phoenixz
@phoenixz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Has a person ever pretended to be a major Republican did a podcast interviews and everythinng else? While raking in a butt load of money? The turn around and be like HA MF's I am a liberal? 1 day ago:
Throw the Jew down the well?
That. Was. Awesome.
Everyone singing along, nobody understanding that he was taking the piss out of them
- Comment on Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait? 1 day ago:
Despite significant academic criticism of the research, reasoning, and conclusions of Sex at Dawn, the book received praise from many non-academic reviewers in the media.
So yeah, academically, the both likely hasn’t much worth
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 days ago:
I really hate to dance on someone’s grave but some people make it so easy to laugh and cheer about their assassination and the following memes…
Sorry kirkie, you deserved this one and all the ridicule that followed. You sold your soul for money and power, of course most people hate you.
This meme shows perfectly why people laugh at your death.
I lolled hard at this meme
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 2 days ago:
I think that’s a problem with debating classes in the US where people lost sight on why debates are useful in the first place.
It should be an exchange of ideas and views, an opportunity to learn, not a training in ways to just yell over your opponent so that then you can just claim you won something. Then again, writing this “out loud” makes me realize that that is the American way, no?
May e that’s where a lot of gains can be made for the next generation. Teach them how to debate with reason AND LISTEN TO YOUR OPPONENT.For fucking once, actually listen, and try to understand, and not stick with your guns even though you’re obviously in the wrong
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 2 days ago:
First time I heard it and I lolled
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 2 days ago:
Sort of agree?
Yeah, guns must be banned completely in the US, fully agree, but phones in class too. Waiting with one for the other won’t make anything better
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 2 days ago:
Really now, would you?
I was on the line, like, what do you want me to do?
Wake up 5 minutes earlier so that next time you won’t be late. OMG, how dare I even say that out loud
Nobody has cellphones in schools for hundreds of years and after a few years of having them it’s funny to see how all kids think that it’s impossible and a human rights violation to be without
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 2 days ago:
For me it’s mostly how the body reacts to the bullet, the hands going up a little Ina reflex, but you can see he’s already lost control of his body. That part is always what gets me
- Comment on [JS] European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams. 3 days ago:
commitmentslies of Microsoft - Comment on [JS] European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams. 3 days ago:
Teams is the absofuckinglutely worst
It’s the worst software product I’ve ever have been forced to use
I use it every day for years now because we don’t really have much of a choice, yet I haven’t had a single day where it actually worked as it would
Typically screen sharing is broken, the cam doesn’t work half the time, the first 5 minutes of every call and meet is always “can you hear me now?” because the fucking audio settings always get set wrong… sometimes it just dumps my browser in a loop that causesy entire computer to freeze, requiring a hard reboot, custom backgrounds never work
But all our customers use it because reasons, and it being a closed system, it leaves you with no option
Meanwhile Google meet (as evil as Google is now) just works. Zoom just works. Hell, the next cloud video calling system just works.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 3 days ago:
AI generated ads
It doesn’t happen a lot that headlines make me vomit a little in my mouth but this one did
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 3 days ago:
This is not a social media ban, this is limiting children’s access, something I agree with
Problem is that the responsibility for that is left with the providers, which is how we get to identification requirements for websites, which I vehemently disagree with
Do it, but do it differently
- Comment on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Questions Pentagon Awarding $200 Million Contract to Integrate Elon Musk’s “Grok” Into Military Systems Following the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts 3 days ago:
I just saw a post where grok was saying that the video of CK bring shot was a meme and that CK was perfectly fine
I mean of course they should integrate this into every system.in the US army
I’m looking forward to the Wikipedia article about that army that utterly destroyed itself with sheer stupidity
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 days ago:
A hash is just a mathematical algorithm that generates a somewhat unique number from any input, and usually in such a way that the tiniest difference generates a completely different hash.
I can put a single letter in a hash, I can put the entire Bible in a hash, I can put the entire universe in a hash, the output is always the same amount of bytes.
For example, if I have a hash algorithm that generates a two letter hash, a-z, then the input “Lemmy” could give me “WK” while “Lemmx” (literally one bit difference in binary) could give me “AV”. If I put the Bible in there, I could get out “XX”, for example.
The same input always generates the same output, and another important tidbit: hashing is always one way, you can’t do it in reverse.
Also important, as you probably already noticed: the hash contains (usually, but not necessarily) much less information than the original input. This means that at some point, two different inputs can generate the same output, that’s called a collision.
If the entire world would use the same hash all the time, and users would all use the same password for every website, then all the hashes for all the websites would be the same.
Now, humans are humans, and most humans use a fairly limited set of passwords. Sole people try to be ingentilent by replacing “s” with “5”, thinking that computers won’t get that.
