I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
Well, it’s terrible at factual things and counting, and even when it comes to writing code it will often hallucinate APIs and libraries that don’t exist - But when given very limited-scope, specific-domain problems with enough detail and direction, I’ve found it to be fairly competent as a rubber ducky for programming.
So far I’ve found ChatGPT to be most useful for:
Writing SQL. Seriously, it’s fantastic at writing SQL if you tell it the relevant schema and what you’re trying to achieve.
Brainstorming feature flow - Tell it the different parts of a feature, ask for thoughts on how the user should be guided through the process, and it does a decent job of suggesting ideas.
Generating alternative names/labels for buttons and such. “In X feature, I have a button that does Y when the user has Z. Currently I have that button labelled ‘Start Y’, but it feels robotic and impersonal. List 10 suggestions for what such a button could say to be more personal and friendly.” and the like. My favorite was a button that was labelled “Map Incoming Data to Job Details”. Wound up renaming the whole process to just “Job Ingestion” because it sounded so good.
Reformatting data. Give it a data structure and tell it you want that data in some other data structure, and it is really accurate at reformatting it. I don’t think I’d trust it with a huge amount of data that way, but for an unimportant one-off it was a nice time savings.
I am a phone scroller and social media reader and a YouTube watcher. My phone and by extension my Google account are my mobile office. I regret having to buy an Apple Mac Mini but I am not giving up Logic as my DAW. I got away from overpriced Samsung devices a few years ago and have a fairly bloat-free Motorola. Now I want to...
If you aren’t too tech savvy I would recommend against self hosted services. There are amazing solutions out there but they will cost a few bucks.
For cloud storage I use Hetzner’s https://www.your-storageshare.de. It’s a hosted Nextcloud with pretty much all the freedom you can get. Currently it costs about 5 Euros per month for 1TB of storage. You can even share it with your family and friends because you can create more users on your instance. While I self hosted Nextcloud and Syncthing in the past this is just way less work.
Your-storageshare replaced Dropbox/Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Contacts and Google Photos for me. That’s a pretty huge chunk of the services I use passively all the time. With Nextcloud’s encryption enabled and GDPR regulations in place it is IMHO as save as you can get without self hosting.
For mails I am quite happy with https://mailbox.org - it starts at 1 Euro per month but I recommend the 3 Euros tier. It’s no Proton Mail but somehow to me it seems more trustworthy. They don’t overpromise on features but provide a solid secure service. Most of the time I send unencrypted mails (due to various reasons) but you could use SMIME with it. Since it provides IMAP you could even integrate it with your-storageshare using the Nextcloud Mail app.
Both services support your own domains so if you fancy it you could set up www.IHadTwoCows.com for cloud and mail. Hetzner has you covered for domains too. Not the cheapest but reliable.
For search I use https://startpage.com. It uses Google results but anonymized. I am very happy with it.
And that, kids, is the story of how I banned Google from my digital life. (okay, Maps is still there but all the alternatives where just not good enough with traffic jams in my city)
I don’t think I understand your point about them impersonating users? It seems to me like an account gets created for everyone using the portal. It then provides you a password and you can start using that account. I tried it just now and it seems like your account gets flagged as bot on creation automatically. So most people posting from that domain, might just not have unchecked that “I’m a bot”-tick and are actual former Reddit users.
Creating an account doesn’t make a user active though, but for the question if a bot posting stuff counts as an active user or not, I honestly can’t say.
Just to clarify: will you use the same domain? If yes, oleorun’s answer is good enough. If not, it would be much more harder (you would also have to update your instance’s URL and users’ inboxes URLs in the database for federation to work, probably have to unsubscribe aand resubscribe to every community on your instance and even then I’m not sure that would not lead to federation issues)
At least for piracy of streaming content, I believe what should become apparent to everyone is that convenience drove down piracy and greatly increased gains for everyone, and once corporations got greedy and started rolling out new platforms and fragmenting content between them, everything started going down the drain. Even without accounting for piracy, convenience was lost, multiple platforms mean more fees to get the same content that was originally in one platform, so less people willing to pay. Less income per platform drives down investment in content and drives up cancelations of ongoing projects. Less income than was originally observed when a single platform had condensed content means there’s greater incentive to drive ads and increases prices on all platforms, thus also potentially driving down users subscribing to said platforms.
