Step 4: get blown ta fuck by a fpv drone

It isn’t just a few shots. There was one a really big, well-publicized attack a couple few years ago in the PNW somewhere, and the energy sector has been warned to take protective actions (but think of the shareholders now). There have been several dozen smaller events across the country.

Same thing we do with .local - “click here to proceed (unsafe)” :D

Set up my work’s network waay back on NT4. 0 as .local cuz I was learning and didn’t know any better, has been that way ever since.

Of these, the EoS for pre-Win10 is probably a good thing. Everything older has been EoL from MS and shouldn’t be exposed to the Internet anyway. And if you’re concerned about an old, air gapped system, what does it matter? Use that old version of FF right alongside the ancient Windows?

But yeah, they should just fuck off with the AI bs.

The first sentence: “somehow, different than Linux” :D

We’d just need to lure a few suckers testers on the order of Taco to expose all the gotchas.

The absolute only thing I go back to reddit for is the patch Tuesday megathread. I do dearly wish that info was here so I could cut ties completely.

Shit, congress passed a law codifying that too!

The original source was here, but seems to have been removed. Maybe the Internet Archive still has it at that location.

Ah, damn, you beat me to it…

Which is a special kind of ironic since China withdrew all their pandas from American zoos due to trade ‘wars’ (i.e. Tariffs in some goods) including the fantastic program at the San Diego zoo.

And as Sir Mix-A-Lot said: “Dick’s is the place where the cool hang out; the swass like to play and the rich flaunt clout”

Dave Ramsey is a shitheel. His attitude toward money is obsessive and not compatible with healthy relationships or families. I would not be surprised if he were to die completely alone and unloved.

Don’t forget the right-wing “we’re ignoring mask mandates in the height of the pandemic and not limiting seating because we’re god-fearin’ 'mercans here!” bullshit.

I may be waaaay off here, but the internet as it exists is pretty much built on DNS, isn’t it? I mean, the whole idea of DARPANet back in the 60s and 70s was to build a robust, redundant, and self-healing network to survive nuclear armageddon, and except when humans f it up (intentional or otherwise), it generally does what it says on the tin.

Now, there’s arguments to beade about securing the protocol, but to rip and replace the routing protocols, I think you’d have to call it something other than the Internet.

Makes sense. It’s an advertisement platform.

Do not rely on the built-in password managers to keep your passwords safe. Use a purpose-built one like Bitwarden to generate unique ones, save and complete them, agnostic to the browser. Virtually every stealer out there can easily grab the built-in password db’s content.

If you’re referring to relatively recent events (like the first 2 years of Biden’s term) you need to look no further than Kyrsten Sienema and Joe Manchin. “Democrats” that opposed the agenda (and general Good Things™) for personal greed and lobbying interests. Biden had a majority in the house, and a hostile supreme court, which we’re going to be dealing with for a good long time that’s to McConnell’s fuckery. The defection of Sienema and Manchin made progress very difficult.

It’s also harder to get the wider variety of interests in the big tent of left to go in the same direction. Kinda like herding cats.

Looking at specific vulnerabilities or breaches in a complex, interconnected system wouldn’t be particularly helpful in the context I was aiming for. I was thinking more along the lines of generational education in secure practices. Thinking and acting securely on a global scale to ingrain that mindset in future engineers. Security and ethics courses for high school and engineering college undergrads.

Of course, this all comes down to market forces. Manufacturers don’t have an incentive to do more than the bare minimum QA…

Heres an example of the sorry current state: my son just graduated from a Big 10 school with a degree in robotics and electronics engineering. It was very heavy in programming. He’s continuing on to a Ph.D program. He had exactly ONE lecture regarding secure coding and programming ethics. He is required to have no more. In a 7-8 year program, 1.5 hours of formal instruction on secure coding practices and ethics.

No matter what tool is used, if you don’t start from a foundation of security first, your code will not be inherently secure. I can accept that some tools have more guardrails than others, but we are not teaching foundational security skills and principles, privacy and ethics even at the college level. Until that is addressed at a large scale and applied at the lowest layers to the silicon, we’re doomed to this security hell hole dystopia we’re living in.