towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I remember when gas was sweet.
Now it just makes me shit myself :(

[–] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

Including, funnily enough, water!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the whole "the police know who they are, they know where they live, they know their middle name" bit means not-white-male.
So, it's a 3-way tug-of-war between gun fanaticism, their reincarnated jesus, and racism

[–] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

AI is hype.
They've recently signed a deal with Reddit for AI parsable data. Reddit reciprocated by allowing Google to be the only indexable search engine.
Google now thinks it can do the same to literally everyone else.
Googling is pretty damn mainstream.
Don't give Google your data, then don't be included in googles search results. It's like a flip of their previous trade with reddit, except it's not a trade. It's extortion.

Reddit never gave Google traffic. They gave them content and data.
And Google thinks it can withdraw traffic from other sites unless they get data in return.
Google is a monopoly.
Literally extortion

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

When cremation becomes bad for the environment, just recycle me into a soap dish

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

CohhCarnage said something about this.
Game Devs often include requests along these lines for sponsored segments of a stream (and only the parts of the stream paid for), including talking about COVID during the high point of the COVID pandemic.

The odd part that he noted is some of the specific wording, that he attributed to mistranslation - like "feminist propaganda".

I have no idea about the parts relating to Chinese game dev.

The benefit of the doubt in me says: this is some bad translation and culture disconnect.
The pragmatist in me says: this guides content creators. So, take such content with a pinch of salt in these regards - play the game if it actually seems decent.

I feel like the pragmatist is pretty much default these days, all content guides you to some conclusion. So do what the fuck you want.
🦜☠️ (Idk what the emoji is. I'm sure you understand) If it really rubs you the wrong way

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

(I'm assuming US) freedom isn't free! ^/s^

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dafuq is amraams? That some kind of trigger discipline? Cause she has that!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fund the IRS?
Meh.
Fund the IRS to go after companies with >100 global employees. Yes!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That makes a lot more sense!
I've edited my comment. Feel free to contact the blogger. "I believe I spider" is hilarious. But "I believe I spin" is much more believable!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If your windows computer makes an outbound connection to a server that is actively exploiting this, then yes: you will suffer.

But having a windows computer that is chilling behind a network firewall that is only forwarding established ipv6 traffic (like 99.9999% of default routers/firewalls), then you are extremely extremely ultra unlucky to be hit by this (or, you are such a high value target that it's likely government level exploits). Or, you are an idiot visiting dogdy websites or running dodgy software.

Once a device on a local network has been successfully exploited for the RCE to actually gain useful code execution, then yes: the rest of your network is likely compromised.
Classic security in layers. Isolatation/layering of risky devices (that's why my homelab is on a different vlan than my home network).
And even if you don't realise your windows desktop has been exploited (I really doubt that this is a clean exploit, you would probably notice a few BSOD before they figure out how to backdoor), it then has to actually exploit your servers.
Even if they turn your desktop into a botnet node, that will very quickly be cleaned out by windows defender.
And I doubt that any attacker will have time to actually turn this into a useful and widespread exploit, except in targeting high value targets (which none of us here are. Any nation state equivalent of the US DoD isn't lurking on Lemmy).

It comes back to: why are you running windows as a server?

ETA:
The possibility that high value targets are exposing windows servers on IPv6 via public addresses is what makes this CVE so high.
Sensible people and sensible companies will be using Linux.
Sensible people and sensible companies will be very closely monitoring what's going on with windows servers exposed by ipv6.
This isn't an "ipv6 exploit". This is a windows exploit. Of which there have been MANY!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I get what you are saying, but the balance is off.
YT premium costs (edit) more than a streaming service per month.
There are no industry leading movies or series released exclusively on YouTube.
YouTubes benefits of premium is "not being delivered 'skip after 5 seconds' live streams" as an ad that will play indefinitely (or at least for hours).
Also, streaming services provide much better series discovery. Ie, find a show you like and easily discover the start of that series, then binge watch the entire series in order.
YT premium is basically a "play next" queue, 1080p, and no ads.
It doesn't (AFAIK) support creators any more. It's literally just a fee to not-be-inconvenienced, and it's not great at that

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