CthuluVoIP

joined 2 years ago
[–] CthuluVoIP 5 points 2 days ago

It’s like wearing nothing at all! ….nothing at all! …..nothing at all!

[–] CthuluVoIP 173 points 2 days ago (8 children)

If Ukraine didn’t want to be invaded, it shouldn’t have dressed that way! Stupid sexy Ukraine.

[–] CthuluVoIP 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is fair. But does it matter that there aren’t mere allegations that Ye is a Nazi?

Like. Drake is likely a skeeze, but Ye told us he’s a Nazi flat out.

[–] CthuluVoIP 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Switch was just the Wii U refined into something consumers actually wanted, rather than an innovation on its own.

I’d argue that Nintendo has always been pretty similar in terms of the amount of innovation they bring to their segment barring perhaps the quality of the Wii motion controls when launched and compared against similar attempts both by Nintendo and their competitors prior.

The Famicom / NES and the subsequent Super Famicom / SNES / N64 were just iterations on the same home console market for which Nintendo was far from the first to launch. The GameCube and the Wii shared a lot of DNA, with the motion controls really being the innovation. The Wii U, Switch, and Switch 2 seem to be a lineage of refinement as well.

In handhelds, they went from monochrome, to backlit monochrome, to backlit color, to two displays and some touch controls. You could argue that the 3D effect of the 3DS was innovative, but the allure of the feature died as soon as the industry realized the demand wasn’t there to keep developing it. Hardly as revolutionary as other competitors products, but more in touch with what their consumers wanted than their competitors, hence the market lasted longer for Nintendo than Sony with the PSP and Vita.

Ironically, the things Nintendo has done at the base system level that truly attempted to innovate have mostly been failures. The Virtual Boy was way ahead of its time, but the form factor was half baked and the eyestrain was horrendous. The Wii U was a success in that Nintendo learned what about the console was worth iterating on, but otherwise it was an abject failure as well because it didn’t offer enough to differentiate itself from the Wii.

For innovation to occur, there needs to be a predicating breakthrough in technology around which these companies can build a product. We’re in an age of rapid miniaturization and simultaneous increased power of integrated systems. It feels like more power = better, but this trajectory is going to yield new potential applications of technology in form factors that haven’t been fully explored yet. It’s just cyclical, and things take time to develop.

Plus - everything is slower when consumers demonstrate they’re satisfied with what the company is selling them. No need to dramatically change course when the current model is satisfying customers. The confluence of a new technology landscape and a dip in consumer enthusiasm for existing offerings is the typical spot for a hardware developer to innovate.

[–] CthuluVoIP 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So many words. L.

[–] CthuluVoIP 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is dramatically unlikely for FIDO2 MFA services. It’s possible, but would require the device you’re using to remain connected to both the vault and the attacker infrastructure long enough for the data to be scraped. It happens, but nowhere near as frequently as just stealing the login credentials and using them asynchronously from the origin.

The strawman here would mostly apply to high value targets, which most people aren’t. At the scale of the internet, most cybercriminals are going to pivot to stealing accounts that don’t require additional investment to harvest. It’s simple economics. Having MFA is an essential part of using the internet for anything you actually care about.

Strong passwords are rapidly becoming worthless when we’ve been building ever more powerful compute farms for several decades. What used to take months or even years to crack in 2010 can be done in seconds today. But all of that info neglects that it’s irrelevant because most passwords are lost due to social engineering, malicious software, or the leading cause….. password reuse.

[–] CthuluVoIP 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Agreed. But I think it’s evident even in these threads why companies are slow to adopt. Lemmy is still a niche corner of the internet predominantly used by technology savvy people, and yet you see folks here saying that they hate the inconvenience of it. Less tech adept users are more likely to dislike the additional friction.

[–] CthuluVoIP 33 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

This is a good thing. Any account you care about and don’t want to be accessed by anyone without your consent should have multifactor authentication enabled. Use an app like Google Authenticator or a hardware token like a Yubikey. 2FA through text or email is insecure and easily bypassed.

Friends don’t let friends raw dog the internet. Don’t be dumb and get your shit stolen. Use MFA everywhere.

[–] CthuluVoIP 65 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

In today’s world, MFA (multifactor authentication) is a necessity for literally any account in which you store information you don’t want to be stolen by someone. I’m more upset that several services I use still don’t support it, or only support MFA via text or email, neither of which is secure enough to be of much use.

You don’t want the place where you store your passwords, likely including your bank account, health insurance, social media accounts, etc. to be more difficult to hack? You live in a post-quantum world. Passwords aren’t enough.

[–] CthuluVoIP 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What landslide? Why do people keep insisting that this was a resounding defeat? The margin was absolutely minuscule.

[–] CthuluVoIP 62 points 1 month ago (17 children)

So what does Zuck do when Trump uses an exec order to stay the ban and pushes Republicans to reverse it?

 

Just a chill video in a series by the creator, Brady Brandwood, about a lobster he bought from a grocery store and rehabilitated into a pet. I appreciate the vibe that Brady puts into these videos and his clear admiration and care for Leon. Thought others might enjoy discovering them, too.

 

Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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