NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Making the world go round 1 day ago:
Open source would be so much worse without the detail-obsessed nerds. People like you make things better, and I know its largely unrecognized.
Thank you.
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 1 day ago:
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- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 4 days ago:
0118999…
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 5 days ago:
lol no, VC funding line goes up
- Comment on Intel in early talks to add AMD as foundry customer 6 days ago:
I think there was an internal plan for Intel to split its design and fabrication departments into two companies like ten years ago.
- Comment on SSDs for long term storage 6 days ago:
They should be powered on if you want to retain data on them long-term. The controller should automatically check physical integrity and disable bad sections as needed.
I’m not sure if just connecting them to power would be enough for the controller to run error correction, or if they need to be connected to a computer. That might be model specific.
What server OS are you using? Are you already using some SSDs for cache drives?
Any backup is better than no backup, but SSDs are really not a good choice for long-term cold storage. You’ll probably get tired of manually plugging them in to check integrity and update the backups pretty fast.
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 1 week ago:
Without getting into the technical details, the main cost offset of running a cryptominer is the electricity used. If the crawler performs cryptominer calculations on your server it will be of no benefit to you, because you will still have to pay the electricity bill, and really it’s not the crawler doing the calculations, it’s your own server hardware.
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 1 week ago:
If you install a captcha as part of your web server, that code is running on your server.
The crawler interacting with the captcha on your server will not result in cryptominer code running on its server.
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 1 week ago:
There’s a functional difference between forcing a crawler to interact with code on your server that wastes its time, and getting it to download your code and run it on its own server - the issue being where the actual CPU/GPU/APU cycles happen. If they happen on your server then it’s not benefiting you at all, it’s costing you the same amount as just running the cryptominer directly would.
Any halfway intelligent administrator would never allow an automated routine to download and run arbitrary code on their own system, it would be a massive security risk.
- Comment on First day on the job 1 week ago:
Bop it!
Twist it!
Pull it!
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 1 week ago:
Hmm, how would you convince the crawler to run your code on its home system, rather than just scraping data?
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
My experience is that this struggle is mostly the result of anxiety over being disliked, and that anxiety can be reduced or removed by mental re-framing of the situation causing the anxiety. Re-framing is what I’m trying to express in my comment above.
Rather than getting stuck in the anxiety spiral over needing to wear the right mask, recognize that this entire concept is increasing the social separation between yourself and the other people, that the sensation of wearing a mask comes mostly from unfamiliarity with social behaviors (I don’t know how to behave in this situation, so I have to try to fake it). The solution is not to wear a better mask, or to wear the mask better, but to recognize that the feeling of masking is being created by anxiety over not knowing what to do.
I’m not trying to say that it’s easy, to say “just get over it”. I’m saying that you can change your perspective on (and emotional reactions to) social interactions by changing the way you think about them, and with practice, and with exposure, and teach yourself over time that the anxiety is unwarranted.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
When you say “struggling” with masking, do you mean struggling with trying to wear the right mask, or with feeling like you’re always wearing a mask?
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
Counterpoint: no person exists in a vacuum. Behaviors are an aspect of social interaction, and most are learned through observation (that is, your behavior is mostly the product of interacting with other people).
Your “self” adjusts to fit the social environment of the moment - this is socialization. For instance, you probably behave differently if you are alone with your parents, with your parents and your spouse, with your parents and your sibling(s), alone with your sibling(s), alone with your spouse, with your children and your spouse, or with the whole family, and probably all of those interactions are very different from those with your classmates or coworkers.
Changing behaviors with social context doesn’t mean you are not being “your true self”, it’s just life.
I would also argue that there is no privacy and no private life without some aspects of the self remaining hidden at times.
Life is complicated, and you shouldn’t worry too much about being “real”, you should just enjoy the company of the people you are with in the time that you are with them. It goes by faster than you realize.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
“Who you are” changes with context. For instance, you behave differently with your spouse than you do with your parents. There are things you would do and say with your spouse that you would not with your parents. Similarly if you are with a 4-year-old vs. with a coworker.
Behaving differently around different people doesn’t mean you’re being “fake”, it’s just an aspect of human social life.
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 1 week ago:
Please wipe a verification ass.
- Comment on solar system 1 week ago:
Born and raised to rule… no one has ever been this cool…
- Comment on solar system 1 week ago:
Obviously it’s pointing to Dr. Mark Watney.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Do not patronize these systems, regardless of how small you think your individual impact might be. User counts are used to justify continued investments in these things.
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 2 weeks ago:
Is that the animated Garfield television series from the 90s? How old is this video?
- Comment on Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement 2 weeks ago:
You’re right that it’s not a complete solution. Offhand, it seems like this won’t help graphic designers that make advertising graphics if the advertiser doesn’t really care about copyright protection - or basically anything that is expected to have a short lifespan (who cares if an ad campaign that runs for a week is copyrighted?).
Are those jobs worth fighting over? There are probably a lot more graphic artists making a living producing bilboards and web ads &etc than there are making a living selling their own art, but are those jobs something that society at large should make an effort to protect?
- Comment on Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement 2 weeks ago:
Actually there are several legal arguments about this currently ongoing.
There isn’t really a final decision yet, but I think I agree with Cory Doctorow’s opinion that the solution is to make the output of generative AI tools uncopywritable/public domain. This protects artists broadly, as any company that wants to produce a copywrited final work (e.g. film, television, music, books, etc) will need to hire an artist to do it.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
You will use Copilot and you will
like ithave no recourse. - Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 2 weeks ago:
Apparently all the adult writers got up and left the room.
The great evil is embodied in a black dude with the power of darkness/ugly flying thingys and gets defeated by white people with the power of light/love?
Who approved this? Did someone let their six year old submit plot ideas?
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 weeks ago:
The Dell P5524Q is a 55" conference room monitor. It has no built-in wifi, microphones, camera, or other smart tv bullshit, it’s just a big monitor. It just turns on when you turn it on and turns off when you turn it off - it doesn’t take 5 minutes to boot up because of the shitty low-grade computer hardware built into it. You can find them on eBay in the US$900 range.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
Not even a guideline, just some guy’s personal opinion.
- Comment on The Stop Trump coalition published this video 3 weeks ago:
Which ones are the “real Britons”? the Celts? the Romans? the Normans? the Saxons?
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
That’s a whole lot of mental gymnastics to try to justify enforcing toxic positivity.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 3 weeks ago:
Are you already logged in / automatically logging in to shopify?
- Comment on Rust 3 weeks ago:
Learn more about this dangerous, unregulated chemical: dhmo.org