ErilElidor @ ErilElidor @feddit.de

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Politicians working for their own profit instead for the well-being of the people who elected them? Color me shocked!

Smh my head

The scary thing is, I could imagine someone writing this text, but unironic...

Don't forget to run some docker container on that VM, to encapsulate the workload, so it will be: SSH to VM -> open a shell into the container -> run the rest

I'll develop my own browser before using an ad-infested internet. Luckily I don't have to do that, because there are alternatives and also because it would be a damn time consuming project to put it mildly 😅

Even if they would get all of Ukraine, I would expect quite a bit of underground resistance that would make holding on to Ukraine expensive.

They might be academics, but definitely not scientists

It's hard to give tips without knowing your situation better, but here are a few general ones that probably already set you apart from the vast majority of other small companies:

• Keep your stuff updated, especially when there are security fixes available
• don't take convenience shortcuts that compromise on security (e.g. relying on "security through obscurity")
• block incoming traffic by default (you only need some people from your country to access the network? Maybe even block ip ranges from the other side of the world)
• log access to your network and also analyse the logs often (probably with the help of some software)

I'm just some Software Engineer with a few years of experience, not some security expert though😅

Mostly the same. I tried ChatGPT a few times to get it to generate some code, but mostly it produced code that didn't even compile and when I asked it to fix it, it created code that didn't compile in a different way. I enjoy writing code on my own a lot more than having to review some pre-generated code.

Though I use it as a glorified Google sometimes and that is not even so bad.

My feeling is the US feels they are too committed now to stop and just hope that Israel will stop by itself soon.

I'm not saying I like it, but it definitely feels like that...

Just give me a Linux client for proton drive please. I'm tired of manually uploading/downloading files 😐

And last time I checked they wanted to change the law so the overachievement over other sectors can excuse the failure in others. So no need to do something in the traffic sector, if other areas performed better. Not sure what the current state of this plan is, but I would assume they didn't take it back, which would seem the only reasonable thing to do🤷‍♂️

Very hard. Trust me bro

Just relax and make some tea at 4:18 :) No coffee though!

I like living in the EU 😄

Honestly I would probably just stop using YouTube altogether if I was forced to use it unmodified.

I never understood how a chatroom took off as a tool to document stuff. Who seriously thinks this is a good idea? 😵

My takeaway is more like: This one almost made it through and was caught by accident. How much more backdoors actually were not caught and made it through? I would bet some money on it being more than 0 :(

I guess it is impossible to say what would have happened if Google never used XMPP. To me it mostly looks like google joined XMPP and made it way bigger than it was before and eventually left it again, making it small again. But is it worse than before Google even joined?

Maybe, but can we say for sure?

Maybe the lesson is not "don't let the big corporate players in", but rather "make sure the development of the underlying protocol itself is done in an open way". If Google/Meta adds proprietary extensions, just don't add them to the main protocol. If they leave the protocol again or changed their implementation in a way that is largely incompatible with the open version, nothing is lost than what they brought in initially. Doesn't that make sense?

I'm actually curious about "Embrace Extend Extinguish": What can they do? They "extend" the ActivityPub protocol in a proprietary way, ok. Doesn't mean any other instance has to use that, no? Ok, that would mean if an instance doesn't follow that extension, it can't interact optimally with Threads, but how does it matter? To me it seems all that can be lost by that is the content/user base that Threads brings into the Fediverse and then we are at the same point as we would be if we defederated immediately. Maybe I'm missing something here?