forestbeasts
@forestbeasts@pawb.social
- Comment on What is the difference between http and HTTPS ? 4 days ago:
HTTPS is literally just HTTP, but shoved inside TLS, which is a generic encryption thing you can use on TCP* connections. It’s like shoving your message inside a magic envelope that can’t be broken into before you send it, the receiver can open the envelope though and read it. The stuff inside is still regular HTTP.
(*connections to a server that let you send/receive a stream of data, instead of just firing off packets and hoping they make it there like how UDP works.)
But as for HTTPS itself: First off there’s the encryption, which prevents anyone listening in from reading the stuff. But you also need to know that you’re talking to the right server, and some attacker isn’t just pretending to be the server you want and forwarding your messages to the real server, then relaying its answers back.
That’s where certificates come in. Those are, unfortunately, centralized at least as web browsers use them; there’s a Big List of allowed “certificate authorities” in each browser and/or OS, which are organizations you can get a certificate for your website from. Certificates are signed (more cryptography math magic) by the CA so that your browser can know the cert came from a known CA. If it doesn’t, it goes basically “huh? I don’t know who signed this! maybe an attacker did. I don’t trust it.”
There are other ways to handle that sort of trust. Mumble (a voice chat platform) also uses TLS certificates, but instead of just having a Big List, it just assumes that the first time you connect you’re not being actively attacked, and then if the certificate ever changes it can freak out and let you know. Much like SSH works (but SSH has its own completely different encryption scheme). Mumble also knows about the big list of CAs though and will accept ones signed by a known CA without questioning it.
– Frost
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 4 days ago:
Depends who you ask.
We know someone named Gray and a different person named Grey!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m… a bit confused. Create an entire universe?
I mean, I guess if you mean game dev or something, yeah… you can do that on Windows too though of course (Mac is iffy these days)
also you don’t need to learn the command line if you just want to use Linux like you use Windows. It is super handy for some stuff, though (batch moving files around, anything system administration related, automating tedium, basically anything where “telling the computer what to do” sounds like a useful way to solve your problem).
– Frost
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Hm? *headtilt*
Linux commands to do what?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Totally.
You can even do a lot of the fancy stuff. HTML forms have been there since the beginning and don’t require JS at all. You can do logins, logouts, forms, basically anything as long as it doesn’t involve changing the contents of a page without a page load (aside from animations which you can do in CSS).
You could even make a Lemmy type thing that didn’t use JS at all, just submitted a form when you hit post, and then the server would take care of the rest! (I’m a little surprised to see Lemmy does seem to require JS for posting, actually.)
– Frost
- Comment on On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances? 1 week ago:
USB’s 5 volts, ain’t it? Not 12. Feed it 12 and you’ll break stuff.
(At least without USB-C PD negotiation.)
– Frost
- Comment on If a God or God's is so Omnipotent why do they or them or he or she, supposedly get angry, show support, enjoy things, have sex (in Greek Gods), or show forgiveness? Are the not all human emotes? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think most polytheistic gods (like the Greek ones) are omnipotent. They’re powerful, sure, but not all-powerful.
The monotheistic Christianity-type ones are kinda weird actually, compared to most religions.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Gods I hope not.
Not unless they add ACPI and EFI and all that stuff that makes running other OSes on x86 actually work.
Also, like, x86 is fine. Especially on desktops where you don’t need extreme power efficiency.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
Zelda Twilight Princess may not have been exactly hated, but nobody really seems to love it. They all go gaga over Ocarina of Time instead, which just feels like a worse Twilight Princess in just about every way. Nostalgia I guess!
Also, you know, Twilight Princess has you be a wolf (in sections for part of the game, and then later you get unrestricted wolf mode (but it keeps kicking you out of it grrr!)). Huge therian feels. That’s a big part of why I love it.
– Frost
- Comment on Why do some people not start dating until their 20s? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not weird.
Some people never date at all!
Personally I don’t even understand the entire concept of dating. Makes way more sense to just get together and Relationship Upgrade with friends you already know, trust and know you like.
– Frost
- Comment on Is there any open source ATM machine ? 2 weeks ago:
I’d honestly trust an ancient decrepit system over a modern one, these days.
– Frost
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this helps at all, but you actually don’t need to buy a new drive! You can install Linux next to Windows on the same drive, it works perfectly fine.
(You will need something to put the installer on though, and USB sticks do cost money, so.)
