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- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 week ago:
Neat – I just set it up, got my gmail going in the Mail app and it works.
uBlock Origin isn’t officially supported any more as it’s considered ‘legacy browser’, but I found a working XPI here and it even seems to block Youtube ads. Wow.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 week ago:
In case you didn’t know, the original ‘Mozilla Suite’ (the browser/HTML composer/Mail client) is still apparently being developed! I’m sure it’s behind a lot of modern standards, but I love the idea it’s being kept alive…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
This seems like a good idea.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?
It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?
Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …
I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 weeks ago:
I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 weeks ago:
At some point we’ll just have to tunnel IP over DNS, and then they can’t block traffic without destroying the entire internet. Not that it’ll dissuade them.
- Comment on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, hard pass. Don’t let an OS which has a walled-garden by default for apps get a toe in the door. Android is based in Linux, use that instead.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 weeks ago:
I’m gonna be that “acktually…” guy for a sec here. Oil & gas (mostly) are not dinosaurs… the vast majority of petrochemicals are from compressed dead algae, planktom and plant matter long pre-dating the dinosaurs: chevron.com/…/explainer-where-do-oil-and-gas-come…
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 3 weeks ago:
Ah. That’s nasty, what a pain.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 3 weeks ago:
Forgive me but what is intune? I did a quick search and just found some Microsoft endpoint protection thingie – there is mention of a Managed Google Play but I have no idea what that would mean.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t yet tried – planning to do that in the next day or so when I get the time.
Others already replied with promising results, I sure hope they work for me as well (Scotiabank in Canada is particularly annoying in this respect in my experience, with LineageOS I had to use Magisk and define stealth rules specifically for their banking app).
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 3 weeks ago:
I took the jump and installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9 this weekend. Easiest alternate OS load I’ve ever done, didn’t even need to see a command line. (I’ve put LineageOS on many a phone and GrapheneOS’s web-based installer is amazing).
Loving it so far. I have three profiles, the main ‘Owner’ with NO google services/app store at all; and two more ‘Personal’ and ‘Work’ profiles that have Google stuff.
Amazingly GrapheneOS even lets you deny Google App Store itself permissions to install from untrusted sources (in this case, Google App Store itself) – I was suprised to see installing just App Store triggered attempts to then load: My Pixel, Google Photos, Fitbit(!!? WTF), and a few others, without any confirmation first. Was able to shut that shit down immediately.
I hope GrapheneOS spreads to other phone models. And I’m sure Google has a team planning on how to strangle it before it does…
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- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. Like the COBOL coders around Y2K did.
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 5 weeks ago:
Solidarity, brothers and sisters! If you or your co-workers find yourselves in this situation make sure you hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything – if you accept a return offer. Make them (the C-class, the billionaires who did this) pay in at least some way.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep 5 weeks ago:
In a link from the main article – I know it’s not a trilobite, but dang does that look like a trilobite!
- Comment on Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting 1 month ago:
Of all segments of the software industry, games seem to be the most exploitative. So sad, for what should be fun. Business execs taking advantage of those who cannot resist working on their passion. Unions need to get in that industry so very badly.
- Comment on Pseudohyndnum gelatinosum 2 months ago:
These are edible. I put some in a bowl of sugar to dehydrate them and they end up like gummy bears.
- Comment on Best offline resource for mushroom identification? 2 months ago:
All That The Rain Promises is a fun and accessible book to start with.
- Comment on DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶 2 months ago:
I used to see swarms of grasshoppers every summer as a kid (80s), now a single one is a rare sight.
- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 2 months ago:
Rogers in Canada has pixels that allow unlocking the bootloader (just got a pixel 9, and once I have some time I’m going to try putting a custom build on it).
- Comment on Mushrooms I found in a walk 2 months ago:
Boletes!
