in_the_dark_forest

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[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only smart people in tgis are the ones selling rhe bunkers. They charge lots of money for a promise that is not even fully complete as described in the article. In the unlikely event of an actual apocalypse, many will not even rech the bunker in the first place and if somyhing is not ready or woking as it shouls there is nobody left to prosecute.

I have my home server behind a wireguard vpn access.

While I am no security expert, or precisely because of that, I still try to follow security best practices for the internal setup if I can.

Of course you propably do not have to be as vigilant as if your services were publicly exposed. But I believe it is still a good idea to have some "defence in depth" and not assume only one possible attack vector, e.g. what if there already is a bad actor on your home network maybe via a trusted device that has some virus. Also a plus is i guss if you ever decide to expose something later on you wont have as many issues.

As far as I know, not even that is certain. I read something about other topologies, like a donout shape or even higher dimentional topologies being plausible as well. Interesting rabbit hole but really makes you question our how we view our reality.

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is so true sadly. Talked to some friends irl who truly believe that one day they could also become a billionaire. They don't even own a company. I think many have no concept of this number. It always surprises me how many are confused about which 'team' they are in and who their allies really are.

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

This is what I love about the fedverse. People directly calling out such crappy articles that just spread misleading information for the sake of whatever.

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So their models have trouble opening a dropdwn menu and their best solution is to implement mass surveillance of the employees?

Seems a bit overkill tbh aside from being qustionable in general.

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Filthy NS Operative, let Vanu smile upon you!

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder though if pressing "skip" is a good idea in terms of privacy / not giving them what they want. I don't think this was implemented for our "convienience" and rather as yet another manipulation technique.

Just some ideas what I assume they achieve by this:

  • By pressing it you have to divert your attention towards the ad, even if it is just for a short time.

  • You might unintentionally signal your preferences which could be used for profile enrichment

  • You also provide information, that you are still actively at the device an watching (I assume ad providers have more interest on having more/longer ads on content that is actively watched)

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is a stargate on the lake

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They like to annoy future programmers by letting them do binary tree insertion steps manually on paper. They also like to destroy your self confidence by telling you if you ever come up with an algorithm it is likely trash and someone else invented a better one 50 years ago.

[–] in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now I went down a rabbit hole reading about aleph and tree(3). I did not even study math why do I do this to myself...

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