None of that factors in piracy. If we do factor in piracy, it’s a fact that before fragmentation, subscription rates were high, and after fragmentation, there’s a lot more incentive to pirate content. In some instances, platforms shoot themselves in the foot even further by further charging rental fees or purchases of individual content, as well as region blocks and ads.
Piracy surely is a problem all throughout the history of streaming services (something that could still be argued as not actually something to worry about because those pirates were never going to be customers in the first place, and Netflix was still booming enough to incentivize other companies to roll out their own platforms), but it becomes a symptom of another problem later down the line due to lack of convenience. Even so, the current state of streaming platforms wouldn’t be much different if piracy wasn’t happening. People would simply consume less content due to budget constraints or due to being annoyed at lack of conveniences.
I personally hate depending on a platform that on a whim may decide to remove content I watch. There’s specific songs that have disappeared from my Spotify playlists for no good reason (a lot for geoblocking reasons), there’s shows that just get removed from Netflix, there’s all of game of thrones on prime which I couldn’t watch due to geoblocking and ended up having to pirate it even though I was paying for a platform which had the show. It’s a lot easier, a lot more convenient, to pirate. The content is yours, instantly, until you decide to delete it from your computer. I didn’t mind paying for Netflix for years, and since they incentivized account sharing, I shared the account with 2 other friends and we split the cost. It was super convenient. Now, I have a plex library nearing the 50tb mark with about 40 people watching content on it, everything automated and everyone can request whatever they want, and I simply ask for donations to buy more drives. It’s still more expensive than subscription services due to energy costs, donations not being enough for the equipment needed to store content and run services, and costs of internet, static ips, and domain names, but I’m not planning to stop as it’s overall more convenient, not just for me, but for 40 other people.
Every time I browse lemmyverse.net, I see one of the top instances in terms of registered users is enterprise.lemmy.ml. Right now it has 54.2k users, putting it behind lemmy.world and ahead of lemmy.ml. However, if I go there, there’s almost no content, even on All (which implies it’s not federated). Is it a test instance...
Looks like a test instance. URLs are read from the end to the beginning, so enterprise.lemmy.ml is a domain controlled by lemmy.ml. As that is the instance that the main developers control, it would follow they have a testing environment. In addition. Almost all the posts, users, and communities seem to have “test” as part of their name. It being the instance controlled by the developers is why lemmy.ml is always a link, while lemmy.world would need to be formatted as a link to get a link.
But inclusion of Proton domains makes many Proton users to be unable to register on websites. It is only helping google to keep monopoly and it is simply privacy harming
Even that won’t protect you. They still have analytics on billions of websites since they offer a robust free analytics interface for small webmasters, and have a paid tier for enterprise level websites. They still track everything that goes through Gmail and Gmail is used by billions of people. Your emails are still being read by Google every time you email someone who uses Gmail. Even if you refused to email a Gmail user, many small businesses use Gmail without you even knowing, passing their custom domain name through the gmail servers. Your web activity is still being tracked by Google every time you visit a website or use an app with Google analytics on it. Not personally using Google products, or not having a Google account does nothing to protect you from their tracking.
Edit: that’s without even mentioning their Android OS.
Linux if you’re prepared to support it entirely yourself
What does this even mean? The most work caused in administering my company's IT comes from destructive patches from Microsoft. Just like a month ago they released a security patch that caused the domain controller to not reboot which is pretty much the worst thing you can run into aside outright malicious actors (not sure Microsoft doesn't count as one). So I had to "support" users by rolling back untested shit until a hotfix was released.
My private setup runs exclusively on Linux. Patches also sometimes cause trouble but it's just as infrequent and less destructive if it happens.
It's really not that different from an admin point of view but it's not Linux' business model to snoop on or extort you or to force proprietary hardware on you because sEcUrItY.
The FF extension is just called “User-Agent Switcher” I believe?
And yes, you can set it blacklist mode or whitelist mode (in other words, “use the extension on every domain but:” vs. “Only use the extension with these domains:”).
