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  • open-source approach and commitment to secure coding practices

    Yeah, because open source has a track record of being 100% secure.

    Oh, wait, no, it very much does not.

    What an incompetent, dangerous, smoldering line of bullshit.

  • wait a little while

    I cancelled Prime and discovered that... everything shows up in 2 days anyway.

    I guess being near a warehouse means you get super-fast shipping even if you don't pay for it?

    And like, not just a one-time fluke: of the last ~15 or so orders, all but one showed up within 2 days, and maybe 1/3rd of them were next day. Same shipping time but no free money for Bezos? Okay, sure, I'll take it.

  • Given that half the games are anime waifu sims these days, I can only imagine what horrors you'd unleash letting people link to their profiles on anime waifu mastodon instances.

    Actually no, I don't have to imagine it since I've seen the horrors with my own eyes.

  • convention to use the highest government title that a person received once they leave government

    Listen, if everyone calls Carter 'former president Jimmy Carter' (and if you look at any news stuff, they do!), we can call Trump 'former president' too.

  • I'm not seeing WriteFreely in that list so maybe won't help you, but it's a lot more activitypub-native than WP or Ghost is, so might be what you're after even if the install won't be one-click in whatever you're using.

  • To add more detail to the other reply, it's only entrapment if they coerce you into doing something you wouldn't have otherwise done.

    A cop comes up to you and goes 'bro, lets go steal that car!' would probably be entrapment.

    Cops putting a car on a street waiting for someone to steal it wouldn't be.

  • That's a website tool checking? It's almost certainly only going to check TCP, since most of them don't do anything with UDP because it's... more complicated.

    You may need to find an alternate way to do that, something like iperf or netcat (nc -u ip port)

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  • Ah, so the AI version of the chewbacca defense.

    I have to wonder if intentionally shitting on LLMs with plausible nonsense is effective.

    Like, you watch for certain user agents and change what data you actually send the bot vs what a real human might see.

  • I guarantee you that if Meta or Twitter/X was investigated similarly we’d find out very very similar things about their products

    Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, those "news" pages that show up when you open a new browser tab in Edge, Xitter, Snapchat, and anyone else using an algorithm designed to drive engagement so they can shovel ads at you is 100% the same or worse than TikTok.

    The problem is, as you said, is that TikTok is "evil Chinese company stealing our kids' data" and all of the rest are "brave American captains of industry" and boy, we can't possibly do anything that could possibly have our captains of industry making even one less cent than they do now. Why, that'd be communism!

    So uh, here we are.

  • The FBI loooooves themselves some honeypots.

    Why go catch criminals when you can set up some links/a token/whatever and they'll come running to you and do the incriminating part themselves AND leave the logs of said activity in your possession?

    Much simpler!

  • If it makes you feel better, if society collapses to the point that there are no more clothes, ammo, or canned food, you'll have long since been dead.

    Despite what people think, we humans are fragile and pampered and a modern person is going to just end up dead if society collapses to that extent.

    I knew a serious prepper dude (by which I mean he hoarded heirloom seeds and composting toilets and not silver and MREs) who, while preparing to survive, pretty much figured if it totally falls apart he and his family would end up dead, and that evening scores was probably a more useful use of his time than fighting for every last minute.

    I used to think he was insane (and hell, he probably is) but the older I get the more I can understand his view on getting even, and then anything left is a bonus.

  • For a server? I want it out of date, so long as "out of date" means "older versions with backported security patches".

    I'm boring and don't care about the new whizzy crap, because if it's working now and it's secure, I'm not touching it. There is no feature you can offer me that will make me want to update a stable working server, so don't screw with what version of software I'm running.

    For desktop use? Give me KDE Plasma 6.2 right now, not three years from now. I need that new shit in my veins, so hurry the hell up.

    So I mostly use Debian stable on anything server-y, and Fedora on anything desktop-y.

    And, I posted this just a few days ago, but I don't like, at all, going outside of distro repos on Debian for packages.

    You end up with dependency chain issues in dpkg/apt, because dpkg is super hyper prone to them anyways, and have installs you can't easily just update or upgrade because it can't figure out what in the hell you've done to it.

    So I just uh, don't use 3rd party repos for updated versions of things unless it's utterly critical to do so and/or accept that at some point I'm doing a clean install for a migration because shit will be so broken you can't pull it to the current stable version because of the 3rd party software.