NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 1 day ago:
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 day 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 days 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? 4 days ago:
3D printer of Theseus
- Comment on Wanna Ride This Bussy? 6 days ago:
Only if you take her with it.
- Comment on New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam 6 days ago:
Graphene is the most amazing material, it can do anything you can imagine - except leave the lab.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 1 week ago:
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week 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... 1 week ago:
evolution intensifies
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
thoroughly
- Comment on What do I actually need? 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Inside you there are two muppets…
- Comment on May The Fleas Of Ten Thousand Camels Infest Your Armpits 2 weeks ago:
May your marinara never stick to your spaghetti!
- Comment on Squint those eyes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
Not enabling it may prevent you from accessing the user-facing features but may not actually prevent it from recording your conversation and training on it.
- Comment on Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality? 2 weeks ago:
Not privatize, atomize. Centralized control is ripe for abuse.
- Comment on Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yes, let’s nationalize the communications platforms and give the government direct control over how people express themselves. Surely the government is 100% trustworthy and will not use that power to suppress criticism or political opponents, or track people who are ‘unpatriotic’, or redefine ‘hate speech’ in a way that benefits the current regime. No such thing has ever happened in the history of ever. What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 2 weeks ago:
You can get anything you want
- Comment on Become ungovernable! 2 weeks ago:
Become illegible?
- Comment on Heheheh my secret door of secret knowledge 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, I’ve always found the exposed bits of machinery and the genuine work areas to be a lot more interesting than the safety-padded candy-coated consumer-facing side of things.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 3 weeks ago:
but it still is different from virtual memory. that’s a broader thing.
Of course, that’s why I said…
the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows
because that’s how it’s labeled in the Windows Settings menu.
then open the control panel and fix the swap setup. and then enjoy your more ram. the solution to this problem does not seem to be not upgrading to have more ram.
Adding more RAM is not a solution to OP’s described problem in any way. In the context of moving data from active memory to the pagefile, Windows doesn’t care how much RAM you have, only how long the data in active memory has been idle (which is not configurable). Adding more RAM to the system will do nothing to change that behavior.
However, adding more RAM might make retrieving data from the pagefile slower. Yes you could adjust the pagefile settings to address this, as you said, but it still doesn’t do anything to address OP’s problem.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 3 weeks ago:
that also gets used when no swap file was set up.
The swap file or pagefile is automatically set up in Windows 10/11. You have to do something manually to prevent it.
I agree that adding more RAM won’t necessarily make the problem go away as windows might still swap the game out if it deems it more important to cache more files in RAM, but I don’t see why that would make it worse.
By making the swap file larger, which may be an issue if the hard drive doesn’t have enough space left, and if not it will still increase the amount of time needed to recover data from the swap, because it’s larger.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 3 weeks ago:
QR codes are just symbols in a camera readible way and barcodes numbers in a camara readible way.
A storage medium for 0´s & 1´s like a USB stick or a disc but way less storage.Yes, a QR code is a representation of digital data. There are different versions which can represent different amounts of data. The represented data can be anything that you want, as long as the scanning device can interpret that data as something useful.
They dont add any security,
An RFID tag holding a blockchain token string also does not add any security, it’s just a different thing holding an alphanumeric value. They could just use RFID tags without the blockchain, the result would be the same.
But my point is mostly that this is already an entirely solved problem, you don’t need very many bits to store a useful unique ID code, you certainly don’t need a blockchain-token-value amount of bits, and a printed paper tag is cheaper, easier to manufacture, and less environmentally impactful than a microchip.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 3 weeks ago:
Sure but this still requires going through the reinstallation process, compared to just plugging an NVMe drive into a PCIe adapter and sticking it into an unused slot - done in 5 minutes.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 3 weeks ago:
Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)
This is not really true. A 16-digit decimal code gives you 10 quadrillion unique numbers. FedEx handled ~3 billion packages in 2024, so at that rate it would take them more than 3 million years to use up the ID space. You don’t need ridiculously long strings for useful package ID codes.
If you stored the 16 digits as ASCII characters (7 bits each) it would be all of 112 bits of data. The Micro QR format is more than enough to represent that data, with room to spare for error correction. If you used alphanumeric instead of decimal you’d have 62^16 unique IDs (UC + LC + 0-9), still only 16 ASCII characters (112 bits), and at that point you’re more worried about the sun burning out than you are about running out of package ID codes.
But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn’t even require much processing power since there’s no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.
If you want the tracking to be useful, then every time a package passes through a handling station the ID needs to be scanned and the ledger updated indicating the transfer of the package ID from one station to the other. Then every node on the blockchain network needs to update their copy of the ledger with the new transaction data. Never mind mining, if you’re handling millions of packages per day then updating the ledger will create a stupid amount of network traffic and just eat processing power. Also, correcting any errors that get written into the ledger due to some handling failure will be extremely difficult if not impossible.
Without mining, what incentive would there be for anyone besides the actual shipping company to host a blockchain node for this? How would it not still be “a third party company trusted with all the cheese”?
