IllNess
@IllNess@infosec.pub
- Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords 1 day ago:
Hackers (1995) taught me the four most commonly used passwords are “love”, “sex”, “'secret”, and “god”.
“secret” is there. “iloveyou” has love in it.
I wonder how true that actually was in the 90s.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
Okay. That makes sense.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
I have a pair Sennheiser HD 25.
I just took the NPR test suggested by another poster. I did horribly.
Thank you for your input. I will not be updating to Flac.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
I have Sennheiser HD 25 I bought 15 years ago. I play music through my Pixel 5a with a headphone jack and my iMac. I have no idea if this is good enough for the test but I will try it anyway.
I’m on my iMac and I chose 128 kbps four times… I chose 320 kbps once and Uncompressed WAV once.
I did so horribly. Lol.
This puts either my hearing limits or the limit of my tech. If I don’t get better equipment, I have my answer forever.
This is truly great. Thank you for this suggestion.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
Thanks for the suggestion but it would drive me nuts either to convert all my music or to have several different files.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
I have Sennheiser HD 25 I bought 15 years ago. I play music through my Pixel 5a with a headphone jack and my iMac.
Is this good enough to be able to tell? I have no idea what devices have a good DAC or not.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
My concerns with space mostly deals with my cell phone but you make a lot of great point of being able to convert Flac for any use case. Thank you for your input.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
That makes sense. Thanks.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 days ago:
I keep getting advice of Flac > MP3 320 kbs.
I can’t tell the difference to tell you the truth. Is it really worth it for audiophiles considering how much more space Flac files takes up?
- Comment on Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
Tip to any readers that don’t know, you can get search results from a specific website adding
site:followed by the domain.For example, if you want to limit the results to reddit.com and you want to search for
fuck spez:fuck spez site:reddit.comThis also works with subreddits. If you want to look for
vincein the r/nba subreddit:vince site:reddit.com/r/nbaI am pretty sure this works with subdomains too, I just can’t think of any examples off the top of my head that would be useful.
I tested this with Google, Duckduckgo, and Bing. It works for all of them.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 1 week ago:
Yeah. You have great points. A lot easier to wipe a device that is actively connected. Laptops don’t usually have that luxury. It is a lot easier to take apart a laptop. It is easier to plug in a USB HID for brute forcing or to constantly move a pointer to prevent it from going to sleep.
I guess that’s the feeling in my gut.
Thank you for your input.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 1 week ago:
And this is how it should be with all monetary punishments.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 1 week ago:
But nowadays, a lot of people use the same credentials on the phone just as well, and with everything asking to install their app, I’m not sure the attack surface really is smaller anymore. So, if you’re in this scenario, I agree with you that you may not be sacrificing much by having 2FA on desktop.
This makes sense and puts holes in my statement. I also feel like more people are willing to install shady stuff on their phones than their desktop now. I have no sources for this though.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 1 week ago:
The way I looked at it, it’s no different than having a mobile device with a password manager on it, because if someone steals your mobile device, they have access to everything as well. So the two-factor authentication apps shouldn’t be on desktop argument never made sense to me, mobile is the same way.
That is true. And more phones are stolen now than computers. Computers can have the same security and encryption if properly configured.
Even though you make a logical point, something in my gut doesn’t feel right.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 1 week ago:
I did more research and you are correct.
15 U.S. Code § 52 - Dissemination of false advertisements - (a) Unlawfulness - It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, or corporation to disseminate, or cause to be disseminated, any false advertisement—.
Okay. Good.
The term “false advertisement” means an advertisement, other than labeling, which is misleading in a material respect; and in determining whether any advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account (among other things) not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the commodity to which the advertisement relates under the conditions prescribed in said advertisement, or under such conditions as are customary or usual.
Good. Good.
if such violation is with intent to defraud or mislead, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment;
No! No! No! So a corporation can just pay $5,000 and throw a designer, who was only following directions, under a bus?!
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 1 week ago:
Hmm… I’m not sure about having an authenticator app on a desktop computer.
Like you are putting all your eggs in one basket. Password managers, and your emails already go to one place for authentication. Adding an authenticator means if your computer is compromised, a person can have access to more accounts.
I always figured this is why desktop authenticator apps aren’t a thing.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 1 week ago:
Japan has strict laws against using fake images for food.
Why can’t the people we vote for represent us?
- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 1 week ago:
Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria.
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 1 week ago:
I understand parents can’t be around their children 24/7. Companies and organizations have a lot of products already to restrict and limit internet access. Schools and libraries should use these tools as they or as their community sees fit.
If you want to compare it to tobacco products, the main difference is to identify as an adult all you need is an ID. One person at the cashier sees it and it’s done. Online activity is more personal. It allows companies and social media to be even more toxic to adults by being able to identify adults better.
Also kids, no matter how restricted it is, will smoke if they wanted to. The same will happen with these social media restrictions excepts that adults will suffer. This will be only the beginning. More and more restrictions will come from this. That’s just how governments work.
Red flags should go up automatically with these “save the children” laws.
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 1 week ago:
Parenting should stay with parents. The more power the government gets, the more they will abuse it. When companies are restricted, they will see this as an opportunity to better identify adults better.
- Comment on Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime. 1 week ago:
By the end of the day, the Greene County Sheriff’s Department charged her and 15 other middle school cheerleaders with disorderly conduct for making and posting the video.
What ever happened to free speech in this country? Fascism.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Note: this isn’t free but I use 1DM+. It has it’s own browser that filters out the videos for download. It won’t work with YouTube and a bunch of other websites because Google acts like a little bitch to the developer.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
I always thought these were more like walkie talkies for messaging than telephones that you can call anyone.
Like it would be good if cell serivce goes down.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 week ago:
You hear that everyone. So for AI to reject your content just put in facts about systemic racism and now you have an AI blocker.
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 2 weeks ago:
So this is only a problem for 32-bit apps on 32-bit processors?
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure this isn’t a server you can install programs in.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
What should be considered illegal circumvention is allowing articles behind a paywall to be included in search results.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. I hope more people leave that dumpster fire.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 3 weeks ago:
I’m not the person you were replying to but maybe the limit of using the websites like the ones I posted is you can’t reuse the same face (at least not than I’m aware of).
So if you are in the UK and you upload 2 selfies from the site and the facial recognition pattern is different from each other, then the system which Reddit is using might reject it.
This is only a guess though.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 3 weeks ago:
There’s a bunch of AI face generating pictures. I wonder if you can just use those. Or maybe this is just to create a new law to arrest people of uploading fake pictures…