borari
@borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Cybersecurity professional with an interest in networking, and beginning to delve into binary exploitation and reverse engineering.
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 2 weeks ago:
You’re misunderstanding what end-to-end encryption is. If they have a copy of your private key, it’s still end to end encrypted. The alternative would be akin to an SSL termination proxy, where your device would encrypt a message using Facebooks public key, they decrypt message, store it, and then Facebook uses your chat partners public key to encrypt and send to them. You cannot send an encrypted message straight through to your chat partner. What I’m insinuating is that there’s no way to know if Facebook has a copy of your private key. The message is still end-to-end encrypted, it is encrypted by you using your chat partners public key, and passes through all of Facebooks infrastructure encrypted, until your chat partner receives and decrypts it. If Facebook stores the message, it’s stored encrypted. They can just decrypt it when subpoenaed or whenever they want bc they have the required private key.
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 2 weeks ago:
Did you run gpg yourself to generate the key pair, then exchange pub keys with your chat partner? Or did Facebook generate the keys for you from within a closed source application?
- Comment on I built a local AI movie recommender for Radarr using Ollama 2 weeks ago:
That made me lol so hard. Like what’s the fucking point of this thing when it comes up with shit like that?
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 month ago:
I upgraded from an fx6300 to a Ryzen R5 1600 when they launched, and that was mind blowing. I can’t imagine what going from an fx6300 to an R5 in 2025 would feel like.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026) 1 month ago:
I might have misunderstood the comment I replied to. In that case yes, it is extremely ironic.
As an aside, I taken some training and certification exams from a vendor that’s pretty highly respected in my industry. When I started taking their courses they provided student interaction and lab help from employees through a forum. They deprecated that and moved entirely to Discord in like 2021. Now it’s a flood of the same questions asked over and over again, and it doesn’t feel like an extension of the learning process when you have to ask a question or get help. I hate everything about it.
These people offer training courses up to and including shit like security mitigation bypasses, complex heap manipulations, and 64-bit kernel exploitation. They are more than capable of rolling their own self-hosted platform, and if their students can’t figure out how to use a forum idk what they’re doing in the course in the first place.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026) 1 month ago:
It’s a blog post.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 1 month ago:
It’s an archive site, what form fields would you be POSTing?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It has to have been massive. That first summer it was out felt like pre-release PUBG, everyone was playing it.
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 1 month ago:
I’m a huge proponent of LaTeX also, but I feel like it’s not that widely used outside of specific professional niches. The biggest issue I have with Word (and similar software) is the content generation and typesetting being forced into the same interface. It just breaks everything all the time. I’d much happier using word if it only allowed you to type in an Edit mode, and only allowed you to change fonts and layout and stuff in a View mode, and the View mode changes weren’t reflected live in the Edit mode.
- Comment on OpenClaw instances open to the internet present ripe targets 1 month ago:
Or not exposed to the internet. Maybe the owner pulled the repo previously, left their weekend project alone for a bit, then came back to it after all this media attention.
- Comment on OpenClaw instances open to the internet present ripe targets 1 month ago:
Honestly not surprised. Organizations have patch and vulnerability management procedures, people just run shit until they’re prompted to update, and if they git cloned they’ll probably never be prompted.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 month ago:
Xfire
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
If the DM filters treat people with mutual, large, public servers as people you may know and does not filter those chats, most users will probably be like you and be largely unimpacted. If it treats people with those types of mutual servers as people you may not know and does filter those DMs, Discord is shooting themselves in the foot. 99% of my Discord usage is finding people to squad with in online games, and no one like staying in voice channels in the official game servers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I promise you that your personal security posture is not adequate to keep you protected from a nation state.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 months ago:
100%. Valve needs to start suing Epic for their game engine monopoly. It’s not about Valve it’s about protecting gamers.
- Comment on Ban Prediction Markets 2 months ago:
They’re gambling sites that take lines on anything. Idk why we just accepted calling them “prediction markets”. It’s fan duel for not sports wtf.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 2 months ago:
Now you’re getting into “go download the TCP/IP Guide book” type territory lol. Networking is a fascinating subject.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 months ago:
I use git to sync my md notes instead of obsidians paid sync service also. I’ll never go back to proprietary non-text based notes files.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
Wait, so how does that work for games that store saves in ‘c:\users%user%\my documents’ and stuff? That’s why I assumed they’d also need a separate user account on the pc.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
If that was the issue then doing two separate user accounts on the PC, then having a primary steam account (the existing one with all the games) and a secondary new one, and putting them into a Steam family together just like the person I replied to said would be functionally equivalent to yall having two separate PCs with your own steam accounts when it comes to saves and steam achievements and stuff, but you only need to buy and install the game once. It’ll also let you have separate config files so if one person like controls bound one way and the other another you’re not having to rebind each time yall swap who is playing and everything.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
What games have you played that prompted the complaint you brought up regarding sight reading? I’m the same way, and sometimes I find I have to turn subtitles off because I want to actually enjoy the voice acting instead of skipping through everything. The Witcher 3 was especially hard for me in this regard, along with Baldour’s Gate 3. I just started Clair Obscur the other day, and I’m really enjoying the way they subtitle each line out into pretty short chunks because I’ve found I’m much better able to actually listen to the dialogue with their way.
I’m trying to think of a game I’ve played where I have the opposite problem, the one you’re describing where you can’t skip dialogue sections, and I’m coming up blank. Not trying to say you’re wrong, I’m just really curious at this point. I mostly play RPGs and online FPS games, maybe thats part of why I can’t think of an example?
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
I had to force the PS5 glyphs by creating a Game.ini file and inserting the appropriate lines to get the ps instead of Xbox button glyphs for my ds4 in Clair obscur the other day. It was definitely annoying.
Thanks to searching for a solution to that I found a mod to remove the abysmal sharpening, uncap cutscene frame rate, and remove pillar boxes on my 21:9 display though, so it all worked out.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
Since they just have the one pc, they should be able to just make a serving user on the pc then sign in to the single steam account. The new user won’t have any save files in the local user directories, so the game gets launched and you’ll only see the “second” set of saves. No idea how this would work with cloud saves on the steam side though.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 2 months ago:
I should start twitch streaming myself watching other twitch streamers stream. I’ll be the biggest streamer streamer I’ll be rich.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 months ago:
True. Then I guess I’ll just fall back to dumping it on a subnet that null routes everything outbound, and use like an Apple TV or a shield or something for all the content.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 months ago:
I have tricks too. My firewall forcibly redirects any outbound request on port 53 to the internal ip of my pihole. You’ll take my dns and you’ll like it Roku.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 months ago:
Connect it to WiFi but dump it in a subnet that’s not allowed to send traffic out? That’s wild though.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 3 months ago:
Wow I didn’t know that I was leading this whole time.
- Comment on I dunno 4 months ago:
Ah, thank you!
- Comment on I dunno 4 months ago:
Wait is Antwoord the same meaning in Afrikaans? Does the name of the band Die Antwoord literally mean The Subtraction?