Posts by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AXLnXBHD8UfYTCyvSK by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2023-07-04T12:24:07Z
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@mjg59 Terms of service and other licenses and privacy policies are there solely to protect the service provider. They're painful to read if all you're looking for is how they restrain themselves from gorging on your data.
(DIR) Post #AcTO00RDSzDV8ftNVA by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2023-12-04T17:38:04Z
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@fsf I'm concerned that Replicant is dangerously out of date and a security risk. Its Device Status discusses an effort to update Replicant to Android 11 (not 14). Replicant's last release was 18mo ago and is based on Android 6.What are the FSF's impressions of @GrapheneOS, which adds its own security updates atop the latest Android fixes but is limited just to Pixel phones?
(DIR) Post #AcesrgQ28orceSeOjw by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2023-12-10T06:45:46Z
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@slashdot into 0-year-old Cobol code? Into French?
(DIR) Post #AdhnTnkha7f43AyAGO by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2024-01-10T04:39:20Z
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@epiceneVivant 🐦⬛
(DIR) Post #AmLb98dS8ZZqMal8xE by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2024-09-25T02:02:36Z
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@internetarchive is Google helping you financially? I'm concerned about the increased load to your servers and bandwidth.
(DIR) Post #AoWdxOwRxxE8tdrIaO by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2024-11-29T05:12:53Z
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I don't understand how Chrome is worth "at least $15-$20 billion" when it's >99% FOSS. Developing Chromium is a giant money sink and the only reason it outperforms Firefox is that it's backed by a company willing to pay that bill.If Chrome is sold, the buyer will be forced to either monetize it somehow (how? Remember how poorly that worked for Opera and Netscape before them?) or else to go non-profit with some other source of funding.The Right™ option in this line of thinking would be to force a new Chrome Foundation non-profit and to either fine GOOG enough to establish an endowment for it or else to implement some sort of corporate tax on web/cloud services to fund it (or, at the corporation's discretion, Mozilla, whose primary funding comes from Google today and will likely dry up with this ruling).https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-s-chrome-worth-up-to-20-billion-if-judge-orders-sale/ar-AA1ujJKa
(DIR) Post #ApYgs08KYPLwxQjqxE by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2024-12-30T03:14:55Z
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@catsalad #SilentSunday The trees are taking over!More at https://www.boredpanda.com/hungry-trees-taking-over-things/and https://www.reddit.com/r/TreesSuckingOnThings
(DIR) Post #Aq1dT1KrnYklxKfDIO by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-01-13T02:28:52Z
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@futurebird links to user pages work, but I can't get links to posts without @ or %40 in them.https://sauropods.win/%40futurebird/113818553043016549https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird
(DIR) Post #AqLiwZU8IPR7CO6fsu by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-01-22T18:24:31Z
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At the moment, whitehouse.gov doesn't have an MX record and its A records don't listen on port 25, so you can't send #email to anything@whitehouse.gov
(DIR) Post #AqLiwdcQvUS81I1MNU by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-01-22T18:51:25Z
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The whitehouse.gov domain's contacts are all inappropriately REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, too. If you're wondering about the 192.0.x.y address, that's not reserved space; you're thinking of 192.0.0.0/24 (RFC 6890, Special-Purpose IP Address Registries) and 192.0.2.0/24 (RFC 5737, IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation). Automattic (of Wordpress fame) owns 192.0.64.0/18.
(DIR) Post #Ar0u3CS0NF1j9aHwNk by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-02-11T15:51:34Z
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@foone My response is 15
(DIR) Post #At6EVjBPgRf0OKEbwG by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-04-15T01:19:05Z
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@futurebird I suppose they're building a database of what unhappy people look like
(DIR) Post #At7p4wOwK0G71vbzKi by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-04-15T19:43:34Z
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@futurebird @foone I look forward to the (sadly unlikely) future in which, in part due to its bridges to other social media sites, Mastodon becomes the … elephant in the room 🐘
(DIR) Post #AuHGKgERfuULts23oe by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-05-19T22:32:33Z
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@Natasha_Jay here's another one. This corgi is better at new momentum
(DIR) Post #AuHGKllb64yh48a6gS by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-05-19T22:35:08Z
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@Natasha_Jay @catsalad and here's a cat skateboarding
(DIR) Post #AxsIRuiaSYiTzmRZVg by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-09-04T01:56:58Z
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@pluralistic more:https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/enshittification
(DIR) Post #Azbt2F33maE6VrzLdo by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-10-26T19:01:49Z
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@futurebird I'm pretty happy with GrapheneOS (which currently only runs on Pixels). This is a privacy-first security-hardened Android variant that allows you to de-Google your phone.It also lets you deny network access to ad-laden apps. I haven't tried too many (I prefer FOSS options, which are all ad-free), but those I've installed simply don't show me ads.I still had to install Ublock Origin (which updates itself) for Firefox, but I'm now >99% ad free.
(DIR) Post #B0rJTS3l96LlQ7Tiz2 by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-12-02T22:59:18Z
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@cmconseils
(DIR) Post #B0rKLL8D7Y4fZQFxGi by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2025-12-03T03:40:37Z
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@futurebird yes, I'd be surprised if it were anything but that or a parody account. It's still funny—and possibly true
(DIR) Post #B2J5FGMOsec7TF0BRw by adamhotep@infosec.exchange
2026-01-15T09:56:54Z
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@catsalad