Saik0Shinigami

Saik0Shinigami , 3 days ago

What shitty logic is this?

If the coroner shows recognizable body parts to parents... You think the parent doesn't recognize and notify the coroner of that fact?

"Yes, I recognize that birthmark. That torso is my daughter."

or

"No, that's just a torso, that isn't Billy!"

How far does this go? Billy cut his pinky off... It's no longer Billy! That must be some new kid I've never seen before. Let's call him Bill!

Saik0Shinigami , 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Edit: turns out there are brainwormed redditors out here. Ignore their downvotes and you will be fine following advice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kaspersky

Yeah... No. Pick any other reputable company.

Kaspersky is one of many Russian "oligarchs"

Edit: I think this paints the picture pretty clear... So worth adding to the discussion. Note the domains that are voting for this post vs not.

https://lemmy.saik0.com/pictrs/image/89d04d72-8996-4055-9b47-668606404349.png

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Any serious security expert is not a Russophobe

Categorically wrong. One of the core focuses many security experts care about IS government overreach/interference. Governments are one of the leading pressures for software vulnerabilities/backdoors. Doesn't matter that it's Russian, because this isn't a "Russophobe" stance. However, Russian and Chinese interference is usually on a much larger scale than other countries and typically has a much higher amount of scrutiny than other countries because of this fact. Due to those countries policies it's hard to trust code that comes out of either country.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq/

"The case against Kaspersky Lab is overwhelming," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, said in a statement. "The strong ties between Kaspersky Lab and the Kremlin are alarming and well-documented."

Isn't it funny that many other Anti-viruses don't seem to have these issues?

Case and point from other countries on the government pressure argument.
https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-impact/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/

Many countries have these issues documented when interference happen. You know which ones don't? The ones that you lemmy.ml shills usually defend. That's not because they're not doing it by the way.

Damn... And you're a mod here? Anyone know of another community that is privacy focused and isn't on lemmy.ml? A mod that doesn't understand that closed source software with known ties to government entities is a problem.

Hell this isn't even a "Dumb American" stance either (forget that I hold an eastern EU citizenship). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties has a whole section of "Concerns raised by other governments". Virtually all of the EU also has this concern with Kaspersky. Additional countries included... It's at the very least ODD that a company has such ties to a government. And the sheer PARANOIA that all "serious security experts" hold would immediately bar most of them from using the software due to that fact alone.

Hell it's even typical for a security professional to outright block ALL Russian and Chinese internet traffic for their platform. Just because it's not worth the effort to deal with those countries and all the risks that come with them. But right! This must be "Russophobe" and no "serious security expert" has a problem. You're full of it dude(tte).

You are not one of those serious security people.

News to me... I guess I should turn in my CISO position. Who's going to tell the R1 college that I taught at for years? All those thousands of students, many of which still reach out to me regularly and have made it quite far in industry?... Hmm... Oh and it's not an "appeal to fallacy" or any other logical fallacy when it's me defending my own status from a bullshit claim.

Edit: for any non-admin 3rd parties wondering who downvoted me... 100% of those votes at the moment is lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml. Take with that what you will. To me that screams "How dare you talk facts about the motherland" vibes.

Edit2: Oh they also edited their post to seem more normal... Their original post said

Any serious security expert is not a Russophobe and regards Kaspersky as the best commercial tool provider for malware analysis, based on merit and not on nationality. You are not one of them. I do not trust Bitdefender, Norton, McAfee and other western companies with CIA backdooring, and since CIA does use metadata to kill people (just like Yemen or Palestine), it is a clear cut choice.

So basically ANY software not Russian, you seem to not trust. Claim it's on merit... But only point out nationality. Don't you find that odd that Russia can't do no harm either? Even though other companies do not have as clear cut ties to their governments?

Also lol at abusing one man instance to try and be a snitch on people. This tells a lot about you.

Edit3, after your edit:

Also lol at abusing one man instance to try and be a snitch on people. This tells a lot about you.

