stoy
@stoy@lemmy.zip
- Comment on NHS staff resist using Palantir software 2 days ago:
Good, very good.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 days ago:
An old Bluetooth module.
The lights tells you if it is connected, at what mode, and if there is data going through it.
- Comment on Day 622 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
Y-y-y-ya-ya-yahoo!
- Comment on Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling? 1 week ago:
Unless you keep using the language, you will loose it, I am bilingual Swedish/English, and since I practice both constantly, I retain my skills.
I did take Spanish as well for a few few years, but have mostly forgotten it.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 1 week ago:
Ok, but where does EA and Fortnite come in?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 1 week ago:
Uh, I think you responded to the wrong post.
This is a post about Forza Horizon 6, a racing game not made by EA, and released by Microsoft.
I don’t see any mention about Linux or anything, this also doesn’t mention Playstation or Fortnite
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
Ah, I just tend to put my mouse upside down as the LED lighting in my room cause the mouse to move erratically.
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
How does that relate to Teams?
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
Context?
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 2 weeks ago:
She also loved olive oil, she would prwfer ir over fish and eggs
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 2 weeks ago:
Hehe, the cat we had when I grew up was completely and utterly obsessed with home made apple pie, she knew that she wasn’t supposed to get up on tables, and even fish or meat was something she could resist, but not home made apple pie.
- Comment on Listen to the customer 2 weeks ago:
That assumes that users are the customers, we ain’t.
The actual customers are the companies who buys the ad space.
- Comment on Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes 2 weeks ago:
I treat AI just as I treat gambling, I mostly avoid it completely, or if I have to use it, I do so with a lot of caution and skepticism.
- Comment on It’s getting weird folks, a second five fret game is getting pushed, Sound Studio 2 weeks ago:
For me the GH killer was frets on fire.
- Comment on This happen to anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Very
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 3 weeks ago:
For those who don’t know about it, Project Plowshare was a cold war project where the US investigating the use of nuclear weapons for geo engineering projects.
Here is a WTYP Podcast episode about it:
- Comment on UMD Scientists Create ‘Smart Underwear’ to Measure Human Flatulence | UMD Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics 3 weeks ago:
Is the Universal Media Disc format for the PSP really involved in human farts?
- Comment on Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones 3 weeks ago:
Here in Sweden we have sector based unions, as an IT worker, I am a member of the union “Unionen”.
Oh, and sympathy strikes are legal here.
- Comment on Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones 3 weeks ago:
I just spent the evenings of a week laying a 1000 piece puzzle while listening to audio books on my phone.
It was brilliant.
I am also planning on building a Z-scale model railway in a suitcase this year.
I am a millennial at 38, I work in IT and AI have just about killed my enthusiasm for tech.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you have learned something new, it wasn’t a stupid question
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 weeks ago:
I agree that we should work toward a more private society, but we are not there yet.
And to answer your question, yes, Proton is required to store the CC info.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 weeks ago:
Well, not everyone needs to be good at opsec, most people are fine as is.
Most people are not working against the government either.
But if you are going against the government, or any large and powerful entity, you absolutely need good, reliable opsec.
When the police comes knocking on your door, you can’t just blame Proton for not informing you about not using your own CC to sign up for your service.
This isn’t a playground, you are dealing with the big boys now, and they have far more tools than you have, unless you learn and adapt, you will get burnt.
So while you are right that bot everyone can be expected to be good at opsec, that isn’t the issue.
The issue is that this was an opsec failure of the guy, it wasn’t Proton messing up.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 weeks ago:
And that is why you would have failed at opsec.
You can’t demand warnings about stuff like that all the time, YOU need to teach yourself these things.
You can’t rely on anyone else for your own opsec.
That is the entire argument here.
The guy should have read up on protecting his anonymity before he started his activities.
Opsec fails have brought down many, many people.
From darknet site owners, to government agency operations, to countries at war and more.
Opsec sounds easy at first, but it is extremely difficult, and you can’t rely on anyone else doing your job for you.
You need to develop OCD like habits, you need to understand why they are needed, and what you are giving away when breaking them.
You imply that a warning would have prevented the guy from using his credit card, I don’t think it would have made any difference, the guy would either not understand at all, or just ignore it
Unless he intuitively understood that Proton was required to retain cc numbers for X years, and that these cc numbers were tied to a specific transaction, his account and his identity, I just don’t see him taking a warning serious.
This is the real world, it isn’t fair, it doesn’t care, you need to care about this for your self preservation.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 weeks ago:
They clearly give you options to avoid this scenario, this is not on Proton, this is simply an opsec fail of the user.
Don’t get me wrong, opsec is hard, exhausting and just annoying, it needs discipline and constant focus, you only need to fail once for it to be ineffective.
The customer signed up for Proton, but didn’t follow their guidelines for anonymity, that is not a failure of proton, it is a failure of the user.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 weeks ago:
Arguing about what people should or should not have to do is pointless.
It changes nothing and removes the debate from being practical to being theoretical.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 weeks ago:
I saw a post about this earlier, it is a nothingburger.
The user in question paid for his account with a personal credit card, he didn’t use an anonymous payment alternative which are available.
Proton has stated that they will comply with law enforcement requests, but are working to maintain as few logs as possible.
This is an opsec failure on the user’s side.
This is not Proton handing IDs of their customers to the government on a silver platter, this is their customer not understanding the service they use.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 month ago:
I live in an apartment, so I need to find a good place to shoot before I get a rifle, I’ll also checkout what other kinds of pellets I can get.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 month ago:
Hehe, I’d be happy to tell you my general understanding of the laws, I am not a gun nut, and there are probably a few details I get wrong.
Anyway.
In Sweden you can only get a gun for two reasons, hunting or competition, getting a gun for self defense is illegal.
To get a gun for either reason, you need to pass tests and for competition licenses, display an active need for the gun in competitions.
Wikipedia has a better summary of the laws on this page:
- Comment on Most Of Billionaires’ $7.6 Trillion Has Never Been Taxed - Americans For Tax Fairness 1 month ago:
It’s all about the highscore baby!
Who cares if there are people destitute, my bank account needs a higher number!
People in thrown out on the street due to layoffs serving only to increase my the value of my bank account? Fuck them, they deserve what they get, they should have been born lucky!
/s
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 month ago:
Yeah, I just know I am bound to miss and don’t want to contaminate anything.