evenwicht
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- Submitted 1 week ago to rant@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Why do you think I USE search operators? 1 week ago:
That’s too short to be a rant. Do whatever you necessary to get some outrage built up, then come back us ~3 or so paragraphs please.
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- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 1 week ago:
counterfeiting doesn’t stop being a crime because the fake bills suck.
It stops being an effective crime that is significant enough to warrant disproportionate intervention with printer design. Someone who would use a SOHO printer to counterfeit banknotes isn’t going to the trouble of making paper that integrates colored fibers into the paper. Maybe lousy counterfeits will fool some low-grade vending machines and some kids will loot some candy bars. For me that’s not justification for fingerprinting every single printed page using ink that the customers pay for.
Also, if appeasing the Secret Service isn’t the real reason, why aren’t black and white printers printing gray dot codes?
A gray dot is harder to hide than a yellow one.
BTW, it’s worth noting that the whole industry of counterfeiting yields less counterfeit money than what the secret service spends on controlling it. It’s security theatre for the sake of reputation and respect for the currency.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 1 week ago:
It’s a good “cover for action”, considering most of the printers that have the stego are naturally incapable of achieving the high quality needed to counterfeit banknotes. And those that are high enough quality are artificially crippled to be incapable of producing an exact match on the colors used in banknotes. Printers are generally lousy at matching colors. IIRC, Epson supplied software that would alter the photo displayed on your screen to best match what the printer could do, because demanding that the printer precisely match the source color is unrealistic.
Self-regulation out of fear of regulation is a tough sell. What regulation do they risk if they don’t self-regulate, other than the very same outcome: tracker dots?
Like a lot of surveillance, there is the cover story and then there is the real reason.
Nonetheless, I appreciate the link… it’s always good to be aware of the /official narrative/ regardless.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 1 week ago:
Thanks for the ransom note tips.
I’m also thinking the ransom note could be a PDF w/metadata removed, posted anonymously to a framadrop box, and the physical note could be made with your dominant hand but only as a hand-written QR code to the PDF URL. Perhaps magic marker with making dots on a graph paper.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 1 week ago:
Printer makers have no legal obligation to surreptitiously fingerprint every page printed. Frankly, you are simply stupid if you believe this.
Citation needed on the statute. Also, please show us cases where printer models /without/ tracker dots led to prosecution of the printer maker.
- Comment on When you change your address, the USPS website actively tries to trick you into signing up for junk mail and offers 1 week ago:
That’s not the worst of it. If you fill out a USPS change of address form, they surreptitiously sell that information others.
So you should never fill out that form. Buy stamps if necessary to tell each entity your new address. It’s the only way to get some control over the disclosure.
- Submitted 1 week ago to rant@lemmy.sdf.org | 16 comments
- Comment on credit bureaus are fucking nonsense 1 week ago:
equifax/transunion: oh, look! we don’t care why, but there are “too many different phone numbers” being reported for you. we’re lowering your credit score
I treat all members of the credit bureau (all banks, insurance companies, etc) the same when it comes to info sharing, just as if it’s all the same org. Because they all share the info via the credit bureau. If you give a different number to every bank, every bank can see all the numbers you gave to other banks through the credit bureau.
I give just one useless number to all of them. A FAX number. Banks have no hope of getting me on the phone. But fuck them… they create this mess by joining the credit bureau. They’ve demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with useful info. So for self-defense, consider making every bit of info you give as useless as possible.
You might be interested to know that the phone numbers on your credit report never mention the source who reported the phone number, which is unlawful. I wrote this thread about it:
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 2 months ago:
Fun suggestion… could be useful to have as a side hack if congestion becomes an issue but I doubt it would come to that. They have what seems to be a high-end switch with 20 or so ports and internal fans.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 2 months ago:
The event is ~2—3 hours or so. If someone needs the full Debian (80 gb!), I think USB 2 would not work in that timeframe. USB 2 sticks may be rare, but at this event there are ppl with old laptops that have no USB 3 sockets. A lot of people plug into ethernet. And the switch looks somewhat more serious than a 4-port SOHO… it has like 20+ ports with fans, so I don’t get the impression ethernet congestion would be an issue.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 2 months ago:
I think they could do the job. I’ve never admin’d an NFS so I’m figuring there’s a learning curve there. SAMBA, well, maybe. I’ve used it before. I’m leaning toward ProFTPd at the moment but if that gives me any friction I guess I’ll consider SAMBA.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 2 months ago:
Two possible issues w/that w.r.t my use case:
- not in official Debian repos – not a show stopper but definately points against it for installation and maintenance burdons across migrations
- apparently read-only access for users. This is fine in simple cases where I would just be sharing with others, but a complete solution enables users to share with others on the same server by uploading. Otherwise everyone with a file to share must run rejetto hfs.
Nonetheless, I appreciate the suggestion. It could be handy in some situations.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 2 months ago:
oh, sorry. Indeed. I answered from the notifications page w/out context. Glad to know Filezilla will work for that!
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 2 months ago:
I use filezilla but AFAIK it’s just a client not a server.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 2 months ago:
Indeed i noticed
openssh-sftp-serverwas automatically installed with Debian 12. Guess I’ll look into that first. Might be interesting if ppl could choose between FTP or mounting with SSHFS. - Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 26 comments
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