I’ll only switch away from FF if a site is completely broken. I’ll try it before resorting to chromium
<p>Researchers have uncovered intriguing new insights into the habits, preferences, and perceptions of adult webcam platform viewers. Their findings, published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2284349"><em>The Journal of Sex Research</em></a>, suggest that these viewers not only seek sexual gratification but also emotional connection.</p>
<p>The landscape of adult entertainment has dramatically evolved with the advent of the internet. Recently, adult webcam platforms have risen to prominence, offering a more interactive and personalized experience than traditional adult content. Past studies have primarily focused on traditional forms of adult content, leaving a gap in understanding these newer, interactive digital spaces.</p>
<p>“With online and offline worlds blending in everyday life on a global scale, commercial sex in general and the sociocultural construct of “sex work” in particular have now firmly expanded into the digital sphere,” said study author <a href="https://sexandlifecoaching.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xtine Milrod</a>, an independent sexologist with a hybrid practice encompassing research, sex therapy and psychotherapy/</p>
<p>“I am also interested in under-researched populations; even with studies of webcam activities, the main focus has been on the performers and not the users. Since our research (together with Martin Monto, PhD) is generally focused on people who purchase sexual experiences, it was a logical evolution to investigate those who buy and enjoy those experiences primarily on line and not just away from screen.”</p>
<p>For their study, the researchers conducted a comprehensive survey on Chaturbate.com, a leading site in this domain. Over 10,570 adults, active viewers on the platform, were recruited to participate in the study. To be eligible, participants had to be over 18, understand English, and willingly provide informed consent.</p>
<p>The survey featured 93 questions designed to capture a wide range of information about viewer habits, preferences, and perceptions. This survey included questions about sexual partners, frequency of site visits, and types of activities enjoyed on the platform. To ensure the authenticity of responses and weed out potential bots, the team set specific criteria, such as the time taken to complete the survey and the consistency of responses.</p>
<p>A striking 94.2% of respondents were men, with over half being single. This demographic predominance is significant in understanding the user base of these platforms. Interestingly, a significant number (40.3%) reported no sexual partners in the past year. Over half of the respondents had been using the platform for over three years, indicating a long-term engagement with these sites. Additionally, more than half of the respondents visited Chaturbate at least once per day, indicating a high frequency of use.</p>
<p>Manual masturbation by performers was the most preferred activity among respondents, with 78.2% favoring it. The use of sex toys by performers was the second most popular activity (72.1%). Viewer-controlled sex toys (53.0%) and watching two women together (52.0%) were also among the top activities, followed by fellatio (48.1%).</p>
<p>Interestingly, penile-vaginal intercourse, a common staple in traditional pornography, was not among the top five activities preferred, suggesting that webcam platform users might be seeking different experiences than those typically depicted in conventional adult content.</p>
<p>A significant portion of respondents (66.0%) felt that their experiences on adult webcam sites made them more educated about sex and more than half of the viewers (54.6%) reported that watching cams made them feel better about their sex lives. However, a substantial number (25.2%) felt worse about their sex lives after using these platforms.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>The majority of users (72.2%) found watching cams less satisfying than in-person sex, indicating that while webcam platforms offer certain advantages, they do not fully replace the physical and emotional connection found in real-life sexual encounters. Only 19.1% of respondents considered webcam interactions as “real sex,” suggesting a clear distinction in the minds of most users between digital sexual experiences and physical, real-world interactions.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, physical attractiveness was highly valued in performers, along with happiness, genuine orgasms, and enthusiasm for sexual activities. But the study also revealed that viewers sought more than just sexual gratification; emotional connection, responsiveness, and authenticity in performers were also highly valued. Most respondents reported that watching cams helped them feel calmer, indicating a potential stress-relief aspect of these platforms.</p>
<p>“The conclusion of the study is that while enjoying sexual release via on screen partners, the majority of our users still consider sex away from screen a superior experience,” Milrod told PsyPost. “We are still human animals after all! On the other hand, you can work on expanding your sexual repertoire and explore personal preferences and fantasies as well as physical sensations while interacting with cam performers; in addition, for some, engaging with performers non-sexually can also provide some emotional benefits.”</p>
<p>Sexual orientation also appeared to significantly impact the type of content preferred by viewers on adult webcam platforms. Gay or lesbian respondents showed a higher preference for watching activities like manual masturbation and fellatio. Bisexual respondents were more likely than their heterosexual or gay/lesbian counterparts to enjoy watching transgender women, gender play, and transgender men performers. In contrast, heterosexual respondents were less likely than other groups to report enjoying group sex involving more than three persons.</p>
<p>Bisexual and gay or lesbian respondents reported more positive impacts on their sex lives from watching cams compared to heterosexual respondents. This includes feeling better about their sex lives due to their webcam platform use. These groups were also less likely to report that watching cams made them feel worse about their sex lives. This suggests that for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, webcam platforms might play a more affirming and positive role in their sexual well-being.</p>
<p>“I was surprised by the positive experiences of bisexual users in particular, and the various physical and mental benefits they drew from using cams,” Milrod said.</p>
<p>While the study offers a comprehensive look into the habits of adult webcam platform users, it comes with certain limitations. The length and depth of the survey might have deterred some users from completing it, potentially skewing the results toward more engaged users. The findings open avenues for future research, especially in understanding the sexual behaviors and experiences of viewers in relation to their overall well-being.</p>
<p>“Erotic webcam use is limited in terms of replacing an emotional relationship away from screen,” Milrod added. “Most of our users are clearly aware of the limitations; however, a minority of users can find themselves dependent on the interactions with cam performers, or even limiting themselves to this particular form of sexual release. We need to address the mechanisms and possible sequence of how this dependence might occur.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2023.2284349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Sex Cam Use a Substitute for “Real Sex?” Attitudes and Experiences of Consumers Using Adult Cam Platforms</a>“, was published November 30, 2023.</p>
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Now let’s give users the ability to block domains like on Mastodon
That’s AFAIK already implemented, 0.19 just isn’t out, yet.
