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  • As a kid another kid regularly bullied me. Nothing extremely serious… pushing me, grabbing me, putting me in a headlock, stuff like that whenever he felt like it and/or wanted something. Parents and teachers were not able to stop it and I basically just got retaliation. One day when he came at me I simply kicked and managed to hit right in his balls. He ran away crying. Never bothered me again afterwards. Still feels good.








  • aksdb@feddit.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldOpenSubtitles Hostility
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    9 months ago

    Sorry, but log files can contain any amount of PII that is absolutely unsuited to be sent over an unencrypted channel to a person/company that should not even need some details.

    I sure as hell also skim over logs before I send anything out and remove anything that I don’t want to leak.





  • I pirate what I can’t get by reasonable means within my boundaries.

    I pay for three streaming providers constantly. If the one series I want to watch is on a fourth provider, they can fuck off and I’ll just download it. Same if the offering gets moved out of a provider I use (because their license expired or whatever).

    Games I typically don’t pirate, since Steam is just too damn convenient. Epic Exclusives though… well, if possible I just avoid them.

    Most books can be bought via Kindle store so that’s also convenient and I just do that.

    Music is basically close to equal on all streaming providers so I am mostly good with that. If something isn’t I either buy them on beatport or just rip them off youtube (so pirate).

    I basically live GabeN’s theory: piracy is a service problem. Give to me without having to bend over and I gladly pay. Try to fuck with me and I shrug my shoulders and go elsewhere.


  • aksdb@feddit.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldAlternative to ClamAV?
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    10 months ago

    Many security experts I know consider AV software to be snake oil. I do so too. They are so complex and need so far reaching permissions to be somewhat effective, that they become the attack vector and/or a large risk factor for faulty behavior.

    Add in lots of false positives and it just numbs the users to the alerts.

    Nothing beats educating users and making sure the software in use isn’t braindead. For example Microsoft programs that hide file extensions by default is a far bigger security problem than a missing AV tool. Or word processors that allow embedded scripts that can perform shit outside the application. The list goes on …