NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on I am just silly 2 days ago:
Ah, but the shading on the boobs and the detail in the hair, that’s important.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The secret ingredient is poverty wages.
- Comment on Interesting 2 days ago:
…your dream school romance
- Comment on I am just silly 2 days ago:
Did the food texture fail to load?
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 1 week ago:
My point of view is that a human rights violation is a human rights violation regardless of the context in which it happens, and is therefore an important thing to discuss and give visibility to.
Labeling it as “political” and using that as an excuse to hide discussion of it feels like bootlicker behavior to me.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 1 week ago:
Yep, it’s very much “rules for thee but not for me” at .ml
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 1 week ago:
ICE’s actions are political.
Discussing ICE’s actions is not necessarily political, unless you consider human rights violations to be necessarily political as a topic.
Silencing discussion of human rights violations implies tacit support for the action, so I guess we know now where .ml stands. Any claim of leftist ideology on their part is a sham, they just have a hard-on for authoritarians.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
Yeah people here are overlooking the Sharpie pen, it’s quite nice.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 1 week ago:
some BOFH energy
- Comment on An idiots guide? 2 weeks ago:
Beyond your eventual technical solution, keep this in mind: untested backups don’t exist.
I recommend reading some documentation about industry-leading solutions like Veeam… you won’t be able to reproduce all of the enterprise-level functionality, at least not without spending a lot of money, but you can try to reproduce the basic practices of good backup systems.
Whatever system you implement, draft a testing plan. A simpler backup solution that you can test and validate will be worth more than something complex and highly detailed.
- Comment on Later virgins 😎 3 weeks ago:
I can’t even see that, Lemmy automatically converts passwords to asterisks for security, so I can’t even see that your password is *******
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
Say it ain’t so
Your bug is a heartbleeder
Say it ain’t so
My NIC is a bytetaker - Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 3 weeks ago:
I am of two minds on this. I love repairing electronic equipment, it’s what I do for a living, and I buy old tech to fix up all the time.
Replaceable batteries seem like a good thing, in terms of reducing waste for devices that are otherwise still useful… theoretically.
Realistically, the charge management circuitry and the battery chemistry in phones has gotten so good today that most batteries have a useful lifespan that is longer than the useful life of the device. Three years is easily doable for any mid-range phone on the market.
At five years you’re probably going to be disappointed with the battery performance, but how many people are continuing to use a 5-year-old phone? At that point the internal technology has changed substantially and there might even be a new network standard that you want to use, so you’re probably replacing the whole device even if replacing only the battery is an option.
On top of that, giving the user access to the battery means the phone body can’t be fully sealed against moisture and dust, plus the access panel is a big mechanical weakpoint which means the body will be less rigid than a fully enclosed device and thus more prone to breaking when dropped or sat on. Adding those weaknesses back into mobile devices will make them more fragile and (I predict) will lead to more frequent failure and replacement of the entire device, which will offset any waste-saving benefit from the replaceable battery.
Plus, the addional space required to fit in the replaceable battery casing, the removable access panel and the contact points for the battery means either the whole device will have to be bulkier or the battery will have to be smaller (than it would otherwise be with a permanent internal battery).
Replaceable batteries made a lot more sense in 2010 when the batteries were shit (and sometimes still NiCad) and the charge management was basically nonexistent (so the battery cycling wore it out faster). Today it’s weight and bulk, plus fragility that will probably lead to equivalent or increased e-waste.
- Comment on Alcohol solves problems, water creates them. 4 weeks ago:
well… it is a solvent…
- Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities? 4 weeks ago:
The issue is more that trying to upgrade everything at the same time is a recipe for disaster and a troubleshooting nightmare. Once you have a few interdependent services/VMs/containers/environments/hosts running, what you want to do is upgrade them separately, one at a time, then restart that service and anything that connects to it and make sure everything still works, then move on to updating the next thing.
If you do this shotgun approach for the sake of expediency, what happens is something halfway through the stack of upgrades breaks connectivity with something else, and then you have to go digging through the logs trying to figure out which piece needs a rollback.
Even more fun if two things in the same environment have conflicting dependencies, and one of them upgrades and installs its new dependency version and breaks whatever manual fix you did to get them to play nice together before.
- Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities? 4 weeks ago:
This is also a great way to just break everything you’ve set up.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
OK, so that’s a possibility, but when you start adding a ~$30 fee on top of the cost of the part and shipping from Fairphone you’re looking at about $100 per repair, which stops making sense pretty quickly. You’re better off spending a little more money on a good device that is dust- and moisture-sealed and taking care of it for a few years.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
I really wanted to buy the Fairphone 5, but they don’t ship replacement parts to where I live which makes the entire concept pointless.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 weeks ago:
“the exact center of the Big Bang” is not a phrase that makes sense.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 weeks ago:
If you can’t tell which person in your group is having a stroke right now, it’s probably you.