Activitypub is open by nature, kbin users can see everything that I've published. There's no abuse happening here. Nor is my instance just one person/user. But you do you man.

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

This nonsense is largely invented by Democrats and people at Washington

Didn't know my own analytics is Democrat/Washington run. I guess I should go yell at the people OPNsense (Suricata), WAZUH, and Crowdsec. They must be injecting false notifications about my networks being targetted by shit from Russia and Chinese owned IP space!

Yes I edited the post, but you also seem to abuse powers as an admin of your one man instance to see unedited content.

It's an abuse of power to read the post that's sent to my email? Well shit! Even for a moderator you seem to not even understand how lemmy works. Let me enlighten you. I got an email with your post in it because you responded to me. What an abuse of Administrative power!
Forget that 100% of activitypub network is openly published and thus viewable by anyone... Ooops.

Lmfao... you reported my post... and likely blocked/"moderated" it on your instance. Don't really care. To the point though, when 100% of downvotes on a comment is strictly from lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml instances. Yes, you're shills, not a single opposing opinion between you. No discourse. No actual thought process occurring. Just "Russia/China good, rest world bad". No nuance at all.

You also failed to address your stance that you published. Why is it that every other platform you originally listed was a problem where Kaspersky isn't?

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Activitypub information is public by design. Kbin users for instance can see this information openly. There's nothing poor form here. My instance also isn't 1 user. But whatever floats your boat.

Edit: It's also well known...

https://kbin.social/m/lemmy@lemmy.ml/t/77983/Interesting-difference-from-Reddit-Upvotes-Downvotes-are-not-anonymous
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14s1qki/psa_your_lemmy_activities_including_votes_are/
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/142436

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

And that includes a lot of the netsec people who see this stuff.

Wait a second! I though NO serious security people are Russophobe? Are you changing your story now?

Your own little vote charter shows one dbzer0 user upvoting as well

You have the evaluation backwards... Outside people are coming to different consensuses based on opinions and experiences that's normal... It's lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml that don't. I would EXPECT that results were mixed, but for your instance it never is. You seem to have missed the point.

What if China and Russia started treating .us or .ca or such domains like this and demonise countries?

They literally do. Have you not heard of the great firewall? The vast majority of the internet is unusable to China... and requires a VPN to access anything. Hell, I'd say the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances acting as hiveminds downvoting anything critical of Russia/China is also evidence of this. It's OKAY to be critical of a government.

It is you people who project the hate you possess onto others, and you even manage to be proud of it like an absolute idiot with no merit based judgement capabilities.

Not even close. I evaluate everything as I see it. You seem to be making a lot of assumptions here. Kaspersky has strong ties to the Russian government that is sufficient to warrant any "serious security" person to evaluate a different solution.

I did not fail. It is too clear to me how you are parroting US propaganda, even quoting a Democrat (Russia hater party) about it.

Yet bitdefender is a problem... And you can't address why Kaspersky would be any different... Talk about parroting.

What room is there for reasoning with a crow like you, shitting everywhere happily?

Crows (Corvid family) are the smart birds... You mean pigeon.

Edit: Actually come to think of it? Why the ravenous defense of Kaspersky at all? It's just an anti-virus software no? Why does me disagreeing with the use of Kaspersky in this instance warrant "makes you look like the worst slurs I could summon for an incompetent clown." Don't you see how unreasonable you look? How you look like a frothing lunatic?

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

Others seem to disagree.

That's fine. You/them can disagree all you want. Just realize that they're using it too. I just disagree with the default Lemmy stance that users can't see something that everyone else on the fediverse(including moderators and admin on any federated instance) can. And if they want to defederate me for that. I'm not sure I care. I've been defederated from one instance so far... it's not been a major loss and definitely doesn't weigh on my conscience at all.

My sincerest apologies: three user instance 🙄

I have no interest in disclosing how many users are using my instance. They can post things if they want. That's up to them. Many are just lurkers though.

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

I'm sorry, where did I repeat anything?

This would be the first time in this thread I've said anything about it.

If "we all know this" then why state "I think this is poor form"?

