notsound

Joined 5 years ago

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76
Member since
Sep 28
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Comment · 1 day ago
While that would be nice (and a lot of mandatory updates are just slop), this is essentially a classic anti-vax argument applied to digital diseases. When everyone patches quickly, attackers put less effort into exploitation. Just as you can skip the measles vaccine and never get measles, you can run Windows XP and telnet (on a local network) and not get hacked. The issue is that it's getting easier to exploit vulns.
Comment · 1 month ago
What?
Comment · 4 months ago
Most European hosting providers don't KYC. Infrastructure providers are rarely held liable for customer actions in Europe. Most enforcement around this sort of thing is around sanctions violations (Stark Industries).
Comment · 5 months ago
"simply block all routing out of the country" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. For government networks, sure. For civilian networks? It's a bit like stopping pirates from ripping video; how do you deal with an attacker that ultimately can gain some form of access? Even in North Korea external media can be smuggled in.
Comment · 6 months ago
Those groups care about whether millions of computers are vulnerable, likely including your computer. If "immediate public disclosure" was done in all cases every vuln would be exploited and patches would be much lower quality. Shortening the disclosure timeline might be a good idea, 90 days is starting to feel long.
Comment · 7 months ago
I got a 10 out of 10 because I've seen these strawmans in center-right arguments before. Definitely promotes thinking inside the box; the homelessness question presupposes the most expensive solution (buying the homeless homes) in opposition to annual costs that would probably go down over time. I doubt both figures.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you thought covid fascism was bad why wouldn't you care about this? Was covid fascism so tolerable you'll let the government do more fascism?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Found this aswell, I would make it more clear that guest searches are public.
Comment · 2 years ago
Another option that allows for better privacy and versatility is the website setting a MIN_USER_AGE header based on IP geolocation.
Comment · 2 years ago
At $44b, he could have offered over a hundred million people $420 EACH to join. Obviously it's waaaay more complicated than that (KYC, actually building the platform, being profitable, etc...), but with that amount of money you could probably make something significantly better and more profitable than twitter.
Comment · 2 years ago
Try using old.reddit.com; for some reason the block doesn't apply.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago

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