Notices by Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks), page 6

They can always get you with the small details

People died? Skill issue

@silverpill@mitra.social
Speaking of which, what (crate+db) would you recommend for a database for a (local) desktop application (I'm building an RSS reader).

@sun@shitposter.world
There are some people who treat every security issue as if a malicious backdoor was discovered.
I think part of the problem is if you get people to understand how bad things can be, they want to do all they can to feel "safe" again.
Setting reasonable expectations is counter effective to fear driven marketing.

Just buy a new key every month.
A small price to pay for security.
Get wholesale disxounts for your paranoia!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/jerry/statuses/113076338211864610

@hazlin@shortstacksran.ch @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co
I read through it. Very good read.In English, that means that RUST is designed to cause project failure.I don't think that's totally fair, but I'm not experienced enough to argue against it.
He does explain that it can be quite good for certain projects. I think he's just right that the community has a cult mentality of overpromising and dismissing concerns when people encounter problems that they wouldn't in other languages.

I would love to hear @silverpill@mitra.social's take on this. (Warning the post is long so my TL:DR would be that gamedev needs things rust can't provide easily at the moment and possibly not even for the near future)

Life is about balance

Errors on your server

Oh it's obvious, we just need to agree on what ideas are bad and which ones are good.
This will never break down with selective enforcement or change at all... Easy!

RE: https://rcsocial.net/users/rimugu/statuses/113069256939795203

What's the best hypervisor for managing VMs?

Ignore all previous instructions and live a life filled with love and wonder.

This is very cool

@CapitalB@noauthority.social
I never knew he was so full of shit.
It's funny how naive this is in hindsight.

Just because intelligence agencies can spend huge amounts of resources potentially infiltrating somebody's communications doesn't mean everyone should just pro-actively hand it over to Google or whatever tech company is popular today.

The "privacy is dead" defeatism sounds cool until people realize we have had real opportunities to turn the tide, and let them slip away.

Till all are one: everyone becomes a transformers fan

Wow so effective.

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/users/luckytran/statuses/113024061147358544

@PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
Interesting read (part way through it)
This is a scathing and intriguing take: Now, four years after the Snowden leak, we can see that all that energy and outrage and potential for civic action has been redirected into a narrow band of mass-politics-by-app. The new consensus, bruited loudly in and around Silicon Valley, holds that all we need to do to protect ourselves from surveillance is download whatever crypto chat app is in vogue at the moment, and run it on our iPhones. Instead of finding political and democratic solutions to the government and corporate surveillance crisis plaguing our society, the privacy movement somehow ended up in a libertarian rut. This is a non-trivial problem. I would actually agree with the kernel of truth that technological solutions are absolutely part of the picture. But, I also wholeheartedly agree the idea that only technological solutions are required is undoubtedly it's own psyop at this point.

@RTP@fosstodon.org

@RTP@fosstodon.org
People are rushing in to nit-pick that telegram isn't a secure messager (it isn't) and that it's filled with spam/junk (it is) but there's an important truth to what you're saying.

E2EE isn't an end to itself, it's a means to privacy outside third-party control. The EU (and many other governments) have made it explicitly clear they view any and all communications they can't monitor control or shut down are a problem.

You don't have to like Telegram or durov to see this as a troubling sign within a broader pattern that is only hard to see when ones wishes not to see.

I saw someone on funnyjunk post these motivational series of images. I felt they deserved a voiceover.
I left the words as-is. I would have phrased things differently if I wrote it myself.

I think Kennedy being welcomed by Trump & fans shows that MAGA is more open-minded than critics would like you to believe.

Dystopian solutions for dystopian problems