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Jason2357

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  • Scientific Exposure

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  • Uuhh, beyond the fucked up publishing system, your advisor was a self destructive dick. It was his job to pay that. His lab and career benefit and hes the one that gets funding for research operations.

  • Scientific Exposure

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  • And a few years later rich folk start mass downloading the same databases to train LLM models using the exact same methods to sell access to those. No FBI.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • If you are doing stuff in Linux that requires the terminal, you were probably making edits to the registry in Windows or pasting in wild powershell lines from online guides.

    No need for 98% of the user base to ever touch the terminal. Open whatever software store comes with your distro, click install next to whatever you want.

    The only exception to that is that sometimes, when a trusted person is supporting you through something, giving them a line to paste into a terminal might be quicker than walking them through all the clicks of a gui. Sometimes.

  • The rich will not like that she said this

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  • Pretty much what I said. Capitalism in practice.

    Capitalism puts the power over production in the hands of capital (by definition). So over time, wealth and political clout grow, and they start using that to bend government to their will. It's not a bastardization, it's 100% of the historical examples. A free market would require highly distributed power, not concentrated.

  • Wisconsin VPN bill is 'going to be a disaster for everyone,' says online privacy nonprofit

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  • Reddit doesn’t let me in with ny VPN on, though, so I just stopped using it.

    This is exactly what this law and others like it will cause across the Internet. More and more sites will just block VPN users.

  • Wisconsin VPN bill is 'going to be a disaster for everyone,' says online privacy nonprofit

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  • Wrong end for most of us. It's not that we live in a backward-state where VPNs are illegal, it's that companies that want to do business in the state will have to block ALL users coming in through a VPN, regardless of where you live. They know which users are using a VPN because the IP blocks are well known, and they will just have to block those users. That's why this one state is trying to f- over everyone.

  • Wisconsin VPN bill is 'going to be a disaster for everyone,' says online privacy nonprofit

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  • The way I understand it, any company wanting to do business in the state would have to block access to their services from (anonymous?) VPN providers. That means IP blocks for PIA, mollivard, etc will be blacklisted by companies. There are already blocklists of IPs for VPN providers that many corporate web filters use (yes, they are terrible and inaccurate).

    Yes, you would probably be able to fire up a VPS from a no-name provider and get through. However,

    • a) that option isn't really available to 99% of the tech-illiterate public,
    • b) a lot of sites already have issues with non-residential IP blocks, especially AWS, and
    • c) that usually means there is a 1:1 mapping between your IP address and your identity (often a credit card). Which is what they want.

  • Cloudfare outage post mortem

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  • Someone always chimes into these discussions with the experience of being DDOSed and Cloudflare being the only option to prevent it.

    Sounds a lot like a protection racket to me.

  • Cloudfare outage post mortem

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  • Except, if you chose the wrong 1 of that 10 and your company is the only one down for a day, you get fire-bombed. If "TEH INTERNETS ARE DOWN" and your website is down for a day, no one even calls you.

  • Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!

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  • Probably better to use them for their screen, firewalled off from everything except whatever is providing a dashboard or info display (e.g., homeassistant).

  • The rich will not like that she said this

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  • Anti-capitalism-in-theory, but pro capitalism-in-practice.

  • Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?

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  • Your perspective aligns with a lot of self-hoisters who run things on rpi’s and such, but not the “home labbers”. Also, see the pubnix, tildeverse, smol web, indie web, and to some extent the retro computing communities. You are definitely not alone!

  • Alberta premier says loss of measles elimination status concerning, urges vigilance

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  • “Vigilance” never worked against measles. It looks like a flu or even a cold in a lot of people. Vaccines worked

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • Unless a sentence like this uses the word “all” you should default to “some” as the implied qualifier. As in, not “all six future earners are in survival mode, but “some six figure earners are in survival mode.” Even that would have been shocking years ago, but nowadays, a family with a single earner bringing in 100,000 can very much be struggling to make ends meet in a high COL city.

  • Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifying

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  • I have never heard of an email provider that will hold your address for you forever, paid or free. This post makes no sense.

  • CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!"

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  • I think the strategy used the world-over, is to surveil everyone and build network graphs. You may work extremely hard to secure your device and communications, but the algorithms will build up a dossier on you based on all of the people you associate with who are less capable or motivated. Machine learning is insanely good at filling in missing data in an information rich dataset.

  • CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!"

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  • I would be terrified of using a bluetooth mesh network in a situation where private, encrypted communications are illegal. That would be literally walking around transmitting your intent. It's a great idea in a free country though.

    In a dystopia, you want to blend in. Something like deltachat has the right idea there - you have to look like boring email on the network. Maybe even layer on stenography -sending boring emails with cat pictures, but your messages are hidden inside them.

    Honestly, I would probably go with sneakernet. A microsd card can be hidden very easily, are difficult to detect electronically, transport virtually unlimited text, and be encrypted in-case the mule gets caught to prevent networks being exposed. The latency is just a necessary evil.

  • Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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  • That's not the biggest disadvantage "if used properly." Any account you have should get a passkey on every device you own. Each device has it's own passkey system. If you have an iPhone, yeah, you get an apple passkey, but then if you have a windows laptop, you have a microsoft passkey, a FLOSS system will have it's own, and so on. You are already on whatever system would contain the passkey and can easily add different ones each time you get a new device.

    The biggest issue is that most people use a small number of devices (including many who use 1). Passkeys work best if you have many devices, so if you lose one, you just use another to access your services. If you have 1, you need to use recovery codes (and people don't save them).

  • Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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  • How many good passwords can you memorize? I can maintain 2-3 in my head long term, especially if only used rarely, and you can be phished if you are typing it in. Not tenable for online accounts. The only real comparison with security parity is a password manager + 2fa generated on-device, compared with passkeys. In both cases, you have "strong" password, no re-use, resiliency to fishing, and requires both "something you know and something you have." I think a password manager is slightly more usable, but I'm not convinced either is a "good" experience yet.