NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Adam Curtis on Real Change 4 hours ago:
I think that change only comes through a big, imaginative idea
This seems overly optimistic to me. I think the historical record demonstrates that broad sociocultural change primarily happens after some great destructive crisis (war, famine, plague, etc) during which the status quo breaks down and a lot of people die, and the survivors have to pick up the remains and try to patch some form of society back together like a jigsaw puzzle where half the pieces have been burned in a fire.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 5 days ago:
Hmm, there are some products that should have a defined “end of life”. For instance, computer networking hardware which will eventually be outdated and no longer get security updates. The trick is, the EOL date should be clearly marked on the product at the point of sale so that the buyer can make an informed decision.
This is built-in obsolescence, but it’s better than the current situation where Cisco will sell you a firewall at full price and then decide 6 months later that they aren’t supporting that model anymore and you have to buy a new one.
- Comment on No cap Fr Fr 1 week ago:
If you’ve ever heard the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” it’s a reference to this incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 1 week ago:
Hmm… is the giraffe centaur an obligate herbivore?
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 1 week ago:
I… what the fuck am I looking at… ?
- Comment on Story of my life 1 week ago:
- Comment on So many choices. Think I'll start with Rodent's Revenge 1 week ago:
SkiFree updated to run on 64-bit systems and in Wine
Chip’s Challenge and Chip’s Challenge 2 are both available on Steam
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Uneven enforcement is a hallmark of fascist authoritarian states. Many things are illegal that are commonly done anyway. As a result, nearly everyone is “guilty” of something which the state can use against them whenever it’s convenient.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 2 weeks ago:
This is idealistic to the point of parody.
- Comment on The forest guy 2 weeks ago:
This is the plot of the 2001 film classic Cats & Dogs
- Comment on I'm sure it'll be fine! 3 weeks ago:
Your rocket will ignite in 15 minutes.
Actually, it’s looking.more like six days.
No wait, 30 seconds.
- Comment on It's me again 3 weeks ago:
Be careful whose advice you buy,
but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia;
dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal,
wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it’s worth - Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Preferred solution for an unholy operating system:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
We can’t make it so large that its own gravity will contain the reaction mass, so it has to be kept inside a very strong magnetic field created by huge magnets. You can’t put solar panels inside the reaction chamber, they would get destroyed.
- Comment on it really do be like that 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Script's running guys and gals 👻 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on somehow i don't make any progress 5 weeks ago:
I feel personally attacked.
- Comment on Happy 17th of March 5 weeks ago:
It is true that Irish people were used as slaves, it just wasn’t done at a systematic scale equivalent to the African slave trade. The abduction of people from Africa was a global industry, and the scale that it operated at created inhuman horrors that are not really comparable to anything else (except maybe present-day Xinjiang).
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 5 weeks ago:
Just a warning on running a service like this - any website that allows arbitrary text entry from anonymous users will be found and flooded by bots very quickly.
The most innocent, least damaging version of what happens is adbots posting links to shoddy websites selling “essential oils” and other homeopathy nonsense.
More obscure but more malicious, text posts are used to control botnets for cybercrime. Basically a human running the botnet will post a string of letters and numbers to a website which the bots have been programmed to look for instructions. Websites that allow anonymous text entry are convenient for this because if the criminal activity is investigated, it’s hard to trace the instructions from the controller back to a real person.
Just be aware that people will abuse your service for purposes you did not intend. You’ll probably need both automated tooling for identifying and blocking bot traffic, as well as human moderation.
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 1 month ago:
- Comment on Wharf 1 month ago:
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 1 month ago:
You running Windows Vista on an HP desktop with a Zip drive in 2026?
- Comment on Wharf 1 month ago:
off the starboard bow
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Silly, everybody knows sexism only goes one way.
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 1 month ago:
Employers not paying a living wage bad.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 1 month ago:
Broad conclusions for a study conducted on a population of ~500 undergrad students at a single religious university in one city of one state of one country.
- Comment on Ni! 1 month ago:
He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out,
And his elbows broken.
To have his nicaps split
And his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin. - Comment on What's "email"? 1 month ago:
You’re right.
They just shit themselves to death.
- Comment on What's "email"? 1 month ago:
Yes, instead we have gangrene, leptospirosis, trepanning, faith healing, no education unless you’re clergy, forced labor for 95% of the population, a life expectancy of 40 if you’re lucky…
Oh, and taxes! still got those. Have to pay for Richard’s crusade, you know. Congratulations on being conscripted as a peasant spearman, now get back up and stand in line with the rest of the fodder.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The genie is out of the bottle
This is a lot more like Pandora’s Box - all the evils have been let loose.
