sefra1

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone is involved in illegal stuff... like say you built a drug empire... do they every get like... therapy for all the times they have to murder someone or almost get murdered?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My take is that most of those people are usually psychopaths who couldn’t care less, that’s how they get rise power in the first place.

  This also applies to politicians, CEOs and pretty much every hierarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are really good at studying and terrible and doing anything else, specially thinking.

  They are the perfect drones, they are smart enough to work the machines and produce for their boss, but dumb enough to ask why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you send old camcorder cassettes to a digitising service, do they watch the contents?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More expensive option but you can try to get a compatible camera on ebay, doesn’t have to be the same model as long as they use the same format, (but note that some cameras were digital and still used the same tapes, I don’t think those read will analogue, so if your tapes are analogue get an analogue camera), then all you need is a TV capture USB dongle with composite input or composite to HDMI + HDMI to USB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to stop a parent from jumping into the nearest religious rabbit-hole to cope with a divorce?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s their parent’s, OP is worried about them and you’re telling him to abandon them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cryptocurrency good for anything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto is mostly useful for extralegal activities.

  You can technically donate for some services with it, but to acquire crypto you need to either KYC to some exchange which isn’t not only a massive pain, but there are very serious privacy implications with it. Or you can acquire it via other means which means you will be buying it at high prices.

  Also note that most cryptocurrencies aren’t anonymous, every transaction is public in the block chain and can be traced back to you.

  So if you really know what you’re doing you can use privacy coins as a tool to transfer money anonymously, but that’s pretty much it’s only real world application.

  Also, from what I understand (I’m no cryptographer) cryptocurrencies use public key cryptography so quantum computers may in the future break all cryptocurrencies and well deanonymise all previously anonymous privacy coins transactions stored in the blockchains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After opening a jar of pizza sauce, how long would you trust it was still good in the fridge?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Visual inspection, smell and then taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Galaxy A14, which was the only new phone I could afford for 140 Euros (+ 50 Euros for the 512 GB microsd card) that offered the longest security updates.

  Thought of getting an used Pixel 2XL and install (now defunct) divestos on it, but then the battery would be certainly dead and didn’t want to risk replacing it myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT FIREFOX???

  I WILL KILL YOU!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Used thinkpad. You can get a nice laptop 140 to 220 in Europe on eBay and cheaper in US, depending on the specks or how old it is.

  Generally speaking anything like the x280 / t480 / L580 or newer should be fast enough for most web browsing, including online meetings.

  I seriously recommend spending extra on something with an IPS screen, or else your eyes are in for a bad time.

  Also, try to get something with 16GB of ram, 8GB is enough for casual web browsing, but 16GB allows you to open many tabs comfortably and is run many applications at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  US , EU and FR variants.

  Side question: Why do people buy baguettes? Do they make sandwiches with them?

  Sometimes, sometimes just eat with butter. They make good toasts too.

  How do you even make a sandwich from them?

  Just cut it open and put the ham and cheese inside it, not much to it really. Either cut the slice in half if I’m feeling poor or fold it in two if I’m feeling rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He always wants to watch the video that’s the lowest quality shit just based on the thumbnail, because they have thumbnails that stick out.

  There’s an add-on by the same guy who makes sponsorbock that replaces thumbnails (and video tittles) for more more accurate ones, maybe you want to try that.

  (Disclaimer: The add-on itself is free software (as in freedom) but the developer added the restriction that after one hour trial you can either pay or wait 24h and then you can use it without restriction. It’s an interesting model.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ready set go⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but I’m not a prediction engine, I am capable of abstract thought, and actually understanding the meaning of the words.

  I can also process all kinds of different data and make connection between then which includes emotional connections.

  Another cool trick, I also have this thing called a consciousness which is something I can’t explain or put into words but I know it exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube is pretty much unusable now, more than half the videos are low effort Ai slop, and the rest is just irrelevant, leaving the real content buried deep down in the algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Quik, idk if it’s the best or the worse, but it works well enough to receive login tokens which is what I use SMS for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just that society has much bigger problems than the price of ram sticks.

  Like the price of housing, the price of food, transportation…

  I don’t find this even worth mentioning, that’s just it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So just another day in capitalist society. Nothing to write home about imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! So literally a nothing burger.

  I hate YouTube clickbait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better if they don’t leave your device in the first place, encryption should always be considered a last line of defence, just because some encryption is unbreakable today, it may be easily broken in the futurr as breakthroughs in computers and mathematics advance.

  Instead of paying for cloud backups just buy some hard drives, it’s cheaper in the long run too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re using proper encryption it’s going to be difficult or impossible to decrypt the files on the drive, so the data should be secure even if the drive is stolen, copied, etc.

