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doubletwist

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doubletwist ,

You know how I know you don't know anything about security or computing?

doubletwist ,

Once again you seem to be calling for not bothering with any security effort of there's even a remote chance of some other vulnerability happening.

The whole point of security is that it's always a multi-layered thing. Nobody sane is pretending that encrypting web traffic with HTTPS is a panacea that's going to solve all your data security needs. But it is sure as hell a million times better than having all of your data transmitted in the clear, with absolutely no assurance that you're are talking to the system you think you're talking to, or that the data hasn't been tampered with in transit.

And don't pretend https is a huge burden. It's dead simple to get SSL/TLS certs, and the additional load of encrypting and decrypting the traffic is barely even a rounding error on modern CPUs.

doubletwist ,

Out of everything we have
today, Discord is arguably the best we've got.

That's amazingly depressing.

doubletwist ,

That was the first thing I thought of.

doubletwist ,

Because up until Broadcom bought them, it was a good product with a ton of useful features, endless supported integrations with 3rd party software and hardware, relatively easy to learn/use, with good support, all at reasonable and flexible price points depending on your needs.

Of course Broadcom has now thrown all of that into the toilet...

doubletwist ,

Steam had been making Linux pretty darn good for gaming too, even for games that are technically Windows only.

doubletwist ,

The problem isn't them being in you LAN. It's about going to an untrusted network (eg Starbucks, hotel) and connecting to your VPN, boom, now your VPN connection is compromised.

doubletwist ,

I use proxmox mail gateway (PMG) for my homelab, configured to relay through my Gmail domain using smtp auth.

I've also used PMG at the enterprise level. Never had an issue with it.

It's postfix underneath.

doubletwist ,

The only reason I ever got rid of my original brother laser printer is because computers stopped coming with parallel ports, and the adapters I tried all sucked.

2nd Brother laser printer is still going strong after 15yrs.

doubletwist ,

Are you updating Debian on a potato with every single one of the 74000+ packages installed? Because even on my slowest machines (going back decades) it's never taken anywhere near that kind of time to complete a full version upgrade, let alone just an update.

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that...

doubletwist ,

Of course you are, either it's baked into the cost of the car, or you are paying for it in personal data. So it may be hidden, but you're absolutely paying for it.

doubletwist ,

the least terrible Republican that isn't trump for this primary election.

And who might that be? While Trump is by far the worst, none of the others seem significantly better than each other.

Plus everyone, but Haley and Trump have dropped out.

doubletwist ,

You had some fancy-ass McDonald's in your area then. Ours has those flimsy tin/aluminum ashtrays.

doubletwist ,

That's true of every study ever made, especially in today's media environment.

And every probably done study includes acknowledgments of known shortcomings, most of the ones I've read include suggestions or thoughts about future studies that could be done to account for those known issues.

Media is to blame for most of the misinterpretations, not the studies themselves. It's impossible to create a single, perfect study that can't be misconstrued in some way.

doubletwist ,

Um. Those have existed for years.

doubletwist ,

I've been using a personal domain for over 20 years. I've never had a service reject my email domain.

Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use...

doubletwist ,

So it sounds like basically it's just client certificates?

doubletwist ,

I switched back to Firefox about 2 years ago, and I've only encountered a few sites that don't work properly.

With the exception of ONE annoying SaaS site I need at work (which I might use a ton for a week then not again for weeks), I've only had to open a site in Chrome/edge maybe once a month. That includes running Firefox on my phone in addition to my work and personal desktop/laptops.

doubletwist ,

Y'all must be doing something wrong because HW raid has been hot garbage for at least 20years. I've been using software raid (mdadm, ZFS) since before 2000 and have never had a problem that could be attributed to the software raid itself, while I've had all kinds of horrible things go wrong with HW raid. And that holds true not just at home but professionally with enterprise level systems as a SysAdmin.

With the exception of the (now rare) bare metal windows server, or the most basic boot drive mirroring for VMware (with important datastores on NAS/SAN which are using software raid underneath, with at most some limited HW assisted accelerators) , hardly anyone has trusted hardware raid for decades.

doubletwist ,

If you have a technical architect who does that then they are just bad at their job, but that doesn't invalidate the importance such a position can have (if done right) in a large software development company.

doubletwist ,

No, but apparently people are going to be a cunt about it if one chooses not to say it.

doubletwist ,

I despise docker/containers.

doubletwist ,

Likewise, just cancelled Disney+ and Hulu last month, along with Paramount+, and Netflix.

Only still have AppleTV+ because it's still cheap. And then Max because it's included in our cell service, and Amazon for the shipping, but I don't really use either, and am looking into the feasibility of dropping Prime, if I can convince the wife.

doubletwist ,

Not sure. It's $9.99 normally but I think she's got a discount somehow (teacher? Or some kind of bundle?)

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