IphtashuFitz

@IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Among other things, since moving to a more rural part of our state, we have uncovered these items that I assume the previous owners dumped in the woods around us:

  • A 1960-ish era chainsaw
  • A car battery
  • Rusty pipe
  • Jugs full of what looks like motor oil
  • Empty plastic bottles
  • A large roll of some sort of material like landscaping cloth that is overrun with moss & roots now.
  • A rechargeable battery for power tools
  • What appears to be the bed cover for a pickup truck
  • Loads of other smaller plastic scraps
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The NSA is already known to have tapped into the fiber optic lines at an AT&T datacenter back in the early 2000’s. That sort of tap would generate absolutely massive amounts of data.

  If they did something like that 20+ years ago then the volume & analysis isn’t the issue. It’s whether or not they decide they need to perform mass surveillance of mobile devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but if somebody like the NSA comes along with a request to intercept a specific package, or even a bunch of packages then customs will gladly turn them over. As was posted elsewhere in this thread, NSA has been known to do this in targeted cases and installed software into routers etc. before returning them to customs for delivery.

  So it truly depends on whether an organization like the NSA has you on their radar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP obsolete tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok dad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would legal procedure change if every citizen eligible for jury duty was aware of jury nullification?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been called in for jury duty a number of times, made it to the courtroom a couple of times, and was seated on one of them. None of those times did anybody ask if we were aware of jury nullification, or anything that was related to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither my wife nor I wanted kids but we still got married. The legal aspects you touch on are pretty darned important even without kids in the picture. Health/medical reasons are another huge one. We have a friend who lived with her partner for decades, but never got married. When he fell ill and was hospitalized it was virtually impossible for her to make any decisions, tell the doctors what his wishes were, etc. All because they weren’t legally married.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fireworks are legal in New Hampshire but not Massachusetts. The MA police will stake out NH firework shops near the border before July 4 and pull over MA cars they see loading up once they cross back into the state…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any calls without caller ID legit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Properly configured telephone systems at hospitals etc. will show their main public facing phone number on Caller ID for any outbound call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Receipt checkers trigger me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be surprised if that worked these days. They do much more than just a cursory check whenever we go. And they also now scan your membership when you enter, and your photo pops up on their tablets. I’d be curious what would happen if the photo didn’t match…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨21 Star Trek Actors That Died in 2024 | TrekCulture⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck that site that requires you to click through 24 individual pages instead of using just one page for the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A company I worked for got into a long lease for 3 floors in an office building. Never used one of them. Ended up subletting it to another company until they were out of that lease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, that’s it. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall seeing videos poster to Reddit and other social media from a number of years ago. An alleged child rapist (murderer?) was handcuffed and being escorted through the airport by police, with TV camera crews following along. The father of the victim was waiting at a bank of pay phones, as if he was using one. As the group walked by, the father walked towards them, shot and killed the man, and immediately surrendered to the police.

  Although it seemed like a clear cut case of premeditated murder I recall he got off with a very minimal sentence. If this guy is caught and tried then I really hope for a similar outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Sank the Bayesian Superyacht in Italy?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t commission it. He bought it from another billionaire that apparently preferred bragging rights over safety…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thieves caught stealing political yard signs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that most modern iPhones, iPads, and Mac laptops will respond to Air Tags and forward their pings to Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then they save you time by giving you a ballot with all the Republican candidates already checked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our web servers are locked down in such a way that you can’t copy data off of them using standard protocols like scp, ftp, and even http, etc. Our firewall blocks all such outbound traffic.

  This hacker found a bug in a framework used on our web servers that let him execute commands remotely. When commands to copy data off the server failed using those more typical methods he switched to a more novel (and difficult) method of leveraging DNS instead. He discovered we weren’t locking DNS down the same way we were locking other protocols down and used that as a way to extract data from our server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never would have thought of it but I recently saw a novel use of DNS to exfiltrate data from a compromised server.

  My employer takes security very seriously. Our public facing web servers are very thoroughly locked down, or so we thought. We contract with companies like HackerOne to perform penetration testing etc. One of their white hat hackers managed a remote command attack, and copied data off of the server via a string of DNS queries.

  Suppose the hacker owned the domain example.com, and he had his own authoritative nameserver for it. He just ran a series of commands that took, for example, a password file, and ran DNS queries for line1.example.com, line2.example.com, line3.example.com and so on for each line in the file. As a result the log file on his DNS server collected each line of the password file as it responded to each query.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨am i an idiot: selfhosting a Signal Proxy and/or a Tor Relay⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100x this. 10+ years ago while working in IT at a university I experimented with running a Tor exit node briefly. It only took about a day for the IT security team to ask me about it and requested it be shut down due to all the malicious traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharks⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s that shark got against New England?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Libraries⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Libraries around here also have free passes to museums among other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just as long as he declares it “an official act”. I think he just has to say that. It doesn’t have to be written down or anything. And it doesn’t matter if anybody actually hears him say it, as long as he does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Live Updates: Trump Is Safe After Assassination Attempt; Suspected Gunman Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  White guy shooting white political figure to start a race war? How does that figure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not currently in the best interest.

  IF Trump wins the election then it would be in the best interests of the US. It would be akin to a judge throwing out a juries verdict because the jury clearly made the wrong decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife recently reconnected with a friend from college (20+ years ago) who is legally blind & living in MA. And I recently worked with a MA resident that is legally handicapped. Both of them have, through some state service, access to some number of free Uber rides each month. I know in the Boston area there is/was a state run car service for the handicapped, but using Uber apparently provides much more coverage & flexibility.

  As long as the Uber drivers are being paid appropriately for this service I see it as a great service for the handicapped. I’d hate to see them lose it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom Cruise's "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8" production has been delayed, again, due to submarine malfunction— budget said to be nearing $400M.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As an old school M:I devotee I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the original series fro time to time and thoroughly enjoy it.

  I also cringe at the mental gymnastics over the plot of this new 2-part movie…. You’ve got an evil AI on board a Russian sub that tricks the crew into torpedoing itself. The crew all dies but the AI survives onboard the sunken sub. And despite being stuck on a blown-up sub at the bottom of the ocean the AI is still a serious global threat. On top of that a two-part physical key that is the only thing that can disable the AI somehow made it off the sub and everybody is scrambling to find them. Once the keys are recovered somebody (clearly Tom Cruises character) will have to get onto the sunken sub and destroy the AI.

  Why doesn’t the US or UK just go shoot a few more torpedoes at the sunken sub and obliterate the AI once and for all? The need to suspend so much reality for this plot drives me nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recognize the mother of Wifi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Saw Queen perform with Adam Lambert a few months ago. They played one or two pieces written by Brian May that really tied those two professions of his together. It blows my mind that he’s worked with NASA and the like quite a bit over the years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You only get flagged as a drug seeker for drug-seeking behavior.

  Exactly. My wife and I take a mix of Sudafed & another medicine when we have bad colds. The active ingredient for them is pseudoephedrine which can be used to make meth, so our state requires ID and limits how much you can purchase a month. On more than one occasion we’ve purchased the maximum we could in order to stock up before cold & flu season. Never had any issues doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fucking scourge, when you own a business. Even if it's the top result in a search in your area⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The company I work for is mainly an internet presence with a valuation in excess of $100 million. The number of emails we get offering somewhere around $5000 for our domain name is absurd…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess what I’m doing for 45-60 minutes each day while NOT driving to/from an office…