Neshura @ neshura @bookwormstory.social

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Not on the phone but I had to threaten the Bitdefender E-Mail rep with a lawsuit in order to get my money back.

A few months into my 2 year subscription I changed my e-mail associated with my Bitdefender account. Thereafter all mail I got from them went to that new email, as it should. A short while after that I switched over to Linux and my "need" for an AntiVirus evaporated entirely between Linux' workflow not really requiring one anyway and me learning how little AntiVirus Software offers over the default Windows Defender. Queue forward to the end of that 2 year subscription (whose auto-renewal I had disabled before leaving Windows exactly to prevent what happened anyway but alas I have no proof of that anymore) I notice a really weird charge while reviewing my credit card statement. A charge that by all accounts should not have been there and one I was not made aware of beforehand. Guess what, those fucks sent only the mail about the upcoming renewal to the old email account which I had no reason whatsoever to suspect would still receive mail from them. Curiously the mail about them cancelling the renewed charge after I went off on them was sent to the new email again...

Initially the customer service said "oh well can't do anything here's a 50€ discount" until I lost my cool and threatened to sue them for theft because by all reasonable standards I could not have expected them to inform me on my old email about this upcoming charge.

On that note my stance was reaffirmed: Between and AntiVirus and an actual Virus I'd pick the latter, at least those are upfront about their motives and intentions instead of pretending to provide you with a service.

I think you have the wrong idea about what I was referencing. I'm not talking about Cloudflare Tunnels but their Encrypted Client Hello. While Cloudflare could intercept the inital ClientHello the rest of the HTTP traffic still is encrypted between Client and Server not between Client and Cloudflare. In that sense they have not turned into more of a MitM than they (or any other DNS Nameserver) were already anyway. So unless governments decide to completely dismantle the trust chain the internet works on they won't be forced to fuck with ECH for anti-piracy either.

But ultimately anything going over a public DNS Server is susceptible to being compromised. We simply trust that the providers don't.

I'm sure this is definitely going to go how the regulator thinks it will go. What with Cloudflare being one of the driving factors behind e2e encrypting more and more of the HTTP stack, making it ever harder for ISPs and other 3rd parties to see inside the HTTP traffic.

Monkey Paw: Trump and other corrupt politicians being high up the authority chain made sure more evil politicians didn't get authority.

So you kill those as well. Now trust in democracy is crumbling because for some reason a lot of politicians keep mysteriously dying. "Good" politicians enact laws to protect their lives but those laws are bad as well so now you also have to off the good politicians. I hope you see where this hypothetical is going. The world is not so simple that a few well placed assassinations would fix everything, if that were the case it'd have been done before.

If anything "Using violence to fix the world" would be the better thing to be good at since it protects you from the Monkey Paw to a certain extent. Exceptions:

• a "fixed" world being one devoid of humans
• a "fixed" world panning out in the opposite way you imagined (everyone is equally miserable instead of happy for example)

Yeah really not much else needed to be said here. What happened with Crowdstrike is exactly the sort of exploit Kernel Level Anti-Cheat in general has been critized for enabling on consumer hardware.

The worst part really is just getting off the damn spam lists. There is almost no documentation anywhere for do's and dont's. I ultimately had to setup a sending relay for the mail on my status monitoring VPS because my residential IP triggered most spam filters, but I only found out that that was the problem from forum posts investigating the same problem. I check with stuff like mail-tester, get back perfect scores and yet most of my outgoing emails have a good chance to land in the spam folder anyway (but at least they get delivered so that's a plus I guess)

As others in other threads have said: Google and Microsoft have killed the ability to self-host email simply by black-boxing their spam filters. As a user you have no real way to fix your mail server such that your emails get delivered into the inbox reliably.

I self-host email, it certainly isn't something I'd recommend

Also no regenerative braking

Imo you probably save more money keeping the server up 24/7 than constantly shutting it down and starting it up again. Especially once you get a good list of services going.

Not really no, it also likely isn't a surprise to the engineers and project managers working on these products. Which is likely exactly why they have standout battery life: the project managers knew AI wouldn't sell so they made the laptops appealing via conventional means anyway.

Please tell me they had the decency to filter out the ML garbage... nvm that would've been too much work

I like shitting on Apple as much as the next guy but the Vision Pro is an impressive piece of gear from an engineering perspective. Unfortunately, much like pretty much all VR headsets before it, it is suffering from a lack of an ecosystem.

All Apple changed is to pivot away from a focus on bleeding edge high end hardware in this new segment and instead grow a userbase by means of a cheaper base product (likely missing one or two bells and whistles). Developers don't like to produce apps for platforms nobody will use, even if they get thrown some money to do so, because it is a poor long term investment. So Apple's best shot at this is to get Vision devices onto as many heads as possible.

At least in the EU USB-C is only the standard by 2nd degree, the actual mandatory connector is whatever connector the industry consortium decides on. For now it just happens to be USB-C

Holy Water most likely

Oh no you can bet this guy is into Eugenics and refuses to fuck anyone he deems has "inferior genes" without protection

I think they were referencing glue on pizza ring and stuf .like that

Correct me if I'm wrong but if I start a project with a GPL and a custom proprietary license for use at work wouldn't that also apply to any contributions by 3rd parties later on to that projevt? Afaik only adding or switching licenses with existing 3rd party contributions is difficult without a CLA.

For me anything "private" just means you can't buy shares publicly. Worker cooperatives would be included in that (since you need to be a worker to own a "share")

well in this particular case it wouldn't have mattered, I used the username but the admin in question has their clear name set as the display name (which made the whole "doxxing" claim even funnier to me)