drathvedro
@drathvedro@lemm.ee
- Comment on For security reasons 3 days ago:
Web developer here. The problem here is not with emails but with change.org’s business model, which is reliant on lying to people that their petitions actually mean anything. But, anyone with half a brain cell can easily spot that they don’t have any legal backing whatsoever nor do they do any kind of identity verification, therefore those petitions are completely worthless. They might as well not give a fuck and allow cheating. For all they care, it only boosts counters and makes them appear more popular than they actually are.
- Comment on For security reasons 3 days ago:
I have all my admin/mail/webmaster/etc blacklisted a long time ago because those are the that get spam when spammers parse lists of registered domains.
I wonder if abuse@'s get any spam…
- Comment on For security reasons 3 days ago:
I just go with full domain names. Like change.org@yourna.me. Even combos where data is shared, like shop.com-bank.org@your.name or jitsi.corp-gravatar.com@your.name. But some places actually went out of their way to disallow their own domains anywhere in the field. I’ve encountered it maybe like 3 times across all of ~1000 logins I have in my password manager.
And the amount of times I had to explain to people that yes, this is a legit email, yes it has your company’s name and your personal name in it, it is exactly as intended, so don’t send me spam because I will know it was you who sent it…
- Comment on Hellblade II Official System Requirements 1 week ago:
nice to see ARC’s all the way up to recommended, I should pick one up the next time I do a gaming build.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 4 weeks ago:
Not THAT bad, really, it potentially has a much better mileage-to-weight ratio and sidesteps the issue of lithium recycling and politics
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
It’s like the BDSM dynamic. Linux is sub, Apple is dom, and Microsoft is like a guy who calls himself dom, but is actually just a dick.
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 3 months ago:
I couldn’t say that it is. Chrome team’s usual approach is to make and release stuff first, write specifications later. By the time the other browsers come along, there’s already both market adoption and bunch of dumb decisions set in stone as a standard. Most notable examples of this would be QUIC and WebUSB
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 3 months ago:
Sometimes it’s doable if you can call the API and check that the result is what you’d expect
Yeah, you can even test visual and network stuff at a cost of latency, but it’s hard and lots of developers are too lazy to do this, I’ve often seen sites that don’t even check if function exists before calling it, crashing the entire site because adblock cut out google tags or they call API that isn’t even implemented in firefox.
I’ve never worked with WebRTC but I imagine it might be difficult to do that with some of its APIs given they require camera or microphone access
I did. It’s a complete mess. First and foremost exactly because it’s a soup of completely unrelated tech - P2P, webcams, audio in&out, stream processing and compression, SIP(!?). There’s no good debug tooling available and lots of stuff is buried inside browser’s implementation. And, on top of that, any useful info on the topic is usually buried under lots of “make a skype killer in 5 minutes” kind of libraries with hardcoded TURN servers - the developer’s overpriced TURN servers, that is.
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 3 months ago:
Feature detection is usually the way to go. If your website / webapp depends on a particular feature, check if that specific feature exists, rather than checking for particular browsers. Browser checks are still needed in some cases, for example Safari sometimes reports that it supports particular features but it really doesn’t (or they’re so buggy to the point where they’re unusable), but that’s relatively rare.
This is tough to implement when the feature is present, but implemented wrong. Or, even worse, when it’s implemented right, but the most popular browser implements it wrong and almost everyone else follow suit for compatibility reasons, except for one that takes the stance of following standards. I know safari is notorious for this, think pale moon had those issues, too, and there are still echoes from the past from pre-chrome internet explorer, thank god it’s finally dead.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
2FA is good, but SMS is one of the worst options. SMS is interceptable, fakeable, and requires a phone connected to network, which, by merit of being carried around, is less secure than, say, a PC located at home, behind a closed door, or, even better, a secondary offline PC locked in a safe. TOTP or things like digipass are a lot better. Actually, after writing the above comment, I’ve went to bully my bank to consider adding TOTP as 2FA option, and, in the discussion, they’ve admitted that they’ve had state actors tampering with SMS messages before, hence why they’ve added an additional layer of 4-digit PIN codes on auth, which is dumb, but is telling of how secure SMS messages really are.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
The only things I need from my phone are:
- Modem
- Taxi apps
- Forced upon 2FA SMS codes
Anyone who provides me with an alternative can just take my entire phone, fuck it.
- Comment on I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: 4 months ago:
Something something http://[2607:f8b0:4004:c09::8a] and http://3627734062 are valid url’s without a dot, and are probably valid for emails too, but I’m too lazy to actually verify that.
- Comment on why host your own files when someone else can do it for you 6 months ago:
For those that don’t know
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- Comment on Redditor when women 6 months ago:
Yes. On onlyfan/s
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 7 months ago:
You are right. The fact that cashless transactions are built on a pull model, where a shop/service is charging you instead of you being the one who sends the money is absolutely fucking insane. I recently lost a few hundred bucks just because the shop used the wrong currency to charge me, leading to a double conversion at the absolutely rates, and by the time I got someone in charge, the transactions were already cleared and set in stone. With a sane system this never would’ve happened.
In my home country they actually recently started to adopt such a model. Instead of you giving the card# to everyone, they instead show a QR code with all the necessary payment details: BIC, SWIFT, IBAN, the rest of scary numbers, order number and the invoice. You just open the bank app on your phone, point it at the code, review the sum and any possible fees, press confirm, and the moment the transaction is cleared the page just reloads automatically with order confirmed. I believe there’s also a special URL schema for when you don’t have a PC, but I haven’t tried it yet so can’t tell for sure. With this approach, subscriptions are much easier to manage, because it’s the bank’s job to send the money, so they can list all recurring payments on a special page where you could just cancel one. Also helps with scummy services that stop providing service the moment the subscription is canceled - they won’t even know you did until the the next day the payment is due.
- Comment on Upvoting a factually incorrect comment because it sounds nice, and downvoting a factually correct comment because it sounds bad. 8 months ago:
Blame the system. Rating system was a good idea to encourage community self-moderation, but most people treat upvotes/downvotes as likes/dislikes, even when specifically asked to use them differently. And, because of that, places with rating systems inevitably boil down to circlejerking, infobubbles, and tribalism. Too bad the only alternatives are spamholes, chaotic messes with power-tripping moderators, and AI blackboxes designed to control your mind.
- Comment on Please Consider Defederating from rammy.site 9 months ago:
Now that’s a comment that shouldnt have been upvoted and yet it did, kind of proving his point.
- Comment on FOUR whole parking spots 9 months ago:
What a rookie. Could’ve taken six by parking sideways