vagrancyand
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- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 1 week ago:
The swiss cheese model assumes equal risk, or in other words fails to differentiate actual risk from multiple sources. You aren’t being targeted by a state actor. DDoSing via zombies is more expensive (including risk capital) than using VPSs these days. The actual people targeting you are going to be bottom of the barrel commercial scammers and skiddies wanting the least possible effort targets, and again unless all the holes magically line up in your model, they won’t ever get that. Your adblock is a layer, your browser is a layer, these days your DNS is a layer, your router is a layer, your search engine is a layer, if you live in a particularly hell hole your ISP is a layer. Given the inherent insecurity of WIndows it was never a layer.
If you care about security and/or are paranoid enough about security that you care about whether or not your OS is updated, you aren’t on windows. No security professional will ever recommend windows, and all real world infrastructure using windows as a backbone never has windows as a security layer. Lets be honest if someone has access to any windows PC on your network, it does not matter if windows is up to date, they have total control over that computer, and its not windows nor windows server preventing access to other devices on the network.
- Comment on White House Approves $9 Billion for C.I.A and N.S.A to Catch Up on A.I. 1 week ago:
I can’t wait to see AI generated Uyghurs pleading for US imperialism.
- Comment on Riot police enters Turkey's largest opposition party 1 week ago:
Turkey has been an explicit dictatorship since 2016, when Erdogan faked a coup against himself and has largely used that as an excuse to militarize against the government and populace.
This raid, like the raid the year before, and at least 100 other raids against opposing political parties since 2016, is just another blatant action by one of the most violent dictatorships in recent history.
Turkey is what people pretend Iran is.
- Comment on UK judge’s decision not to jail boys for rape like a ‘rock in my face’, says victim, 16 1 week ago:
The UK, where you can rape children to your heart’s content but if you use the wrong bathroom you’ll be hanged.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 1 week ago:
This, it is really, really easy to tell which youtubers are grooming kids for the most part. Even if you don’t really pay attention to content creators and just consume at random in small amounts. Yeah, the guy marketing to children, constantly making sexual jokes, constantly trying to collab with kids wants to fuck kids.
It’s really not that difficult to work out.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 1 week ago:
Sec+ holder, I’ll be fine. So will anyone with any amount of common sense.
Don’t download strange executables. Use trusted sites. keep your browser up to date and run an effective adblock.
Congrats you’ve eliminated 99.9% of all attack vectors in use today. I guarantee you aren’t going to be targeted by the last .1%.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 1 week ago:
You could download a Trojan that takes advantage of a known vulnerability.
Just… don’t do that?
This is part of Common Sense™. It’s a package that every single human being in a developed country is taught in regards to technology, and has been taught since the 1990s. (2000s for developing countries like the US).
Every single person that interacts with a computer in a professional setting has been taught explicitly how to never have a single virus on their computer. And they have been repeatedly taught this every 6 to 12 months for the last 3 decades. It is only people that purposefully infect themselves or purposefully choose to remain stupid — not ignorant, just stupid — that get infected with Trojans.
Your browser could have a vulnerable plugin, or maybe the user delays updates.
See above, and the previous comment.
I bought a USB drive off a sketchy guy in college which had auto-run Malware on it – but it didn’t work on Ubuntu.
See above. You did not use common sense™. You chose to be stupid, despite your college freshman orientation clearly covering basic safety.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 1 week ago:
This doesn’t effectively increase your risk as a consumer. It only increases risk at the enterprise and infrastructure level.
All threat models include who you are and the environment the OS is run in for a reason. Just browsing the web is fine as a consumer, until browsers stop targeting your OS for updates.
The main vector for infection for any OS isn’t the OS itself. Malware doesn’t just spawn on your computer the second you plug it in to a router (no matter what Trump’s FCC thinks with their chinese router ban). It needs to get on your computer.
An up to date browser will prevent the majority of infections, with common sense preventing the rest. I kept Windows XP well into windows 7 years, and windows 7 well into windows 10 years before switching to linux. Just don’t download malware, you’ll be fine. Worst case scenario you keep a backup clone of your hard drive on a usb stick (which you should have anyway) and just reflash your drive every few months (or just switch to linux, it can do anything windows can do at this point with enough faffing about.)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
It being ‘bad’ is kinda the point. It is a critique of capitalism, even in its current neutered form. It is a simple intuitive proof that if everyone started out on the same fair playing field; which is impossible in capitalism but would be the ‘idealized’ state that anarchocapitalists, Laissez-faire capitalists, and neoliberals would love to pretend the world has ever had or can ever had, capitalism will still end in an absolute collapsed state of a brutalist monopoly.
You have to add random cheat rules to even have a little fun with it, but there is no effective way to make capitalism have an end state that isn’t a total monopoly.
Parker Bros (and the various companies that bought it out after parker bros did) just didn’t really care that it criticized them as much as any other capitalist entity, because they made money.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 week ago:
The sequel series Dexter went in a really weird direction and ruined Dexter’s Lab for me.
