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- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 days ago:
She also loved olive oil, she would prwfer ir over fish and eggs
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 days ago:
Hehe, the cat we had when I grew up was completely and utterly obsessed with home made apple pie, she knew that she wasn’t supposed to get up on tables, and even fish or meat was something she could resist, but not home made apple pie.
- Comment on Listen to the customer 3 days ago:
That assumes that users are the customers, we ain’t.
The actual customers are the companies who buys the ad space.
- Comment on Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors 3 days ago:
Because investor confidence is all that matters.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 4 days ago:
Why would you train him to be a danger to yourself?
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN, with a catch 4 days ago:
Technically, no, but I don’t want a world with just one browser engine.
I remember the dark days of IE6
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN, with a catch 4 days ago:
And this is relevant how?
If I wanted Blink trash, I would not be using Firefox
- Comment on 56 POWs 4 days ago:
One of the most shameful parts of WWII was that the leadership of Japan faced almost no consequences.
- Comment on One of my most recent editions to my collection 5 days ago:
That was the first pure GBC game I ever got, brilliant version of the game!
- Comment on It’s getting weird folks, a second five fret game is getting pushed, Sound Studio 6 days ago:
For me the GH killer was frets on fire.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
For those who don’t know about it, Project Plowshare was a cold war project where the US investigating the use of nuclear weapons for geo engineering projects.
Here is a WTYP Podcast episode about it:
- Comment on UMD Scientists Create ‘Smart Underwear’ to Measure Human Flatulence | UMD Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics 1 week ago:
Is the Universal Media Disc format for the PSP really involved in human farts?
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 1 week ago:
uBlock Origin
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
Also games access to your kernel just screams to me “I wanna have fun and don’t care about security at all, now gimme my fortnite vbux mom” in the most middle-school voice possible.
Wow, how quickly people forget…
Back in 2011, with kernel 2.8.x, gaming on Linux was nothing like it is today, it required dedication, skills and time.
And at the time I didn’t have the energy to deal with it.
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 1 week ago:
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.
An adblocker is part on my security suite on my computer.
Ads can be hijacked to spread malware, and unless the site owner agrees to take both financial and legal liability for the possible dammage caused by their website I will never consider removing my adblocker.
If they agreed to take on the responsibility, I still wouldn’t remove my adblocker, but I would consider it.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
Yeah, I made my comment as I am tired of fanboyism, I have daily driven Linux in the past, I was the Linux sysadmin at a major financial institution for years, Linux is awesome!
But please don’t get arrogant and claim it is faultless, with constructive criticism it can only get better.
Right now I am running Windows as my daily, and my work is only in Windows.
I dailied Linux back in the 2.8 days, I remember a class mate having to manually edit the kernel source code to get his USB mobile broadband modem to work, I had modems from another brand, so I only had to run USB mode switcher to get mine working.
I set up Fluxbox from scratch to get a fantastic UI experience on my laptop.
I know Linux.
I switched back to Windows for gaming, and now with W11 and gaming support for Linux, I am looking to move back to Linux.
I am no Windows nor Linux fanboy.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
Cool anecdote
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
Because it was shit.
I never claimed that everything MS did was good
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
I don’t know about that, XP, 2000 and 7 was pretty solid.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
Let’s not pretend that Linux is without bugs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you have learned something new, it wasn’t a stupid question
- 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." 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Man here, it is awesome that it is available, it sucks that that it is needed.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.