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TechNerdWizard42

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TechNerdWizard42 , to Privacy in The Cloudflare Poison

There is substantiated proof of Cisco and Juniper switches having US government backdoors through the management ports. They also have the capability of decrypting everything that passes through them and mirroring to an external host.

I cannot say any more other than you will find that the NSA continuously denied all the backdoors that global security researchers were finding and Cisco denied putting them in. You will also find in leaked Snowden documents absolute proof that the NSA was behind it and did implement the backdoors and they do exist and work.

I at the time being a lowly semiconductor designer with access to unreleased networking gear from the big guys, cannot say anything about what I know those spying piece of shit devices do. But I will say, go look up the Snowden documents. They speak louder than any random on the internet.

And China has made a stink. It's one reason their great fire wall is setup. It does somewhat prevent citizens from using western tools, but they know they do and really don't care much. What it really is, is a way to monitor everything in and out. All the edge is Chinese hardware, no backdoors for the five eyes. Those prevent the backdoors, that are known or theorized, to be used. So essentially they are backdoored equipment inside a security fence that disallows the backdoor to establish a connection. Bad actors from within could make this bad for China. Or very very tricky phone home algorithms, but you have to be careful how it's implemented in unfriendly territory.

Most of the other countries just don't give a crap. If the Ivory Coasts data is being spied on by the 5 eyes or China, they don't care. Nobody cares about them either. It's just the sad state of world power. Those that care, have a side.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Privacy in The Cloudflare Poison

Very true. But nobody cares or believes it. When you start saying that US made hardware like network switches, cryptographic algorithms, telecom radios, etc all have backdoors to the 3 letter agencies in 5 eyes plus the internet distribution over cloudfare or "the cloud" in Google, Amazon, Microsoft, then people just think you're a tin foil hat conspiracist.

The people are too stupid and ignorant to care enough to demand change. Why did the US lobby so hard to get Huawei off market? Because of course there are backdoors into the Chinese intelligence agencies. JUST LIKE US DEVICES! But nobody seems to make that correlation. China bad, China hardware spying bad, is the only thing they can get in their heads.

Good to bring it up, but nothing will change. 99.9% of people don't know what DNS or proxiing or caching is let alone Cloudfare. It's just "the internet". Some are aware of some agencies the US and five eyes have, but most don't believe what they actually do and are capable of. The US is the best producer of propaganda in the world. Hollywood is amazing at it, as are US media sources. The FISA bill that just came up for reauthorization and passed had a whole PR campaign about catching terrorists and stopping Russia and China and Hamas. Nobody stopped to think how and why they even have any of that info in the first place and how it's collected.

Keep being the crazy uncle ranting about government spying because the world needs it.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Mildly Infuriating in "Select a size" when it's just standard paper towel roll. Literally the same way it's always been.

Yup. I remember when we had to tear our own half sheets of paper towel. Kids today have it too soft, and absorbant.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Technology in Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes

At this rate my owned outright copy of Adobe that requires no internet access, with hacks, will become a generational heirloom I can pass down to descendants with immersurable value.

TechNerdWizard42 , to unions in Saudi Arabia, where unions banned, set to host FIFA 2034, faces human rights challenge for forced labor, debt bondage, denying migrants access to their own documents

The exact same article could be written about the USA. Stop spreading propaganda about things you don't understand.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Technology in Any LinkedIn alternatives?

Yup, had them lock an account before. Never gave them my info. Had to start a new account and actively work around their fraud protections with fingerprinting. And eventually reconnect. Pain in the butt.

You have zero recourse and no appeal process. Even uploading an ID doesn't guarantee anything.

TechNerdWizard42 , to homelab in Sliding rack rails don't appear for work for my chassis. Any good suggestions for better ones?

Hopefully the rack is mounted directly into the studs or concrete. I've seen them crush gypsum between the stud and paint too...

I'm not much help, but they all suck. I've bought probably 2k worth of universal sliding rails to attempt with various servers. I don't know why but none of them fit properly. None of them slide properly. They are all just annoying. I gave up with them. I bought the OE sliding rail kits for my various servers and magically everything works perfectly.

For servers where I want to move them in and out but don't want sliding rails, I just buy those universal L bracket type mounts. The servers slide well enough on them, they're just powder coated bent steel. And a single screw from the front panel into the rack keeps it secure enough since the weight is being held by the support, not its own ears.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

I have no problem paying for software at this point in my life. But I won't pay for a subscription. And if I pay oodles of money, I'd hope Microsoft would opt me out of all the crap they hope to make money on with an install base like ads and inevitably copilot data sales.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

That's your corporate overlords screwing up your system. Not Daddy Gates. Yet.

Enterprise is something almost no standard corporate drone uses. The benefits are really for nerds and IT people. But it is a requirement for Xeon processors, and most of my machines are Xeon including my laptop.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

I have never encountered a user oriented Linux experience that is more hands-off that Windows this decade.

My embedded Linux systems, sure. The Linux backends in a closed system, sure. But something that is interacted with, not a chance. People love to hate Microsoft but there is a reason why they have the install base they do.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

It used to be that all versions of windows were fine. Then Home was a mess and you needed Pro or above to stop being nannied. Now you'll need Enterprise to not be nannied and spied on. The cost is completely worth it.

I do NOT blindly hate windows. It runs software today that existed 30 years ago. I haven't had a real blue screen since my Win98 machine that was upgraded to XP. It just works, it works well, and gives my company life. Linux is a mess comparatively unless you want to tinker. And yes I also daily drive nix machines, and only fan bois don't see how hassle free windows can be comparatively.

The big words are can be. Because out of the box, they're making it worse and worse. I don't have a Microsoft account, local only. And boy do they not like that. Enterprise doesn't force updates at all, I can keep my machine up and running indefinitely like the old days. The only issue I have today with Win11 is the forced task tray "overflow" menu that nobody asked for and nobody wants. Currently no way to disable without hacks, and if it isn't fixed soon then I'll do that.

But this screen shotting malware cannot happen. I know there are many places where it legally cannot happen. Therefore there will have to be a way to disable it or install a version without it. And that's what I'll be getting.

If Microsoft sold a Windows 11 Platinum Edition 3000 for $2000 that just gave you all the knobs like XP and let you shoot yourself, I'd buy it. Totally worth it.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Lefty Memes in Skill

And by the time you did, 20 years later, you'd be a skilled worker!

TechNerdWizard42 , to Lefty Memes in Skill

It's basically a job requirement

TechNerdWizard42 , to Lefty Memes in Skill

You're proving my point. You have NO fucking idea what skilled labour is.

I'll give you all my tools and lab equipment. Design a semiconductor. Do the electrical simulations at transistor level. Do the block level sims. Do the HDL. Do the layout. Send to fab, get it back, and now bring it up in the lab.

If I give you $1 billion if you did it yourself, you couldn't.

These are skills that take 4 to 5 years minimum of training just to look like an idiot. Then another 10 years to start getting the hang of it. By the time you're a gray beard with the mega skills and knowledge, it's been 30+ years of hard skilled work. To know where to swing that proverbial hammer.

Office work is not just excel and PowerPoint. There is office work that is skilled. And idiots who don't know what they don't know, have no idea how hard it is. And will never know, because they're too stupid to figure it out.

TechNerdWizard42 , to Lefty Memes in Skill

Lol, you're an idiot. I am a skilled worker. You couldn't do my job to save your life.

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