– Frost
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, not all that bad. A lot of the spam is just the stuff from companies we gave our email, y’know, the usual.
There’s the occasional spam/scam email, every few days at most, but it’s pretty ignorable.
(we did set up rspamd purely for DKIM signing, and it might be filtering our inbound email, I don’t know.)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
The annual releases thing might be specific to Car Mechanic Simulator? We play Truck Simulator (American Truck Sim/Euro Truck Sim 2) and it’s definitely not “release the same game every year for more money”. They do have a shitton of map expansion DLCs though (and that’s where they make their money).
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
They’re digital crack to a very specific subset of people, haha!
They’re definitely not digital crack for everyone. :3
(Personally I bounced off Satisfactory mostly because of the specifics of early game power generation; I really wanted to like it, and might have gotten really into it if it weren’t for that.)
– Frost
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
Hey, simulator games have value outside of that, too. At the very least. Like, Truck Simulator? Yeah we play that and it’s not because of streamers. It’s just a very chill game where you get to drive all over the country. (I like Elite Dangerous for a lot of the same reasons. Slow-paced and chill and lots of buttons to push that actually do something meaningful.)
– Frost
- Comment on What is a Lemmy user called? A lemming? 4 weeks ago:
Or non-humanoid animal, thankyouverymuch!
– Frost
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 4 weeks ago:
Well, you ARE normal! With the right people!
– Frost
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There’s also other reasons to run a reverse proxy! Like for instance “you want to run multiple web services, but they’d both need port 443 and clobber each other”. So you can stick the reverse proxy on port 443 and then have it pass stuff to your various backends.
That’s actually a situation where you could avoid the reverse proxy with more machines (one per service), rather than less!
– Frost
- Comment on What is bird ? 5 weeks ago:
Feathered wingèd biped.
– Frost
- Comment on Times have changes sadly 5 weeks ago:
Uh people DO get pissed off at cameras, or at least they should.
It’s not so bad when you have a camera system that’s entirely local and the footage never leaves the building, and the only way to access it is to go into the building and ask the security person for it. That kind of access generally doesn’t happen without an actual reason.
But if it’s networked and uploads everything to The Cloud™ so the advertisers or the government or whoever can do facial recognition on it and track everybody’s movements… yeah, no. Yeah, no. *shudders*
– Frost
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 5 weeks ago:
They are VERY gross.
I’m also therian and would much, much rather have a wolf body (wolves are beautiful actually!). Human earlobes… just, no. That’s one of my top dysphoria things. *shudders*
– Frost
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Oh we make lots of random little one-offs!
git.brightfur.net/frost (for mine specifically), etc.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Nah, not really.
Hi, I use a permissive license for my stuff so that other open source devs can use it in their projects even if they disagree on the details of licensing opinions.
That doesn’t make me some kind of liberal/centrist/“not a Real Free Software Person™”.
Sure, that also gives companies the ability to use it in proprietary stuff, but they’re not gonna be interested in it and there’s a good chance they’d just blatantly ignore the license anyway (see: the “AI training” shit).
– Frost
- Comment on Why are some people deciding to switch to iOS as Android is putting on more (iOS-like) restrictions? 1 month ago:
Because if Android just becomes iOS But Worse, what’s even the point of using it instead of iOS?
– Frost
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 1 month ago:
If you like BeOS, try Haiku! www.haiku-os.org
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Nobody’s preventing it really. There’s a difference between top-down censorship and cultural “we don’t do that here”.
- Comment on Think Bold 1 month ago:
I wish Congress were wolves. They’d be a lot cuter, more fluffy and less evil.
– Topaz
- Comment on Teenis 1 month ago:
I’m a wolf, so mine’s a sheath. 🐺
(well, technically, the sheath is the outer thing around it, and when it’s out of the sheath I still have to figure out what to call it. But when it’s stowed away? sheath!)
(also fun fact: I have a permanent boner. Literally, there’s a bone in there. :3)
– Frost
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 2 months ago:
If you like burnout paradise’s “open world driving around doing stuff” vibes, you’ll probably get a kick out of Forza Horizon! That’s basically its whole thing too (slightly more realism, slightly less fast-paced craziness, big open world that’s a pleasure to drive around in). We have and absolutely love FH4. (Shame it got delisted.)
So yeah, can recommend.
Forza Motorsport is more like other Burnout/NFS where you’re on closed tracks with no open world, from what we hear.
– Frost