sylver_dragon

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
One of the reasons the US Government banned the use of Huawei devices in US critical infrastructure was the Chinese government ownership stake in Huawei. And that makes complete sense, you don’t run your critical infrastructure on devices which a major adversary might be able to compromise at the hardware level. By the same argument, I can see many countries being uncomfortable using chips made by Intel, because of the large ownership stake the US Government holds in Intel. It wouldn’t be the first time the US Government has been implicated in hardware hacking for SIGINT. The NSA TAO was outed hacking Cisco routers en route to target organizations.

So ya, gotta expect that some countries will be hesitant to use Intel chips in some places. At the same time, if the US Government has a high level of visibility and control over Intel’s manufacturing and processes, there is a good argument that US critical infrastructure and defense assets will favor Intel chips. So, it may be that Intel ends up trading non-US customers for a greater share of the US Government’s business.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ya, I just find that the mildly infuriating things can be less so by knowing why they are happening. As someone who regularly resets user passwords professionally (not for Proton), I figured I could give some insight into why this happens.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The alert seems to indicate a compromised account, this can mean a lot more than “a bad IP”. Your account may have shown up in a “dump” and they took action to ensure your safety. Have you tried putting your email address into HaveIBeenPwned. While the normal recommendation would be to not put your email address in a random web form, this site is actually run by a well known security researcher and just lets you know if you have shown up in such a dump in the past.

Another possibility would be that they have seen a major change in your IP geolocation in a short time. This is referred to as “improbable travel” and it’s something which many security departments take action on. If you login from an IP address which is associated with Paris, France and then an hour later are logging in from Dubai, UAE, this is going to be flagged. Sure, you might travel between those two locations, but you ain’t doing it in an hour. So, your account gets flagged as possibly compromised.

even if it were a VPN, so what, your company literally runs a VPN

Right, but they may not know that you are using another VPN. So, continuing the issue above of “improbably travel”. If you are on Proton’s VPN, they know all of their exit IP address and likely take them into account. But, if you are using a different company’s VPN, Proton likely doesn’t know all of that company’s exit IP addresses and so can’t account for them. Consider the situation from their perspective:
1. You are using some other VPN and they force you to do a password reset.
- Outcome - you’re a bit annoyed, but ultimately your mail account is safe.
1. Some attacker has your password and tried to use it to access your mailbox, but Proton stopped the login and forced a password reset.
- Outcome - you are a bit annoyed, but your mail account is safe.
1. Some attacker has your password and tried to use it to access your mailbox, and Proton let them in.
- Outcome - You get wrecked and are really unhappy.
No matter what, Proton is going to lose out a bit to you being unhappy. However, if they force the password reset, the worst case is you being slightly annoyed about a password reset. By not taking action, they risk your account being fully compromised, which can be very, very bad for you. So, they are likely to be more proactive in forcing a password reset than you might like. This will be especially true if you do not have any sort of two-factor authentication setup. If the whole game is lost by one password being lost, any whiff of that password being compromised will result in a password reset.

Ultimately, it is am annoyance but one which is actually positive for you. They take your email security seriously enough that, when their system detected something, they took action to keep you safe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

have T-Mobile as my home internet provider and I deal with this fairly often.

I have the same ISP and the same issue. I believe a lot of the issue is that T-Mobile uses CGNAT on their network. This means that your public IP is shared with a lot of other people and it means your “location” (based on your public IP) can jump around from time to time. I’ve had Netflix get bitchy about this before as my connection seemed to be coming from Maryland instead of Virginia and their records indicate that I’m not a terrible driver.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All will eventually be revealed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Part of the mythology of Jesus is that he got better. So, the cross became a symbol of his sacrifice and suffering for the followers of his religion. It’s a constant reminder of “look what you made Jehovah do by being an evil sinner.” It is also a concise icon which can be used to identify the members of the religion. And, it’s been in use for a long time now and is well recognized as a Christian religious symbol, with the original usage of crosses as torture and execution devices being mostly ignored. Perhaps back 1500 to 2000 years ago, such confusion may have made sense. These days, it’s so far removed from that context that such confusion is usually a matter of being willfully obtuse.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨workflow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
While slaves were almost certainly involved, a lot of the labor was likely Corvee Labor. Less like chattel slavery and more like taxes in the form of labor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Movie theater audio systems continued to go big blue baby boinking bonkers. Remember when the THX logo wasn’t survivable by children under 7?

