darklamer

I have heard the term DNS a million times but don’t really understand it.

Learn about DNS, it’s the glue that holds the internet together, any time you spend on learning more about DNS will quickly pay off. You probably already know that it’s what maps domain names to IP addresses and vice versa, but it can be used for loads of other useful things too.

(My own two favourite not well known but totally standardized really convenient things to use DNS for is to provide SSH host keys through DNSSEC for hosts with dynamic IP addresses and requesting letsencrypt certificates for host names without any webserver.)

I’m just struggling to decipher what the joke in OP’s picture actually means.

Switzerland … English is not my first or second language. Do you not find those English pronunciations there in the video bizarre?

I haven’t posted any links.

https://www.frenchlearner.com/pronunciation/croissant/

I fail to see the connection to ‘cwah-sont’, apart from the first and last letter being the same, but if that was a sufficent criteria then one might as well write just anything, like ‘convalescent’.

Its a spelling attempt at the French pronuncitation of croissant.

That makes zero sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAoRcnY4xs

The examples of English pronounciations she gives there are truly bizarre.

Not that I would ever claim to know every French pastry, but I’m reasonably certain that there’s nothing in all of France or in the French language named ‘cwah-sont’.

WTF is ‘cwah-sont’!?

Even if you have a password for your ssh key, malware on your system can just wait until you enter the password.

Sure, it’s just that from my point-of-view I’d be toast anyway if anyone managed to gain that level of access.

[…] it can be a security risk, allowing malware to move “laterally” between all your devices.

Unless you do something incredibly stupid, such as allowing keyless login or sharing keys (or having unencrypted keys or keys without a passphrase, seriously), I find it hard to see how that would actually happen in practice.

I always have SSH everywhere on everything and I could never understand why anyone ever would want to make it more complicated than that.