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taladar , to asklemmy in Does the fediverse have defense against watering hole attacks?

There isn’t. However, Lemmy or other Fediverse applications are no different from any other website in that respect. The main difference is that the bit

One of the most significant dangers of watering hole attacks is that they are executed via legitimate websites that are unable to be easily blacklisted

is not really true in the Fediverse. You could easily block a single infected instance once it is detected that your employees are attacked via malware on that instance.

dislocate_expansion OP Bot ,

The quick defederarion option is a nice defense. Could be some damage in the meantime though

taladar ,

I am not talking about defederation, just straight blocking of that website in a corporate or similar network if it is used to target your employees which is what watering hole attacks are all about.

dislocate_expansion OP Bot ,

Yeah, but the average internet users doesn’t understand these concepts. And with the use of “random-lemmy.random” it seems like it might be an easy attack to fall for

cbarrick , to mildlyinteresting in The Wiki's plot summary for "A Void", a book that (usually) omits a symbol vital to our vocabulary, also avoids that symbol

I see what you did there 😉

voracitude , (edited )

You don’t say? But you said it. Why, you don’t find it - approaching mortality for saying it, as in A Void - intimidating? I admit though, not using it is limiting. A book writ without that symbol… Wow. But I must stop now, I can’t think of any words without it.

gbzm ,

May I submit a formulation akin to “I got what you did thusly”?

gt24 , to til in TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus

There is a website of a person who catalogs Texas Instruments calculators. You can wonder over to the graphing calculator section to see how many different graphing calculators they made along with a bit of information on each one.

datamath.org

can ,

I love websites like this.

ShepherdPie ,

That’s web 1.0. Many of us had sites like this on Geocities and Tripod back in the day.

I absolutely love them too because they’re so content dense where as today this would be a 15 item list where you had to click a new page to see each one while reading several paragraphs of what sounds like the most generic, 6th-grade book report on each one “The TI-84 is a calculator. Many people use calculators to do math…”

can ,

I love that you can tell they’re a product of passion. Someone was just really into something and wanted to share the info with the world. There’s something beautiful about that.

SendMePhotos , to til in TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus

On my TI-83 plus, a fellow students and my calculator were matching rand(int) and it was amazing. Random wasn’t really random. I thought it’d be based on some sort of hidden internal clock.

RegalPotoo ,
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True randomness is really really hard to do in software; bigger CPUs often have hardware random number generators that exploit some sort of quantum or otherwise non-determanistic phenomena, but in software the best you can do is pseudo-random. These are algorithms that generate a sequence of randomly distributed numbers, but in a deterministic way - from a given starting state, it will always generate the same sequence of numbers. Good algorithms are designed to make it hard to infer the starting state just by observing the sequence (if you can do that, you can run the algorithm in parallel and predict the next number), but that’s an active area of research.

At a guess, the calculator was programmed to initialise the random number generator from something that it is hard for the user to control (milliseconds since power on would be a good one) the first time you used it, but maybe TI got lazy and just initialised it to a constant value

aidan ,

You can set the seed, if you don’t the default is 0

bstix ,

You need to set the seed number.

Seleni , to til in TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand.

Created the entire vanilla industry pretty much single-handedly and died in poverty. Sounds about right.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Horrible that he died in poverty, but he did die a free man, which is a lot more than you can say for most black people on Réunion.

yeather , to til in TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child

The US barely ever ratifies treaties that require international oversight. It’s the same reason we have the UCMJ and not the Hague court.

cashews_best_nut OP ,

Because America believes it’s an exception and above everyone else.

yeather ,

More like the US would rather keep its territorial integrity. They have the ability to deal with violations in house, no need to have international boards be used against us.

oktoberpaard ,

You can’t expect any country to take the international court seriously if you don’t do it yourself. The logic that you’ve just used is exactly the kind of logic that countries would use that don’t want to be held accountable for their actions that go against international law.

loki ,

They have the ability to deal with violations in house

riiiiiiight, no bias at all in that. Hey, we investigated ourselves and found we are not liable to war crimes we commit abroad. how bloody fucking convenient.

