive losses.
Meet your customers where they’re at!
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 4 months ago:
There’s another way to egg?
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 4 months ago:
Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 5 months ago:
Funny, I experimented with DDG, and they gave me a wikiHow with instructions on how to spend your final days if you know you’re dying. I guess the search engine makes all the difference.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 5 months ago:
I would like to see an email from him with a bullet point list of five things he did this week.