wizardbeard

Unfortunately LastPass had some issues over the past years with hacking where encrypted vaults were stolen. Between myself and my friends in tech, I know of a few conpanies that ditched it after that.

For individual/personal use, I'd reccomend KeePass (whatever fork of it is up to date and maintained lately) and using somethung like syncthing to sync it across devices. That may not be super user friendly for non-technical users though, and I'm not sure how well it works with iPhones.

Copyright is regularly abused by large corporations in the pursuit of more money. Previously it was primarily used as a cudgel against individuals (against piracy, parody, and fair use). But now that their own rules are inconvenient to them they ignore its existence in pursuit of further profits.

Copyright to protect large companies? Fuck that.

Copyright to protect individuals from having their work appropriated? Yes please.

Copyright is already abused against individuals. Corporations already have these powers. What people want is the ability for these powers currently only available to the corporations to be available to the public. I've not seen anyone arguing for corporations to be granted more.

Trying to support individuals enforcing copyright against corps isn't going to change the fact that corporations alrwady have these rights, it's just trying to get corps to play by the same rules they apply to us.

Plus, any of the critically needed changes to copyright law would be fucking useless as long as we allow corporations to ignore what already exists for the sake of convenience.

Completely discarding concepts and arguments based only on the fact that they are associated with "the enemy" is dumb as hell. Likewise, "owners of intellectual property" != "only companies". "Owners of intellectual property" covers anyone who takes photos, writes text, makes art, or makes original "content".

Wow, what a trick! Much exploit!

"deceived victims into running PowerShell as an administrator and pasting in malicious code"

Once again, people are the weakest link.

Vaguely interesting delivery method. Spearphishing emails with an attached PDF with the instructions and the code to copy paste in it. Claims that it's the way to "register windows". Maybe putting it in a PDF bypasses email filtering?

Pretty sure the lead lemmy dev has said some transphobic things as well. They're a major tankie at least.

Thanks for the heads up, but I'm browsing lemmy on a device that is produced at least in part by slave labor somewhere along the logistics chain. At some point I think you just have to disengage from developer drama.

A user blocking an instance does not block the users from that instance from interacting with the user who blocked.

It's not well explained, but my understanding is that an instance block just prevents communities from that instance, and posts made by users on thay instance, from showing for the user that blocked the instance. Comments from users of that instance still show for the blocking user, and the block is one way anyway.

because it shuts out everyone on that instance.

But it doesn't. Unless they've changed the functionality in the last 3 major revisions or so, a user blocking an instance blocks all posts from that instance. Not the users or their comments on other posts.

It's an easier way than blocking each community from that instance individually.

Anything supposedly said by "Anonymous" as a hacker group should always be treated with immense skepticism.

There do exist somewhat legitimate sub-factions that actually take serious actions and do serious ops, and also semi-legitimate "outlets" for their statements... but there's also an overwhelming amount of smokescreen bullshit "anon news outlets" and little script kiddies running around. It's important/intentional that those continue existing as smoke screen for the more "serious" factions.

Beyond that, being an anonymous group with no real methods of confirming membership to outsiders (insiders can just check if you're in the private IRCs and etc) it means that just about anyone and everyone can make some big declaration like this. The proof will be in the results, not some announcement that could be made by a rando.

All that said, there's convincing and considerable evidence (collected by Krebs) that members of Elon's DOGE group have background in the actual hacking ops spaces.

No matter who is really making these threats/warnings, I think things are going to get pretty dire in the US government IT space. It's been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security, and now you have a bunch of young adult tech-bros with no true accountability running roughshod over all of it. Then there's the fact that more than one of them have "serious black hat hacker" backgrounds.

Going to be one wild ride.

My wife nearly tripped over me when I got down on one knee, lol. It was the height of Pokemon Go, and it was a little too good of a distraction from me being suspicious in the park where we first met.

Rip and tear!

I think it's still there, just behind the 196 and harder to see.

Just like on reddit or any other site: you are in complete control of blocking users and communities. Just block the linux ones and move on.

Also, this isn't an airport. You don't need to announce your departure.

Despite your valid counterpoints, those are all still hurdles that will drive away general adoption, especially when there are people surviving digitally entirely off of a smart phone and tablet. We see similar complaints from people about simply picking a lemmy instance. How can we expect them to navigate the more complex landscape of distros?

I don't mind it, it's not a big hurdle for me, but it is undeniably a hurdle for the average person. They aren't tech literate.

I also can't remember the last time I had to use cmd or PowerShell to troubleshoot or configure stuff on my home Windows box (my primary desktop still). When I first customized the install media, and when I configured it post install. I was tearing out core components like Cortana search, and preinstalling updates to the iso. Not anything critical to actual usability.

The key settings are almost all available through the UI. All of the ads that make headlines are controlled by a single switch in the settings menu, which hasn't been reset by updates like people keep saying it does.

You really only have to get into the guts for stuff like disabling web search, killing preinstalled apps, and the like.

I automate shit through PowerShell for a living (effectively). Cmd and PoSh are good for automating stuff, working on batches of stuff at once, and for interacting with certain stuff in Azure that you usually would never touch.

Oh no, I can't interact with deleted mailboxes that are aging off behind the scenes without using PowerShell! That's totally the same as Linux's reliance on the terminal.