AlexanderESmith

Who said you shouldn’t be able to access your backups remotely?

A lot of tools allow you to set up google drive, drop box, whatever. Yes, this brings you back to cloud, but it’s better to have a hacker wonder if some random google drive might have juicy auth data than know for sure that some SaaS platform absolutely does. Also, even if they got the file, it should be encrypted, and should be a massive pain to get into (at least long enough to change the passwords stored in the file).

The other (better) option is to have it back up to sftp (or similar), which you manage yourself on private servers. Normally this would be accessed through RSA and/or TOTP, but you can set up secure backup methods (combo any/all of; port knocking, long-password, human-knowable timed password, biometrics, security questions, other trusted humans that have some TOTP that can’t open your storage alone, etc).

Haha yeah, I see myself on video a lot, so I’m used to it.

Stop. Trusting. Cloud/SAAS. Security. Apps.

Don’t give them your passwords and private keys, because you can never know of they’re being stored responsibly, or who has access to them.

Don’t give them your personal details, they don’t care about protecting user anonymity.

Keep your keys and passwords in local, encrypted files, and generate your TOTPs locally.

“But that’s not convenient!” - It’s plenty convenient, find an app that supports your phone’s biometrics. There are plenty on both Android and iPhone that also work in Windows/MacOS/Linux.

“What if I lose my phone?” - Keep your files backed up. If you don’t do this, you deserve to get locked out. Fear of losing data is a good thing, it keeps you vigilant. Apathy gets you another of these stories.

There are plenty of apps that encrypt local storage for security keys and code generation. Stop allowing these tech bros to create honeypots, and making you pay them for the privilege of being an easy target.

It’s not harmful to tell average people who run windows to disable updates, because you can’t disable the updates as a single-license scrub.

(Theres usually some hacky bullshit to delay or block updates, but they break constantly and you have to keep finding new ones, because Microsoft thinks of their userbase as stupid babies who can’t be trusted with their own hardware).

Also, you live in your own personal slice of Windows control with your hundreds/thousands of systems being managed with group policies. I have no doubt that you don’t see issues, because your company chose a few models of laptop or desktop and know how they’ll react to the updates. You can turn off the annoying shit, and choose specific updates at specific times. Microsoft doesn’t want to piss off their corporate customers, especially the ones with massive spending contracts with Dell/HP/Lenovo.

Thing is, outside of you - and your groups of other corporate windows admins - the general user (with varied hardware/software configurations) don’t have the safety of catching issues on a few test machines and delaying a deploy to the fleet, or even the option to delay updates at all, and they’re screwed over constantly by random broken drivers, system setting that aren’t respected between updates, and bloat/backdoors that you can’t opt out of.

It is you who is being disingenuous, by suggesting that the windows update system has no flaws, because you operate in an extremely controlled environment with tons of safeguards and - ironically - way more autonomy.

lol “anymore”

The same thing happens to me when I look in the mirror. Wait, drawing?

I’m gonna go ahead and say that it’s weird all the way around. Any gender combo for kid/parent/audience.

Out of nowhere, I logged in like a month ago. Everything was still there (at least, my friends list was). Hadn’t logged in since the early 2000s. A few weeks later, I heard it was being shuttered. Weird.

85453462 . Burned into my memory forever.

“exclusive new content” == “some of the stuff we left out last time, maybe”

Not a lawyer: I’ve never seen it be an issue if whoever’s running the site isn’t pretending to be something they’re not. Take that for what you will.

lol I’m not your fediverse curator. You searched Facebook for the right group, search here.

Using “I need facebook because groups” on a network literally built to expose users to groups is like telling your waiter you need your fridge because it has all the food you like. Why are you at the restaurant?

Hey, I’ve been a Linux gamer for many, many years, and before Steam Deck it was exclusively on nVidia hardware (mostly because I also wanted CUDA cores for Blender).

You’re literally posting to an interconnected network of groups, organized by their interests, that isn’t Facebook.

I can’t let this interrobang go unmentioned/unappreciated. Good to see you, old friend…

We need to prepare for the future where there is no jobs and AI replaced all of them.

You seem to think that the natural extension of this is that everyone who used to have a job continues to flourish, and doesn’t die in the gutter because they have no money/shelter/food.

The naivity would be adorable, if it weren’t also extremely dangerous and playing directly into rich assholes’ plans to bleed everything dry for themselves.

To add to this; I’ve done some corporate work in this area as a systems admin. If something like this comes up (within the context of being a representative of a company that finds out that someone has a domain that we may hold rights to), one of the things I’ve been asked to do is submit a “Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy” (UDRP) complaint to ICANN (icann.org - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). They basically regulate domain usage and ownership, among many other things.

To read about how these complaints work, see; https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

Read that over while deciding whether you want to use the domain and how you use it. Give particular attention to https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/udrp-rules-2024-02-21-en , section 3-b-ix (titled “Describe, in accordance with the Policy, the grounds on which the complaint is made…”), and it’s sub-items.

I never minded the difficulty. I knew what I was signing up for.

What I minded (and why I stopped playing Elden Ring only a few months after release after like 120 mostly-fun hours) was that they couldn’t stop fucking with the balance. Some jackass would min-max some specific PvP build, and they’d nerf the shit out of it (even in PvE), then my semi-okay build (which used one part or another of the min-max build) would go to shit and I’d have to start over. This happened like 4 times and I just said “fuck it” until the game was old enough that they’d stop fucking with it.

lol, joke’s on me, here we go again.

LinkedIn is Facebook, if the people you follow could fire you for not being a total brown-nosing boot licker.

Well, the other option is an unemployable dipshit that needs somewhere to rant, thereby making themselves even less employable.