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FDSGSG··on Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number
Where is that? Judging by your comment history, maybe Kazakhstan? I can easily find physical security keys for sale in Kazakhstan. For example miningshop.kz in Almaty has Ledger Nano S in stock.

Besides, you don't need an actual physical key for U2F.

FDSGSG··on Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist
It's already obligatory if you want to compete at the top level.

> chances are that it was unthinkable for a player to even be a contender for the elite level without doping.

Which is really the case for most sports today.

FDSGSG··on Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist
What's the big problem with doping anyway? Even now, everyone is doping, it doesn't seem to be causing huge problems.

Wouldn't it be safer for everyone if it was all out in the open?

FDSGSG··on Bitcoin Threw a Party in Miami and I Crashed It
Why are there so few women in the mining industry?

Why are there so few women in arms trade?

Why are there so few women in finance?

Why are there so few women in infosec?

Why are there so few women in ...

How is "crypto space" unique? It's so easy to find countless industry events which are full of mostly men.

FDSGSG··on Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames
I'm calling out your celebration of suffering. I'm not hurting marginalised people.

>Did you actually just compare being transgendered to suffering from a spinal cord injury??

Both gender dysphoria and spinal cord injuries tend to be severely debilitating.

We're not lucky to have transgender people. Luck would be nobody suffering from gender dysphoria. The people who end up needing to correct their gender are absolutely not lucky. Why do you think their misfortune makes us lucky?

I'm all for trans rights, consequently I'm also disgusted by you making light of the suffering implied by gender dysphoria.

FDSGSG··on Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames
Are we really damned lucky to have people suffering from an often crippling mental illness?

I'm all for the rights of trans people, but saying we're lucky to have trans people is not very different from saying we're lucky to have depressed or bipolar people. Perhaps we're also lucky to have quadriplegic people?

(And yeah, obviously not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria)

FDSGSG··on Inside London's first Ketamine therapy clinic
What are the downsides? People in the UK can still have private insurance if they want, which actually tends to be much cheaper than in the US.
FDSGSG··on Is this how Russia ends?
Girkins words are certainly more interesting and relevant than Mashas, even if he is a madman.
FDSGSG··on At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid
These are not construction deaths. The article does not claim that these were construction deaths. That's something you invented in your head.

This number represents all-cause mortality.

FDSGSG··on At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid
These aren't construction deaths. This number includes all causes of death for all 2+ million immigrant workers in Qatar.
FDSGSG··on At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid
These aren't construction deaths. Nor are they deaths related to the world cup. This number includes every migrant worker death in Qatar since the World Cup was awarded, there are over 2 million migrant workers in Qatar.
FDSGSG··on End the Streaming Struggle with Plex
Sure, except despite the dark patterns the actual experience of using Plex is much better than Jellyfin.

I have a smallish 100TB library I'd really love to move away from Plex, I regularly test out Jellyfin to see if they've finally made it usable. But sadly Jellyfin is still very far from being a good Plex replacement, it's just janky as fuck.

Constant playback errors, terrible client support, significantly higher resource usage.

FDSGSG··on End the Streaming Struggle with Plex
TrueNAS is a pretty small niche, no? Not only that, but the usual way of using NAS involves doing compute tasks on a separate server.

Besides, the FreeBSD based TrueNAS Core will almost certainly be deprecated and replaced with Linux based TrueNAS Scale within the nest couple of years. Further strengthening the idea that this is a pointless platform to support.

FDSGSG··on End the Streaming Struggle with Plex
Is FreeBSD support really something worth worrying about? Perhaps it's also disappointing that Jellyfin doesn't run on AmigaOS?
FDSGSG··on Exchange electricity prices in France go through the roof
Which kind of nuclear waste are we talking about? VLLW? LLW? ILW? HLW?
FDSGSG··on A few things to know before stealing my 914
The trick is to have your vehicles belong to a LLC, Montana is/was popular.

Might be illegal in some cases. Too risky to be worth it? Not at all. Just look at where most supercars are registered.

Just don't name your company $firstname $lastname LLC.

FDSGSG··on A few things to know before stealing my 914
> Author is in NC, same as me

This hardly matters though because you don't need to register the vehicle in the state you're living in.

FDSGSG··on Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apartment
> The only way to get them to do anything is to sue them. Apparently this tanks your "shadow credit score" though.

Do you have a source for this claim? I can't find that in the article.

FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
>It's a society where showing up for what the authorities do is common.