and everyone is happy.
There will always be the people who try to police others. Just look how even on Mastodon seemingly every instance has blocked Threads despite the fact that A.) users can block instances on their own and B.) Threads doesn’t even have federation, yet.
It appears that the Github user GalacticHypernova is not a contributor to the 7c/fakefilter project - just someone asking for some domains to be added. The current list does not contain proton.me or protonmail.com.
I suppose this might be a reasonable litmus test for the reliability of that list.
I don’t use Simplelogin so I don’t know how their service works. The domains used for aliases don’t need to originate email so there’s no need for an SPF record. The A record for the hostname used for the MX record(s) could technically point at multiple IPs that could be changed often.
I own a significant number of domains and manage my own servers. There’s quite literally no way for anyone to prevent me from using an email alias.
My point was that trying to block email aliases is a fool’s errand. It’s a slight hindrance to only the least technical users. The entire 7c/fakefilter project is an exercise in futility.
And since people won’t use the website, the website won’t use the list. So the list would be useless.
The maintainer seems to have followed the same interpretation, weighing legitimate use against spam use. This is the official response to the issue as of 8h ago:
Dear Contributors,
We value your suggestions for expanding our list of disposable email providers. Your input is crucial in enhancing our tool’s capabilities.
Decision on Gmail and ProtonMail Inclusion
After thorough evaluation, we have resolved not to include Gmail and ProtonMail in our list. Our rationale is based on the following technical and operational considerations:
<span style="color:#323232;">1. **Reputation and Reliability**
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Gmail and ProtonMail**: Established, reputable providers with a high trust level for personal and professional communication.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Distinction**: Unlike typical disposable email services, they offer long-term, reliable email solutions.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">2. **Active Abuse and Spam Prevention Mechanisms**
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Effective Systems**: Both providers have robust mechanisms to detect and mitigate abuse and spam.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Proactive Monitoring**: Ensures a secure email environment, reducing the prevalence of malicious activities.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">3. **Commercial Intent of Typical Disposable Email Providers**
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Focus**: Targeting providers driven by ad revenue, facilitating spam/abuse.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Gmail and ProtonMail's Model**: User-centric, not primarily ad-driven.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">4. **Domain Limitations**
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Effectiveness**: Limited domain offerings by Gmail and ProtonMail make them less susceptible to misuse.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Strategy**: Focusing on providers with extensive, rotating domain lists for more impactful filtering.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">5. **Individual User Accountability**
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> * **Accountability Measures**: Both services have mechanisms to penalize users violating terms, decreasing misuse risks.
</span>
Summary and Next Steps
Including Gmail and ProtonMail does not align with our criteria for identifying disposable email services. Our aim is to target services significantly contributing to online spam and abuse, without impacting legitimate email services. We have reviewed your list and agree on adding some providers, like internxt.com (Reference). We will also incorporate the obvious choices from the tail of your list. We apologize for the delay in addressing this issue but intend to promptly resolve it by focusing on the most impactful additions.
I’ve been here a week ago already asking if Arch would be fine for a laptop used for university, as stability is a notable factor in that and I’m already using EndeavourOS at home, but now I’m curious about something else too - what about Arch vs NixOS?...
As a recent NixOS convert coming from Bazzite (Kinoite/Silverblue with user friendly daily driver and gaming tweaks), and before that mostly Arch-based distros, I’d say it boils down to the tradeoff between having way more control over reproducibility and having to deep dive into the often poorly documented domain specific rabbit hole that is Nix. If you’re comfortable with going out of your way to learn, looking for examples, reading source code to find out what options you can use or how stuff works, it can absolutely be worth it but it’s a steep price to pay for sure.
