NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 3 days ago:
It is not any one individual’s responsibility to fix any other particular individual, true.
Rather, it is the community’s responsibility to care for the community. All of the community.
If you start declaring some members of the community to be undeserving of care, then you are no better than the fascists.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 3 days ago:
People who are treated like outcasts behave like outcasts.
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 3 days ago:
- Comment on Wharf 4 days ago:
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 4 days ago:
You running Windows Vista on an HP desktop with a Zip drive in 2026?
- Comment on Wharf 4 days ago:
off the starboard bow
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 5 days ago:
Ah yes, the beforetimes, how could I forget.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 1 week ago:
Humans spent thousands of years without rulers.
orly? which thousands?
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 1 week ago:
It just means no rulers, but that’s not how it works
…anywhere in reality.
- Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information 1 week ago:
Sort of.
In 2017 China passed a law requiring Chinese user data to be held within the country: nytimes.com/…/apple-china-privacy-censorship.html
Following that, Apple paid for a local data center which is managed by a Chinese company. Functionally this means that the PRC has access to all of the data stored there, because the government exerts direct control over Chinese companies, especially anything related to data collection and storage. Most likely, the PRC is able to access Apple users’ iCloud data if it resides in the China-based data center.
In response to a 2017 Chinese law, Apple agreed to move its Chinese customers’ data to China and onto computers owned and run by a Chinese state-owned company.
Chinese government workers physically control and operate the data center. Apple agreed to store the digital keys that unlock its Chinese customers’ information in those data centers. And Apple abandoned the encryption technology it uses in other data centers after China wouldn’t allow it.
Independent security experts and Apple engineers said Apple’s concessions would make it nearly impossible for the company to stop Chinese authorities from gaining access to the emails, photos, contacts, calendars and location data of Apple’s Chinese customers.
This is not really different from what’s been happening with other countries requiring their citizens’ data to be held within their borders, and the UK has similarly forced Apple to withdraw the Advanced Data Protection for iCloud users: theverge.com/…/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-…
[…] British security services would have access to the backups of any user worldwide, not just Brits, and Apple would not be permitted to alert users that their encryption was compromised.
- Comment on straight down to business pls 1 week ago:
Silly, everybody knows sexism only goes one way.
- Comment on How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS? 1 week ago:
First and most important:
In the context of long-term data storage
ALL DRIVES ARE CONSUMABLESI can’t emphasize this enough. If you only skim the rest of my post, re-read the above line and accept it as fundamental truth. “Long-term” means 1+ years, by the way.
It does not matter what type of drive you buy, how much you spend on it, who manufactured it, etc. The drive will fail at some point, probably when you’re least prepared for it. You need to plan around that. You need to plan for the drive being completely useless and the data on it unrecoverable post-failure. Wasting time and money to acquire the fanciest most bulletproof drives on the market is a pointless resource pit, and has more to do with dick-measuring contests between data-hoarders.
Knife geeks buy $500+ patterned steel chef’s knives with ebony handles and finely ground edges and bla bla bla. Professional kitchens buy the basic Victorinox with the plastic handle. Why? Because they actually use it, not mount it on a wall to look pretty.
The knife is a consumable, not an heirloom. So are your storage drives. We call them “spinning rust” for a reason.
The solution to drive failure is redundancy. Period.
Unfortunately, this reality runs counter to the desire to maximize available storage. Do not follow the path of desire, that way lies data loss and outer darkness. Fault-tolerant is your watchword. Component failure is unpredictable, no matter how much money you spend. A random manufacturing defect will ruin your day when you least expect it.
A minimum safe layout is to have 2 live copies of data (one active, one mirror), hot standby for 1 copy (immediate swap-in when the active or mirror fails), and cold standby on the shelf to replace the hot standby when it enters service.
