elvith
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- Comment on The Saw movie franchise, but for mild annoyances 1 week ago:
Oh, that’s an easy one:
Just constantly stick your finger up your nose, scratch your balls, etc. Make them dirty, greasy,… You get it. If there are “better” means (e.g. food) available, use that. Then play dumb and try to use their computer as if it was a phone and try to do everything as if it had a touch screen. Smear it all over their screen. Cuss as the PC doesn’t react, try again, get visibly angry and irritated.
They’ll stop asking questions fast. Probably right after they realize what you did to the first PC.
- Comment on What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you? 1 week ago:
- Daily incremental (and occasionally full) backup to an external HDD - a full image of my PCs, so that I should be able to restore anything back to what it was in the last ~14 days, assuming no ransomware or fire or…
- All the data I care about gets synced to my Nextcloud (VPS, not home lab) - somewhat ransomware protected as I could restore VPS backups independently from my PC.
- Most precious data (mostly photos) gets backed up regularly to an encrypted zip file and then gets send to a glacier tier S3 bucket. Some manual retention is done on the zip file level, so that I can get a tad older backup restored.
- At least monthly a full backup image of my PCs is created on a separate external HDD which is not stored at home, but in a place I could access 24/7 if I really needed to restore something fast.
Phones, etc? Just sync to the mentioned Nextcloud, PC downloads from there and everything gets then into the aforementioned backups.
Homeserver? See “PC” above. With the caveat that some VMs/containers are not in the backup cycle, as they do not store any valuable data besides temp files, etc. For these, only things like docker compose files, custom config, ansible playbooks,… are in my backup.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 2 weeks ago:
I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software
- Comment on Oh no, anyways 2 weeks ago:
The king is dead, long live the king!
- Comment on Emma 2 weeks ago:
Plausible deniability
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
Roll verification coal to continue
FTFY
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
Here you go
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
Hey, you might want to team up with Sony…
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
Line go up
- Comment on Brother HL-2280DW, what are you doing? 3 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear, D stuck in printer
- Comment on Fuck 2024! And 2025! 1 month ago:
While I’m totally with you, many people may be affected by the orange one, even if their not from the US. US politics influences a lot of places globally.
- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 3 months ago:
What’s he gonna do about it?
Sue them?
- Comment on Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so? 3 months ago:
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 3 months ago:
Yeah, but now you’re talking about communicating with web.archive.org and not nonesense.reputable-bank.com as in the original post. In this case you’re not even trying to hide the fact, that you aren’t affiliated with reputable-bank.com and were back to square one and you could also just use reputable-bank.com.some.malicious-phishing.website to host your page.
Btw: all modern browsers will warn you when you access a non-encrypted website - some immediately, some only when you try to enter data into a login form.
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 3 months ago:
Checks own servers…
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
Yeah, I’d like to see that…
- Comment on Bad news 3 months ago:
So… 22502 is the solution!
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 4 months ago:
Some companies just blatantly sell your data. Others get breached and you are part of the package that gets sold by the hackers.
The only “way around” is to use unique mail addresses for each signup/company so you can easily lock it and switch to another one when it gets known.
Just assume, that everything that you type in a form online (or in any other way send to a company/another person digitally), every email you send, everything that gets digitized about you, etc. will be public one day. Either because the other side of the transaction sold it or because they (or you) will be hacked eventually.
Btw: HaveIBeenPwned does not necessarily contain all breaches. I have several notifications of companies that got breached and leaked my data that are not listed in HIBP…
- Comment on Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel 4 months ago:
Depends, I’m from Europe and there are any sites that allow that. You might need to search for a bit (e.g. not a button but a link in some fine print). But yes, there are many sites that just don’t have a “decline all” button and that ask you to deny every one of their 937.726.193.372.129 partners (most of them double, as you need to deselect the partner and their “legitimate interests” separately…
- Comment on Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel 4 months ago:
Somewhat - some site just don’t set a consent cookie if you deny cookies. First, they didn’t set Cookies as you requested - second, they can easily ask again on your next page load!
- Comment on Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel 4 months ago:
Nah, it’s at least two clicks - the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking (which won’t save that setting and ask again on every page load/click on the page as you might want to be tracked in two minutes) and another one to cancel.
- Comment on Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL. 4 months ago:
Is it pronounced Rust-L-S or Rus-T-L-S?
And if the latter, why not Rusty-L-S?
- Comment on I hate link rot 4 months ago:
- Comment on Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? 4 months ago:
Nintendo in my experience:
Physical: Get it right on release day (or in the first week after) in retail for about 40€, otherwise you will have to rely on rare good retail discounts to get it below 55€
Digital: Don’t you even dare to think about discounts
- Comment on Lousy Smarch weather... 4 months ago:
Too bad it’s not Faptember
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 4 months ago:
Is the traffic encrypted?
If it is, look at the certificate. Which hostname is it for primarily? Which SAN (Subject Alternative Name - basically a list of all other hostnames the certificate is valid for) are set, if any? Which Certificate Authority issued the certificate or is it self signed?
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 4 months ago:
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝖟𝖚 𝕱𝖚𝖊𝖓𝖋𝖟𝖎𝖌 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖟𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉!
- Comment on Make a wsh 4 months ago:
But me took a second look!
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 5 months ago:
Heck, I’ve heard the argument “We’re in retail [or insert other fittig market segments here] and Amazon is a direct competitor. Why the heck should we give them any money or any data*?” several times from several companies.
(*Where data not necessarily only meant giving them “company data” but e.g. also metadata about usage, etc. which cannot be avoided and which might give Amazon some insights)
- Comment on Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 5 months ago:
I mean, the question is if it runs doom, not if it’s yielding any playable fps, so… yes! It already runs linux, so were almost there. It’s quite low on ram (but ram wasn’t plenty when doom was released) and only has a serial output. But if you can vet doom to render in ascii art, you’re probably there.
- Comment on Oh Mon Dieu! 5 months ago:
Oui!Wheee!