Then, somebody started compiling a list of all known passwords with all variations and put them in a table. Then they went over each password, and hashed it with a bunch of well known hashing algorithms. Those tables, called rainbow tables iirc, are super easy and fast lookup tables if you have a hash and want to see what password it could have been.
Now what can websites do to protect against this? They can “salt” the password by prefixing then with a random text string only known to the website. If I download the database of that website, all the hashes will now be different and I won’t be able to do the lookup anymore. Better even would be to also include the user id in there, making it even harder to decipher.
What can users do? Don’t use those “Kn0w13DgE” passwords, use a random string of characters. Use unique passwords for each site. Use a password manager which will do both for you so you won’t have to remember anything
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 days ago:
That’d basically how these hash tables work, they have the account and hash and known password so you can do rapid lookups
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 days ago:
I’m sure it does, but had they done their security right it likely wouldn’t have happened.
Yeah, 100% secure doesn’t exist but at the same time it’s always closed source companies like these that turn out to have horrible software security. Can’t say for sure of course, but at this point it’s a safe bet
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 days ago:
That’s like arguing that if a bank takes my gold to put in a security deposit box but then puts that box open out in the street. Of course the bank would be responsible for the theft.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 days ago:
Hah! Amateurs… I XOR all my passwords twice like real hackers do.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 3 days ago:
Eh, sorry, no.
Yeah, it is extremely hard to make something impenetrable, but claiming blanket everyone will be hacked is nonsense too.
If a company does IT well it will very unlikely fall victim as they’ll be a very hard target and not worth the time and money.
When a company comes out with that they’ve been hacked you can bet dollars to donuts that they’ve neglected their IT department and infrastructure because the very vast majority of cases have shown that problem
- Comment on Awooga 3 days ago:
Maybe we should hope for some cases where men get a really huge dingdong, them all of the sudden there will be a run for it.
I hate this world
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 4 days ago:
I did get the point
I’m telling you that your point is wrong
- Comment on Awooga 4 days ago:
Dude!
This solves the entire vaccine issue in the US. The Republican types are all about women needing to look like women, so advertising that a covid shot gets you big jugs will immediately want all of them have the shot.
Double dose is double D’s!
Stupidity aside, it’s interesting to see that there might be a possible link between these two, not something you’d expect, I think.
- Comment on Smart textiles may soon be able to control devices or monitor health 4 days ago:
Smart textiles may soon be able to ~control devices or monitor health~ steal your health information and sell it to insurance companies
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 4 days ago:
Ding ding ding
It’s just manufacturer managers going to the el cheapo solutions, which gets them the bonus they way, then the leave. Then it’s surprised Pikachu face time when the entire system stinks and is worthless
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 5 days ago:
Financial and corporate mistakes are not crimes! How dare you, these are decent people, shame on you!
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 5 days ago:
it can eliminate all crime by locking up all citizens
I gotta admit, that is a great idea!
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 5 days ago:
I really seriously want to ditch Spotify. The apps are trash, always doing shit I don’t want without asking, I’m now getting ads for bands or artists that I don’t know and never want to know, which is the last drop
Problem is that I have some 6000 songs long playlist. How can I get this playlist off of Spotify and where can I find the songs? I don’t mind paying (once, as in the good times) for songs, but I’m done with the paying to own nothing
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 5 days ago:
No it wasn’t
First connections were between universities. Tim Berners-Lee at CERN then came up with web pages to easier share information
There was nothing capitalist about the internet back then
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 5 days ago:
But in a court filing
Why is this legal? It’s always like this with large companies. " Yeah we were just lying to everyone all the time, but this filing for court is the absolute truth!"
It’s the same as Fox News which always says they’re fair and balanced news and they bring the news nobody else does, but in a court filing… They suddenly claim that no reasonable person would believe them to be a real news organization… Uuuh huh…
Any court should dismiss this filing immediately and punish them for submitting a false filing, or continuously lying outside the courts. This sort of crap should be inadmissible.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 6 days ago:
Not entirely
Firstly you don’t “generate hashes until there is a match”. You can generate hashes until the end of the universe and you’ll still have only a fraction of all possible hashes.
What typically is used are large lookup tables with hashes from known passwords. You can then take that table, take a hash you got, and look it up.
So firstly, hashes should be salted, and if salted correctly, it’s already extremely much harder to use because these tables no longer work. There are few more things you can do but that pretty much is a hard wall already.
The problem is that many corporate systems out there have horrible security. They either use a hash that has been known to be broken since a long time ago (hello LinkedIn), don’t use salting (hello linkediiiiiinn), or don’t use hashing at all.
It’s because of idiots like these that there are so many accounts with password tables out there
What to do?
Use password managers. Now all your site’s have different, safe passwords and you only need to know one. Use 2FA where possible and supported