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I do something similar, but I guess scorched earth edition:

  • Only use firefox, no chrome or chromium variants
  • Never signed in to my google account (only have it to keep a gmail forward going for old ass subscriptions)
  • Have firefox configured to only keep whitelisted sites’ cookies and data between restarts - google is not on that list
  • uBlock Origin

The last several months I started seeing that youtube screen “enable history to see recommendations” blank page when first landing, as if it was a punishment to me. It’s not. I remember all the channels I like, and it’s easy enough to keep checking back. So that blank screen is actually a nice bonus to me.

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Ten pills once is chump change

When I was a patient at the VA pain clinic for a couple years, I could fart ten pills on any given day.

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Lighten up, Francis.

Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?

It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....

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locked box

As soon as I read this I read the rest of your comment in Al Gore’s voice, ca 2k SNL, lol.

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ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.

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jumping won’t impress her

Unless it’s jump humping.

Wanted American man flees to Russia, signs military contract (www.themoscowtimes.com)

A former American city council member who is wanted in the United States on child pornography charges appears to have fled to Russia and joined the Russian military, according to footage shared by regional authorities in the northern Khanty-Mansi autonomous district....

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valuable

Till he’s not, or worse, becomes a liability.

Once he’s washed up there, would be funny if they extradited him back to the US. Double whammy if he ever makes it back.

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It’s a vehicle for trump to accept foreign money, that’s how.

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It’s what my router runs.

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*Quick Stop Groceries, with two drug dealers standing out front.

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Was the transition into management easy for you, or was it a slow acceptance?

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Funny thing I’ve been driving for 30+ years, and have never had a formal driving test:

  • Permit at 15: No tests, only restriction was to have a licensed passenger in-vehicle
  • License at 16: Had driver’s ed in school, state’s driving test waved, and license transferred to other states without any new driving test
  • Motorcycle license: Took a safety course while in the military, state added endorsement without any test, which also transferred out-of-state
  • Heavy vehicles: Trained on military 5-ton/deuce+0.5/Frontloaders/HMMWVs - all kinds of heavy equipment - no formal tests, only unit sign-off (even on civilian roads)
  • The kicker: I now live in a US state where a driver license is good with no re-testing till age 64

Gonna suck when I actually do have to take a test. Hopefully there will be sane infra to go completely driverless by the time I get that old.

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Turns out dope.af is redirecting to andy.is, til.

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executing foreign JavaScript

This is a great point I try to convey to my less-technical friends and family. Looking at a webpage is not like changing the channel on a tv of old. Looking at a webpage pulls code from who knows where and executes it on your local machine.

These advertisers expect that I should blindly trust them to execute code on my cpu, in my memory, on my machine? Yeah fuck that, it’s a privilege. I don’t invite every hobo walking by to come into my house and take a shit in my toilet.

If they don’t like that not everyone executes their syphilis-ridden javascript, then they should put their shit behind a paywall. But they won’t, since they know they don’t have a product worth paying for.

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Where’s that at?

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lol, no - just curious what town/city, or even just state/country. The vegetation, river walls, and architecture all seem so unfamiliar to me. I’m just not sure where this might be (Greece? would be my guess)

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OC … Original Content

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Americans Conservatives

If your grandmother dies at age 102, Fox news would blame it on immigrants, somehow.

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It’s NBC news, the same org that tried to hire and retain the former RNC fucking chair as a political commentator.

Fuck NBC.

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“We regret what happened, it shouldn’t have happened,” Pangemanan said, insisting the soldiers’ actions were rogue, and not representative of the Indonesian military.

Plot twist: What he regrets having happened is those troops getting caught, not what hey did. The “rogue actions” were them taking personal cell phone videos and retaining them, making it easier to get caught and less easily denied.

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So it’s been a while since I had my OS and microcomputer architecture classes, but it really looks like GoFetch could be a real turd in the punch bowl. It appears like it could be on par with the intel vulns of recent years.

which would have this hardware issue but don’t have actual background processing

So I’ve read the same about iOS only allowing one user-space app in the foreground at a time, but… that still leaves the entirety of kernal-space processes allowed to run at anytime they want. So it’s not hard to imagine that a compromised app could be running in the foreground, all the the while running GoFetch trying to mine, while the OS might be shuffling crypto keys in the background on the same processor cluster.