Yes
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So, the solution to completely fucked up sound is to use a device to mangle that sound back into something which isn’t complete shit?
And yes, I understand it’s about the director wanting the loud sounds to be loud. But, when your art direction means that a major (if not majority) of your audience is going to have to “fix” your artistic direction, your artistic direction is the problem.

p.s.: don’t mean to jump down your throat, this is just one of those things that grinds my gears. Along with the “let’s make everything too dark to possibly see” art direction which has become popular.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Try using old.reddit.com. Literally just replace www with old, or add old in front of reddit.com. This should take you to a version of reddit’s interface which isn’t complete trash and it usually also allows you to bypass the need to login for NSFW content.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm suppositories.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’re just suffering from an ear infucktion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you care about your privacy, don’t use products from a company whose entire business model is built on invading your privacy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A good reminder that “the cloud” is a fancy way of saying, “someone else’s computer”. If you don’t own the hardware, you don’t own the data on it. This works for large businesses because they have actual contracts and lawyers to get their data back. For everyone else, the EULA amounts to one big “fuck you”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is just Microsoft engineers acknowledging that Windows 11 is about as welcome as Windows Vista was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Om nom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
With a long, strong, flexible tongue and a reputation for eating things, one of those collaborations basically writes itself.

I was talking about his mechanics in Brawl Stars, what were you thinking about, sicko?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a mess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will accept you for your virtue. If the gods are unjust, then they weren’t worth worshiping anyway. And if there are no gods, then at least you lived a good life to be remembered by .
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A two-player Elden Ring Nightreign PC Mod is already available⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s rather amazing that this one guy keeps churning out fixes for FromSoft’s complete inability to understand multiplayer.

That said, I do plan to try the vanilla setup first (finishing up Shadow of the Erdtree before we change over). I just worry about my wife and I dropping into a session and having some rando who either wants to faff about; or, we run into the type of toxic behavior which seems to inundate online games. We had pretty good luck with Vermintide 2, back in the day. But, with way too many years of playing WoW, we’ve also run into a lot of assholes. And we just don’t have the patience for that sort of thing anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, the world should have moved on to IPv6 a long time ago.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Companies taking advantage of Linux to create locked down, proprietary systems is pretty common. For example, Android is Linux. Many smart TVs run some flavor of Linux. E.g. Tizen from Samsung is Linux based. If a company can short cut the software development process and licensing costs by using Linux, that’s often a first choice. So, my bet would be on Wall-E running on a version of Linux.

The dystopian part would be that the company locked it’s drivers behind a closed source model, and only included highly obscured binaries on Wall-E’s OS. Motors and controllers would be non-standard, requiring closed source firmware and the hardware would refuse to work with any software which isn’t signed by an original manufacturer’s digital certificate. Using an unsigned binary would blow a fuse in Wall-E’s CPU, killing him.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

it’s steam game which means there’s a key?

Maybe.
If the game is already in your Steam account, no. I can’t seem to run the actual policy down with a quick search, but games in your Steam library are not transferable.
If you have received a key in your email (It’ll be a long, alphanumeric sequence) then you can forward that to someone else, so long as it hasn’t been used by you or anyone else.
If the game was sent as a gift to your Steam account using the Steam gift system. Then no, you cannot transfer it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I would look into three things first:
1. Do the terms of the prize dictate transferability? In the rules of the contest in which you won the game, was there anything about not selling or giving away the prize?
2. What type of game is it? Video game, board game, card game?
3. What is the delivery mechanism for the game? Some things will be easier to transfer than others. A physical copy can likely just be shipped to a new recipient. A digital key for a game might be easy to just send to the recipient. Other delivery mechanisms may or may not have a system to prevent transfer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Kinda a good fit for a FromSoft game. Lost of impressive visuals, action, and tons of clues about a story sprinkled throughout the game without actually telling a story.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George R. R. Martin's New Announcement Has Finally Made Me Accept He's Never Finishing The Winds Of Winter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is going to go the way of the Wheel of Time series from Robert Jordan. He’ll fuck around long enough that he ends up dead before finishing the book and his estate will bring in another writer to finish it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
As many angels as actually exist.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xreal debuts first glasses to run Google's Android XR operating system to take on Meta and Apple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh goodie, I missed my chance to be a glasshole last decade. Now I can miss that chance all over again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Azure Linux. Because you still want to be beholden to Microsoft, right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea.

Because you can still separate many fools from their money by adding “blockchain” to whatever you are doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I feel like I should show up to more meetings with a t-shirt saying “I read your emails”. Granted, this type of thing isn’t at the top of the list of things we’re looking for; but, if we run across it, it’s gonna get reported. Too many people don’t seem to understand that their work computer is not a personal computer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sorry, just recognized my typo, I meant to say “I wouldn’t be surprised…”., Not sure how I missed that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s Yahweh’s laws but the mythology has it provided by Moses in his sermons to the Israelites. As for Christians ignoring bits of it, part of that is based on saying attributed to Jesus in the gospels (e.g. the bit from Mark I quoted above) and also the simple fact that most religions update themselves as society changes. If anything, I think the Catholic church was smart to have a leader who could receive “new revelations from God”. It lets them update canon, while maintaining the illusion that they aren’t just making shit up to stay relevant.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I would be surprised if they were borrowing ideas from other cultures in the area (and vice versa). The various peoples in Mesopotamia were interacting regularly; so, some back and forth of ideas is to be expected. Though as a law code, Deuteronomy seems like it would be more home grown.