Who's de-federating kbin then? Nobody? Well then...

Saik0Shinigami , 11 days ago

It's my library. I only approve shit that I want to be on there.

My users know this (including family). If they want to be picky they can run their own shit. I've denied plenty before.

An alternative answer is to "approve" it in overseerr, but remove the request in radarr. Or setup a blacklist for the name. Then just say that the tools can't find the movie, nothing you can do about it.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Email in transit is not encrypted. At least not encrypted by anything that the government can't compel the company to hand over. Your password as best can only lockdown the mailbox itself. Not the receipt/sending of emails.

Edit: The point being is that if you're a person of interest, the government can just watch your activity until they get what they want. And Proton doesn't really have anything they can do about it other than a canary page I suppose.

Edit2: to make it even more clear, I'm talking about MTAs communicating with each other. Proton being one party would have the keys to their side of the communication which is sufficient to decode the whole lot.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Proton would have the key. A government that is already compelling them to hand over your account can simply be compelled to provide the TLS keys. The point is that government doesn't have to compel proton for at rest storage, but can compel for in transit interception.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago

"read up on pfs"
"Pfs doesn't matter"

Literally this post.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago

This whole discussion is about a government forcing Proton mail to take actions. Telling me to "read up on pfs" is irrelevant by your own admission. ProtonMail can be compelled to give up their keys, or to hand them over for all current/future transactions.

So once again...

“read up on pfs”
“Pfs doesn’t matter”
Literally this post.

You cannot rely on MTAs to transmit ANYTHING securely in the context of this discussion. Period. There is no E2E when there's an MTA involved unless you're doing GPG/PGP or S/MIME. Nobody does this though... Like literally nobody. I've got both setup and have NEVER had an encrypted email go through because nobody else does it. It doesn't matter what Proton claims to support.

That's it. Telling anyone to read up on anything when they're 100% correct is asinine.

Email in transit is not encrypted. At least not encrypted by anything that the government can’t compel the company to hand over.

Edit:

Email in transit is not encrypted. At least not encrypted by anything that the government can’t compel the company to hand over.

This is what I originally said. It was clear. I don't know why you're arguing otherwise.

Saik0Shinigami , 2 months ago

Your both crazy. My shit syncs just fine.

Saik0Shinigami , 22 days ago

Settings -> auto upload. Set your options and folder mapping to the cloud. If you want it to work all the time turn off battery optimization of the next cloud app. It's been working for myself and my wife since at least 2018.

Saik0Shinigami , 21 days ago

I used to do keepass through it. So yes. But I haven't done that in a hot minute. I do still have a master sync folder for some stuff... but I have tried to open any of those items on my phone in a long time.

Last I checked it worked. I haven't needed that in a long time though so that might have changed. But it's not that hard to just grab the file in the nextcloud app too.

Saik0Shinigami , 3 months ago

Anecdotal evidence is literally evidence of one (which disproves "zero" claims). Collections of anecdotal evidences make statistics making your dismissive statement dumb.

I'm adding to the pile. I can name literally over a dozen people in my childhood who copied Discs.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

(e.g. can’t just buy an old domain and demand the internet archive to delete the archived contents put up by the past owners)

This is false. My father owned a particular domain that transferred ownership to me. I was able to pull down stuff from prior to my ownership just fine without providing any evidence.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

No… I took down content from a previous owner. So you can absolutely buy an old domain and demand to take down old content.

I just pulled up the email. The only evidence I gave them is that I emailed them from the “contact webmaster” email address that was posted on the main site page (admin@domain.com).

They removed everything from their archive completely relating to both domains I was inquiring about. One being originally my fathers and that was transferred to me completely.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

Seems so.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

When LMG releases a video supposedly addressing everything… doesn’t address it… then actively removed any mention of it in the comments of the video (I’ve had 2 comments removed myself). It’s safe to assume that LMG doesn’t have anything they want to add to the topic. I’ll just presume that I’ve heard all sides of the story.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

I’ve had 2 comments deleted. Can’t prove it because when a comment is deleted from a video it’s removed from your YouTube profile as well… but I’m sure you can test yourself.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

Especially if you’re “enemy” has a fanatic fanbase. You come up with a reason that doesn’t set the fanboys on a rampage against you. I think this is a fair thing to wonder.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

So just because it doesn’t make sense for you… it shouldn’t be allowed at all?

