Emotet

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[–] Emotet 2 points 2 months ago

Damn, that's wild. Cheers for sharing!

[–] Emotet 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have an understanding of the underlying concepts. I'm mostly interested in the war driving. War driving, at least in my understanding, implies that someone, a state agency in this case, physically went to the very specific location of the suspect, penetrated their (wireless) network and therefore executed a successful traffic correlation attack.

I'm interested in how they got their suspects narrowed down that drastically in the first place. Traffic correlation attacks, at least in my experience, usually happen in a WAN context, not LAN, for example with the help of ISPs.

[–] Emotet 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Sounds interesting, got any links for further reading on that?

I can't quite connect the dots between wifi/internet traffic spikes when IRC is so light on traffic that it's basically background noise and war driving.

[–] Emotet 41 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Nice message, but the thought of the existence of a competitive scene of contractors specializing in mounting TVs is hilarious. Also, that mounting plate is crooked af.

[–] Emotet 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Windows, as any operating system, is best run in a context most useful to the user and appropriate for the user's technical level.

  • Need to run Windows apps/games and aren't afraid to tinker around if and when something doesn't work as expected or your software simply isn't supported? WINE/Proton.
  • Need to run mostly light Windows apps and don't want to tinker around? VM.
  • Need to run Windows apps/games that don't rely on Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat, want direct hardware access and aren't afraid to tinker around, especially if you only have one GPU, and when something doesn't work as expected? KVM
  • Need to run any Windows app/game without things constantly breaking or the need to tinker around and staying on top of things? Dual-Boot from different disks, utilize LUKS/FDE and be done with it.
[–] Emotet 2 points 3 months ago

I do, there's a whole team behind that channel and I've linked the second revision of their test. The first revision had some issues and they've gone ahead and fixed those to present a truly competent and unbiased testing.

Personally, I'd still treat those as suggestions and, depending on your use case (especially considering convenience of setup and the need for special phone cases) and budget, there are a lot of cheaper options that work perfectly fine, as well. I've got a 10 bucks no-name screw clamp style phone mount on my city bike and it's been rock solid. Wouldn't trust it in a downhill setting, though.

[–] Emotet 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Basically all you need to know about different phone mounts/styles and how they hold up stabilitywise even in rough conditions is presented in this excellent FortNine Video.

[–] Emotet 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why do you keep stating blatantly false info as facts when it is obvious that you're knowledge of the topic at hand is superficial at best?

In this comment thread alone you've stated that:

  • to avoid "Google Android", one should use Lineage OS (?)
  • Apps on Lineage are some kind of separated on Lineage OS and not abandonware (??)
  • Lineage OS is not terrible for security, because you haven't found anything wrong with it besides that small little, insignificant detail of an unlocked bootloader (???)
  • DivestOS has "all the same issues" as GrapheneOS(????)

Genuinely not trying to stir up shit, I'm curious. Why?

[–] Emotet 8 points 3 months ago

It's great that it works for you and that you strive to spread your knowledge. Personally, I'm quite happy with my DNS filtering/uBlock Origin and restrictive browser approach and already employ alternatives where feasible in my custom use case.

Thanks for your offer, though!

[–] Emotet 100 points 3 months ago (6 children)

15-20 years ago, I'd have agreed with you. But apart from a select few news sites and exceedingly rare static sites, what percentage of websites most users use day to day actually function even minimally without JavaScript?

I'm convinced that in practice, most users would be conditioned to whitelist pretty much every site they visit due to all the breakage. Still a privacy and security improvement, but a massive one? I'm not sure.

Very happy to be convinced otherwise.

[–] Emotet 3 points 3 months ago

I wrote a simple, locally running Webapp some time ago, that targets the Lemmy Import-/Export-API and supports transferring only specific userdata between accounts, as demonstrated in this corresponding Wiki Entry.

The import functionality in Lemmy is additive in nature, meaning anything you import gets added on top of existing settings instead of replacing it.

Does the same thing as these manual instructions for this usecase, may be helpful to some.

 

Using reddit without an account is a pain nowadays, especially with any commercial VPN. There are ways around that:

Some of you may known the rather short-lived Libreddit, an awesome frontend for Reddit that got struck down by its success.

Redlib is a (still working) fork of Libreddit with a few instances. Due to reddits API Limits, it's not very practical to rely on one instance.

A quite elegant solution is the Automatic Redlib Quota & Error Redirector userscript. Once installed, most Redlib errors are automatically detected and your request gets redirected to another instance. This results in an excellent user experience, altough some instances can be a bit slow if you're trying to access media.

The list of available Redlib instances the script uses gets updated quite frequently. The script also works nicely with redirect plugins, e.g. this one for Firefox, if you want to automatically redirect all Reddit URLs to Redlib.

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