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d3Xt3r , 2 months ago to Privacy in Got tracked down for my school reunion

I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn't bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.

d3Xt3r , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Greatest satisfaction

Then it'll probably shock you even more when you realise that this thing is hosted on Github, a site owned by Microsoft... :)

d3Xt3r , 5 months ago to Technology in Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

... for now. They've already replaced the old Notepad with a bloated UWP version, so it probably won't be long before it starts sending telemetry as well.

d3Xt3r , 11 months ago to Technology in New Encryption Protocol to avoid surveillance capitalism from famous hacker group

Wow, Cult of the Dead Cow, what a blast from the past. Takes me back to my childhood, playing with Back Orifice and NetBus on our school PCs and trolling my classmates. Good times.

d3Xt3r , 11 months ago to Technology in Alternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlin

I will always opt to run dedicated APs

Any recommendations for a dedicated Wi-Fi 6+ AP that supports open firmware?

d3Xt3r , 11 months ago to Technology in DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable

Got any examples? I don't recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.