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0xtero

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Glorified network janitor. Perpetual blueteam botherer. Friendly neighborhood cyberman. Constantly regressing toward the mean. Slowly regarding silent things.

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0xtero ,
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The Swedish Social Democratic party (supposedly staunchly left wing) are the ones behind Chat Control 2.0. So just voting for left is not a guarantee we actually get sane MPs in the parliament.

0xtero , (edited )
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So your requirement with cellular calling (eSIM) is already fairly restrictive and depends on which market we're talking about. Where I live (.se) you get to choose between Apple and Samsung and since Apple was out of the question, you're stuck with Samsung.

Not entirely sure if your second requirement with long battery life can be fulfilled. You'll be charging the watch every day, probably more often if you take calls on it.

There's some rumors that Garmin Forerunner/epix will get eSIM support, but that will be also carrier dependent.

These wearables are pretty complicated high end devices, I wouldn't really give them to elderly parents who stuggle using a normal mobile.

I think it might be better to look into other tyoe of devices like pager systems from caregivers, if you're worried about health issues.

0xtero ,
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Yeah, well just go ahead and see if it works for you now. I doubt much has changed, but some bits are probably more polished these days.
Most distros support some kind of LiveCD, so you can try it out without having to reinstall your machine, it's painless and quick to evaluate before you take the plunge.

zenbook duo pro

A quick search reveals this. Might be helpful.
https://davejansen.com/asus-zenbook-duo-and-fedora-linux/

0xtero ,
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I thought it was funny as well. Sometimes FOSS communities are so very uptight, we should relax a bit.

0xtero ,
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Looks like AI wrote the article

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )

Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you're probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you're connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn't implement...

0xtero OP , (edited )
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I also don’t get much value out of the statement that “every” OS except Android is vulnerable. Do they really mean all other OSes, or just what would come to mind for most people, i.e. Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS? What about the various BSDs for example?

It's a DHCP manipulation attack, so every RFC 3442 compliant DHCP implementation implementing option 121 would be "vulnerable" (it's not vulnerability though). Android apparently doesn't implement it, so it's technically impossible to pull off against Android device. There might be others, but I'd guess most serious server/desktop OS'es implement it.

The title isn't misleading at all, even though the "neutering their entire purpose" is a bit of a click-bait. This doesn't affect ingress VPN at all.

It's an attack that uses DHCP features (according to RFC).

It's a clever way to uncloak egress VPN users, therefore it does have privacy impact since most of us use VPN for purposes of hiding out traffic from the local network and provider and there's no "easy" fix since it's just a clever use of existing RFC.

Researcher says China's "onslaught of cyberattacks" poses significant risks to Taiwan’s national security and democratic processes, warns that "these tactics can be replicated elsewhere" ( theconversation.com )

Taiwan is experiencing millions of cyberattacks every day, writes Lennon Y.C. Chang, Associate Professor of Cyber Risk and Policy in the Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust at Deakin University, adding that "other countries worried about the impact of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns on their elections and democratic...

0xtero , (edited )
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These attacks range from phishing attempts to sophisticated malware intrusions. Website defacement attacks and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are often seen during significant events

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And these tactics can also be replicated elsewhere. Other countries worried about the impact of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns on their elections and democratic institutions should be paying attention.

These tactics are already being replicated elsewhere. This has been the normal Internet background noise for years. This is not news.
However, just as in 2014 when Russia was preparing for Crimea annexation, the amount of targeted (cyber and kinetic) escalated. Same again before Ukraine invasion. That's what we should be paying attention to - not everyday "millions of cyberattacks" or hybrid misinformation war - those are already happening. and should be handled as basic boring Internet hygiene.

We should be building resilience against targeted pre-invasion cyber. We should be building ways to take down drones, we should be building robust satellite communication networks so we don't have to rely on kindness of tech billionaires. We should find more robust ways of navigating because GPS is too easy target.

In short, we should be learning from the Ukraine conflict, which is the first (and currently only) real live theater for cyberwarfare.

0xtero ,
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Knowing history, that's a one tape I have no intention of listening. RIP the crew and all other early space flight pioneers who perished pushing the boundaries of our planet.

0xtero ,
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Lemmy instance with "radical" moderation. Sort of like old SA/goon forums, 4chan etc.

0xtero ,
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Those were not unmoderated. Just radically differently moderated.

Where do the rural homeless near you live?

This seems to be something people don't always give second thought to. When people talk about the homeless, the first things thought about are images of people on busy city streets in rusty clothes waiting around near allies. In there, the answer is quite static, because it can be I guess. But if that's the case, change the...

0xtero ,
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I was about to type this exact thing. We have some homeless of course, people always fall through the cracks - but for the most part, the local government provides for basic needs, shelter, food, money and (in due time) housing. Winter is harsh, you don't really survive living "in the nature" in rural areas.

Summer months often see homeless in the form of "Roma traveling beggars" or the "Irish asphalt/garden workers" who live out of caravans, tents or just back of their cars, but they migrate to southern Europe when winter comes.

But yeah, we pay a fuckton of taxes to have a social security network that catches people who are down on their luck. It's not perfect, but it's something. People don't have to live without food or roof over their heads.

0xtero ,
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I guess it's time to update uBlock Origin lists.

maegul , to Fediverse
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Reflecting on the firefish/calckey "moment"

which was about a year ago now, I can't help but suspect it was a small event with wider implications on the dominance of in the

I think it was the last chance to direct the twitter migration energy into discovering new/different fedi platforms.

And it was blown, with alt-social in a weird steady/waiting state that's smaller I suspect, than what many hoped for.

@fediverse

cntd: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/112358202238795371

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0xtero ,
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Thanks for the context.

And yeah - a lot of fedi is built on spur of the moment inspiration without much planning on the long term. Sometimes it works out (like pixelfeed and the other related projects) and sometimes the passion of one (or small group) of devs just isn't enough.

Lemmy is pretty good example (from the other side of the scale) as well - we're at version 0.18.4 - and the devs are pretty hostile.

0xtero ,
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Yeah, as a beehaw user, I'm pretty familiar with the situation. I'm not going to re-hash the whole thing here (and I don't represent the instance), but let's just say PR's for features were offered, but not accepted. Discussion was attempted but it resulted in Lemmy devs asking beehaw to fuck off - so that's the end of that.

There's an alternative being tested. I believe we're going to Sublinks, but there's still active development going and sizeable migration. So we're still here. For the time being.

Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....

0xtero ,
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Teaching kids good, healthy anticapitalist values is important. It's also good to teach them some basic computing and privacy skills, because they're not going to get that anywhere else. They're going to be under lot of social peer pressure to have the latest phones and being connected on social media, consuming information from algorithms.They need to understand how to minimize the harm from Meta and the big tech.

Same applies to the copyright industry and their practices (along with corps who are heavily anti-repair like Apple) - they need to understand the exploitation model of capitalism and lobbying - from there, let them make their own choices.

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