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

The end user experience for your website would be terrible and inconsistent

The internet is a massive hodge-podge of different devices. There’s literally no difference in how it’s done now already. Walking through my datacenter I see 10th gen dells still in service.

phones don’t have the kind of uptime and availability that you would need

For homelab? or setting up a personal lemmy instance? It really depends on the purpose. And the premise from the OP has been “personal”.

keeping them plugged in 24/7 in a closet doing computational tasks is a good way to end up with battery bulge and one spicy mini pillow.

Many phones do “only charge to 80%” sort of setting. Negates this nearly completely.

Fortunately it doesn’t matter what I want to allow and is up to the cellular service providers which have all kinds of stipulations about what constitutes as service abuse and using an inordinate amount of bandwidth is usually one of them.

Phones can connect to other services you know… It’s not all about cellular. And many phone companies suppose home/business connections over their network.

So for security safety and service stability reasons, yeah, there is no legitimate reason why it SHOULD be allowed.

There’s tons of legitimate reasons… Such as I want to do what I want with my device.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

If you’ve lost root credentials you can always bypass them.

tecmint.com/reset-forgotten-root-password-in-ubun…

When your in after this point you can reset the password to something you know then continue from there.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

Waze still seems to be the best for real time information while driving a car

And yet the moment I find an alternative that works with Android Auto, I’m dropping Waze too. I try my best to actively avoid Google’s shit these days.

And yes, for the pedantic, I know Android Auto is Google’s… If there was an alternative I’d take that too.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

But owners would probably call the police to stop the illegal work from being done to their building. They don’t want the liability. This would be reasonable to be part of an approval process with the building owners as you’d likely need their signature with the city, not just twitters.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

You can literally start your own company and assign yourself CEO. It’s probably all of a filing fee away. It’s easy to become a C-suite.

Saik0Shinigami , 9 months ago

It’s always been easy for people to be scummy. It just happens to also be easy to be a CEO of a company that does nothing.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

You may need to pay for something to stream away from home. I had to pay a one time fee for the app on my phone to watch movies and tv shows, like $9.99 on iPhone, IIRC?

They removed the pay requirement for plexamp recently. You don’t have to pay to stream remotely.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

Money =/= good art

Might as well at least make it so the big spenders can’t hold the IP hostage.

Except it means they can encroach on your ideas without your consent… Money may not mean good art… But Money definitely means getting better talent in house which can make good art.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

It’s updating Android that caused this issue… this is not the solution.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

Yup this is it…

Starting from 1 Nov 2022, apps that don’t target an API level within two years of the latest Android release (API 29 and below) won’t be available to new users with devices running Android versions newer than your app’s target API level. This means that new users won’t be able to discover or install your app on Google Play

So if the app is older than 2 years… and hasn’t been updated to say it supports the API level your phone is on, it will not appear available for you in the play store. Most of the time, the APK still works fine… The app developer just doesn’t support the app anymore and thus hasn’t updated the arbitrary checkbox for the playstore. On one hand, if it still shows up in the play store you know the app dev is at least “around”… On the other hand… it doesn’t make sense to keep updating an app that doesn’t need updates.

Saik0Shinigami OP , 10 months ago

I understand that this isn’t in the main *arrs list of functions… but there’s other *arrs out there that do jobs that aren’t necessarily finding content. Bazarr for instance will find subtitles for other content. tdarr transcodes files… I don’t see much difference in function to finding playlists that movies should be in and spawning/maintaining them.

But I guess nobody has done a project like this one…

Saik0Shinigami OP , 10 months ago

Ah hah! I’ve seen this project before. I completely missed that it handles playlists as well. I’ll look at that and see if it does exactly what I want.

