boatswain

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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

I'm curious if this applies to rooted devices with a hardened OS like Graphene installed.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 13 points 3 months ago

If you just bring s whole other person in your checked bags, you save on ticket costs, too.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 21 points 3 months ago (10 children)

What's the financial plan there? Or do you just want them to drop 80% of their budget or whatever it is and work for free?

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago

I was on System 76 for two laptops. The most recent one, a Lemur, started to fall apart: the plastic hinge just started coming off in chunks, and the clamshell began to split. Customer service was terrible: they tried to get me to agree to charges without explaining what they were going to charge me for. When I pressed them (which took repeated emails) they finally admitted they wanted to send me a part for me to do a replacement without any instructions, and which they advised people not to do. Very scammy vibes. I picked up a Framework instead and have been really enjoying it, though I can't really speak to the gaming portion I'm afraid. I'd just say avoid System 76.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The problem is that it really has to be addressed at the national level. Otherwise, places with better social services and less extreme weather (like the big cities on the west coast) get overwhelmed by more transient homeless than their systems can handle--and that's even without Texas or whoever shipping busloads more in..

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago

Anyone who starts off telling you that they're the most popular and trusted should probably not, in fact, be trusted. Especially if they're calling for not using password managers. Passkeys are interesting in theory, but my understanding is that most of the implementations are just another way for big tech to track you.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As another poster detailed, this is not a company that exposed your info: these credentials are all from stealer logs, which are logs of credentials stolen by keyloggers installed on machines. If your credentials were in this report, it means that you've entered that username and password on a machine with malware on it. Could be your personal machine, or it could be some other computer you've used.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Oh my God, the Something Awful forums are still up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 5 points 4 months ago

https://www.lemmyapps.com/ is a neat comparison site, but I'm not seeing any criteria around use of tracking data; is that just implied with the free vs paid column?

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 20 points 4 months ago

I don't think this is a case of trying to make more money.

Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago

What we're seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don't think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.

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