nivenkos
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- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
ProtonVPN has it, and Wireguard support.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
ProtonVPN has it though, which is what I’m using now.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
I host a server, I forward the port, my friends can connect to the open port on the VPN side.
My ISP does not offer port forwarding.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
No port forwarding really kills the utility though - I mainly use the VPN to do port forwarding (e.g. for video games, Plex, etc.) as my ISP is shit.
Like I’m not worried about state-level de-anonymisation, I just want to be able to share services remotely and have a minimum level of anonymity.
- Comment on Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! 8 months ago:
What is the Mastodon Lemmy.world equivalent? Like a big, neutral server with minimal censorship and bullshit, and access to most other servers?
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 8 months ago:
He’s winning against the gangs though - every Salvadorean I know supports him.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
It’s good, but I wish it were even more like X-COM with loads of deaths and managing a roster of heroes rather than just a small party.
Especially since BG3 has done the small party adventure thing so well.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 8 months ago:
Shadow Empire without a doubt. Practically a one-man team, and yet a better logistics and supply system than any other game out there.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
Shadow Empire - best strategy game I’ve ever played.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
It’s more of a tactics game than an RPG really.
Like D&D X-COM.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 8 months ago:
More that you’d never need to provide it, but many transactions will also require 2FA, even by the credit card.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 8 months ago:
Spain and the UK have no real digital ID (Spain has some horrible Java certificate based system, but you can’t use it for much). I think Germany’s digital ID is in a similar position too although it’s been many years since I lived there now.
The UK is in the same position as the US with no national ID or residence registration at all.
Only the Netherlands, Finland and Scandinavia really have it sorted out for banking and government services.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 8 months ago:
Yeah, my ex was scammed this way too - exactly like Cory describes, they happened to ring right as she was going through the whole visa and tax process and pretend to be regarding the IRS, etc. and since she was dealing with a lot of similar calls it was an easy mistake to make.
More services available online and e-mail communication makes this a bit better.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 8 months ago:
It kind of is the norm.
Just a few countries like the US are really backward in terms of accessible banking - mainly due to having no federal ID, residence registration, etc. too on top of outdated bureaucracy.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 8 months ago:
For BankID it somewhat does, because only registered services can make the request - so they’d need to register a scam service and then use that. Which also makes it an easier job for anti-fraud police.
So it’d be a lot more complicated.
Like obviously at a certain point if someone is willing to do everything they can - then they will be scammed, see this for example: www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-67208755
But the more steps there are, the higher the chance the person realises it is a scam.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 8 months ago:
The real answer here is to have decent digital ID as 2-factor authentication.
This scam would be practically impossible in Sweden with BankID for example.
- Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency 8 months ago:
The BlueAnon cultists don’t care about the truth.
It’s crazy how polarised these sorts of debates have become. I wish we could have sensible politicians with views like Andrew Yang, Lee Kuan Yew, Robert Zubrin, Nayib Bukele, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, etc. - focus on developing technology and building up infrastructure and institutions for everyone.
- Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency 8 months ago:
I like that you can follow scientists and authors directly at the source though.
- Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency 8 months ago:
What is the actual technical reasoning? These all have active tracking, I can’t imagine it ever being an issue for missions (compared to defunct Soviet satellites with no tracking, like Kosmos 2221 and Kosmos 1408).
It’d be cool if Starlink could also be used to replace some base stations, although I guess the huge power requirements are an issue there.
- Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency 8 months ago:
Why are you repeating retracted fake news? theguardian.com/…/elon-musk-biographer-admits-sug…
- Comment on OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it 8 months ago:
Luddite nonsense. AI will drive productivity gains which will help research in photovoltaics, nuclear fusion, carbon capture (also needed for SpaceX’s Mars mission), etc. and improve society.
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 9 months ago:
Income disparity is a good thing though - it’s how you encourage people to study, work hard and invest in themselves and the future.
Accumulated wealth disparity is bad, and I agree with strong land value tax, inheritance tax, etc. to try to address that.
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 9 months ago:
I mean I live in Sweden and in my building we have problems with people damaging common areas, dumping rubbish, etc. - but nothing can be done because only the police have the right to review CCTV here.
That’s the sort of issue I mean, just the actions of a tiny minority can ruin a lot of stuff - but it doesn’t need to be that way.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
I can tell you right now that my luxury bones hurt.
That’s the same in Europe though, dentistry isn’t covered on public insurance in the UK, Spain, Sweden, etc.
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 9 months ago:
On the other hand it’s crazy that the richest city in the world is plagued with street crime - even to the extent that it disrupts delivery services, self-driving cars, etc.
I think Bukele put it best when he said that the public stuff should be the best. But that depends on enforcing the law well so that public transport and services aren’t destroyed by a minority of criminals.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
That’s how you get technological advancement.
Bureaucracy just leads to monopolies and little to any progress.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
It’s great though - that’s how you get amazing services and technological advancement.
I wish we had that. In Europe you’re just stuck paying 50 euros for a taxi in major cities (who block the roads, etc. to maintain their monopolies).
Meanwhile in the USA you guys have VR headsets, bioluminescent houseplants and self-driving cars (not to mention the $100k+ salaries!), it’s incredible.
- Comment on Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit old. Any suggestions from the community? 1 year ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3
- Comment on Social Media Has Run Out of Fresh Ideas 1 year ago:
In theory it’s easy to monetise - allow some targeted ads to communities and/or occasional relevant boosted posts, or paid awards like Reddit, etc.
The issue is greed / growth. They always need more and more - so you end up with more irrelevant ads, political ads, more boosted posts than natural ones, etc. - most companies aren’t happy to just do one thing well with a skeleton crew maintaining it and keeping costs low - they need constant growth.
Just look at Reddit and Twitter for example.
- Comment on ‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools 1 year ago:
How would this work? What about people that need to contact their parents?
We need to move away from schools just being prisons for children while parents are at work, and encourage learning and more autonomy over what to study. Imagine having full access to Coursera and EdX and being able to choose what you wanted to study and collect credits like that - building your own syllabus from some of the best educators in the world.
Let kids program video games together at school, build sensors and robots, do basic genetic engineering (e.g. plant patterns), simulate and build model bridges, etc. like stuff that is actually fun but requires basic skills. So you’re not just memorising the trigonometry equations but really learning it because you need it in your projects.
And have zero tolerance for disruption and bullying with cameras, etc. It should be a place for collaborative learning, not a prison. It should feel like a much better place to learn than anywhere else.