NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on where did we go wrong 8 hours ago:
So imagine this but with a 40% obesity rate.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
noai.duckduckgo.com
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
“male climate change”?
Is that what you call it when you shrink up because it’s cold?
- Comment on Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently 1 week ago:
Analog computers were also bulkier, had more mechanical complexity, and required higher power to operate and generated more heat as a consequence. The Heathkit EC-1 logic circuits operated at 0-100V. There are some real physics problems with scaling analog circuits up to hugger complexity.
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 1 week ago:
There’s a food source somewhere. Assuming they’re not getting food from your kitchen (you’re not finding them in the pantry), there must be something else nearby. What’s around? Anything you can get rid of? Old cardboard boxes? Dead plants/yard waste? Pet food?
How old is the house? Does it have wallpaper? If you are unlucky they might be eating wallpaper glue or something like that. Also have you made sure there isn’t a sewage leak under the house?
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 week ago:
There is rarely a good reason to use cloudflare […] By using cloudflare, you surrender your digital sovereignty for a mirage of convenience and safety.
Heh, man you have no idea how bad the DDoS attacks are without some form of protection. It doesn’t necessarily have to be Cloudflare, but if you’re putting up a public-facing website that you want people to be able to access, you absolutely need some DDoS protection service. You need someone to detect large-scale malicious traffic and offload it before it hits your system. It’s no mirage. Arch has been under attack for days. DDoS-for-hire is a profitable criminal enterprise.
Self-hosting a bot-interference tool like Anubis does nothing to help with DDoS attacks. You need a high-bandwidth shield that can absorb the incoming connection requests, filter out the legitimate users and dump the rest, and that means a CDN.
- Comment on Kirkland strong 1 week ago:
Yup, they buy up portions of production runs and relabel it. This is why some products are not available sometimes - because they couldn’t negotiate the contract to be able to sell it at the Costco price.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 1 week ago:
Certainly, but it doesn’t exist yet, and Microsoft has been developing their system for more than two decades. There is a lot of catching up to do to get to feature parity.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 1 week ago:
Maybe… almost universally, open source software requires more initial configuration work and more long-term oversight to keep operational, so if you’re making a statement like this you have account for additional labor costs. Proprietary software is usually sold as an out-of-the-box solution (it usually isn’t, but it’s usually a lot closer than open source equivalents).
The entry cost for an open source solution might be lower (no licensing fees) but the long-term cost might actually be higher, especially when you start trying to make various pieces of software work together. One of the areas where Microsoft does really well is system administration tools. Active Directory is a full suite of tools that all work together through a unified interface. To replicate AD you would have to patch many different open source projects together, some of which would overlap in functionality and some of which wouldn’t quite meet in the middle. As your environment increases in complexity and your sysadmin needs expand, these interoperation problems grow exponentially, which means more labor time and more expertise requirements, less stability and more security holes between the patched-together solutions.
Don’t get me wrong, I love open source software, but so far there are no good open source sysadmin solutions that scale well for organizations with thousands of users.
- Comment on Get to know the robot dog that can clean your house and serve you soda 1 week ago:
It’s highly unlikely that this thing would be able to operate without an Internet connection. There’s no way it would have enough compute power on board to do a significant amount of image recognition (find the socks, pick up the socks, find the laundry hamper, deposit the socks in the laundry hamper) or voice command processing.
I hate to disappoint but I am not some secret agent hiding a bunch of shit.
This is a very bad attitude to take towards your personal security, and part of the point I was trying to make is that there’s a very high chance that a device like this would have poorly secured software. When you look at incidents like the multiple Wyze security camera breaches, you have to expect that consumer security is always an afterthought for companies that make these kind of products. They will only start to care about it after something goes wrong and gets public attention (because it threatens sales). So, don’t just think about the manufacturer/distributor having access to the surveillance data this thing will collect. Think about random people on the internet, a criminal with an interest in blackmailing people, or some random van driving by with a bunch of network gear on the back.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Basically, .COM files are not commonly used and definitely not commonly shared on the Internet. The overlap between use cases for .COM files and .com TLDs is almost nothing.
In contrast, .ZIP files are very commonly shared on the Internet as a convenient way to transfer a group of files all at once, and there are a few different techniques for using .ZIP files maliciously. There is a lot more potential for conflicts between .ZIP files and the .zip TLD on the Internet.
- Comment on New to printing, not sure how to diagnose issues 2 weeks ago:
OK, so you’re new to 3D printing, but you’re not new to asking for help on the Internet. If you want people to be able to help, rule #1:
More. Pixels.
This might’ve been considered high quality for a digital image… in 1995. OK, maybe early 1995. Not by the end of the year. Find some more pixels. Don’t be stingy with them.
So next, for 3D printing it’s like asking for help with any tool - what kind of tool is it? Who made it? What model is it? Did you buy it new, or used? Does it have any modifications? Does it have an enclosure? What kind of work environment is it in? bedroom? garage? Is it a bed slinger? CoreXY? Delta?
What kind of software/firmware is the printer running? Which slicer are you using? Did you design the model yourself, or download it from somewhere? What software are you using for design?
And then what kind of material are you printing? PLA? PET? ASA? TPU?
Basically, we don’t know what you’re working with, or how you’re working with it, or what you’re trying to accomplish, and we can’t guess. There are hundreds of different printer models on the market, a few dozen different pieces of software that might be involved, and thousands of different print material options. Context, please.
On your issue - the most common problem with larger objects is that plastic tends to shrink as it cools. The longer the piece of extruded plastic is, the more effect the shrinkage has. As the top layer cools, it shrinks and pulls away from the layer below it. The larger the object is, the more time each layer has to cool before the next layer of hot plastic gets put on top of it. If your printer is open frame (not enclosed) this will be worse. If your printer is open and in a room with a draft, it will be even worse.
