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I’ve had no issues so far. Response times have been relatively quick, nothing unusual.

Because everyone else they know is there. If the people they follow and interact with moved to Mastodon or switched messengers to Signal, you’ll see how quickly they will move. It’s hard to convince someone to sign up or install a new app if it’s only you they’ll find there. I was able to switch my family over to Signal and they literally use it only for family group chats, because they don’t know anyone else who uses it. And they were a little easier to convince because they’re family. I won’t be able to convince people with less close ties to me like friends, acquaintances, and neighbors.

I installed Mint on an old laptop and had sound issues with external speakers. Spent 30 mins trouble shooting until I realized there was something with the port that if you fully pushed in the aux cable, it went in too much and the contacts don’t fully meet. There was a sweet spot where the cord is plugged in correctly but not pushed in too much.

I was on linkedin last night and saw Canonical is actually hiring and there are a lot of open positions.

Welp, I was planning to buy a Nexar dual-cam (front and cabin-facing). I didn’t know their cameras could transmit data and aren’t local only. Time to look for another option.

They had fun writing this article:

allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishing

with no server-side checking, allowing a Hamburglar to order food for free

eventually got through to a security McEngineer who said that they were “too busy” to fix the flaw

Coincidentally, I saw on linkedin last night they were hiring a Security Operations manager. They should get an Appsec person instead to fix those issues.

Yeah, I only found out maybe last year that there’s a whole community underneath it. Up until then I thought it was simply just an image hosting site.

working a drive thru is actually quite complex and difficult

Especially in the US where you can customize and substitute almost everything in your order. If it was a simple fixed menu where you can’t really do anything else but pick whatever is listed, maybe AI can somewhat work.

What a boss. Set out to do a thing, went ahead and did it, then walked away leaving a legacy. As soon as my older macbook gets too slow, I’ll definitely switch to Asahi.

Sec+ resources are a good recommendation though, because it lays down the groundwork and fundamentals that you can then build on once you decide on the domain you want to specialize in.

I just bought a Mammotion robot mower 2 months ago. It’s been working well and I only have minor complaints. I definitely would’ve looked into this if I hadn’t gotten my mower yet. Note that so far the author can only guarantee it works on only one model, the one they tested it on.

You won’t get anywhere if you use the “leave your bathroom door open” or “unlock your phone and give it to me” arguments, because to them that is a different thing and they pretty much know what it means to have privacy on those aspects. What they don’t care about are the things they don’t see (i.e. social media tracking, location data access, etc.) and that’s what they consider nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear.

So the best examples I could think of to counter those arguments are:

• Surveillance pricing
• Abysmal security of home security cameras

If they DO care that prices on the stuff they buy is influenced based on their habits and the data companies collect on them, or if they DO care that anyone can potentially tap into their home cameras to watch even just their outdoor cameras (let alone indoor ones), then they DO care about privacy and just don’t realize it.

That’s gonna be a bunch of security and compliance violations, not to mention messing with incident response and digital forensics.

TLDR: Avoid autofill. Manually copy pasting your password is the temporary workaround until the vulnerability is fixed.

That’s really dependent on how your work manages user workstations. If your employer is big enough to have managed endpoints, you’ll need to convince your IT department, not just your boss. They’ll have to be able to officially support it (compatibility, updates, security, legal, etc.) and that also requires approval from higher ups.

Like I said, it’s only as vpn friendly as the instance admin wants it to be. It’s not the platform that’s vpn averse, it’s the person/people running it. The admin may or may not have a legit reason for blocking VPNs. Who knows, maybe the instance is being attacked so they temporarily blocked VPNs.

If it’s your home instance that’s doing it, then you should consider moving to another instance that aligns more to your values.

Remember that lemmy is not one monolithic structure. User experience will vary from instance to instance. If your instance or an instance you’re visiting is blocking you when on vpn, it’s that instance’s admins who decided to do that. It would be better to ask in their support or meta community.

If it’s your own home instance and you believe what they’re doing is anti-privacy, then they do not align with your values and you should consider moving to another instance that does.

And just like that, all those AI-infused threat detection products go poof.

Take the comment you replied to with a grain of salt. IOS and Android are not rolling release unless you use their beta versions, so the analogy is not correct. Ubuntu and its derivatives have slower release cycles in order to ensure they’re stable. But it doesn’t mean packages are “stale”. A rolling release distro will give you bleeding edge updates at the risk of something breaking once in a while. If you work on stuff like music production, you absolutely will be better off with a more stable distro.

The fact you recognize that means you’re not the arrogant “intelligent” guy in the meme.