Notices by Marcus (gerowen@mastodon.social), page 2

@GossiTheDog The crazy thing is that the engineers who work on open source projects "seem" to be reasonably talented folks. Like the guy who found the back door in SSH because it took a half second longer than normal to authenticate. When it comes to Windows though it just seems like a complete clusterfuck.

@Gargron A lot of stuff these days, from movies to anime to video games, seems to just be re-hashing existing content. People are out of new ideas and they know this stuff will make money, so they're giving old content a new coat of paint because it's a quick and easy cash grab.

BB has wanted and worked towards this for years.

As Gazans return to destroyed homes, Israeli ministers push resettlement

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/04/gaza-displaced-civilians-resettlement-israel/

@fsf We're lucky, our kids' schools are surprisingly open to ideas. For example, when a Microsoft Teams meeting fell thru because of an issue with Teams, my son's teacher had no qualms with using Nextcloud Talk on our personal Nextcloud to conduct the meeting. When it comes to online lessons, my daughter is allowed the use the laptop I bought for her that runs Debian. I don't agree with every product choice they make, but they've been a lot more open than some others I've heard of.

I find myself these days hesitant to even consider any private messengers if they don't have the option to verify which devices/keys have access to your messages. #Signal, #XMPP / OMEMO, #Matrix, hell even Facebook Messenger's E2EE chats let you verify which devices can read your messages. If you're encrypting your users' messages, but they can't verify whether a rogue device has access to their messages, then why even bother encrypting them?

#Encryption #Security #Cybersecurity #Privacy

@Gargron I followed several of the media outlets that are accessible now that @Flipboard is federating, so I contributed, 😜

@Gargron @mosseri That's cool. I can't see any of their posts, but it'll be cool to see when it actually rolls out.

@Gargron I've been telling people this forever and they don't want to hear it. They're so enamored with the science fiction of "AI" that they don't understand companies will lie for money.

@Gargron @polygon I'm having to break the habit of removing tracking bits because I've noticed journalists at press.coop have been adding a bit to the url showing that readers arrived there from Mastodon, so I want them to know that their Mastodon feed is generating traffic and therefore revenue, that way they'll stay here.

@Gargron I've owned and operated my own Plex server for several years now, but there's only so much I can justify spending on a personal archive here at home on hardware that I have to pay for and maintain. The death of physical media is sad, 😞 Hopefully somebody like the internet archive can do something about preservation, but I'm not going to hold my breath. My wife, who is a Doctor Who fan, says there are some episodes of Doctor Who that are just gone because they got overwritten.

@killyourfm @thunderbird Your personal data is the new oil.

@Gargron I found this new (or new to me) option the other day when I was checking something else and turned it on. I figure if the post is public it's not like I'm trying to hide it anyway, so why not let it be indexed for searching? Maybe some cool new people will find me and we can interact on Mastodon, 🙂

@Gargron Subscribed. I use this way too much to not contribute back, 🙂

@Gargron @chrishayuk @shanselman Ah so the magnifying glass isn't "just" for searching up users and such. I'm a noob, sorry for dragging you out of bed, :-p

@chrishayuk @shanselman Mastodon does feel kind of empty until you start following people because there isn't an algorithm to "recommend" folks to you. The closest thing to that is to use the "federated" timeline to just scroll literally everything in real time as it gets posted to the fediverse as a whole. I think @Gargron disabled the federated timeline in the official Mastodon app so you'll have to use the website or a third party app like Tusky to see it.

Welcome to the fediverse!

@Gargron This place isn't real? You must have some high tech VR stuff.

On a serious note though, maybe it should pay it a visit more often, or some place like it at least. Vacations are good for the soul, especially in beautiful places like this.

@killyourfm Same. I can play Halo MCC at 1080p with a locked 60 and it's just great. It only draws 25 or so watts from the wall to do it too, while my tower draws over 400.

@Gargron Were there any demands made? Any logical reason for it? Or just a bunch of script kiddies screwing around for the heck of it? Did Elon discover LOIC/HOIC? ?

@Gargron I wonder why. Has anybody made any demands?

@Gargron If you're ever unsure why something isn't working, remember it's almost always DNS, ?