Good job at giving Russia an excuse to be free of consequences when it finally loses in Ukraine. They’re probably going to make a case that they don’t need to have international boards be used against them too, no?

yeather ,

How would an international court be any less biased than a US court? Politics is politics just abiut everywhere.

drwankingstein , to linux in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

a capitalist funded anarcho-comunist ecosystem, ironic

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Libs that think “money” = capitalism have water vapour in their skulls

Aux ,

More like a capitalist funded autocracy.

millie , to technology in Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone

Honestly, both the behavior and the tone kind of remind me of someone in the Conan Exiles rp community. They’re a great roleplayer to a point, but they always have a meltdown and inevitably get themselves banned from every single new server. They can’t help themselves.

But their attitude at this point seems to just be that it’s going to happen, at which point they shrug and evade the ban until it happens again. I don’t think I know of a single server they haven’t gotten banned from, but they just kind of take it in stride and keep making alts.

The thing is, they love Conan and do actually want to have somewhere to RP, they just also have this other thing they can’t or won’t really fight

Aatube OP ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

Do they abbreviate past tenses of made-up verbs such as "nommed" like "nomm'd" instead of "nom'd"?

millie ,

No, they mostly scream at people in voice chat or break character when something happens that they don’t like. Often after losing pvp.

astraeus ,
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Toxic behavior has a double-edged consequence. It both tends to make the person responsible feel like they act that way naturally, and it also makes people respond to them as if they act that way naturally, it becomes a feedback loop. So much of the perpetual cycle is subconscious.

Sometimes it takes a hell of a lot of patience and a step back to say, “you aren’t toxic but your behavior certainly is.” It’s moments like those where maybe, hopefully they can realize that behavior is something for which they need to seek proper help.

ridethisbike , to til in TIL the only guy in ZZ Top without a giant beard is named Frank Beard.

He doesn’t need a beard… He IS the beard!

BleatingZombie ,

Well, I hope his “significant other” feels confident enough to come out to their loved ones and find someone that’s right for them

teft , to til in TIL that player behaviors to a software bug that created a pandemic in World of Warcraft had similarities to COVID-19 in the real world
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I was there that fateful day. It was interesting to say the least. I was level 60 at the time but all the noobies dying made every city littered with corpses.

Pons_Aelius , to youshouldknow in YSK: Imperial units are based on the metric system

Yep, US imperial is just metric with extra steps.

shnizmuffin , to til in TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry
@shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol avatar

There were video games, too.

CaptPretentious ,

My sister played the heck out of the Pico game

the_artic_one ,

I had forgotten until I saw this comment but now I distinctly remember a game where you were supposed to make a cake for a pig by following steps like putting the correct ingredients into the mixer. My sister and I used to repeatedly mess up the cake on purpose because the pig would eat it no matter what and we found it hilarious to feed him awful cakes made entirely of burnt eggshells.

feedum_sneedson , (edited ) to asklemmy in Greensleeves is almost 500 years old. I'm sure there were other very popular songs when it came out, but Greensleeves had to staying power to still be here. What do you think is today's Greensleeves?

Creep by Radiohead, imagine how much that would annoy Thom Yorke.

Venator ,

Probably helps to be featured or mentioned in other notable media, as greensleaves is mentioned in Shakespeare, and creep is part of the fight club soundtrack, so it has that going for it I guess 😅

vk6flab , to showerthoughts in I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte
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I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René’s work.

Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!

Nicely done.

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Agreed. OP did well.

And it’s an opportunity for me to re-post this seminal picture (or, one instance of it):

https://files.catbox.moe/zvuh1p.png

Image by Wendy D. Stolyarov

Klear OP ,
sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

😆 that’s a good one! I haven’t seen it before, and I thought I’d gone through all of them (to date)! Cheers!

xigoi ,
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sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I have never seen that! I wish I could upvote you twice, you wonderful person.

KingThrillgore , to asklemmy in Can I detect my SO's presence just by smell / pheromone ?
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Probably not. The studies on human pheromones is inconclusive at best, the space is full of snake oil and hucksters (further discrediting it), and you may be having a psychosomatic effect.

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