  Encryption should always be the last line of defence, encryption that is unbreakable today may be trivially broken tomorrow. Which is why I also I still prefer to overwrite drives with random data instead of just trusting the sanitise command (Even though I know that a big chunk of the data stays unoverwritten as part of the drive’s “provisional area”.

  (Which raises another issue that “deleting” a luks keyslot or the whole header doesn’t actually warranty it’s deleted, may have just be moved to the provisional area. So if a key somehow is compromised it becomes nessesary to physically destroy the drive.)

  However, when you’re actively using the drive and have files decrypted, and then you lose physical access to your devices, you have a problem. IIRC that’s how they got Ross Ulbricht’s files - monitored him until he unlocked his laptop in a cafe and then grabbed it (and him). If you’re worried about that specific threat profile it makes a little more sense to have an easily accessible physical DELETE EVERYTHING NOW button that only operates when the drive is running.

  In that case I rather use something that will reboot the computer and shred the ram as it would serve the same purpose with the bonus that contents can’t also be recovered from ram. Something like an usb drive with a string wrapped around the wrist.

  Now, in the situation that the keys have leaked somehow, (like recording the keyboard from afar while the user types the passphrase) then the self-erasing hard drive makes a lot more sense, assuming the user has time to trigger the mechanism.

  Now the issue is, that overwriting even a fast ssd takes time, so I’m assuming the device works by destroying or erasing a security chip that holds the keys for the main storage, however the data is still there if the adversary cuts the power before overwriting the whole drive. Ofc encrypted, but like I said before, encryption may be broken tomorrow. A physical or chemical solution that grinds or dissolves the chip somehow seems to me a better option, with the bonus that it can be made to work without electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  So, let’s see if I understand, the device only destroys the data after it’s connected to a computer.

  So an adversary can just not connect it to a computer and extract the data through alternative means (like unsoldering the chip and reading it directly.

  The device should be able to destroy itself either from an internal battery or some physical or chemical mechanism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to abandon all my online accounts from time to time and make new ones for privacy reasons, and IMO everyone should do the same, together with using different names for every website.

  Unfortunately the trend is for people using the same accounts that they made when they were 12 for the rest of their lives.

  If people were more conscious about their privacy and pseudo-anonymity then I think there would be less bias against new accounts.

  I haven’t seen this on lemmy, but on reddit there are whole communities that you can’t post if you don’t have an old account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a myth that headphones cause more ear damage than speakers.

  95dBs measured at the eardrum are 95dBs independently if the source is 10m away or inside your ear canal.

  Now most people tend to blast louder on headphones than they do on speakers, I tend to do the opposite, so in my case speakers cause more damage.

  If you “just turn it high enough to hear it” then there’s no damage. In fact if you listened to speakers you would have to probably turn it louder to overcome the environment noise than you do on headphones that muffle outside noise.

  Brb, posting dB chart (need to send the post and edit it latter or my phone kills the app when I switch apps)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail Passwords Confirmed As Part Of 183 Million Account Data Leak⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooh, I thought for a moment…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was an encoding bug, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to be the one defending companies but this time I have to align with the ISPs.

  As a “fake fiber” client myself, there’s virtually no performance difference between the two. But “fiber” has become such a marketing slang that most clients wouldn’t signup for an ISP if they don’t sell “fiber”.

  Alternatively the ISP would have to replace perfectly functional infrastructures purely for the sake of marketing, resulting in waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨24.04⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would agree if you had said Mint or Debian, but a Windows user trying GNU/Linux isn’t going to have an easy time installing and maintaining Arch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even tho i have a several TBs library I still stream, because I always went to find and listen to new things that aren’t in my library.

  Generally if something is on my library, I’m already tired of it.

  So I endup streaming from YouTube music free + unlock origin. If I want to listen to a whole album without having half of it’s songs replaced by a low fidelity music video version I open the album link with mpv or listen to the album from telegram bots like @deezload2bot or @linemusicbot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried getting a louder alarm clock?

  Like plug your phone to a powerful speaker system that reaches 100dB. That should wake everyone.

  Doesn’t have to be expensive or HiFi, just loud.

  May not be an option if you have neighbours tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Discovery is my least preferred star trek I’ve watched so far, I mean, it’s not “bad” per se, it’s just different from the rest of star trek and has a different formula.

  The thing with discovery is that everything happens really fast, there’s always a sense of urgency and hurry, but actual plot development happens really slowly.

  Conflict takes a whole season to resolve, instead of standard one episode which you expect from a star trek show.

  Also, I hate how the actors mumble instead of talking.

  It’s not bad, it’s just not my favourite format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t all children do that?

  I used to shew on everything, my friend used to literally destroy pens by shewing them too much. I think it’s normal.