IphtashuFitz
@IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
- Comment on What Sank the Bayesian Superyacht in Italy? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 3 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? 3 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 3 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 3 months ago:
What’s that shark got against New England?
- Comment on PSA: Libraries 3 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? 3 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 4 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? 4 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 4 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. 5 months 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 6 months 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] 7 months 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 10 months 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] 10 months ago:
Guess what I’m doing for 45-60 minutes each day while NOT driving to/from an office…
- Comment on A robot just swapped my electric car's battery 11 months ago:
Does the car warranty extend to cover the replacement battery just as if it was the original battery? Given an EV battery is a pretty significant part of the cost of the entire vehicle I wouldn’t trust a swapped battery unless the manufacturer made it very clear that they would treat it as if it was the original battery if any issues arose with it. The last thing I would want is to have to fight with Tesla or whoever if the replacement battery fails and they claim it’s not covered by their warranty.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
The Tesla supercharger network is very reliable. My wife & I drove from Boston to South Carolina last year with no issues. I think we found one plug that was damaged & unusable but there were 8 or more others at that location that were working fine.
Were also approaching 2 years on our Tesla home charger and no issues at all with that.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
Do Bolts support DC fast charging? Because that’s how Tesla Superchargers operate.
If they do then you would need an adapter from NACS to CSS and you’d also need to set up a Tesla account. Superchargers are “automatic” in that they read the VIN of the car when plugged in and use that for billing. I believe Tesla is now supporting non-Tesla accounts but haven’t looked into it at all…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Came here to say exactly this. Gaff tape is made out of a cotton cloth material. This is clearly plastic, so duct tape, which is very different.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 1 year ago:
Yeah but then you’re even more stuck because now the truck is stuck as well…
- Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious? 1 year ago:
Here’s the thing about science: If you had the ability to purge all knowledge of all science, written, in people’s memories, etc. then over time we woul relearn it all pretty much exactly the same. It may take centuries, and what we know today as Pythagoras’ Theorem or Einstein’s theory of relativity would likely have different names for them. But the underlying science behind them will be 100% identical once they are “re”-discovered. Everything we know today about math, physics, electronics, etc. will eventually be relearned.
The same can’t be said for any religion. Wipe out ALL knowledge of all religions and new ones will spring up with completely new stories to try to explain beliefs to groups of people.
- Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious? 1 year ago:
I certainly don’t have an understanding of how many aspects of science works but I trust it. I trust all the science that goes into making my car operate safely. I trust the science that makes my smartphone and the internet work. I trust the medical science that cures my dad of cancer and healed my brother after a bad accident. I trust all the science involved in providing safe food and water for many millions of people.
I’m also an atheist.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
I think it largely depends on his definition of “dumb”…. Given he’s already committed to wiping out half of all life, I’d consider his mental facilities to be of questionable already. His idea of who is dumb may be similarly questionable…
- Comment on What show took you the longest to get into? 1 year ago:
Breaking Bad. Watched the first 10 minutes or so of the first episode then gave up on it for over a year. Eventually gave it a second chance and couldn’t binge the whole thing quickly enough…
- Comment on ‘Barbie’ vs ‘Oppenheimer’: Which Movie Got Better Reviews 1 year ago:
The AMC theaters around me have been running a similar “movie theaters are great” promo featuring Nicole Kidman pretty much since they reopened after the pandemic.
It’s such an annoying promo that frankly it turns me off from going to theaters. I’m happy to wait for most movies to get to streaming (and/or piracy) for the convenience of watching when I want and to skip all their self-aggrandized promoting of themselves.