- Comment on WWJD 5 weeks ago:
Supply Side Jesus intensifies
- Comment on Experience with refurbished and recertified HDDs? 5 weeks ago:
I recommend getting familiar with SMART and understanding what the various attributes mean and how they affect a drive’s performance and reliability. You may need to install smartmontools to interact with SMART, though some Linux distributions include this by default.
Some problems reported by SMART are not a big deal at low rates (like Soft Read Errors) but enterprise organizations will replace them anyway. Sometimes drives are simply replaced at a certain number of Power-On Hours, regardless of condition. Some problems are survivable if they’re static, like Uncorrectable Sector Count - every drive has some overhead of extra sectors for internal redundancy, so one bad sector isn’t a big deal , but if the number is increasing over time then you have a problem and should replace the drive immediately.
Also keep in mind, hard drives are consumables. Mirroring and failovers are a must if your data is important. New drives fail too. There’s nothing wrong with buying used if you’re comfortable with drive’s condition.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
So… who wants to bet that the new version of Notepad is not constantly scraping anything you type into it and feeding it into the AI, regardless of whether you’re paying for this feature or not?
- Comment on how could i talk to someone about them being aggressive without invalidating them but also without enabling/downplaying it? 5 weeks ago:
Do you want to help this person be better, or do you want to protect yourself from them?
The first will require that they are receptive in some way to being helped, so it may be impossible.
The second… well, you’ve described a deeply insecure person. The need to constantly remind other people how much better they are demonstrates a real fear of being found to be inadequate. If you can determine the source and/or subject of the insecurity you can potentially weaponize it against them. That’s risky though, it may make you more of a target for retribution.
Remember, you can’t fix someone else, they can only fix themselves. You can offer guidance, but that only works if they’re open to being guided.
Perhaps the best course of action is more zen… let them learn their own lessons. Isolate yourself from damage as much as possible, and just wait for them to crash and burn. Make popcorn.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 5 weeks ago:
Amazon is basically glorified dropshipping
This premise is not correct. As I’ve described, Amazon’s business is providing services to other businesses, many services, which make their platform attractive for sellers due to ease-of-use. Therefore…
Let’s make an amazon alternative.
This objective is not really possible. An alternative that does not provide all of those services is not actually an alternative.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 5 weeks ago:
Sellers need to sell there to survive
Amazon is a service provider. Sellers sell there because Amazon provides product advertising (every product page is essentially an ad), order processing, payment processing, warehousing, order fulfillment (via the warehouse staff), shipping, dispute resolution, return processing (which is its own logistics nightmare), and even resale of returned/refurbished products in some cases, and all of it is coordinated through their data systems.
It is extremely convenient to sell a product on Amazon because they handle all of the customer-facing parts of selling, all you have to do is describe what you’re selling, and arrange for Amazon to get the product somehow. It’s the convenience that keeps sellers on their platform. It’s the convenience that makes it worth the cost of doing business with Amazon.
Now yes, each individual service could be replaced, but splitting them out is going to cause coordination problems. It’s going to slow down the order fulfillment, and it’s basically shunting the operation cost (both time and money) back onto the seller. That’s going to mean fewer sellers interested in using the alternative, because now they have to do for themselves what they could simply pay Amazon a percentage of their sale price to do. And because this alternative is slower and can’t provide the same kind of return guarantees that Amazon can, fewer customers are going to want to use it.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
I think there’s some misunderstanding here. Amazon is a massive logistics system. The retail storefront is a tiny part of what Amazon is today.
AWS exists because Amazon needed to solve an internal data handling problem in order to solve their logistics problems so that they could scale up. After building that system, they started selling it as a product to other businesses. The point being, Amazon’s real success is based on providing business-to-business services. The retail website is the tiny public-facing bit, but it depends on the rest of the organization structure in order to operate properly.
What you’re proposing is more like an eBay alternative, where the system is basically just the storefront, and the sellers listing products are responsible for their own logistics. eBay still provides dispute resolution for buyers though, and that’s hard to achieve without some centralized control.
There’s also the legal problems. At some point someone will use such a system as a silk road - probably sooner rather than later. Whoever is administrating and hosting it will be liable for criminal activity in the countries where the crime occurs. It will not end well.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What we need is a new system
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The transition from ALSA to Pulse never really fully happened and a lot of backend stuff is still dependent on ALSA. If you ever find that you have an audio channel that is just not working for no apparent reason (like audio input), run
alsamixerand check if the channel is muted there.I’ve found this multiple times on new Ubuntu-derivative installs, and the channel muting in ALSA is not reflected anywhere in the desktop GUI audio settings and can’t be adjusted through them, but nothing is technically broken - you just have to raise the volume on that channel via alsamixer. It’s a very annoying gotcha.
