NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 11 hours ago:
“Big enough.”
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 11 hours ago:
You can’t generalize women this way. They’re individual people.
- Comment on i hunger 11 hours ago:
Shit, that looks expensive.
- Comment on Protect yourselves! 2 days ago:
Looks like something from Annihilation:
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 4 days ago:
yardbird
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 4 days ago:
So a dinosaur.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 4 days ago:
Because if it’s doing this it’s a malicious app….
OK, how would you know?
Google also said they’ve found zero apps doing this.
So what? There are millions of apps on the Play store, they aren’t all being reviewed with this level of scrutiny. This means basically nothing.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 4 days ago:
This article doesn’t really address that. I don’t think there’s any indication that this particular vulnerability is related to nation-state hacking.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 4 days ago:
I’m sure there are apps that have malware built in yes, but I mean the MITM approach you were describing.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 4 days ago:
Hmm, yes that can happen, but can it happen if you’re downloading directly from the Play store?
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 4 days ago:
Um, ok, and how would you know the difference?
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 5 days ago:
A literal decimation.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 5 days ago:
Normally I would agree with this perspective, but in this case the “malicious app” is just a demo. It requires no permissions to do the malicious behavior, which means that the relevant code could be included in any app and wouldn’t trigger a user approval, a permissions request or a security alert. This could be hiding in anything that you install.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 5 days ago:
Look I’m ready to see people come to their sense about this “AI” crap, but the answer is no.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 6 days ago:
This isn’t really what “normalizing” means… no one is “turning to commercials for life advice”. OP is talking about commercials projecting an unhealthy impression of what normal looks like.
- Comment on Lingo 1 week ago:
El Dingerino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing…
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
Very few people have actually read the social contract, and fewer still have signed it.
- Comment on Making the world go round 1 week 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 week ago:
thatsthejoke.gif
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 2 weeks ago:
0118999…
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 2 weeks ago:
lol no, VC funding line goes up
- Comment on Intel in early talks to add AMD as foundry customer 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Bop it!
Twist it!
Pull it!
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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?
