NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 3 hours ago:
More information about this dangerous chemical: dhmo.org/facts.html
- Comment on improbability and impossibility 1 day ago:
What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far - which, given your present circumstances, seems more likely - consider yourself lucky that it won’t be troubling you much longer.
- Comment on Old laptop died 🥲 5 days ago:
It won’t start on battery or when plugged in (it can run without a battery when plugged in).
So the battery is trash. Does it fully boot when you start it without the battery?
The battery does seem to be dead, and so is the 3V CMOS battery.
Did you replace the CMOS battery?
- Comment on MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures 6 days ago:
This inorganic composite glass is made of inorganic materials
- Comment on It was only a fish! 1 week ago:
So long and thanks…
- Comment on How to get the attention of a low life not paying their bill 2 weeks ago:
Time to lay some pipe.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 2 weeks ago:
Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.
It’s fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it’s not enabled by default.
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 2 weeks ago:
Lump
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
Food is a reasonable target for biodegradable packaging because you don’t really expect the food to sit around for more than a year (for long-term food packaging you just wouldn’t use a biodegradable material).
Packaging products that might have a long shelf life is more problematic. If the material breaks down in saltwater then it will start breaking down if someone picks it up with sweaty or recently washed hands.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
Well right, and coating them with plastic means that they leave plastic residue behind if they break down in an uncontrolled environment, and increases the cost and complexity of recycling:
If the paper has a plastic or aluminum coating, it can be recycled, but it is much more expensive and complicated.
Some plastic coatings can be separated from paper during the recycling process. Still, it is often cheaper and easier to use virgin materials to create new products than recycling paper coated with plastic.
Paper coated with plastic isn’t suitable for composting, and most times, such products are incinerated for heat or landfilled rather than recycled.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
Aida said the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt.
If this means that it does not break down when exposed to just water, that’s a pretty big deal. Water solubility has been the major issue making biodegradable plastics useless for food packaging (typically you want to either keep the food wet and water in, or dry and water out - either way water permeability is a problem).
Of course most foods also contain salt, so… I guess that’s why the article talks about coatings. If the material has to be coated to keep it from breaking down too fast, what is the point? either the coating will prevent it from breaking down, or it just moves the problem to the coating not breaking down.
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- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
One of the more revealing – and darkly amusing – features was the phone’s automatic censorship of words deemed problematic by the state.
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- Comment on Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots: Device detects injury, heals it and resets to detect future harm. 3 weeks ago:
Pain is a great teacher.
If you had the hardware to build a robot that could “feel” the world around it, and you wanted it to self-teach how to move around on its own (so that you don’t have to pre-define movement paths), you would probably program in a system that could interpret potentially damaging sensations as danger/bad and avoid them automatically (too hot/too cold/too sharp/too hard/etc). That system would essentially be a pain response.
- Comment on At what point is an Ender 5 no longer an Ender 5? 3 weeks ago:
3D printer of Theseus
- Comment on Wanna Ride This Bussy? 3 weeks ago:
Only if you take her with it.
- Comment on New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam 3 weeks ago:
Graphene is the most amazing material, it can do anything you can imagine - except leave the lab.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 3 weeks ago:
Encrypting the connection is good, it means that no one should be able capture the data and read it - but my concern is more about the holes in the network boundary you have to create to establish the connection.
My point of view is, that’s not something you want happening automatically, unless you manually configured it to do that yourself and you know exactly how it works, what it connects to and how it authenticates (and preferably have some kind of inbound/outbound traffic monitoring for that connection).
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 3 weeks ago:
Ah, just one question - is your current Syncthing use internal to your home network, or does it sync remotely?
Because if you’re just having your mobile devices sync files when they get on your home wifi, it’s reasonably safe for that to be fire-and-forget, but if you’re syncing from public networks into private that really should require some more specific configuration and active control.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 3 weeks ago:
The Internet Used to be a Place
There are still active webrings:
sadgrl.online webring directory digilord.neocities.org/webring webringworld.org brisray webring list
- Comment on oops 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
The ars technica article: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
AI tarpit 1: Nepenthes
AI tarpit 2: Iocaine
- Comment on On trees... 4 weeks ago:
evolution intensifies
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
B. F. Skinner would like a word
For twenty-five hundred years people have been preoccupied with feelings and mental life, but only recently has any interest been shown in a more precise analysis of the role of the environment. Ignorance of that role led in the first place to mental fictions, and it has been perpetuated by the explanatory practices to which they gave rise.
- Comment on Mt. Rainier Sasquatch 4 weeks ago:
thoroughly
- Comment on What do I actually need? 5 weeks ago:
My main reasons are sailing the high seas
If this is the goal, then you need to concern yourself with your network first and the computer/server second. You need as much operational control over your home network as you can manage, you need to put this traffic in a separate tunnel from all of your normal network traffic and have it pop up on the public network from a different location. You need to own the modem that links you to your provider’s network, and the router that is the entry/exit point for your network. You need to segregate the thing doing the sailing on its own network segment that doesn’t have direct access to any of your other devices. You can not use the combo modem/router gateway device provided by your ISP. You need to plan your internal network intentionally and understand how, when, and why each device transmits on the network. You should understand your firewall configuration (on your network boundary, not on your PC). You should also get PiHole up and running and start dropping unwanted inbound and outbound traffic.
OpSec first.
- Comment on Sensible 5 weeks ago:
Inside you there are two muppets…