Resources:
- Stefan CNC Kitchen has published more video content of testing various aspects of hobby 3D printing than anyone else I know of.
- Michael Teaching Tech has a lot of specific advice for troubleshooting various issues, and some really interesting material on testing experimental new features. He has put together a fantastic resource for printer calibration teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html If you want to really learn about how your printer operates, go through that step-by-step guide.
And finally, the pixels… don’t forget the pixels.
- Comment on Get to know the robot dog that can clean your house and serve you soda 2 weeks ago:
Get a robot to
help around the houseobserve your daily schedule, your habits, your every movement, and upload video, audio, sonar, lidar and radar recordings tothe cloudprobably just an unesecured S3 bucket. And then use all that to profile you, sell you stuff, and send automatic reports to law enforcement about anything that triggers the AI as a possible indicator of criminal behavior.Oh yeah, sign me right up for the corporate-controlled self-propelled surveillance platform. Maybe I’ll get two, so there’s never a gap in surveillance while one is recharging.
And if you think any of that sounds paranoid, you should be aware it’s already happening with robot vacuums:
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
While it’s vacuuming your dirt, Roomba also collects data on you: Next, it could be sold
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 weeks ago:
No don’t you see - fewer employees means there’s less of anything getting done, and this company is just a parasite that produces nothing of value.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The “.zip” TLD isn’t itself a security risk, but it should never have been created in the first place due to the overlap with .zip files.
Understanding the context of why the .zip TLD is a bad idea, you should be questioning the general competence of a web admin that would intentionally purchase and operate a .zip website. It’s such an obvious and avoidable problem that you have to wonder what other obvious problems they are failing to avoid.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 weeks ago:
Ah, so removing employees from this dumpster fire was a net positive for society.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, like the article I linked says:
It has now been nearly eight years since the “experimental” tag was removed, but many of btrfs’ age-old problems remain unaddressed and effectively unchanged. So, we’ll repeat this once more: as a single-disk filesystem, btrfs has been stable and for the most part performant for years. But the deeper you get into the new features btrfs offers, the shakier the ground you walk on—that’s what we’re focusing on today.
So if you’re just using it for your PC hard drive you’re probably fine. The problem is that BTRFS is intended to provide similar features to RAID and ZFS, but that’s where it starts failing.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 2 weeks ago:
free and open source operating system that never has issues like this
ever use BTRFS?
- Comment on NHS to trial AI tool that speeds up hospital discharges 2 weeks ago:
…reduce paperwork…
“paperless office”
- Comment on Subs, not dubs or fascists 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Clamdalf!! 2 weeks ago:
Never, change lemmy
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 weeks ago:
yikes
- Comment on Every damn time. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, although maybe it’s good that they’re straightforward? No euphemisms, no pretense.
- Comment on Every damn time. 3 weeks ago:
Er, yes but also this…
www.braintreesci.com/…/decapicones/
Make injections and decapitation quicker and easier with Braintree Scientific’s DecapiCones. Tapered plastic film tubes provide quick and easy restraint of rats, mice, and other small animals. I.P. injections can be made directly through the film! DecapiCones restrain post-decapitation kicking and prevent personal contact with feces or urine. A unique dispenser holds DecapiCones open and ready for use. Simply hold the DecapiCone in one hand and introduce the animal with the other. Animals enter readily, heading for the breathing hole at the small end. Roll and squeeze the large end closed. They may be used repeatedly for injections and simply discarded when soiled. For decapitation, hold at the rear and insert the small end into the decapitator.
They come in quantities of 200, in handy pre-loaded dispensers.
- Comment on Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t really ask for this, but here are some suggestions for YouTube content that is worthwhile:
- Fall of Civilizations - originally a podcast, these are long-format episodes that each focus on the history of a collapsed civilization. On YouTube they have added video of the ruins and the locations described in the podcast which really adds a lot to it.
- Folding Ideas - all of Dan Olson’s content is worth watching, but I particularly recommend “Line Goes Up” which digs into the culture around NFTs and cryptocurrency, “Tge Future is a Dead Mall” which looks at the metaverse/VR and the people who bought into it as the next big thing, and “In Search of a Flat Earth” which tries to understand the cultlike behavior of flat earthers. Dan basically does well-researched sociocultural analysis and the things he finds are fascinating.
- Technology Connections - Alec Watson gives in-depth descriptions on how various pieces of technology do (or don’t) work. I think the videos on pinball machines are particularly fun.
- Moon Channel - somewhat similar to Folding Ideas, Moony does sociocultural analysis, though in different topical areas. I highly recommend “Kawaii: Anime, Propaganda and Soft Power Politics”.
- Cody’s Lab - Cody does various scientific experiments, mostly focused on chemistry. He still tops my list of craziest things I’ve seen anyone do on YouTube - refining uranium from ore in his garage.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 3 weeks ago:
Twenty-two years later and still nothing really compares. I’ve played it through 5… 6?.. times and the characters still feel compelling.
I miss Westwood… everyone that came after only imitated their work, and while some have made improvements to the gameplay, none have really accomplished the same level of storytelling in the RTS genre.
Kind of a perfect game, one that keeps you coming back again and again.
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 3 weeks ago:
You’ve tried chain smoking… Now try all-new grid smoking!
- Comment on Wakey Wakey 3 weeks ago:
FYI, this won’t shock anybody, the piercing bar will just get real hot, as will the battery in your hand as you’ve just short-circuited it.
- Comment on Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 3 weeks ago:
A SCOTUS ruling could potentially make the outcome worse, widen the scope and enshrine it as a national precedent.
