diffusive @ diffusive @lemmy.world

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The question is not what Google does now but what it will do in 1month, 1quarter, 1year.

It has been years that more and more petty measures have been taken.

FWIW I would make a spare account

There are psychopaths in every country. What is exactly the point they are making? Why extremist people like these get the media attention?

Hardly a stupid manages to become a bishop… it’s like saying a stupid becomes Senior Vice President of a huge corporation. It just doesn’t happen “accidentally”.

What it is more likely is that he was in the conservative side of the church (pope Benedict nominated him). When a “progressive”, (relatively) young and healthy as Francis went on power he realised that he couldn’t become any more senior in the church (before retiring in 10years) so he tried to accumulate as many “donations” as possible from the most gullible people in his neighbourhood (MAGA supporters). He just did what trump does: be an anti establishment (while well inside the establishment)

I am 100% sure this dude will not die in poverty

FWIW I use foam. It is a visual code extension so you piggyback on all Visual code features and extensions (e.g. git, md lint, etc). And I sync with my self hosted gitea. It doesn’t have a mobile app but I use obsidian with the obsidian git plugin

Picking skin is a symptom of something much deeper (and possibly darker).

The fact that you want to get rid of it is great but as someone mentioned you need help.

I would suggest reading "The body keeps the score" it may give a glimpse of the issue... But you need a professional

Good luck dear internet stranger and remember that you are lovable and loved

Disney+ abonament can go up 80% and nobody cares. Union asks for 25% raise...and it's shocking

(And, yeah, regular household needs to face much more than just the Disney+ fees)

Dude what are you talking about? This is in UK

Thank god it was cancelled… people would have discovered that china uses ai for controlling their citizens (and possibly others). Something that is totally not known to anyone

Also I don’t see why it’s gay to like pussies 🤷

At this point I think outright nationalism/racism rather than religion

Ahhh the good old Google that we all know and love

Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.

Ohhhh swiss politics, the main motivator for me to apply for citizenship. One vote will not make the difference but still i want to participate

Because Google is like 90% of the market.

It’s not the bidding part per se the issue, the issue is that the bidding (and possibly other effective strategies) are so successful that Google is almost a monopoly.

The illegal part is that google is a bit too successful AND it uses these not-merits based techniques 🙂

The idea is that if you really want to become almost a monopoly you should not play these games. And being a total monopoly would be illegal in any case

It's software, everything can be done. Even if username and passwords are not kept in plaintext as you suggest (and likely nobody would do)

Problem is that the number of people that self host password repositories is so little that it makes no financial sense. And so for this reason your "massive scale" is an hyperbole because there isn't a massive scale of people that self host password repositories

Botnets that stole from local password repositories makes more sense because there are more people that use password managers of sort.

Humans looking are flexible enough to look at all possible long tail cases like this.. but not going to happen except for high profile targets.

All in all what i am saying is that i don't see clear evidence that self hosting is more dangerous (in practice) than centralized hosting

PS: pro tip If you link references, make sure to read the references you link... The second one has nothing to do with password stealing, it was about a password cracker that was a trojan horse for a botnet. Yes, it fits the search "botnet password" but it doesn't sustain your point

You need to aumatize any operation... It's not conceivable that an human look at every device for stuff to steal. It would be even more expensive.

Generally all these bit malware do is 1) using a vulnerability to replicate themselves 2) mine crypto or other kind of crap. Sometimes (1) involves also stealing ssh keys but it's not the goal, it the mean.

Self hosting password/code/photos/whatever niches you are almost guaranteed that no human will look at hit because the amount of IoT/Routers/etc with nothing valuable beyond themselves generally composes the majority of these compromised bots

This is just the economic incentive

Self hosting is less appealing for criminals, though. Especially if the protocol is "vanilla" like ssh.

When you hack LastPass you know what you'll find, millions of passwords. When you hack a dude ssh you have one chance over one million that there is one dude password wallet.

It doesn't make financial sense to hack self hosting (unless it's specific server software)

Confirming your thought?

Context https://sh.itjust.works/comment/2181865

The real question is... Are these people repeatidly hurting you or they were one offs?

If it's repeated... Well that is an issue... You don't have a defense mechanism.

If it's one off... Well you just are an optimist person 😃