There’s a quote I heard a few years ago: everyone is a technology company now and the game they’re playing is recurring revenue stream. If it’s cloud connected then pretty much assume they are going to find a way to monetize and profit from your information.

Mental illness is a hell of a thing.

Wow this article is kinda shit. MD5 was on the chopping block for password hashing over 20 years ago. It’s so seriously broken that if someone is using it they deserve to get bludgeoned to death with a Model M keyboard. We have purpose built solutions just for password hashing.

The only thing the fine bad article sorta got right was two factor. I say kinda because biometrics (something you are) isn’t that great of a second factor. Mainly because you can’t change it. Also, it’s a fuzzy match rather than a hard match. It can be acceptable to use locally and where all the information stays locally AND there is sufficient hardware based security where said biometrics isn’t going to get off the device.

Finally, there was no mention of any kind of physical token based factor (something you have). Which pairs well with password, passphrase, or any other “something you know” factor.

Given the current price of RAM and SSDs, I don’t see how a $200 laptop is even viable to sell. Unless it is barely scraping by on specs or comes loaded with craplets and spyware.

Just doing a quick search, all I’m seeing is stuff in the $350 range with 4 or 8 GB of RAM. I’m not familiar with the genre of games you play, but I don’t think they would run well on that. Or run at all. Haven’t even looked at the gpu or cpu specs.

I would try to find something used and compare specs against the min and recommended hardware requirements for the games you play.

What’s funny is a character isn’t necessarily a byte now. It could be 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes. Or only 2 or 4 bytes if we include utf-16 and 32. Character encodings are fun!

There was one point in time when Intel’s website only allowed up to 14 characters and disallowed certain special characters. If I had to guess why, fear of inadequate error checking and fear of sql injection.

Narrow, old, and irrational!

Technically they didn’t make DOS but bought it, rebrand it then had to support it.

I’m just going to acknowledge rather than celebrate.

This is how you treat wanna be despots and dictators. Remove them from power, put them on trial then throw them in jail for their crimes.

Spoilers work like this:

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You need the word “spoiler” after the first colons and the colons have to be at the start of the lines.

Well, a piece of shit can become liquid shit, and liquid shit can become aerosolized. So, yes it’s possible for someone to be shittier than a piece of shit.

!196@lemmy.world is still active. Just not as active as this one.

The right to repair. It’s going to require the ability to make changes to the software on the vehicle. At a minimum the ability to replace the public encryption keys used to communicate with the servers. The bootloader and software is probably locked behind signing keys; so you need to be able to disable or add your own keys. I doubt anyone has access to the full protocols used to communicate with the servers. So, the full technical standard need to be released (which is never going to happen) or reversed engineered through unencrypted traffic analysis and reverse engineering the software.

A good right to repair law could require some of that be releasable while the company is still active or all if the company goes belly up. IIRC there was a smaller EV company that went bankrupt and there was a concern that once the servers were shutdown the vehicles would be bricked. Not sure what happened in the end. In any case, cars as IOT is the stupidest idea ever created.

“Accidentally.” After the third time other wizards start asking how accidental it is.

Neat buuUUUuuut.

Does Revolt have federation?

As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

[…]

What can I do with Revolt and how do I self-host?

[…]

You can self-host Revolt by:

• Using Docker Compose and our recommended guide.
• Building individual components yourself from the source code.

It’s basically a bunch of islands.

Don’t poop for 3 days

Still, Teslas are by far the most popular electric vehicles in the United States, and some car owners have said on Facebook groups that they have bought one to show their support for Mr. Musk.

Well that’s just going to encourage more fires.