- Comment on Just ate this entire tub of great value yogurt and currently preparing to die tonight 1 week ago:
That’s generally just the mold itself. While you can have competing cultures the nature of the Penicilium genus means you don’t have to really worry about bacterial growth and other mold growth would have competing colours in almost all cases for dairy products. With bread and fatty meats where you might see penicilium you are right to worry a lot more, but the nature of modern dairy means whatever spoils it tends to be monoculture as it’s generally a ‘whichever infects first has too much of a headstart to allow competition,’ when with bread and meat mold has a harder time penetrating the substance (giggity) and has much more competition respectively.
Pasteurized dairy is only vulnerable to so many pathogens that you can kinda guess what spoilage you’ll get based on sight and smell (at least down to the genus, it’s impossible to get much more specific without a full lab test).
- Comment on Just ate this entire tub of great value yogurt and currently preparing to die tonight 1 week ago:
Blue green mold on a diary product is almost always a Penicilium genus mold and probably won’t kill you.
Worst case is it gives you an incredible case of the shits which is infinitely survivable in the modern era. Best case scenario is you get a new taste and texture experience that few humans have ever been brave enough or hungry enough to experience.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 1 week ago:
SWERFs love specific instances, so probably.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Reddit is free you know.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Something something 40 gorillion christians killed by JEWISH bolsheviks something something 80 gorillion innocent farmers murdered by Mao because of his hate for sparrows something something here’s a link to a National Endowment for Democracy funded site that self-cites all of its sources or cites only old british men that have never been shown to ever be within 10,000km of a chinese person.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 1 week ago:
There were several wom*n on board (sorry to use a slur.)
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 2 weeks ago:
Yes that is the popular theory post Epstein file release. Partially a joke, partially the best explanation we have for who paid the doctor to kill him. It was either the pedos or Sony, which is full of pedos.
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 2 weeks ago:
Bro got taken out because he started exposing pedophiles. He spent his last few years being dragged in the press by parents that decided money was more important than their kids dignity or future reputation.
That level of fame essentially means you cannot possibly do actual good in the world or fight any powerful group. It’s not a level of fame where you could build a revolution, but its far too much fame to ever do anything positive in life.
- Comment on Anon works out the question to the final solution 2 weeks ago:
Chud Etymology, excerpt from lesson six, Women, or How They Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Self-Indulgent Misery
Foid <- Femoid <- Root 1: Fem android, implying women have no agency and are simply following society's programming <- Root 2: From Mongoloid, implying women are genetically inferior <- Root 3: -oid (derogatory), used in english as a suffix to usually mean 'having the likeness of or related to,' meant to separate 'Women (read: conservative trad-wife type idealized fantasy women)' and the rest of women.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 2 weeks ago:
Nothing, the American populace is incapable of rebellion without bourgeois leadership telling them to rebel. Until the ruling class is splintered enough that a rebellious faction is willing to take the risk in recruiting the working class while somehow avoiding class consciousness, the US populace would never dare to go against its owners
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 3 weeks ago:
Prepping communities have little to no knowledge on the subject which is why people avoid them and why most advice you’ll hear outside those communities is so different.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
The diseases the US has been experimenting with since the 1950s, many times on its own population e.g. the Tuguskee experiments?
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
…The results have been terrible for the entire world besides the US.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
Actually I was exclusively talking about China and SEA, not Europe. While there are a couple of European countries that are aiming towards socialism most of Europe is pretty far right.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
I’m correcting your point. Yes, a lot of the US is conservative. Most of the world isn’t. Only a US-Centric viewpoint would define liberalism as anything other than a conservative old-fashioned ideology only held by people that worship nazis.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
How is the US propaganda source that statistically only handles a partial clean up of US military and intelligence community actions ‘far right bullshit?’
If I come into your home, kill your pets, piss in your fridge, and mutilate your children, but then I pay someone to come in and give you some new food so I can print in the news paper that I am kindly and benevolently feeding a victim of a tragedy… am I the good guy?
No. I am attempting to generate positive propaganda to help people ignore the fact I caused the entire fucking situation to begin with.
There are no USAID projects that cannot directly be linked to a US military or intelligence operation. None. Not a single one.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
‘Conservative’ is conserving the old world. Conservatives in the 1800s wanted a return to feudalism as a reactionary backlash to liberalism.
Liberalism and liberal ideology has been the only ‘valid’ ideology for states for 2 centuries.
It is conservative to defend liberalism. It’s conservative to defend neoliberalism.
In order to be ‘progressive’ you have to at least be a ‘radical’ socialist that wants the abolition of capitalism.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
Conservatives do exist here, there are plenty of people that actually believe Harris would have been a good president or that the US is capable of good actions.
I’ve even see people unironically support USAID and the NED. That kind of far-right bullshit is why some of us left reddit.