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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. That’s me. Or anyone I know, really. Sure cities are back to pre-pandemic chaos, but those are other people.

  I choose to work from the office on most days. I use public transit. I go to the gym. I’m not locked in, but …

  • after-work drinks
  • meetups
  • catch up with a friend at the pub
  • date night
  • clubs
  • partys

  That’s a distant past. And i don’t miss it, really.

  Ok, I do miss socializing, the good parts: Crack some jokes, have some small-talk, feel part oof a group of friends.

  But i don’t miss it enough to endure that bad parts: Forcing oneselves into conversations with strangers, “networking”, drinking a beer alone in a corner of some event, going out to bar where over your overpriced drink you’ll accept that you’d rather be in your living room. Bars and night clubs are a weird concept (unless you are in your twenties and really enjoy the scene): You realistically only talk the person you came with, but they can’t hear what your are saying since it’s loud and crowded. There may be music, but unless you came to dance, you probably have a Spotify play list you’ll enjoy more. In better quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What marketing genius uses a mouse upside down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What? I need syncthing-android, where is it going?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bots faking real users’ streaming to gain profit is the questionable part. AI generated cheap content (created en masse for profit) will be the norm soon. If you think about it, quality content is already the exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pls don't do that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI has a 99.9% accurate ChatGPT AI text detector, but won't release it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the actual detector is similar. They know what sentences are likely generated by chatgpt, since that’s literally in their model. They probably also have to some degree reverse engineered typical output from competing models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you all freed your 2fa secrets from this un-service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texting has probably enabled more affairs recently⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sexting via carrier pigeon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recycled Carbon Fiber Tested on Boeing MAX 9 Sidewalls⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the doors keep falling off, I’ll prefer Airbus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AbstractBaseWinnieThePoohFactory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads can now show replies from Mastodon and other fediverse apps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which instances federate with threads? Is there a list?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While they are at it, can we get Prism for Linux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So we replace two players with one (ARM)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soflow Charges Users for Account Deletion - GDPR Compliance Questioned⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just send them a GDPR deletion request by mail and they will regret not having an online flow (that’s free, obviously). Do they operate in EU? No court will allow this fee and i doubt they risk a trial over 20 bucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a non-story.

  They basically asked: In an ad, do you prefer an actor reading out the marketing script or a computer-rendered face?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is exactly why security should be on the executive agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every generation has this moment, where they learn to hate Microsoft (or Micro$oft). Then, 4% install Linux, 6% buy a Mac with half the RAM for twice the price; and everyone else to keeps complaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad news: this is already happening: Subcontractors and labor law (not a machine, but separate-legal-entity excuse), “computer error” for fuck-ups, resellers and franchise models (yes, our name is on it, but you did not buy from us, you bought from this entity who is a dude in China or a bot in india, but totally not us)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User guide: End of Life (EOL) for Twilio Authy Desktop app⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds cool. I’m not a Harry Potter fan and certainly no fan of Rowling, but I’m really surprised that this is controversal.

  How do you explain the Fediverse? You can find an instance you like. Harry Potter people can have theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ecosia plants 200 million trees⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does not sound like a scam.

  The build a website, with ads, and donate the revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK. Can someone please help me how to export?

  I have Authy 2.4.2 on Linux desktop (too recent for the --remote-debugging-port option used here to work) and Authy 24.13.6 on Android.

  I use mostly the Android version, but sync to the Desktop / Chrome App was a nice backup. If they discontinue this I’m not sure what’s next and would prefer some Android app where I can access the backup. I have Bitwarden Pro if this helps, but my first concern is to get the tokens out of Authy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senior AWS dev claims Amazon is quietly trying to encourage employees to quit in a push to covertly cut numbers⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With all the those articles, it’s not so quiet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This JavaScript code hit 50K online banking sessions in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, this is human failure and it’s also human to fail.

  Principally, this can work on any OS with gullible users. I blame Microsoft-Entreprise-IT partly because it’s an easy target and partly because dumb users are their fault due the multiple layers of obfuscation built into the products/setups.

  If you have a Google password and an Apple password, they are clearly both vulnerable to phishing attacks. But you would never use any of those with Amazon because clearly you learned the use unique passwords. Also, how often do Google or Apple ask for your password? Maybe, once when you setup a device, are once per day (if you have your sessions expire). Reasonable. Not the most secure setup, we can do better than passwords, but most people somehow manage.

  Now enter corporate IT. Here we have “password sync” (shudder). Here we have Azure AD / Entra ID / M365, which are okay products, deployed in companies that never wanted anything in the cloud. Now you get emails from “Word” asking for your most important password. Depending on the configuration, you may be constantly nagged by 2FA requests.

  Also, no one explains anything the the users, including the CEO. The “new” Windows and office just appeared. People startet entering passwords in places that never needed a password before.

  This makes phishing effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This JavaScript code hit 50K online banking sessions in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Short version:

  • Malware got onto Windows PC.
  • From the compromised machine, spying on credentials is trivial.

  That’s it. All the analysis about how they inject some code into some browser and communicate with their server is a smoke screen.

  Our most favourite OS is blatantly insecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does archive.today break when using private DNS (quad9)?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But, then, why does it not work when using quad9? The result from quad9 may not be the closest server, but they can serve the captcha, so I’m reaching one of their servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does archive.today break when using private DNS (quad9)?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a simple solution.

  Although I’m not really sure what happens here. I do get an IP address via quad9 and I do get other IP adresses using other resolvers, but how do I know which one works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does archive.today break when using private DNS (quad9)?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then it broke again. And then it worked again.

  Totally random. How does one debug this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does archive.today break when using private DNS (quad9)?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, I change from dns11.quad9.net (with ECS / EDNS client subnet enabled) to dns.quad9.net. Now archive.today works.