I personally adore what Nix sets out to solve and find it extremely rewarding to learn. Plus, as a developer, I enjoy puzzling out how to get stuff done and don’t mind diving into the source if I need to, so it works for me. I’d absolutely prefer solid documentation, of course, but it’s not a deal breaker.
When it comes to software, the Nix repo has a staggering amount of prebuilt binaries ready to download (which you can search here) and it’s often not too hard to hack together your own reproducible package if you want after you get comfortable enough with it. At least for my use cases, I haven’t really missed much from my days using Arch and the AUR. If anything, I appreciate how much more consistent it tends to be in comparison.
If you, like myself, go for a flake (yet another rabbit hole within a rabbit hole) based setup and point to the unstable repo, you basically get a fully reproducible, easy to update and rollback rolling release not too dissimilar to using Arch with auto btrfs snapshots enabled. That’s how I used to do Arch and it feels pretty familiar.
Anyway, that’s what I got. If you have any more specific concerns or questions I’d be happy to elaborate!
Edit: I forgot to add but I find a nice way to get comfortable without fully commiting is using Nix as a package manager on any old distro. You could install it on Endeavour (I recommend this method) and play around with Home Manager, use it as a dotfiles manager on steroids, have it declaratively install and manage the CLI apps you can’t live without and whatnot, see how you like it. That’s how I started, I have a common HM config I’ve so far used with Debian at work, Ubuntu running under WSL when I’m on Windows and now NixOS itself.
I run a private CA for client SSL.
For traditional server SSL I just use let’s encrypt, although I already have the domain (less than $10 a year) for my public facing stuff, and just use a subdomain of that one for my homelab.
I have a container with openssl for the private CA and generating user certs as well as renewing the let’s encrypt ones. I just use openssl without anything fancy.
The output folder is only mounted rw in that one container
I only ever mount the subfolders in read-only in other containers that need those certs.
All these containers are running on the same server so I don’t even have to copy anything around, the containers don’t even need connectivity between them, it’s just mounted where needed.
The TorrentFreak article might have more information; I skimmed it. I don’t live in India, so I don’t know. Apparently, only the raw.githubusercontent.com domain was blocked, so Indian users should have still been able to access the main github.com domain. It’s the direct link to the files that was apparently blocked. But cloning repositories probably wasn’t affected?
It’s just the latest example of how the scourge of ransomware – which locks computers so hackers can demand a fee chronic failure to implement basic cybersecurity hygiene has disrupted services at health care providers throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
FTFY. I guarantee that, if they ever release a writeup of the intrusion, there’s going to be a bit which reads something like “a user got phished. The local workstation had fuck-all for security hardening. So, the attackers didn’t have to try all that hard to own that system as a beachhead. The rest of the network was a hell-scape of unpatched software, poor security configuration, and just a general lack of monitoring. The domain controllers were owned with little more effort than the attackers teabagging their keyboards. From there, ransomware was deployed with far better automation and tooling than anything local IT had available to them.”
These types of hacks almost always come down to a failure of management. Security costs money and creates friction for users of the network. The benefits are hard to quantify and are all about, “we may have prevented an X million dollar skull fucking of the network”. Eventually, they see the “may have prevented” as “we didn’t do anything” and decide to roll the dice more and more on the risks of poor IT tooling and poor security practices. That goes on until security doesn’t prevent the “X million dollar skull fucking” and then management gets pissy about security not having done anything, despite security having been waving red flags for ages. A few mid-level managers get let go, upper-management makes lots of speeches about “we take security seriously” security gets a temporary boost in funding and the cycle starts all over.
Hello, Im trying to monitor & control my dns in my network. I like the idea & features of nextdns but all your traffic goes trough them right? I wanna host something simular. I currently have pi-hole installed but i feel like its not as advanced as something like nextdns. What service could i use for this? Thanks for your time!
A CA cert is higher up can sign for any desired domain. Certificates are a chain of trust and as long as the entire chain can be validated (by the root level installed by the user), then the entire cert will appear valid. During installation, that’s what gets installed and then the provider signs for whatever domain you’re visiting that they’d need (or want) to MITM.