Note that this does not describe a specific number of disks, but copies of data. The minimum to implement this is 4 disks of identical storage capacity (2 live, 1 hot standby, 1 on the shelf) and a server with slots for 3 disks. If your storage needs expand beyond the capacity of 1 disk, then you need to scale up by the same ratio. A disk is indivisible - having two copies of the same data on a disk does not give you any redundancy value. (I won’t get into striping and mucking about with weird RAID choices in this post because it’s too long already, but basically it’s not worth it)
This means you only get to use 25% of the storage capacity that you buy. Them’s the breaks. Anything less and you’re not taking your data longevity seriously, you might as well just get a consumer-grade external drive and call it a day.
Buy 4 disks, it doesn’t matter what they are or how much they cost (though if you’re buying used make sure you get a SMART report from the seller and you understand what it means) but keep in mind that your storage capacity is just 1 of the disks. And buy a server that can keep 3 of them online and automatically swap in the standby when one of the disks fails. Spend more money on the server than the disks, it will last longer.
Remember, long-term is a question of when, not if.
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 1 week ago:
Employers not paying a living wage bad.
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 1 week ago:
Ah, well most people use the internet for banking, employment, housing, medical care, government services, and communicating friends and family, so… how would you propose to avoid it once it’s imemented?
- Comment on I have no idea how to do my laundry 2 weeks ago:
If you really wanted to do it by hand, then basically perform the same actions as the washing machine: submerge the clothes in soapy water and agitate them for awhile, then submerge them in fresh water and agitate them for awhile, then wring out the water as much as possible, then hang to dry.
You can accomplish this process with a bucket, a stick, and a rope (plus soap and water). Also a lot of manual labor.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 2 weeks ago:
Broad conclusions for a study conducted on a population of ~500 undergrad students at a single religious university in one city of one state of one country.
- Comment on Ni! 2 weeks ago:
He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out,
And his elbows broken.
To have his nicaps split
And his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin. - Comment on What's "email"? 2 weeks ago:
You’re right.
They just shit themselves to death.
- Comment on What's "email"? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, instead we have gangrene, leptospirosis, trepanning, faith healing, no education unless you’re clergy, forced labor for 95% of the population, a life expectancy of 40 if you’re lucky…
Oh, and taxes! still got those. Have to pay for Richard’s crusade, you know. Congratulations on being conscripted as a peasant spearman, now get back up and stand in line with the rest of the fodder.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Tertiary question: we know that Vulcans/Romulans were descendents of the Progenitors, but are Talaxians?
If not, it might not be technically possible for them to interbreed at all, meaning that a Vulcan/Talaxian hybrid could never occur naturally, and also that Tuvix would probably be genetically incompatible with everything and everyone. Therefore, no species - only an anomaly produced by a freak transporter accident.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Does Tuvix have two species, or none?
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 3 weeks ago:
I think there was just a misunderstanding.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 3 weeks ago:
Punching Nazis is always morally correct.
- Comment on cant take it anymore 3 weeks ago:
The genie is out of the bottle
This is a lot more like Pandora’s Box - all the evils have been let loose.
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 3 weeks ago:
Oh I understand the word, it just seems like a lot of syllables.
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 3 weeks ago:
estadounidenses
people actually use this in conversation?
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 4 weeks ago:
That is you can take the heat and radiate it into space as Infrared radiation. IR radiation is able to travel through space as it is made of photons.
I’m not sure how effective this would be for the amount of heat generated by servers, but it’s not actually fully disqualified as I thought it would be.
This is how the International Space Station deals with waste heat: www.nasa.gov/…/473486main_iss_atcs_overview.pdf
It’s very slow compared with convective cooling, definitely not practical for running any high-powered computer hardware, slow enough that it can be considered disqualified.
- Comment on The classics 4 weeks ago:
Theres a community for that! sh.itjust.works/c/youtubeclassics
- Comment on $69 in 2026 Gets You a Tool to Rejuvenate Old Computers 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, I think Windows and most Linux distros support mounting disk images directly at this point.
Literally just
Right-click -> MountI’m not sure why you’d bother writing the disk image to an SD card and then using this hardware to mount it.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 weeks ago:
That is a very short amount of time to organize a nation.
