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NeatNit

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NeatNit ,

Don’t put any recovery info on Proton

About that. I'm still making the transition from gmail and currently most of my mail still goes to gmail first and gets forwarded to Proton through their easy switch process. Surely this is just as up for grabs as a recovery email, right?

FWIW I'm not likely to be investigated any time soon so I'm not worried either way.

NeatNit ,

FYI email contents were not decrypted or turned over to police, as far as I know Proton's E2EE is still as good as whatever system you're using. Proton doesn't have the keys to decrypt your emails, it never did. What they have access to is metadata that is necessary to function when your private key is unavailable - e.g. your public encryption key used to encrypt incoming emails from non-Proton sources, or in this case, a recovery email address (I don't know what the recovery process entails and whether it can restore encrypted emails).

NeatNit ,

That's significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.

Obviously, but I still haven't gone through all the things I've ever signed up to and changed my email to the proton one. When I sign up to new stuff I use Proton, this is a necessary step for transition... And one that is likely to stay in place for a very long time since I'm going to keep procrastinating it.

Unless you're using proton mail anonymously then you don't need to consider the recover email as a weakness.

Excellent point.

NeatNit ,

This technique can also be used against an already established VPN connection once the VPN user’s host needs to renew a lease from our DHCP server. We can artificially create that scenario by setting a short lease time in the DHCP lease, so the user updates their routing table more frequently. In addition, the VPN control channel is still intact because it already uses the physical interface for its communication. In our testing, the VPN always continued to report as connected, and the kill switch was never engaged to drop our VPN connection.

Sounds to me like it totally works even after the tunnel has started.

NeatNit ,

Not really, Linux is still vulnerable and there is a mitigation but it opens a side channel attack.

NeatNit ,

I second this. From Merriam-Webster:

just,
adjective

  1. a : having a basis in or conforming to fact or reason : reasonable

    had just reason to believe he was in danger

    b
    : conforming to a standard of correctness : proper

    just proportions

    c
    archaic : faithful to an original

  2. a(1)
    : acting or being in conformity with what is morally upright or good : righteous

    a just war

    (2)
    : being what is merited : deserved

    a just punishment

    b
    : legally correct : lawful

    just title to an estate

NeatNit ,

I guarantee that they won't stay for that long on my computer.

Edit: nor yours, or anyone else's

NeatNit ,

previous

NeatNit ,

I can't figure out the last sentence (before fave stars)

NeatNit ,

States starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they'd be even smaller)

NeatNit ,

I don't know, it's a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NeatNit ,

They could not care less, this is so ancient and irrelevant.

NeatNit ,

Have you ever actually seen someone care about that particular choice of terminology, without being sarcastic trying to be funny?

NeatNit ,

You're in the majority in general society though, IMO. And I'm with you as well.

NeatNit ,

Just like 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea predicted the modern submarine, so too did Jaws predict the modern shark.

NeatNit ,

That's close to what I've read on reddit years ago - that they do it on purpose do that it's easier to find the cover the next time it needs service.

NeatNit ,

What did this say before the edit?

NeatNit ,

I've never seen this meme format before. Wasn't too hard to find but there were alarmingly few results. Here's an unedited copy: https://pin.it/4IDvvJwNb

I think what I'm trying to say is: where are you getting your memes? What should I make of this obscurity?

NeatNit ,

I see this as a positive: when both sides have AI unmanned planes, we get cool dogfights without human risk! Ideally over ocean or desert and with Hollywood cameras capturing every second in exquisite detail.

NeatNit ,

I think even the imperfect sensor data is enough to beat a human. My main argument for why self-driving cars will eventually be objectively safer than the best human drivers (no comment about whether that point has already done) is this:

A human can only look at one thing at a time. Compared to a computer, we see allow, think slow, react show, move slow. A computer can look in all directions all the time, and react to danger coming from any of those directions faster than a human driver would even if they were lucky enough to be looking in the right direction. Add to that the fact that they can take in much more sensor data that isn't available to the driver or take away from precious looking-at-the-road time for the driver to know, such as wind resistance, engine RPM, or what have you (I'm actually not a car guy so my examples aren't the best). Bottom line: the AI has a direct connection to more data, can take more of it in at once and make faster decisions based on all of it. It's inherently better. The "only" hurdles are making it actually interpret its sensors effectively (i.e. understand what cameras are seeing) and make good decisions based on this data. We can argue about how well either of those are in the current state of the technology, but IMO they're both good enough today to massively outperform a human in most scenarios.

