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I cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

When I try to submit a post or comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash] passwd, the submit button goes into a loading state and spins indefinitely. The request is blocked by Cloudflare with status code 403. I can't even search for the forbidden string. You have to check dev tools to find out what went wrong, this error is...

marcos ,

On the website:

/etc/password

Let's see.

EDIT: Well, maybe the Cloudfare filters are region-dependent.

marcos ,

It's a capitalization issue caused by its COBOL processing code.

The correct is atto-Farraday.

marcos ,

Oh, they absolutely should. A "Jarvis" would be great.

But that thing they are pushing has absolutely no relation to a "Jarvis".

marcos ,

It's close to 1 in 20 PCs nowadays. It's growing very quickly, and has been adopted in non-irrelevant amounts for a few years already.

marcos ,

That's why I plan to move my servers into an L4 clone.

marcos ,

Well, ok. I don't really plan to do that. It was a joke.

I do wish it was something viable, though.

marcos ,

Omni-man.

marcos ,

Not as evil as they want. They can be just as evil as "a little bit better than the other villains", and not any bit more.

Besides, nobody believes they are the good guys.

marcos ,

Did you mean Physics Rule?

Anyway, yeah, if you fully expand the terms, you get something like that. Nobody ever accused modern physics of being simple.

marcos ,

*~

But you should really have a backup system. And often you should have a version control system too.

marcos ,

AIs have been capable of doing this for ages already.

It just falls into the set of useful stuff that LLMs trained as chatbots suck at because they had the useless goal of convincing people they are smart.

marcos ,

No, AIs have been capable of looking at your code|text|image|whatever and telling the project apart. For ages. It's not even impressive anymore.

marcos ,

The protagonist always wins in the end. That's a universal law.

marcos ,

Just decrease your swap space.

Unless you have an unusual system, there's no reason to have several GB of swap.

marcos ,

Have you tried?

Because it does.

marcos ,

Actually, not much.

It always had reliability issues with bad hardware, and computers boot incredibly quickly nowadays. But yeah, it requires swap, and if you want it, there's a sibling answer here about sawppiness.

marcos ,

It is working just as well as it was 10 years ago

Not if it's running Windows.

marcos ,

The name to google is "electromigration".

It's absolutely not what makes you old computer slow (neither are bad capacitors). But it may be what makes it stop working.

marcos ,

There's a wall of text apologizing and denying the China's genocides in a reply. That one didn't wake the mod up.

At least it's a more or less comprehensive list. Made me notice that I forgot about one, and there are at least 3 major ones ongoing.

marcos ,

The odds of somebody who was interested 6 months ago to be interested today are much larger than the ones of any random person. And you already have their contact, and already made some kind of screening.

The amount of malice people go out of their way to put on other people's acts is incredible. Nobody cares about you enough to be out to get you. If you don't want the job, just say it.

marcos ,

It is a good one. It was at least amusing.

But it would probably go better if there weren't 20 other jokes sharing the same 4 panels.

marcos ,

You can't have Courage in a cartoon and not scare it to death.

marcos ,

Going from where to where?

marcos ,

Hum... Not long ago the local police here arrested a gang specialized in stealing concrete mixers from construction sites.

marcos ,

There isn't any reason for a site to limit the lifetime of most cookies. I have no idea why that field isn't optional.

Get an extension that will erase the cookies that you don't care about, do not abide by everything anybody on the web asks you for. And yeah, get an ad-blocker.

marcos ,

The thing is, one of those attacks requires you to type your password. The other requires you to touch something.

marcos ,

It's neither. Why do you expect they calculating an answer to have any impact at privacy?

marcos ,

DDG already sends your search query to third parties. What they don't send is your identity.

(Or, at least they say they don't, whether you trust them is your option. Any 3rd party can betray your trust.)

Anyway, that image implies an in-house implementation.

marcos ,

They already have a confirmation box when you try to change the extension. And could just as easily move it into another column where it's harder to change (explorer was like this once, a long time ago).

And yet, they keep hiding the on the rationale that it confuses the users. The most common thing on explorer is some user being confused because they can't understand what clicking on a file is supposed to do, but that's not an argument for showing them...

So, yeah, that's the surface-level explanation. But there's a deeper reason.

marcos ,

Personally, I'd really like if it could have different users on its management interface, with their own file shares.

It's understandable why they don't bother, but I would like to share my NAS without running several instances.

marcos ,

Hum, no. The last thing I need on the world is a piece of non-working hard to maintain software.

I'd write something before trying Nextcloud again.

marcos ,

That's a heavy one. I'm not sure it can fly.

marcos ,

Well, it couldn't be the natural progression.

marcos ,

The cat just recognized itself.

marcos ,

A Kibimanjaro would be 1024.

marcos ,

Al-Qaeda tried to destroy those buildings every 5 years or so.

marcos ,

If you seriously wanted to communicate something, you wouldn't do a presentation.

marcos ,

My undergrad officially required Pascal, C, C++, Java, PHP, Prolog, Lisp, x86 and MIPS assembly. You couldn't work around those. There was also Tiger, VHDL, and Bash that were required, but you would probably not count as languages. (I'm certainly forgetting some stuff too.)

There was a virtual certainty you'd need some more languages, but not everybody would need the same ones.

marcos ,

Picking up languages is quite easy, you just have to learn it. Turns out nowadays I mostly work with SQL (it's on the required list too, I just forgot about it) and C#. Learning new paradigms is harder, but there aren't that many of those.

I’m now wondering why even my relatively young co-workers all seemed to specialize so hard straight out of school

That's imposed by the job market, not natural thing to exist. In fact, it's very much unnatural.

marcos ,

I'd rather get one without Windows at all.

marcos ,

I think lemmy.world beats reddit. And it's one of the worst offenders.

marcos ,

Way less certain, but more on the lines of the comic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

marcos ,

I'll second people here in pointing that you are better allowing calls from your family during the "Do Not Disturb" than trying to set-up things not to call you during that time. Your phone almost certainly has a setting that allows "favorite contacts" or something like it.

It has a better configuration orthogonality :)

marcos ,

And also in a way that burns down better.

marcos ,

I guess it varies widely. The one in mine is a complete piece of shit, so I have it set to use only as headphones.

marcos ,

If you don't have any good reason not to, always set your SSH server to only authenticate with keys.

Anything else is irrelevant.

marcos ,

This is the internet. If you poke the bear, somebody will come-up with a completely reasonable use case of password authentication that happened once somewhere on the world.

marcos ,

Yeah, that's not a good reason.

It's much easier to authorize a key than to input your password on every kind of interaction.

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