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Deebster

@ Deebster @infosec.pub

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Nowadays my main account, but other @Deebsters are available.

  • lib.rs has a special surprise when you search "twitter"

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  • lib.rs has a special surprise when you search "twitter"

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  • I'm assuming that's been there for a while since this was topical six months ago.

    Anyway, while I am no fan of Musk or the site formerly known as Twitter, I think this is a bad thing. The author's political views have been prioritised over users' abilities to use the site; even if someone wanted to monitor X users in a way lib.rs approved of they couldn't get help from the site to do this.

    I think lib.rs has pulled stunts like this before, which is why crates.rs is usually recommended instead.

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • I self-host open source software, pay for services that I don't want to host (email, etc) and I prefer buying things to subscribing/renting things. I experience far less enshittification than most as a result.

  • xkcd #3121: Kite Incident

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  • I think OP means it's above on a map, i.e. north, like how the Mediterranean is above Africa.

    Edit: to head off any pedants: there are jet streams in the south too, but the point was that the length would be less than Earth's circumference (plus xkcd comics seem to be set in north America).

  • xkcd #3121: Kite Incident

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  • Have you ever had fruitful discussions cut short because OP deleted the post? If so, is this a fundamental problem or just an annoyance?

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  • Recently, someone asked about advice on a PC build, collected a lot of useful feedback then deleted their post once they had what they needed. Now all that work other users put in is inaccessible, and all that valuable knowledge can't help anyone else. I think that's a problem.

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn't exactly anyone's idea of a utopia.

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!

    I guess soon there will be only the more intrusive/trackable options like credit card or bank details.

  • Geordi needs to delegate his department better.

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  • I've been rewatching TNG and reading the trivia afterwards and I always forget to look out for the 47 references. Some people go too far and "find" tortuous references that are more like numerology.

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • When I say I don't accept, I don't mean I live in denial, I mean I don't acquiesce - I resist it, whether that be by avoiding services/products, paying for premium, installing ad blockers or modding things to remove telemetry.

    I am aware that my phone company knows where I am and I'm on cameras, but I'm not going to make it easy for the next Cambridge Analytica.

  • Tips for the actual assembly part of the build?

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  • I've got a whole roll of that velcro strap stuff, but I think my case is already generous with cable tidying features.

    I was RingTFM while impatiently waiting for the last few things to arrive.

  • 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future

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  • I can't believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • I'm assuming this is a young group, and they've grown up in the always-connected, always-surveilled modern world.

    I've met plenty of people that are surprised or even suspicious when I say that I try to avoid corporations and governments tracking me. I guess the Overton window has shifted so that people expect and accept constant surveillance.

  • Linux users are about to face another major Microsoft Secure Boot issue

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  • Has anyone here generated their own keys? I'd looked into it before and it didn't seem too complicated (but never tried).

  • Major Rule About Cooking Meat Turns Out to Be Wrong

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  • It's more like the rule is right for the wrong reason, but it's an interesting article - even if it does feel like an ad for that fancy thermometer at times.

  • My cat Candy and Poppy inspired me to build a free tool for all cat owners (cat tax included!)

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  • Great project, great domain name, brilliant stuff.

  • My cat Candy and Poppy inspired me to build a free tool for all cat owners (cat tax included!)

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  • If memory serves, virtually all of them have high nitrate levels, which cats, dogs etc don't clear out very well, leading to risk of nitrate poisoning. (Or perhaps it's nitrates, but either way.)

  • Rate my Build: Long time since a hardware upgrade, and finally making the jump to Linux

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  • I'm doing the same as you and I've come up with such a similar list that I probably won't bother posting it since I can just use your build's feedback.

  • Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

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