its amazing how people think that hacking and IT is arcane wizardry.
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RE: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115964175756104355
its amazing how people think that hacking and IT is arcane wizardry.
If the past decade has taught me anything, it's that all of these systems that we're assured are tough as nails, with modern defenses, and are extremely well maintained is all bullshit, and the reality is that it is a cobweb-delicate mesh of shit that could be knocked over at a moment's notice.
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RE: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115964175756104355
its amazing how people think that hacking and IT is arcane wizardry.
If the past decade has taught me anything, it's that all of these systems that we're assured are tough as nails, with modern defenses, and are extremely well maintained is all bullshit, and the reality is that it is a cobweb-delicate mesh of shit that could be knocked over at a moment's notice.
there's just tons of shit out there, waiting for a connection with no auth. Either that or its bottom-barrel shit that is as brittle as can be.
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RE: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115964175756104355
its amazing how people think that hacking and IT is arcane wizardry.
If the past decade has taught me anything, it's that all of these systems that we're assured are tough as nails, with modern defenses, and are extremely well maintained is all bullshit, and the reality is that it is a cobweb-delicate mesh of shit that could be knocked over at a moment's notice.
@da_667 People are always the weakest link
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RE: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115964175756104355
its amazing how people think that hacking and IT is arcane wizardry.
If the past decade has taught me anything, it's that all of these systems that we're assured are tough as nails, with modern defenses, and are extremely well maintained is all bullshit, and the reality is that it is a cobweb-delicate mesh of shit that could be knocked over at a moment's notice.
@da_667 Maybe this is a me thing; but I can totally understand the appeal of believing that the problem must be on a whole other level; lest the suspicion that it's really just on the level of one's own competence brought to bear with more stamina and patience grow too loud.
Technical equivalent of finding the idea that some people are total saints more comforting than considering that perhaps it's a matter of fairly ordinary decency, just applied relentlessly.
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@aeva I don’t read it as optimism but as a threat — either capitalism ends voluntarily, or the ensuing climate catastrophe ends humanity and capitalism with it.
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@bardnet @xkcd which means they've also missed that it's a horror movie and that the main character had likely spent a minimum of 30 years subjective time in that loop, possibly much more.
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@ozamidas @mcc That's sylpheed https://github.com/sylpheed-mail/sylpheed
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i like the optimism embedded in the term "late stage capitalism"
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@attilakinali @mcc damn, what email client is that? im curious
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ah, avevo letto 2026... 😜
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@mcc @rachelplusplus IIRC some Samsung laptops could get bricked by writing too much data to the EFI variable area (which easily happened with Linux kernel crashes, but could also happen from Windows).
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@mcc@mastodon.social thing is, there really isn't anything that would fill that hole
And the claim that open source outlasts proprietary software is a bit [citation needed]
