Greg

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 minutes ago

I once went full meta and stole an actual cat. I think the owner was grateful because this cat is an arsehole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I check if other people have locked their doors as a profession. I'm a lazy cat burglar by trade, AMA

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's exactly what a virus that was trying to trick me would say...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I'm running a search instance on a VPS so my home IP isn't linked to my searches. The main disadvantage is that my VPS is in Toronto and I live 2hrs away so geo searches don't work very well. For instance, if I Google "restaurants" I get results for local restaurants whereas if I Gregle (I named my search engine Gregle) I get results for results near my VPS.

DM me if you want a link to my instance to check it out. It's open but I don't publicize it because bad actors could ruin my IP addresses reputation with spam queries via the API.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I forgot to post an affiliate link and explain how routing all your internet traffic though one company equals security

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm 100% secure, I have Nord VPN

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe someone is sneaking into your room while you're sleeping and stuffing dryer lint up your nose ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oops I did it again by Britney Spears

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

This is exactly the situation 😅

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (10 children)

This sounds really fun! I'm putting this on my long to-do list

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Religion has competition now, AI is also profiting from hallucinations that lots of people believe as fact.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

That's fair, I can appreciate an attack vector in cases where there are bad blocks and the drive was unencrypted. Luckily bad blocks are less common with modern SSDs and assuming the disk was encrypted, a few bad blocks are unlikely to expose any contents. So knowing the number of bad blocks and what data was stored would inform if a fill and empty approach would be suitable to sanitize the drive.

 

The arguments I've heard about tracking etc are misguided and don't understand the actual risks.

Firstly, posts on the fediverse are already likely being consumed by advertising platforms like Facebook & Google. It would be trivial for big tech companies to setup relays that act as scrapers.

Secondly, the value in platform's tracking individuals is for advertising. There is no mechanism for these platforms to identify you browsing the we if your instance federated with threads. Your instance won't share cookie sessions etc with threads. It doesn't increase your exposure.

Thirdly, these platforms have the know how to deal with spam and they will be incentivised to share that tech with other federated instances.

Don't get me wrong, Facebook is an evil company. But I haven't heard a decent argument as to why them joining the fediverse is a bad thing. We always have the option to defederate in the future.

Change my mind.

 

Yevgeny Prigozhin asked the no pooping for 3 days question so that his troops can take less toilet breaks during the coup.

 
 
 

Please don’t ask why I need this.

It would be great if the food also made me sweat a lot.

It doesn't need to be something I can easily find.

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