The other thing I’d like to address, is you’re assuming this code would necessarily require physical access to compromise a machine. That is certainly one vector, but I’d posit there’s other simpler ways to do the same. The two that come to mind really quick, are (1) a compromised app via official channels like the app store, or even more scary, (2) malicious javascript hidden on compromised websites. The white paper indicates this code doesn’t need root, it only needs to be executed on the same cluster where the crypto keys keep passing through by chance; so either of these vectors seem like very real possibilities to me.

Edit to add:

I seem to recall reading a paper on the tiktok apps with stock installation were actually polyglot, in that the app would actually download a binary after installation, such that what’s executed on an end user’s machine is not what went through the app store scanners. I had read of the same for other apps using a similar technique for mini-upgrades, which is a useful way to not have to go through app store approval everytime you need to roll out a hotfix or that latest minor feature.

If these mechanisms haven’t already been smacked down by apple/google, or worse, aren’t detectable by apple/google, this could be a seriously valuable tool for state level actors able to pull off the feat of hiding it in plain sight. I wonder if this might be part of what congress was briefed about recently, and why it was a near unanimous vote to wipe out tiktok. “Hey congress people, all your iphones are about to be compromised… your tinder/grindr/onlyfans kinks are about to become blackmail fodder.”

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Doesn’t it require a separate process to be using the cryptographic algorithm in the first place in order to fill the cache in question?

Yes, that’s my understanding. I haven’t looked at the code, but their high level explanation sounds like their app is making calls to an API which could result in the under-the-hood crypto “service” pulling the keys into the cache, and there’s an element of luck to whether they snag portions of the keys at that exact moment. So it seems like the crafted app doesn’t have the ability to manipulate the crypto service directly, which makes sense if this is only a user-land app without root privileges.

why wouldn’t the app just steal your password and avoid all of this in the first place?

I believe it would be due to the app not having root privileges, and so being constrained with going through layers of abstraction to get its crypto needs met. I do not know the exact software architecture of iOS/macOS, but I guarantee there’s a notion of needing to call an API for these types things. For instance, if your app needs to push/pull an object it owns in/out of iCloud, you’d call the API with a number of arguments to do so. You would not have the ability to access keys directly and perform the encrypt/decrypt all by yourself. Likewise with any passwords, you would likely instead make an API call and the backing code/service would have that isolated/controlled access.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

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Saying one is wrong, or doesn’t know what they’re talking about, is not ad hominem. Maybe it’s a language thing, but to me saying someone is wrong is equivalent to saying their argument is wrong. And saying someone is out of their element/depth is the same as saying they’re wrong on the subject, aka their argument is wrong.

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A personal attack would be more like: “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl.”

But nobody has told you that “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl.”

If anyone actually did say “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl”, then I could understand you taking it as an ad hominem attack.

Alas, I’m glad nobody here is sinking so low as to say to you that “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl.”

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I didn’t say “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl” to you, I said I’m glad that nobody said “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl” to you.

Would you like me to say “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl” to you? I don’t want to kink shame if that’s your bag, you know, people denigrating you and telling you “You are such a whiny little bitch with a persecution complex and it’s apparent you are so lonely because nobody wants to put up with your bullshit irl”.

Just let me know, either way.

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You shouldn’t self diagnose like that, Greg. I’d encourage you to seek professional help to work through any demons you feel you might have.

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See there you go again, Greg. Best to let the professionals diagnose you. Even doctors go to see other doctors when they have medical concerns about themselves.

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Upset about what, Greg? Would you like me to be upset? Is that another kink you like to indulge in, upsetting others? You really should get consent first if so.

I must’ve really upset you (…) Which actually makes me feel much better

Wait, are you trying to upset me? That’s against lemmy.world rules, and c/technology’s rule 2.

Last thing too, Greg: Would be great if you stop editing your replies, and also downvoting each of my replies. That’s pretty intellectually dishonest, and has a strong smell of arguing in bad faith. Are you trying to argue in bad faith, Greg?