Cloudflare uses LetsEncrypt, Google and a few other CAs to sign their certs. You’re not forced to use them as registrar, and they could (though they will lose accreditation very quickly) in theory sign any domain without you using them to host your domain’s DNS.
Reddit users have no idea, and no control, over whether their posts are mirrored.
I can’t believe that I actually had to say this, but what these bot instances are doing is EXTREMELY ILLEGAL.
Reddit comments are COPYRIGHTED materials, and when reddit users sign up, they agree to a ToS that grants reddit essentially a permanent license to do with the contributed content as reddit pleases. However, anyone else mirroring these reddit comment would not have permission to do so, and theoretically reddit, or any reddit user whose comments are being mirrored, can start issuing DMCA takedowns against any instance that host these comments by federating with these bot instances.
I’m not a lawyer, but @rgullis, instead of saying they are archivers or frontends that explicit do not host contents, you are ACTUALLY dumb enough to admit that you are illegally scraping, mirroring, and rehosting reddit’s content for the explicit purpose of making a competitor and harming their commercial interest so you can’t even claim fair use. You better pray that reddit’s lawyers don’t find out about your little projects, they’ll find you through your domain registrar or your cloud host, and you, and any instance that federates with yours would be in a world of pain.
Any instance owner should defederate from these bot instances immediately.
Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against....
How does this prevent MITM attacks? The secret you send to the server, be it called hash or password, is what’s used to authenticate the user. For the purpose of client/server communication, this “password” on your host only is not relevant, as it’s only used to generate the real secret.
A hypothetical MITM attacker would still gain access to that secret, without needing to care how it was generated, be it by hashing something on your host or by coming up with semi random letters yourself.
The secret sent to the server becomes the defacto password.
Now about those password managers, they are a thing but I don’t have experience using them. Through a disadvantage is that if a site gets breached you have to do something weird with your password manager, so that a different password is produced with your secret key and the domain name. This can be done with a counter that needs to be manually adjusted, but that’s weird from a usability point of view.
Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test (beehaw.org)
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
I am tired of corporatist technology and I need help to get away from it.
I am a phone scroller and social media reader and a YouTube watcher. My phone and by extension my Google account are my mobile office. I regret having to buy an Apple Mac Mini but I am not giving up Logic as my DAW. I got away from overpriced Samsung devices a few years ago and have a fairly bloat-free Motorola. Now I want to...
Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus (lemmy.ml)
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Migrating Lemmy to new host (ubergeek77)?
Hello, how can I migrate Lemmy from one host to another?...
Little black book
I was going through a box ov old stuff and found my computer notebook (a little black diary) from around 2001-2003....
Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.
What is enterprise.lemmy.ml?
Every time I browse lemmyverse.net, I see one of the top instances in terms of registered users is enterprise.lemmy.ml. Right now it has 54.2k users, putting it behind lemmy.world and ahead of lemmy.ml. However, if I go there, there’s almost no content, even on All (which implies it’s not federated). Is it a test instance...
Protonmail is blocked by disposable filter (HELP needed to unblock) (github.com)
I hope community will help in this situation! ;)
Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator (www.reuters.com)
Will Microsoft drop the TPM requirement for Win 11 once Win 12 rolls around?
Or maybe they will launch Win 12 with optional TPM support....
Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam
Whoever is in charge of that instance, STOP....
ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites (github.com)
This makes me 😭...
Arch or NixOS?
I’ve been here a week ago already asking if Arch would be fine for a laptop used for university, as stability is a notable factor in that and I’m already using EndeavourOS at home, but now I’m curious about something else too - what about Arch vs NixOS?...
Do you run a private CA? Could you tell me about your certificate setup if you do?
Hi, I was looking at private CAs since I don’t want to pay for a domain to use in my homelab....
Access home server from anywhere
Hi, I know this topic has been talked about 70 thousand times but I’m still not sure....
India blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trolls (torrentfreak.com)
Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked
Cyberattack on US hospital owner diverts ambulances from emergency rooms in multiple states (www.cnn.com)
selfhosting alternative to nextdns
Hello, Im trying to monitor & control my dns in my network. I like the idea & features of nextdns but all your traffic goes trough them right? I wanna host something simular. I currently have pi-hole installed but i feel like its not as advanced as something like nextdns. What service could i use for this? Thanks for your time!
re: Fediverser Network - We should immediately turn off the automatic posts, and keep it off until the bidirectionality is implemented
I think it’s a cool idea, and it could be the best way to help users on Reddit learn about Lemmy and migrate over....
Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year (www.wired.com)
Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against....