I assure you

When you step into a full body scanner SOMEBODY gets a look at your shrinky-dink!

When we fly we are forced to let some stranger see our junk with the full body scanner

Gotta make sure no one is smuggling a full sized tube of tooth paste up their ass

Seems reasonable given that

I have an Aqara doorbell camera thats been really nice

I am not 100% sure about their privacy but the camera can record local as well as to iCloud when used with HomeKit

My IoT approach for the last 7 years has been HomeKit or DIY and I have not been disappointed too much

He documented an era and inspired many people

You will never be able to talk about the early days of the internet or computing and not refer to his work

Archive.org link

https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

I do not weld but could see myself making this mistake without having been informed.

I use brake clean as a basic cleaner for a lot of things in my garage as it does a pretty good job and also evaporates quickly without leaving a residue.

The story tracks my general experiences pretty well

I would guess this mistake is much more common as brake clean is used as a general cleaner by a lot of people

I mean, if we are going to capitalism with a straight face we have to start being the whole bitch.

He owned it, Lamborghini wanted it… that made it a valuable asset that he held that Lamborghini should have paid for

Modern fridges last less than 7 years.

I like smart devices and IoT but I hate that for normal people this has been diluted down to cameras and screens on everything with no consideration about privacy or boundaries.

Bottom rocker is territory.

Nomads naturally are not claiming anything but MCs will go to war over that bottom rocker as well.

I think the Hells Angels war with the Mongols started over this sort of conflict

Damn, I am sad now… kids don’t get the joy of a properly defaced text book anymore :(

And use proper passwords. IDEALLY just use a password manage… not LastPass… but LastPass is better than nothing

Local models are actually pretty great! They are not great at everything… but for what most people are using LLMs for they do a fine job.

Thats from llama3.1:8b and the answer is decent, it took about 20seconds to generate my answer and used no more power than if I were to play a video game for the same amount of time.

Most of these things are pretty secure out of the box.

Even without fail2ban disabling root login and only allowing SSH key authentication makes those scripts just a waste of time for the attacker. That game is a low effort attempt to just get the low hanging fruit for botnets though.

Yes, My home network setup is a bit complicated but I am using Pfsense so I have things on separate vlans with internal firewall rules to reduce risks.

All traffic in on port 443 is routed from Cloudflare to an NginX reverse proxy which decides how to connect back into my network for things

Years ago I would just run a server on the network with 443, 80 and 22 exposed directly to the world and never had any major issues. (Other than the normal automated attacks trying to gain shell access over SSH)

I got 1gbps internet (symmetrical) and a raspberry pi cluster… running my own Wordpress never made more sense… AND that botch should scale!

https://nintendopowerindex.lulufamilia.com/

It’s not pretty and it’s rife with issues.

BUT this will let you search any game from the first issue to around 1996 and will tell you which issues it appears in

It boots right up. No loading screens!

All I hear is NFTs

Neocities is it’s own vibe all together.

There wasn’t much JS used on Geocities pages typically

That said, Neocities is the shit

I have been on the other side of the equation professionally speaking.

I think we mostly agree.

The auditors were certainly not malicious, they can simply only see what they can observe.

Appealing to authority without explaining the caveats is risky to do and disingenuous to people who need to take security very seriously right now.

A potential vector or matter of concern does not mean there is a compromise. Without evidence of a hack or compromise you just have the idea that something could happen.

The app model in general has meant that we have given up tremendous amounts of privacy and security in general for the sake of connivence.

If I were the developer of this app I would’ve approached things from the inception with the question of “How do I get people to trust me who absolutely should not trust me?”

That said, it is always easier to tear down than it is to build.

If I were an at risk individual I would likely opt to use the app myself assuming I could share general location instead of specific location. In areas like LA there is likely a lot of data flowing in that would not help a malicious actor if the location is not specific.