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Robust, yet compact umbrella? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I live in an area with strong winds and I'm happy with Knirps, they can be found in both NA and EU.

More expensive than "regular" umbrellas, but they are built to last and are compact to boot.

Yep, Apple’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Tell me you don't understand web apps without telling me you don't understand web apps"

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Hand crafted bot accounts and community targeted ads, what's the story? (infosec.pub)
 

During the last two days it seems we have been "bombarded" with advertisement bots.

I found it curious, the advertisements are correctly targeted to sysadmins and security professionals. Meanwhile they have somewhat believable biographies (even if they are a little on the nose), suggesting hand crafted accounts.

Something they all have in common is their instance (discuss.tchncs.de) and that they have a "bachelors degree in computer science".

This is not the first time I've seen adbots on Lemmy, but it's the first time I've seen them on infosec.

Does anyone have any insight into the world of adbots they could share? I find myself increasingly curious in what goes on behind the curtains.

Fan control (specially NVIDIA) on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unless the BIOS locks down control of fan speed (as is the case with some Dell models), you should be able to use fancontrol to modify your fan curve.

You can install it with sudo apt install fancontrol, then you would run sudo pwmconfig to run fan tests and create a config file. To reduce fan noise you would typically raise the minimum trigger temperature to engage the fans.

If the tests came out alright, enable fancontrol with sudo systemctl enable fancontrol --now.

For more information and suggestions, take a look at this ArchWiki entry.

Link to ISO and SHA256SUM in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A reminder: if you care enough to validate the checksum of your recently downloaded ISO, don't follow links from a stranger. Navigate to the distributors website and find the checksum yourself.

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X-post: Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates (lemmy.ca)
 

Crosspost of an ongoing thread over at [email protected]

Some interesting discussions on the trade-off between security and being able to use your aging Android for a little while longer.

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VirusTotal leak exposes data of 5,600 users including international intelligence agencies (alternativeto.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Article published by AlternativeTo yesterday. Visiting the VirusTotal website I could not find an official sources or response, let's see how this develops.

EDIT: Source appears to be the German news outlet Der Spiegel, here is a link (no paywall)

Add Dutch language on infosec.pub (Nederlands) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might be a question of moderation.

What do you do as an instance owner if you get notified that one of your communities are acting abusive to other instances/communities? You could take a look at the activity yourself and take action accordingly, this process becomes harder if the community is in a language you do not speak.

Or perhaps this is a non-issue and it's sufficient with a dutch-speaking community moderator.

Perhaps one of our community moderators (or our instance owner) here at infosec.pub could share their thoughts on language and moderation?

Your RSS feeds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think everyone that selfhost their RSS-feeds have at one point or another thought "now what?".

I have 3 recommendations that might help get you started:

  • feedspot is a great place to start to just discover what's out there.

  • GitHub releases can be followed as RSS (atom) feeds. This is a great way to keep up with changelogs for services that you selfhost. For example, here is the RSS/Atom feed for Jellyfin: link

  • Do you listen to podcasts? These can usually be found as RSS-feeds and is a great way to get your daily dose of news on your morning commute.

Malicious actions originating from infosec.pub? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I read your response, thank you for taking the time to clear it up!

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Malicious actions originating from infosec.pub? (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

Hi, I saw this Beehaw post while browsing All. Anything we need to be concerned about?

EDIT: False alarm, see himazawa's response.