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[–] percent@infosec.pub 20 points 6 days ago

That reminds me of a joke:

What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? The taste.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

With ADHD and social anxiety, I'm more productive when the office is less social. I definitely got much more productive when I started working from home.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I might not be the best person to ask, as I'm not super familiar with the underlying details of either. But, from a high level, I'd say that Nostr is more decentralized.

(I might get some of these details wrong, so hopefully someone can correct me.)

I've seen people say that ActivityPub is decentralized, but I just don't quite see it. I think even email is more "decentralized" than AP. With email, your identity is tied to a domain name. If you own the domain name, then you can switch email servers/providers. AFAIK, with AP, your identity is tied to a server and domain name. So if the server is gone, then your account is too.

With Nostr, you own your identity. It's not tied to a domain name or server. If a Nostr relay goes offline (or bans you, I suppose), you can continue using your account through other relays.

I think most people use more than one relay on Nostr (that's the default setting in many Nostr clients). If one goes down, I'm not sure I'd even notice. You can add/remove relays from your client too.

Nostr feels a bit more like p2p, in a way. More of the heavy lifting is done on the client than the servers/relays.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe they're vegetarian ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] percent@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago

I think I missed this trend. I've been full-screening almost everything on macOS for years

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Heh yeah, good point. Maybe I'll just try it for a while

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I heard that Proton email addresses have developed a reputation for often belonging to scammers and spammers. Do you know if any of your outgoing email has ended up in anyone's spam box?

[–] percent@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Nostr. I think the tech is cool, but the culture seems like some sort of cryptocurrency cult

[–] percent@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago

send and receive mobile alerts via text message

I hope this database of phone numbers, and all programs that connect to it, are secure.

(Not that text messages are even secure, but a database is much easier to extract a complete list from.)

[–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

They could have done both.

If it's not fixed by Monday, I will consider starting the approval process from the legal department that requires it from me.

I wish I had the freedom to just open a PR anywhere anytime, but I don't.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Let's not get carried away.

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Right...

[–] percent@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

It sounds like a pull request would have been much more helpful, with much less effort. But you want it fixed less than you want it publicized, so you chose this option (even though you could have done both).

In other words, you cared less about the people impacted by this problem, and more about your own opportunity to put the author(s) on blast like this.

And you care about that opportunity so much, that it's even worth it to show this dark side of yourself publicly.

Am I understanding that right?

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