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Cake day: December 14th, 2023

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  • Either that or charging a micro transaction for loading the page. But yeah the goal is to make it cost a small amount that is insignificant to a regular user but adds up to a huge amount at the scale of a spam farm. And it’s also the same rationale behind hashing passwords with multiple rounds. It adds a tiny lag when you log in correctly but adds an insane amount of work if you’re checking every phrase in a password cracking dictionary using an offline attack because it adds up. (In the online scenario you just block them after a few attempts)





  • I’ve done a backup swap with friends a couple times. Security wasn’t much of a worry since we connected to each other’s boxes over ssh or wireguard or similar and used tools that allowed encryption. The biggest challenge for us was that in my selfhosting friend group we all prefer different protocols so we had to figure out what each of us wanted to use to connect and access filesystems and set that up. The second challenge was ensuring uptime and that the remote access we set up for each other stayed up - and that’s what killed the project as we all eventually stopped maintaining the remote access and nobody seemed to care - so if I were to do it again I would make sure all participants have alerts monitoring their shared endpoint.



  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlThanks dad
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    The creation tool also just lets you save the iso - but for some reason the media creation tool gives you a different iso than if you spoofed a non-windows user agent on the windows download website so that it gives you a direct link to the iso instead of getting you to install the creation tool. And for some reason only one of them worked with DISM to repair my system in order to be able to run windows update successfully.


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    Also add DISM to that - if it’s corrupted it could cause you to be unable to install windows updates.

    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

    It’s also possible that fixing it may require the original windows installation media matching your windows version build number - which means if you’ve since installed a major windows update there may not be an available installation iso that meets the requirement. Happened to me and I was lucky enough to coax an iso out of the windows installer download page that satisfied the repair tool (oddly enough downloading an iso using the Windows Media creation tool didn’t work, but spoofing Linux on the page to directly download an iso gave me a different iso that worked)

    These are the things I do to maintain my last windows machine.


  • I’m on unrooted lineage with mindthegapps / Google play services with my Google Services Framework ID registered with Google, but I still have to make 3 attempts to log in to my bank with the first 2 attempts always giving a vague error like “we’re not sure why we couldn’t connect”, similar with fidelity. Using a password manager so I’m entering the same credentials every time.

    (Edit: in the case of fidelity, instead of faking a connection issue it tells me my account is blocked and to call support to unblock it - that’s also fake because I called once and they said my account wasn’t locked and trying to log in a second time always works)

    My understanding is that it’s impossible to pass strong integrity unless you’re using the stock unmodified rom with the bootloader locked.

    I changed banks last week and the new bank (Aspiration) logs in fine the first time every time.

    It sounds like the situation is better with graphene but I find it a lot easier to switch banks than roms.



  • What kind of TV service / set top box did you have at the time? I remember a lot of talk about providers pushing set top boxes both because it lets them use newer broadcast tech with customers using old TV tuners, but crucially it allows them to have their own software running on the box that you use to switch channels, which let them use out of band communication over the cable network to report what channels you watched, when, and how long, which I don’t doubt gets sold and aggregated by ad targeting firms.

    It’s pretty common for smart TVs to do a similar thing to collect streaming app watch data when using the TVs built in apps.