Thanks for the pointer! I appreciate it.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

I’m sure that’s the prevailing advice… I’ve been self-hosting mine for a while now. It’s been lovely. 0 issues outside of some “special” users… Who also are family… So they’re just “special” anyway.

Been very hands off for me. And when shit goes “wrong” (I can think of 2 major incidents in the past couple years?)… I get the opportunity to actually fix it… rather than sitting on my thumbs crying that my emails don’t work.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

And yet I get emails regularly about outages from Google. I used to be hosted on a grandfathered google workspaces. For some reason they refuse to unsubscribe me from the admin emails. This month has had 6 emails on 2 different issues(290173792 and 290269440). This year… 63 emails.

There’s definitely outages galore… and I’ve had several affect me/my users in different ways. They usually clear up pretty quick… but to say none… I can’t agree.

It’s quite likely that you think it hasn’t affected you, but an outage occurred for you overnight or during a time you didn’t really notice.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

No idea on the screw question… but the labels are off by one screw spacing. The holes that are “close” are where the U labels should change.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

sigh

Like the cop has sniper optics scanning each car for your out of state plate. Don’t drive like an idiot and most people would never notice your plate.

Also I’d be wary of anything that the “political science professor at Hamline University” says…

“A state must honor and respect laws from other states,” he notes. “I get married in Minnesota, I travel down to Florida, does Florida have to recognize my marriage? Yes, it does. I don’t have to get remarried down there.”

This is a well known problem for those who have a common law marriage. They’re often no recognized in states that don’t support the practice.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

You make a lot of excellent points, but I think the main issue of contention is just using copyrighted work to train generative AI without the author’s permission regardless.

If I read a book at the library… and come up with an amazing revolutionary product. Then make a company and go on to make billions of dollar per year. The original book Author has no claim to my income.

There’s no contention. This is just a money grab. Copyright doesn’t disallow people from consuming the content as they please. It simply disallows someone to pass off the original works as your own when it’s not.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

Hard disagree. If my “company” from the previous post is a company that simply cribnotes and reviews books… You can’t stop me from doing that either. Don’t see people chomping the bit to take down other sites that have been doing this for decades.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

and you’re disregarding the rights of those creators to not want their art, music or writing to be fed into the endless churn of data for these megacorporations.

… I don’t see the authors having any rights at all once the work is publish and sold. That’s the point of SELLING the book. It’s letting people do with it what they please. That’s called “ownership”. If I want to buy every copy of your book that I can get my hands on in a store and set it on fire… You have no say in it, no matter what. I purchased the book. That’s it. If I’m literally a Nazi reading the Diary of Anne Frank, nobody gets to tell me that I’m not allowed to check the book out of the library. Your “rights” to the copyright of the book are irrelevant to my rights of ownership of the book. Or the libraries rights to loan the book out to whomever.

Also, it’s champing at the bit, not chomping.

Really don’t care about grammar nazi-ing… and tell that to my phones autocomplete.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

If I rent a car I don’t own it. Is it not stealing to hijack a rental car for a few hours?

Not a great hypothetical. Copying files would mean that in your hypothetical… I see the red civic your rental service is providing… Look at it real hard, poof another one into existence and drive away in it.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

Self-hosted Searxng. It’s shared to multiple people which kills a lot of the usefulness in Google or others trying to track my instance.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

I had some issues with searx… Things are a bit better in my experience with searxng. Sometimes I still run into the error messages. But usually it’s my fault more than anything (server bogged down, too many requests/searches across all my users, or internet blips)… I just rerun the search a few seconds later and it’s usually good again.

Saik0Shinigami , 10 months ago

No. Operations like removing blocked user comments, tracking your subscriptions themselves (showing only yours when you’re on teh subscription tab), and tracking your sessions are all database heavy operations. You would be trading database heavy operations with “origin needs to send activity pub messages” to you. Activitypub messages were already being generated and is simply just also sent to you… it’s very little network traffic and that’s it.

As long as your instance views most content it receives at least once… you’re well above par for doing your work to lighten the load on the origin server.