All of this applies to an AI plane as well. So my money is on the AI.

NeatNit ,

While true, I wonder how many games actually do this.

NeatNit ,

Well, if they're made of metal wouldn't they survive alongside the dinosaurs' bones? With this in mind, and assuming that gun fossils have never been found (maybe they covered it up?), I think we can say for certain that unfortunately yes, we know this. I'm sorry... I don't like this any more than you.

NeatNit ,

Ehh, sometimes with enough features a microcontroller is appropriate. But a full-blown operating system - even an embedded variant - is many steps too far.

NeatNit ,

Pretty sure this exact idea was a Cyanide & Happiness comic too

NeatNit ,

There's always a risk of JavaScript breaking out of the sandbox and crap like that. Browser vendors do their best to protect against things like that but security is often a trade-off for speed and people like fast software, not to mention browsers are huge and complex and they're going to have vulnerabilities. A browser's whole job is to execute remote untrusted code, do you trust it that much to be flawless?

...... I mean, I don't but I use it anyway so ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

NeatNit ,

Right, that's where OP comes in - most malware will be made for Windows, so if you visit such a malicious website, it'll likely be inert under Linux!

.... I'm not saying this is a great reason to use Linux, but there's at least a little bit of merit to it.

NeatNit ,

They're clearly asking about performance not security

NeatNit ,

I imagine there'd be a performance penalty if using a flash drive for the OS. Not sure though.

NeatNit ,

I think what ruins this for me is the ground. At first, the perspective of the top of the wall implies that we are below the wall, meaning it makes sense for the ground to appear as a relatively straight horizontal line. But at the end, the perspective implies that we are looking from above the wall. The shape of the wall should be visible at the bottom.

This might be fixable if the shape of the ground was extended further horizontally, instead of being just a short line where the lines meet the ground. This would make it possible to see it as a hill or edge of a moat hiding the rest of the wall which extends further downwards.

just my 2 cents, but it's a cool idea so you get my upvote anyway :)

NeatNit , (edited )

I'm out of the loop. The answer that references "one person's personal opinion" is from 2017, and the context it links to is from 2016. Surely things have changed since then, right?

.. Right?

(I'm genuinely asking, I've got no idea)

Edit: I just checked on Linux Mint 21.3. It's still on the same version as back then, 0.105. Well, Debian is nothing if not sable!

NeatNit ,

Mint 21.3 is based on Debian Bookworm (via Ubuntu 22.04, not counting LMDE of course). I don't know what you're looking at and I also don't fully know how this works, but what you said doesn't seem to be the case.

NeatNit ,

Very well, you seem to definitely know this stuff better than me! I based my comment on this answer and getting this myself on Mint 21.3:

$ cat /etc/debian_version 
bookworm/sid

But reading a bit closer, I think this is the key part:

That's how, for example, Ubuntu 20.04, released in April 2020, can be based on Debian 11 "Bullseye", which was released in August 2021.

So Ubuntu probably pulled Bookworm before it was released, and before it upgraded policykit. But it's still to some extent based on Bookworm. Does that sound right?

NeatNit ,

What's the secret that only further movie theatre employees would know?

NeatNit ,

I think this idea works, and it's consistent with the way the 'paradox' was presented. I just need to point out that movements aren't performed in steps, the intermediate positions are also continuous, so there are undoubtedly infinite positions to map with undoubtedly infinite instants. To me, that's the "true" solution.

As I see it, the only reason the paradox presents halving steps is because it's the easiest way to demonstrate that there are infinitely many steps. It doesn't bother to show that there's uncountably infinite steps because countable is sufficient.

But as I said, your proof (or disproof?) works for the argument as it was presented, so it's good!

