NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 3 days ago:
VPNs as a technology might not be illegal but circumventing the firewall certainly is.
Unless you are very vocal and high profile person no one will black bag you in a country of billion people, lol.
This is a bit of a misunderstanding about how things work in an authoritarian system. Sure, you might fly under the radar for awhile, but if you call attention to yourself (say, by getting caught trying to bypass the government firewall) and you are not high-profile, then it is very low-effort to make you disappear. Few will notice, and those that do will stay silent out of fear.
If you are more high-profile you still get black-bagged, you just get released after, with your behavior suitably modified.
Naomi Wu no longer uploads to YouTube.
- Comment on Red Pilled 3 days ago:
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 3 days ago:
Depends - how many family members do you have that the PRC might use against you?
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 3 days ago:
And there are hundreds if not thousands of them, plus a lot of automated tooling.
- Comment on Maybe creating an ocean of AI disinformation so large it dilutes all verifiable truth is the key to getting people to unplugged. 3 days ago:
Or it plunges us back into the dark ages, where people believe things based on anecdotes and superstitions, and sources of factual information are rare and typically locked inside some walled garden or other.
This is just another form of control being asserted by the wealthy and powerful - knowledge is power. Removing effective access to knowledge keeps people in the dark, making them easier to manipulate.
Hold on to your public institutions. Fight for them tooth and nail. Collect books (unredactable, uneditable, un-paywall-able sources of information). Donate to libraries. Don’t patronize LLM systems. Prefer local storage and applications over cloud services.
And don’t romanticize ignorance.
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 6 days ago:
AI is surveillance tool.
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 2 weeks ago:
Always buy local if you can. It has the lowest climate impact.
Even buying a less-green local product vs. a more eco-friendly import might have less climate impact due to resource extraction, production in areas with possibly less environmental protection regulations, and above all shipping.
Climate cost-benefit outweighs all other arguments for rational people.
- Comment on Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that the US and China are the two largest economies in the world. Everyone else kind of orbits around them. Conflict between them will have a lot of collateral damage.
- Comment on Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy 2 weeks ago:
Yep, we are watching the active teardown of the global trade infrastructure that has been built over the past 5 decades.
That international trade has been the single largest deterrent to international warfare. Neighbors who actively trade are far less likely to go to war with each other. Powerful nations have an interest in exploiting less powerful nations economically rather than conquer them militarily - it’s cheaper, and you can extract value from the exploited nation over an extended period rather than gain some short-term value while destroying the source of that value. The exploited nations benefit by not being attacked, and may have more flexible options for improving their position economically (i.e. Japan in the electronics market in the 1980s).
The Trump administration looks like when a new manager takes over a functional team, doesn’t know how anything works, can’t be bothered to try to understand, and just starts breaking established processes to prove that they’re in charge.
- Comment on Wind/solar motorcycle [with 50 km solar/wind range] looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legit 2 weeks ago:
so you can ride at night
- Comment on I am just silly 3 weeks ago:
Ah, but the shading on the boobs and the detail in the hair, that’s important.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The secret ingredient is poverty wages.
- Comment on Interesting 3 weeks ago:
…your dream school romance
- Comment on I am just silly 3 weeks ago:
Did the food texture fail to load?
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 4 weeks 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"? 4 weeks 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"? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah people here are overlooking the Sharpie pen, it’s quite nice.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 4 weeks ago:
some BOFH energy
- Comment on An idiots guide? 4 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 😎 1 month 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. 1 month 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? 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
well… it is a solvent…
- Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
“the exact center of the Big Bang” is not a phrase that makes sense.
