wetbeardhairs
@wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios 1 day ago:
XBox then buys indies and shutters their studios. Whoopsie.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 2 days ago:
I only game on my steamdeck now. And it has practically zero security on it. Admin has no password. When I realized that I then came to the conclusion that Steam doesn’t give a fuck about security.
I tried setting an admin password on it and it broke everything. So it’s in a penalty box on my network and can’t access anything except the outside internet and I do nothing with it but game.
- Comment on labubu 5 days ago:
Collecting something can be a fun hobby. Buying collectibles is something a fucking idiot does.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 days ago:
Being pedantic is totally OK here - we’re talking about SSL’s spoof protection. I’ll have to look up how any rando can host a DNS that supports DNS/HTTPS when a system would be expecting a valid SSL cert that declares who it was issued to and by whom and the requester is expecting a particular whom.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 days ago:
Wow really? I was under the impression that the SSL part would prevent the pihole from being able to spoof itself as a legitimate DNS
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 days ago:
Pihole’s act as a DNS or “Dynamic Name Server”. All internet traffic is IP based once it leaves your home because routers dont know how to forward traffic for “samsung-ad-hell.com”, so there is a dedicated kind of packet for “Where is samsung-ad-hell.com located?” and that is a DNS Lookup. The Pihole pretends to know because it maintains a list of bad urls that host websites that only support privacy exploitation and advertisements and tells them “oh you want to go to 0.0.0.0, that’s where you’ll find your stuff” as it snickers.
But DNS Lookups were always plain text. When your laptop says "Where is big-booties.com" your ISP knows you want porn. Now there is a new variant called “Secure DNS Lookup” which encrypts the url you’re asking about. The ISP knows you’re asking for a domain’s IP, but it can’t know which one and it no longer cares. Neat.
The trouble is that the Pi-Hole can no longer protect us from all the stupid fucking smart devices that want to earn a fraction of a penny per device by spying on us because THEY use the new Secure DNS Lookup.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 days ago:
I wonder how much longer that will work. DNS over HTTPS is now a thing and totally defeats the mechanism of a pihole.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 days ago:
I heard those linear compressors could be the best in the industry but they tended to fail. Did they finally fix that?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 6 days ago:
Whenever appliances get brought up I always warn people to stay away from Samsung.
- Comment on Broken stair step 6 days ago:
Those stairs have a bullnose that juts out and the whole thing is made from mortar. Mortar is very strong in compression but weak in tension. So a load on the tip of the stairs will put a large tension load on the top of that bullnose where it meets the stair corner. At some point it will break off.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 6 days ago:
Even 0.01% of a businesses shares in volume in the span of a 1 minute order is enough to massively swing the price. I saw it multiple times in after hours trading when I let my options ride for the day.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 6 days ago:
People didn’t listen to Einstein because he had money - he didn’t. He just had good ideas. People didn’t listen to Curie (at all). People only listen to Theil because he has enough money to be scary. They obviously think his ideas are fart sniffing.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 6 days ago:
We’re all getting the Star Trek experience of the early 21st century troubles.
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits, says independence 'gone' 6 days ago:
Now unveiling Ben & Jerry’s newest ice cream
Flavor Bomb! Vanilla swirled with Caramel and Salty Crunchy Peanut Clusters
It’ll be unveiled to the Palestinian people in Gaza in the middle of that big clearing surrounded by IDF soldiers with guns
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 1 week ago:
This could be the basis for an SCP. It’s a pizza so foul that it literally kills anyone who considers eating it.
- Comment on GitHub introduces hybrid post-quantum SSH security to better protect Git data in transit 1 week ago:
Meh. I think quantum computers are technological hocuspocus that is used as justification for companies like D-Wave to generate billions of dollars for a few financial executives. The science is real. The engineering is real. The technology is a toy and its uses are extraordinarily limited and out-competed by normal computers.
Can it optimally solve the travelling salesman problem? Sure. With many thousands of bits. Can a classical computer with a fancy algorithm get close enough for practical use cases? Yes. With today’s technology and enough power to run an old lightbulb.
- Comment on GitHub introduces hybrid post-quantum SSH security to better protect Git data in transit 1 week ago:
AFAIK quantum computing’s only demonstrations of being able to break encryption using Shore’s algorithm was in a toy problem where they already knew the answer and it was like 5 bits long.
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 1 week ago:
“Baked lobster”
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 1 week ago:
Look at Tesla. The intrinsic value was no more than 10 billion before he started sieg heiling on national TV and alienated half of the western world.
My conspiracy theory is that Musk gave multiple investors billions of his personal cash to invest in Tesla stock at key moments. He tells his straw purchasers when to buy hundreds of millions worth of stock in order to pump the price and kill those who short the stock. This scares the shorters out of the market and ultimately removes a natural source of downward pressure on the price. They sell off what they purchase all at once relatively slowly so they can then do it again.
- Comment on Broken stair step 1 week ago:
You can definitely glue it back. It just won’t ever be permanent. Those stairs are made to break.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 1 week ago:
Apple definitely punishes you for using Tidal on CarPlay. It’s bullshit. Plug in your phone while listening to music and the app goes into limbo for 45 seconds while Apple Music decides it is in charge.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 1 week ago:
Integration is the big one. Spotify is built into nearly every smart device. Phone? Spotify. Smart speakers? Spotify. Alexa spy puck? Spotify. Cars? Spotify. Even my hifi system has built in spotify.
I want to use different services. Right now I’m using Tidal, which is only integrated with my speakers and phone - not my car. Hell, they don’t even make a proper app for my computer.
- Comment on Broken stair step 1 week ago:
Unfortunately those bullnose tiles are always going to be prone to breaking off because they’re jutting out from the stair and are built from materials that are strong in compression, not tension.
Clean the edges and glue them on. Expect them to fail again.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 1 week ago:
No it was Kirk’s estranged gay lover.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 week ago:
I guess he never got the message that the Republicans and Democrats switched sides
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 week ago:
What if the gunman was Kirk’s estranged gay lover? That’s my theory
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 week ago:
Welcome to McDonalds
Would you like to report any serious crimes today? - Comment on There's an FPGA handheld that looks perfect for playing GBA, but it's still in the crowdfunding phase 1 week ago:
Neat. But crowdsourcing is just theft with extra steps. It’s called a bank loan.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 1 week ago:
Wolfenstein was pretty good, ngl
- Comment on banger 2 weeks ago:
Do you think she dove into a coffin to avoid it?