stoy
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- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 12 hours ago:
Anyone know how likely it is for her to be given the max sentence?
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 day ago:
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.
As an IT guy I consider an adblocker an essential part of my computer security suite.
I will not reconsider until there are laws in place forcing website owners to take legal and financial responsibility for any damage sustained to my computer when visiting their site, and loading their ads.
IF the laws are changed like that, I would reconsider getting rid of my adblocker, ai still wouldn’t but I would reconsider the issue.
- Comment on Uber launches women-only option across the US 2 days ago:
Man here, it is awesome that it is available, it sucks that that it is needed.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 days ago:
I agree that we should work toward a more private society, but we are not there yet.
And to answer your question, yes, Proton is required to store the CC info.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 5 days ago:
Well, not everyone needs to be good at opsec, most people are fine as is.
Most people are not working against the government either.
But if you are going against the government, or any large and powerful entity, you absolutely need good, reliable opsec.
When the police comes knocking on your door, you can’t just blame Proton for not informing you about not using your own CC to sign up for your service.
This isn’t a playground, you are dealing with the big boys now, and they have far more tools than you have, unless you learn and adapt, you will get burnt.
So while you are right that bot everyone can be expected to be good at opsec, that isn’t the issue.
The issue is that this was an opsec failure of the guy, it wasn’t Proton messing up.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 5 days ago:
And that is why you would have failed at opsec.
You can’t demand warnings about stuff like that all the time, YOU need to teach yourself these things.
You can’t rely on anyone else for your own opsec.
That is the entire argument here.
The guy should have read up on protecting his anonymity before he started his activities.
Opsec fails have brought down many, many people.
From darknet site owners, to government agency operations, to countries at war and more.
Opsec sounds easy at first, but it is extremely difficult, and you can’t rely on anyone else doing your job for you.
You need to develop OCD like habits, you need to understand why they are needed, and what you are giving away when breaking them.
You imply that a warning would have prevented the guy from using his credit card, I don’t think it would have made any difference, the guy would either not understand at all, or just ignore it
Unless he intuitively understood that Proton was required to retain cc numbers for X years, and that these cc numbers were tied to a specific transaction, his account and his identity, I just don’t see him taking a warning serious.
This is the real world, it isn’t fair, it doesn’t care, you need to care about this for your self preservation.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 6 days ago:
They clearly give you options to avoid this scenario, this is not on Proton, this is simply an opsec fail of the user.
Don’t get me wrong, opsec is hard, exhausting and just annoying, it needs discipline and constant focus, you only need to fail once for it to be ineffective.
The customer signed up for Proton, but didn’t follow their guidelines for anonymity, that is not a failure of proton, it is a failure of the user.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 6 days ago:
Arguing about what people should or should not have to do is pointless.
It changes nothing and removes the debate from being practical to being theoretical.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 6 days ago:
I saw a post about this earlier, it is a nothingburger.
The user in question paid for his account with a personal credit card, he didn’t use an anonymous payment alternative which are available.
Proton has stated that they will comply with law enforcement requests, but are working to maintain as few logs as possible.
This is an opsec failure on the user’s side.
This is not Proton handing IDs of their customers to the government on a silver platter, this is their customer not understanding the service they use.
- Comment on US | Trump Officials Now Want Ukraine's Help To Counter Iranian Drones In The Ultimate Twist Of Irony 6 days ago:
Well, they have the “greatest businessman” running the country, for someone like that it should be easy to find a mutually beneficial business deal.
Get to work Trump boy, chop chop!
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 1 week ago:
The issue is that any software is a blackbox when running.
There is no way for a user to know what code is running let alone verifying that a specific code is actually running on a device, combine that with a sector that keeps wanting more data.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 1 week ago:
True, damnit.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 1 week ago:
How about we ban hidden cameras in public?
- Comment on 'Disgusting': Republicans Applaud as Trump Brags About Taking Food Aid From Millions | Common Dreams 2 weeks ago:
I have written about this before, but this is similar to the time I was the most confused and insulted in my professional life.
Early last year, I attended a mandatory company event, it was mostly about the C-suit spoke about how great they were and the peons applauding, eh standard stuff.
Then came a guest speaker…
His entire talk was about how he had moved jobs from high earning countries to low earning countries, he did that on a stage infront of high earners in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him.
I was shocked at the insanity of it all, and how almost no one in the audience had the decency of looking uncomfortable.
