0xtero
@0xtero@beehaw.org
Glorified network janitor. Perpetual blueteam botherer. Friendly neighborhood cyberman. Constantly regressing toward the mean. Slowly regarding silent things.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 4 months ago:
It’s spez so of course they’re going to go for NSFW subs. Pretty sure that’ll just cause people to move to Onlyfans and other, already NSFW platforms.
Can’t really see anyone paying for sub access apart from porn.
- Comment on Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new “Standard” tier 5 months ago:
It’s the circle of enshittification
- Comment on Dr Disrespect finally shares why he was banned from Twitch 5 months ago:
Dr. Disrespect: I’ll fucking own this problem!
Also Dr. Disrespect: Owns up to inappropriate message exchange with a minor.awkward_side_eye.jpg
- Comment on Cities skylines 2 is broken 6 months ago:
Economy 2.0 is next week I think (hope!) - so this is just vanilla breakage.
- Comment on Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature 6 months ago:
So, is this the type of SLAM you’d typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 26th 6 months ago:
Manor Lords all the way. There’s a big Cities Skylines II patch coming out this week (I hope). I might fire it up and check it out. It’s getting close to “release quality” after pretty crappy release.
- Comment on I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide? 7 months ago:
So your requirements with cellular calling (eSIM) is already fairly restrictive and depends on which market we’re talking about. Where I live (.se) you get to choose between Apple and Samsung and since Apple was out of the question, you’re stuck with Samsung.
Not entirely sure if your second requirement with long battery life can be fulfilled. You’ll be charging the watch every day, probably more often if you take calls on it.
There’s some rumors that Garmin Forerunner/epix will get eSIM support, but that will be also carrier dependent.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 7 months ago:
I don’t and the energy consumption of public AI services is a stopper for “testing and playing around”. I think I’ll just wait until it takes over the world as advertised.
- Comment on Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months 8 months ago:
But if it was reality
“In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.”
And you picked a girl punching a guy the exact moment to suspend your belief? Damn dude.
- Comment on Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months 8 months ago:
Gamers are so fucking weird. Really enjoyed the show. Hope they make 2nd season.
- Comment on Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist 10 months ago:
I bet the CFO was in habit of joining Zoom company calls with the cat filter turned on. Therefore everyone was pretty much OK with this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOofzZOyl8 - Submitted 10 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM 11 months ago:
My next Windows PC doesn’t need any RAM, because I’m not going to need one.
- Comment on None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway 11 months ago:
Yeah sorry - edited OP and added archive link, so no one needs to hit substack servers.
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 44 comments
- Comment on You probably don't need a VPN 11 months ago:
Well, that article was a hot mess.
I appreciate the authors effort and they are correct about lack of “what is VPN” articles that are not written by VPN-vendors in marketing purpose. But I’m not sure if this was it.
Writing an article meant to “debunk” misconceptions and getting two core concepts, Security and Privacy mixed up right from the start wasn’t very good.
A lot of time was spent on explaining HTTPS and how it somehow magically makes you and your data secure on the Internet and it completely missed to mention who the potential threat actors thwarted by HTTPS are?
Could have probably used a chapter on how actual threats (both security and privacy) work and how don’t have much to do with the level of encryption your TCP/IP connection happens to encapsulate.
The last chapter with the first 3 bullets was pretty good though. That could have just been the whole article and it would have been alright.
Oh well. Attempt was made.