I much prefer the physics approach: disproof by experiment! "Look at my gavel. According to your theory, it has infinitely many steps to go through before it reaches the pad, so it can never hit the pad." *bang* "Motion denied."

NeatNit ,

He'd react to it like the Scroll of Truth meme

NeatNit ,

I don't think Planck length is a "minimum distance step" the way you imply it is. IIRC it's a theoretical minimum uncertainty range, or something like that. But honestly I'm not really in the know about this whole subfield so I could be wrong.

But if we take this as fact - there exists a minimum distance step - then that means there can only ever be finitely many intermediate steps and the paradox is resolved.

NeatNit ,

Well now you're just making shit up :P

NeatNit , (edited )

The plants stay up... The wheel is rusted stuck in this position! It hasn't been moved in eons!

NeatNit ,

I kind of agree. Part of the point was that they don't want AI trained on their posts. It's not clear that this actually accomplishes that but it at least has a chance of working.

NeatNit ,

I want to apologize in advance for the aggressive tone in this comment. It's the only thing that comes out. I'm not angry at you, not at all - I'm angry at videogame publishers and at the current situation.

Has "vote with your wallet" ever worked? Literally ever? Maybe when the stars align. If the path to a better world requires everyone to be educated, and it's more convenient for the vast majority of everyone to just keep going with whatever shitty system is currently being used, then nothing will change.

You know what works? Government regulation. Remember the ozone layer? Have you noticed how it's not a problem anymore? That's not because everyone got together and agreed to "vote with their wallet" by never buying anything that depleted ozone, which requires a crazy amount of research with every purchase. No, it was solved by the government (or governments?) banning the sale of anything ozone-depleting and cracking down on it. That's what works.

Voting with your wallet is an illusion.

NeatNit ,

I've never heard of this and I've got absolutely no idea if this is a real thing or if you got pranked as someone said. But assuming it's a real thing, I can think of two possible explanations why it went so badly for you:

First option, you used a toaster oven instead of a regular oven. The surfaces closest to the heating elements in this case get exposed to a lot more heat than the rest of what's in the oven. If the heating element is exposed, it's a toaster oven.

Second option, your oven's temperature knob isn't calibrated well enough so it got way hotter than it needs to be. Honestly I've got no idea how well these are usually calibrated. I have the exact same model toaster oven as my parents and theirs gets way hotter for the same knob position. But it's a cheapo brand (I can barely bring myself to call it a brand) so I hope it's better in the broader market, and maybe proper ovens are better calibrated than microwave-sized toaster ovens.

NeatNit ,

On second look, the burn marks are obviously only on the top surface so I'm pretty convinced you used a toaster oven. The difference is like standing in direct sunlight vs in the shade. When you're in the shade the only thing heating you is the air, when you're in direct sunlight the sunlight itself is heating you. You can also feel a similar effect when sitting around a fire - your skin facing in the direction of the fire gets toasted while the rest of you, or parts of you that are blocked from it, are cooler.

TL;DR you toasted your mitt

NeatNit ,

The tag does not say the glove is made of leather, that's simply the Franklin "leather series", a meaningless marketing term meant to trick people.

Ugh, are there no consumer protection laws against this shit? Or just no enforcement?

NeatNit ,

Sure. Did I get the terminology wrong? In either case the exposed heating element toasts the contents, rather than just baking them, which may be undesirable depending on what you're making. The size of the oven doesn't matter.

NeatNit ,

IMHO this is misleading/false marketing. In the food market this would never fly, at least not in most western countries. In my country you can't even call almond milk almond milk because it's technically not milk, even though there's nothing misleading about it... So why wouldn't the same apply to non-food products?

I honestly don't know if there's laws against it outside of food in my country, and I suspect there's little to no enforcement even if there are laws.. But saying "LEATHER GLOVE by the way it's synthetic leather" is exactly the sort of thing laws should protect against.

edit: formatting

NeatNit ,

they meant voice chat, audio

NeatNit ,

Yup, I realized that :) I do believe discord has just about all the features IRC can offer. And then some, of course. But that isn't saying much, considering IRC is one of the earliest uses of the internet.

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