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  1. Comment on Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines in ~society

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    That suggestion lowkey sounds like a civil war waiting to happen

    That suggestion lowkey sounds like a civil war waiting to happen

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Oh, that'd be Bob Venti aka EthinolicBob, though afaik he's on an extended break right now

    Oh, that'd be Bob Venti aka EthinolicBob, though afaik he's on an extended break right now

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Hear that one's quite pop'lar with the kids
    • Exemplary

    Hear that one's quite pop'lar with the kids

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    @j0hn1215 would it be possible for you to add a shulker unloader / loader to the giant smelting furnace?

    @j0hn1215 would it be possible for you to add a shulker unloader / loader to the giant smelting furnace?

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic in ~tech

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    Yeah, the chances are fairly low, albeit non-zero, as I stated above. Myself, I've seen my fair share of attacks on "relatively unimportant websites", but those were generally either...

    My threat model largely consists of why would anyone bother

    Yeah, the chances are fairly low, albeit non-zero, as I stated above.

    Myself, I've seen my fair share of attacks on "relatively unimportant websites", but those were generally either geopolitically-motivated attacks by hacktivists or failed attempts to perform supply chain attacks towards another entity. But even then, they used known vulnerabilities in unpatched software, every time.

  6. Comment on Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic in ~tech

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    It's sort of "security by obscurity" that way. Which isn't exactly a solid way to do security, but it does weed out a bunch of the dumb bots only scanning for very low-hanging fruit. These tend to...

    That wasn't true until I changed the SSH port to something that isn't port 22

    It's sort of "security by obscurity" that way. Which isn't exactly a solid way to do security, but it does weed out a bunch of the dumb bots only scanning for very low-hanging fruit. These tend to have pre-scripted subdomains and ports they'll check, and the more your own setup differs from those, the fewer things you'll get until they eventually figure it out. E.g. if you use a wildcard certificate they won't know which subdomains you actually use, but then again, wildcard certs have their own problems they can cause when misconfigured. Of course, this will do nothing for a more advanced or more targeted attack, but that's also not something you have to worry a lot about when it comes to projects like yours.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Steam Machine prices revealed, starting at US$1049.00 in ~games

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    Not bad at all. Well within the price range I was budgeting for it. Let's fucking go!

    Not bad at all. Well within the price range I was budgeting for it. Let's fucking go!

    9 votes

  8. Comment on Keir Starmer announces resignation as leader of Labour Party in ~society

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    What does this mean for the future of UK politics in the next year or two?

    What does this mean for the future of UK politics in the next year or two?

    7 votes

  9. Comment on How much of an echo chamber is Reddit/the internet, really? in ~tech

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    Depends. I don't disagree per se, but over the last year or so, I've seen several "below the radar" cases of noise label abuse and misapplication. I don't doubt that the reason behind many of...

    Depends. I don't disagree per se, but over the last year or so, I've seen several "below the radar" cases of noise label abuse and misapplication.

    I don't doubt that the reason behind many of those was somewhat benign (incorrect understanding of the "noise" tag) rather than malicious, but it's still something I used to notice often back when I was very heavily browsing this website.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on How much of an echo chamber is Reddit/the internet, really? in ~tech

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    True, that one requires abusing the noise tag. It's more like "getting ratioed" on twitter in that regard.

    True, that one requires abusing the noise tag. It's more like "getting ratioed" on twitter in that regard.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on How much of an echo chamber is Reddit/the internet, really? in ~tech

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    Unpopular opinion: We're not immune to the "downvote problem" on tildes. Only that, instead of "downvoting someone to oblivion", it's "do not upvote this person at all, and instead massively...

    Unpopular opinion: We're not immune to the "downvote problem" on tildes. Only that, instead of "downvoting someone to oblivion", it's "do not upvote this person at all, and instead massively upvote whoever is replying to them".

    Occasionally you also see people abusing the "noise" tag to mark things they personally don't like, but that's a different story

    10 votes

  12. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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  14. Comment on Tildes Survey #9: How optimistic are you about the future? (Results) in ~talk

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    Shouldn't "now" and "past 6 months" be in the opposite order in order to make more intuitive sense due to our left-to-right writing system?

    Shouldn't "now" and "past 6 months" be in the opposite order in order to make more intuitive sense due to our left-to-right writing system?

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Are there any video games that are/were popular in your country, that the rest of the world hardly knows about? in ~games

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    Myself, I have no clue how to answer this, honestly - if a game was popular in my life/environment but I never talked about it with anyone else, then I wouldn't have a clue that it was only...

    Myself, I have no clue how to answer this, honestly - if a game was popular in my life/environment but I never talked about it with anyone else, then I wouldn't have a clue that it was only popular in my country or whatever. There might have been something like that in my life, but I have zero idea which game that could've been...

    4 votes

  16. Comment on We can fix the future, Star Trek shows us how in ~humanities

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    Yeah, honestly, this exact thought process about how maybe someday things could be a lot better than now / more like in the UFP in Star Trek has been the one thing keeping me from completely...

    Yeah, honestly, this exact thought process about how maybe someday things could be a lot better than now / more like in the UFP in Star Trek has been the one thing keeping me from completely losing my shit over the last decade or so.

    21 votes

  17. Comment on Graduated again, not sitting in a field this time, AMA in ~talk

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  20. Comment on What do you think the top three most used apps on your phone for the past week are? in ~tech

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    I really only ever use my browser and Signal, so...

    I really only ever use my browser and Signal, so...

    1 vote