For a variety of reasons much of my circle of friend consists of Russians living abroad, you're mistaken if you believe that they support Russian leadership out of fear of what might happen if they didn't.

>A long codicil of war conventions (Geneva, Hague) and anti-terrorism conventions. What I wrote is a common exegesis.

But sanctions do exactly that. Attack random civilians.

> As I wrote, there's a difference between 'we won't trade with you' and actively harming someone.

It's not "we won't trade with you", that's a dishonest way of putting it. It's "we won't allow others to trade with you", which is very much actively harming someone.

FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
Same goes for using software from other countries, no?
FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
> Regardless, Russia will not be able to subdue Ukraine, but there's nothing good coming from a more enthusiastic Russian society.

You are mistaken if you believe that Russian society isn't already enthusiastic. But this isn't a country with the warrior culture US has, dying for your country isn't cool in Russia, it just means that you were too poor and/or stupid to dodge the draft.

> There's a law for these things. That law allows sanctions but not attacking random civilians.

Which law is that?

> It also states that any possible harm to civilians must be incidental to the method

Many of the sanctions are specifically targeting civilians, civilian businesses.

> and that any harm be proportional to the possibility of achieving a legitimate goal (kicking Russia out).

Oh no, you're deeply mistaken. The sanctions will not go away even if Russia gets kicked out of Ukraine, they're very much intended to be punitive.

FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
>Russian society isn't anywhere near enthusiastic. That's why Putin has been searching for ever dumber excuses. Give him an actual indefensible incident to rally society around, and he'll get a lot more manpower. That could expand the war to Odessa and Moldova, and also 'retaliatory' cyberwar in the West.

That's just absurd fanfic. Sending in untrained "manpower" with no equipment would not help advance Russian goals.

"Cyberwar"? Russia has never before needed any excuses to unleash wiper worms like NotPetya onto the whole world.

>It's attacking civilians as to influence their government

Exactly like sanctions. Are you against sanctions too? If not, how do you explain that inconsistency?

FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
Exactly, demonstrating how laughable the comments here are. Malware is somehow supposed to be worse than the far more painful sanctions, it's fascinating to see how detached from reality many commenters here are.

Both the sanctions and wiper malware targeting Russia are good things.

FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
> There's an obvious difference between trying to hurt people and not trading with them yourself

Ah yes, because seizing Russian assets overseas is the same as "not trading with them".

FDSGSG··on So, you want to be a darknet drug lord
>But a browser escape is different than obtaining root on an OS that doesnt even enable root by default

A linux LPE is worth a small fraction of the money a Firefox escape is. Far easier to come by, far weaker defences.

At least tails seems to use network namespaces now, so deanonymization without root might not be as trivial as it was before.

FDSGSG··on So, you want to be a darknet drug lord
>That didn't answer their question.

It did. Whonix can defend you against malicious code running inside your work environment, Tails can't.

>Nobody is advised to run Tails in a VM, only as the host OS, so the dual VM part isn't that relevant.

This is why it's a bad idea to use Tails at all unless you aren't actually that worried about being deanonymized.

>The article does briefly mention Tails and how it does a RAM rewrite upon shutdown for you

This is meaningless security theatre.

FDSGSG··on So, you want to be a darknet drug lord
>odd and unlikely attack vector, but always a target

??

The FBI has publicly burned firefox 0days to deanonymize Tor users at scale.

We're having this conversation under a post titled "So, you want to be a darknet drug lord".

If you want to be even a small time DNM vendor, you should not use Tails but Whonix.

FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
> If you think Putin wouldn't use that to rally Russia and launch a massive war, you haven't observed Putin for long.

Do you believe that node-ipc would do this but the current vastly more impactful sanctions regime wont?

Also, everybody capable of thinking understands that Russia isn't capable of launching another "massive war" when it already has almost all of its conventional combat power committed to Ukraine.

If you think Putin would launch a nuclear war over wiper malware, you're an idiot. There's no other kind of "massive war" he could launch at this point.

> this software equivalent of a warcrime

Why not call it software holocaust if we're gonna go there? What's wrong with you?

FDSGSG··on Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
I just don't understand what Western governments were thinking when they sanctioned Russian businesses.

"Hm, maybe if I put laws into the books that destroy the economy of a country and drives people in a certain geopolitical region into poverty, the countless innocent citizens that affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?"

Oh wait.

FDSGSG··on So, you want to be a darknet drug lord
Huge difference. Whonix consists of two VMs, one where you actually work and another which acts as a "router" sending all of your traffic out over Tor.

Code running in the work VM can't leak your IP even with root access.

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