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So let's say I wanna ping 1.1.1.1... every 5 seconds... forever. Alternatives? (lemmings.world)

Developers (two dudes) are super responsive and would likely release an IP customization feature upon request. Is there any service that would tolerate this [D]DOS-y kind of behavior that would feel more privacy friendly than Cloudflare?...

rcbrk,

x.x.x.x))<ICMP>((1.1.1.1

rcbrk,

I was all ready to rant about the problem of new developments being built before public transport infrastructure, but I checked the map and there are two railway lines in the vicinity!

www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12079848#map=14/-3…

…that said, there is a distinct lack of cycle/pedestrian infrastructure and the style of vehicle traffic makes it hostile.

Of course, the best solution to that is limiting car traffic to a single lane, no on-street parking, and a 20km/h speed limit.

rcbrk,

A railway station isn’t restored until all the passenger rail lines and services are restored.

How is everyone handling the 2FA requirement for GitHub? (docs.github.com)

Just wondering what people are using to meet the 2FA requirement GitHub has been rolling out. I don’t love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone just to log into GitHub. And really don’t want to give them my phone number just to log in....

rcbrk, (edited )

Swapping the sim associated with your phone number – from your sim to their sim.

rcbrk,

As in “Hi PhoneCompany, I’d like a mobile plan with you. Yes, I’d like to bring my old phone number over to the new account.”

Or “Hi PhoneCompanySupport, I’m @thingsiplay and i lost my sim, plz send me a new one. BTW my new address is …”

Ideally it shouldn’t happen, but phone company security is pretty slack sometimes,

rcbrk,

Ah, that’s good then.

In Australia you really only need a name and date of birth and ID such as a passport or driving license number of the owner. No physical or even photographic proof. Some phone companies send the original sim a notification before moving it, but no response is required and moving the number often only takes 10~30mins.

Banks in Australia commonly use sms codes as 2fa.

A large percentage (20~30%?) of adult Australians have had their ID details leaked in recent years because there are no adequately enforced security requirements or data-retention limits. One of the largest breaches was the second largest mobile phone provider…

rcbrk,

No worries. The situation I was describing is indeed absurd and defies reasonable expectations.

rcbrk,

btw

rcbrk,

Easy with sudo apt remove --purge --allow-remove-essential --auto-remove systemd:

The predictable failure of things towards the end of apt running the above command. Still in a gnome terminal, but the apt script couldn’t even complete due to a bunch of stuff now missing

Uh-oh… a black vt on reboot, complaining that no inittab found…

:-D Time to go outside.

rcbrk,

It’s a talking-head video presentation on a well-known video publishing website.

Given your browser couldn’t show anything useful from that webpage, @kugmo offered a solution: just feed the URL into mpv, which happens to be excellent at playing audio/video from web pages if you also have yt-dlp installed.

rcbrk,

Siskin has been working well for some people I know on iPhone.

There used to be some settings you need to tweak, not sure how it is these days:

https://lemmy.ml/post/92538

Monal has also been getting some regular development and is worth trying out.

rcbrk,

Is there a goatse version?

rcbrk,

Huh? Why not use K-9 or Fair Email?

They’re both excellent email clients.

rcbrk,

LineageOS still phones home to Google for most things.

Do you have a source on this? I thought LineageOS was completely de-googled now.

Spain orders Sam Altman's Worldcoin to shut down eyeball-scanning orbs due to privacy concerns (arstechnica.com)

Spain has moved to block Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy in multiple countries by collecting customers’ personal data using an eyeball-scanning “orb.”...

rcbrk,

That photo of Trump, Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with their hands on a shining orb at an anti-extremism centre in Riyadh in 2017

rcbrk,

Find a folder comparison software [with only Gui]

A quick web search (even without ‘graphical’) turned up pages suggesting meld in the first few results.

rcbrk,

Part of me thinks you’re being unreasonable, because that question did receive decent responses (1 CLI + GUI suggestion, 1 GUI suggestion, and 2 beginning to try troubleshoot the drive access problem).

But I suspect it’s just a dissonance in perspectives, maybe due to your Linux distro causing a bunch of stupid issues, which haven’t been properly noticed by anyone yet.

It’s a shame that some distros like Ubuntu have enshittified so badly that they’ve become unsupportable. (Nothing seems to work rationally – the same reason I find it impossible to support users on Windows).

Advocates and potential/new users alike, need to consider specific distributions, not just “Linux”.

rcbrk,

double-check for security vulnerabilities

triple-check is better.

rcbrk,

Yep. Really need to compare the best-practice XMPP clients (e.g. Conversations, Siskin), not half-developed clients more suited to the XMPP landscape of 20 years ago. – Just as Matrix’s ranking in the table is high because only the state-of-the-art clients are considered – there are plenty of Matrix clients which don’t support e2ee, for example.

This list of mistakes isn’t exhaustive, but extending from poVoq’s mentions, here are some things XMPP(conversations) does actually have positive findings for:

  • End to end encrypted by default [OMEMO]
  • End to end encryption is available [OMEMO]
  • Voice/video calls are end to end encrypted [“calls are always end-to-end encrypted with DTLS-SRTP”]
  • Utilizes Perfect Forward Secrecy [OMEMO]
  • Data is encrypted in transit [TLS and OMEMO]
  • You can verify contacts out of band [gultsch.de/trust.html]
  • There has been a third party code audit [2016]
  • Provider can scan for illegal content [If you send content unencrypted, otherwise no different to Matrix/Signal]

I’m not sure there’s much differentiation between any apps when it comes to “What can the apps hand to police?”; if the police have physical access to your device and app, they have access to everything you do on that device/app.

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