I really don’t want to think that you’re trying to upset me and argue in bad faith, you know, Hanlon’s razor and all.

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Enjoying it so much that you’re now reporting my comments as breaking rule 1 and 3, huh?

https://lemmy.zxcvn.xyz/pictrs/image/5b758ec2-46ca-4242-93e1-9f06e1e0a20f.png

Also, might not want to brigade by reporting with your other account @hudson. Did you forget to sign out on that one? Just needed a little more umph and downvoting in this thread? Pretty sure that’s against the rules too.

https://lemmy.zxcvn.xyz/pictrs/image/adc58cc7-6c16-49b8-8139-9382e1ea7544.png

Pro tip: If you’re going to use a diff account to brigade, you might want to change the profile up a bit so they don’t all resemble each other.

https://lemmy.zxcvn.xyz/pictrs/image/eb383f24-cc24-4983-9d31-99a2affe0a9a.png

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So let’s tally it up:

  • Extremely similar profile aesthetics, down to colors and style
  • Same exact account birthdays, 23 Aug 2023
  • Similar comment history, also confrontational, and many downvotes from the community
  • Both accounts reporting my exact comments, “hudson” sandwiched between your “gregorum” account
  • Each of my comments downvoted twice

It’s extremely delusional/insulting for you to expect anyone to believe all that’s coincidence. Oh the irony of you posting the NP when you can’t even come clean when caught in your own lies.

Have you changed your profile pics yet? Are you going to go back and edit your comments more to try and look better for when a mod gets around to your complaints? You are acting so see through right now, and it’s not a good look.

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and you’re not a mod or an instant admin

How do you know?

I bet I can keep you going all day.

I’m going to exhibit, the self-control of blocking you

So another lie. Also, you lose.

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Thanks for looking and not just zipping by. I’ll practice better restrain from feeding the trolls, I don’t want to make the mods lives any harder.

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There was a post about an older dude that went camping with his girlfriend and popped an ol’ blue to get freaky. They wrapped up and fell asleep, but the dude woke up 4 hours in excruciating pain - his erection had never gone down. They rushed down the mountain to the hospital, another two hours later… ER docs told him it was too late, amputation time.

So it’s always a good idea to stay awake long enough to flush the pipes with a good piss to avoid a uti, the story just reinforced that notion for me about 1000% more.

Trump can appeal ruling that kept Georgia prosecutor on case, judge says (www.reuters.com)

A Georgia judge on Wednesday said Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the state’s criminal election subversion case could appeal a ruling that let lead prosecutor Fani Willis remain on the case....

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Any place I’ve ever worked, it was definitely grounds for immediate termination. You most certainly should not be fucking your subordinates. Even if you’re 100% certain the relationship is consensual, the subordinate could feel as if it’s not, but is too fearful of losing their livelihood to object otherwise.

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Submerged duration: approx. 4 weeks

Pffft, bush league. The Titan has been submerged for checks watch 272 days with no end in sight.

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Man that guy’s hair is seriously out or regs.

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“Yup, that’s $blank for you.”

Same shit’s been said ever since the caveman developed complex enough language to say. That’s a lazy, tired, and vacuous trope you’re mindlessly spouting there, tiger.

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Panda Express

They test some fuggin chicken in my stomach every 4-6 months.

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The most important step in making Pembroke cheese.

Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)

It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....

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Interesting.

If they’ve built an app that can target non-christian demographics, then they’ve also built an app to target christians.

I wonder if they’ve made that realization yet.

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"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired"

  • Jonathan Swift, 1721
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Please log my IP address.

127.0.0.1

Checkmate. We’re watching you.

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B-52 enters the chat

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Maybe even down by the river.

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circumventing your organization’s policy

gasp

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One very easy tell that the IDF is lying: their lips are moving.

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I love it too, I buy some of the wallaby stuff now and again.

Just don’t eat a ton in any given day.

Edit - Oh shit:

In past warnings, the FDA notes: “If you’re 40 or older, eating 2 ounces of black licorice a day for at least two weeks could land you in the hospital with an irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.”

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Bandwidth issues, changed over to carrier pigeons (though now dealing with latency issues).

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