This is the same, they are talking about taking food from people to make their already privileged life even more privileged.
And the crowd applauding doesn’t realize that the defining line for who will be included isn’t static, under the current regime it is a ratchet.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 2 weeks ago:
I strongly believe that the EU should fund Mozilla, or a fork of Firefox.
Gecko is the only viable competitor to Blink/WebKit, and it is needed
- Comment on Littering 🚯 2 weeks ago:
I live in an apartment, so I need to find a good place to shoot before I get a rifle, I’ll also checkout what other kinds of pellets I can get.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 weeks ago:
To be perfectly honest, I don’t know what GFS is, I have been a Linux sysadmin for a few years, but never came across that.
We used LVM and ext4 for the storage in tjose VMs
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 weeks ago:
I know it is a bit complex, but after seeing the shenanigans Synology tried to play and reading review about Ugreen NAS units and how they seem to connect to external servers often, I just decided to roll my own TrueNAS build.
I am using an AMD Ryzen 4600G, 32GB of RAM, a 500GB boot SSD, the only mATX board I could find with six SATA ports, the Asus B550m Pro4 and a Corsair SF750 750W PSU to power it all.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 weeks ago:
I will if I can, as it stands I have four 8TB seagate drives, enough for my actual storage need, but I want to have two parity drives for extra protection.
I am planning on running ZFS with Zraid2, the drives are the final piece of the puzzle to at least get it working.
When I planned the build, I planned to get another controller card and run two SSDs as well, one for cache (I can add that later), and one for VM/App storage, I also planned on getting an Intel GPU for transcoding video, and a 10Gig NIC, mainly just to say I have it, as my network isn’t more than normal gigabit.
It is getting more important to complete the build as I need to move my media from single, non raided hard drives in my computer to a well raided server that I can configure for bitrot protection.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 2 weeks ago:
Hehe, I’d be happy to tell you my general understanding of the laws, I am not a gun nut, and there are probably a few details I get wrong.
Anyway.
In Sweden you can only get a gun for two reasons, hunting or competition, getting a gun for self defense is illegal.
To get a gun for either reason, you need to pass tests and for competition licenses, display an active need for the gun in competitions.
Wikipedia has a better summary of the laws on this page:
- Comment on Moats are back! 2 weeks ago:
So…
Anyone have stocked up on siege weapons?
- Comment on Littering 🚯 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I just know I am bound to miss and don’t want to contaminate anything.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 2 weeks ago:
This is partly why I haven’t got into air rifles, I have wanted to for a long time, but there is no good place to shoot it nearby.
Some may say that I should just go out in the woods and shoot there, but I don’t want to spread lead in nature.
I know there are lead free pellets, but I have heard mixed opinions about them.
Why an air rifle specifically?
Because I can get a low power one (10J muzzle energy) without a license, and I can’t be arsed to get a license for a proper firearm as it requires a fair commitment here.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 weeks ago:
I do see that another retailer has drives in stock, but at about 40-50% more than I paid back in October
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 weeks ago:
I get paid on the 27th, I need two more 8TB drives to complete my NAS, my local retailer had 50+ in stock earlier this week, and now the drives are no longer even listed.
Fuck sake…
- Comment on Finally received my NX-01 Flight Jacket from Hero Within 2 weeks ago:
ENT was the only show in Star Trek that had sensible uniforms.
- Comment on Get. Out 2 weeks ago:
Lol they did that this year here as well, used AI to make them look like superheroes, didn’t work…
- Comment on Australia: Chinese HungryPanda food delivery drivers say police contacted family members back home as part of pressure campaign to stop them protesting 3 weeks ago:
While we should be weary of blaming the victims, this is actually really dumb.
- Comment on Get. Out 3 weeks ago:
Early last year I had to attend a company conference, it is a yearly thing where mgmt get to stand on a stage and have their peons aplaud them after telling everyone how amazing they are.
That year was particularly insulting.
The CEO brought up a person who he said had inspired him and how great the guy was.
The only thing that guy spoke about was how proud he was to have moved high income jobs to low income countries.
That, in front of a crowd of high income employees in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him…
And what is ridiculous was that most people genuinly did seem to enjoy the talk.
Granted, this was a company in the finance sector, and I work in IT, but come one people at least have the decency of looking uncomfortable when someone is happily talking about moving similar jobs to yours to other countries to your face.
- Comment on UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears 3 weeks ago:
Cool, but we in the EU should be weary of any outside payment processor taking over.