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alex_02

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Just a hardware nerd.___

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alex_02 , to cybersecurity in Off-Topic Friday
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I have a freezer full of ice cream again.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in What are You Working on Wednesday
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A bit late again, but I’ve been busy and dealing with life… I finally got my PinePhone up and running, mostly. I’m quite proud. I ended up going with Arch + Phosh image and not disappointed. Found a bunch of apps that work well on it as well. I’m definitely happy for once since it is basically usable now as a regular smartphone and as a mobile device for uh more nerdy things.

I am also debating which smartphone to buy to have as a backup phone, and there are three I looked at. All three have official Lineage OS support and one has Calyx OS support. I might end up buying 2 out of the 3.

Also been brainstorming and experimenting with a few ideas in labs and on my devices. Have a lot written down as a rough draft of what I want, and just need to go through my list to figure out what to prioritize to code and test in labs first. I am glad I wasted way too long figuring out this stuff because things are starting to turn out a lot better quality. I also have a nice list of hardware I want to buy… looking forward to being able to explore RF more and play with a lot of interesting hardware toys.

I have a lot of plans right now and just taking everything a bit each day.

Defiently still have way too much doubt in myself and questioning if this is really my thing, but life is confusing and sometimes sucks.

Also, here are a couple of pics of the pinephone:

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alex_02 , to cybersecurity in Off-Topic Friday
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I just accept I’m an asshole, and I’m an emo furry.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in What are You Working on Wednesday
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Make it more usable without having to do too many mental backflips. I’m going to try to see if I could make a better DE with XFCE + Openbox + dmenu + the sxmo gesture daemon. Have a rough draft in my head.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in What are You Working on Wednesday
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I’m late, but been wrestling with the PinePhone. I’ve ultimately decided on Mobian with Phosh + TLP + UFW and probably other stuff. I have decided to take a bit of a short break from most of my projects, but will probably be back to them in a week or so. Just exhausted right now, but something’s are starting to look up for once.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in Off-Topic Friday (experimental)
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I was told there were furries on Fridays.

alex_02 , to securitynews in The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified
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Most are not, and I have both friends and family from Russia. We will see more cyber crime from Russia as well because inflation is stupid high there right now and well… people don’t want to starve.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in What are You Working on Wednesday
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Brainstorming ways to deal with the overheating on PinePhone and have a few ideas to try. Been coding a lot in various different languages that are mostly newer to get a feel for them to see if they’re interesting enough. At some point, I want to try to get into developing some stuff with the Pogo pins on the PinePhone. Need to get to emulating firmware on QEMU to start playing with IoT and whatnot…

I have a lot going on. xD

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet
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Idk what I read because it is so stupid.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
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Are you a child or just dense?

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
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You mean It’s a bad idea to put government secrets in the cloud of a large company whose only working department is their PR department?

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alex_02 , to securitynews in The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified
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Most Russians turn to crime because they need to survive. Your comment is ignorant and stupid.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in What are You Working on Wednesday
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The syntax reminds me of what python, javascript, c# would look like combined if they somehow mated and had a child in their threeway relationship. The community also has very stupid people that think it is great making everything twenty times harder because of some hypothetical insecurity introduced by the user or something dumb like that when Rust is supposed to be a memory safe language and the hand holding has allowed some very dumb but arrogant asshats get it to their head.

It just seems over all like a cobbled up, overhyped mess that is driven a lot by pseudo-intellects and ego. A lot of the articles I’ve read have the author throwing around a bunch of fancy words that don’t really make sense and just make them look dumb, also a lot of times it seems unneededsly complicated with how someone does x and explain it overcomplicated. This is especially with when I tried to look at the state of encryption and cryptography in rust. The issue is that crypto is easy to get wrong even by very, very smart people, so what I saw just from glancing and trying to figure out tf I’m looking at with the libraries and also the focus on more of “X is faster than other much better audited crypto library or whatever” and made me unable to trust the libraries to use in my programs since I did not want to introduce possibly vulnerabilities that could be catastrophic.

Also, ironically not long after idiots touted C/C++ being dead or something after the federal gov here decided to make the announcement of moving to memory safe languages, there was some silly cve that allowed rce via some weird batch script. I think it is just better for me to be cautious right now with the language since right now I’m very, very skeptical and from experience if I have doubts about something in tech, I’m probably right.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in What are You Working on Wednesday
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Yeah. Life keeps getting in the way, but I’ve been having plans to at least start emulating firmware with QEMU and poke around a bunch of publicly available firmware. The biggest problem I do see with the learning curve is the machine language, but I don’t see it being too much of trouble once I grasp the basics enough to get a better idea what is going on. Finally got around to getting qemu up and running, so will try to get started with firmware once I get other more important things taken care of first.

alex_02 , to cybersecurity in What are You Working on Wednesday
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I have. I hate Rust. I think it is overhyped. I have heard good things about Zig, and it looks more promising. Crystal and Dart also look promising, but unfortunately the hype is fucking Rust, which I think is a garbage language.

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