rektifier

joined 1 year ago
[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Following the breach, NXP reportedly took measures to boost its network security. The company enhanced its monitoring systems and imposed stricter controls on data accessibility and transfer within the company.

This is the real damage. China is establishing a surveillance culture in the west. By threatening to hack our computers, they hacked our culture instead.

I work at a company that is doing more and more security controls and it's sad to see the culture of openness get chipped away little by little by this.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if they have the source, they may not have all the build tools anymore.

Or they have the build tools but the wizard that set up the build system back in the day no longer works there.

Or they have the build system archived and documented but it doesn't run because some license expired, and the tool vender doesn't sell that version anymore.

In the near future, there will be another possibility - SaaS cloud tools that are impossible to preserve so they are forever lost.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't facebook also found to store images that were uploaded but not posted? This is just a resource leak . I can't believe no one has mentioned this phrase yet. I'm more concerned about DoS attacks that fill up the instance's storage with unused images. I think the issue of illegal content is being blown out of proportion. As long as it's removed promptly (I believe the standard is 1 hour) when the mods/admins learn about it, there should be no liabilities. Otherwise every site that allows users to post media would be dead by now.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm fine with this. Instances shouldn't proxy or cache images because it opens instance owners to a lot more liability than text. A client side setting to not load images in comments by default is better.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This must be BS or a regional thing. All the RCA ports I've seen in North America are labeled L and R, not L+R and L-R.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rektifier@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.ml
 

an excellent demonstration of how the humble motion sensors work.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

You can download everything in your account with google takeout

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I store my clothes in a stack, and I usually wear the same few pieces until the season changes.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't like the idea of coalitions at all. To me it feels like the coalitions would become very "us vs them", i.e. you must defederate all instances that allow any topic in this list or we will defederate you. It leaves no neutral ground, creates echo chambers, and deepens the political divide that plagues our society.

IMO it's better if

  1. Lemmy allows individual users to block all communities from an instance or all users from an instance, sort of like defederation but per-user.
  2. Instances have the rule that "when you interact with other instances/communities, you must follow all their rules, or we will suspend your cross-instance posting rights for X days".

Then instances can act like neutral infrastructure/identity providers and each user can decide exactly how they want to interact with the fediverse without causing fragmentation.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's wait for per-user instance filters to be implemented, then everyone can block instances to taste. As long as their users don't cause trouble in our communities, there's no need for our instance to act as a moral guardians and decide what our users can and cannot see. Defederation is a nuclear option that should only be done if their instance is disrupting our instance's operation (spamming and breaking rules while in our communities).

I like that sh.itjust.works currently federates with almost everyone, and I can see a big part of the fediverse from here. It would suck having to visit multiple instance to see the whole fediverse.

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What you're describing is no longer federation but full P2P. From a purely technical point of view, it may work, but the biggest problem will be abuse (spam, excessive resource use, illegal content). When a new instance shows up, how do you know if it's a spammer or not? And if an instance is blocked by another instance, whose side should you be on?

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is true. If you run the reddit-grab project directly without using the warrior (sudo docker run -d --name reddit --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=unless-stopped atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/reddit-grab --concurrent 6 yourname), you can set up to --concurrent 20, and some projects do work well with higher concurrent, but not reddit. 6 is already pushing the limit.

I'm running reddit-grab on 25 VMs on azure (trying to burn my $200 free credit that expires in 10 days) and I can only run --concurrent 4 safely on most of them. The only VMs that can run --concurrent 6 are the ones in India, which seem to be soft-ratelimited by their higher latency anyway.

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