IHawkMike

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[–] IHawkMike 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You guys are finishing games?

[–] IHawkMike 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

An SSO-like payment system with tracking and revocation is a great idea and would be amazing for us consumers. I'm just not holding my breath waiting for the corpos to implement it.

While nowhere near perfect (far from it, really), as long as the sites you are shopping on are PCI-compliant (most should be), you don't have to worry too much about a compromised site leaking your payment details for use elsewhere.

Basically just use a password manager and don't worry about saving credit card (NOT debit card) details in the site as long as they aren't extra-sketchy.

[–] IHawkMike 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same here. Sometimes the same/next day shipping can help in an emergency, but otherwise it's local if possible, or direct from the vendor if not.

Amazon's shipping has declined and everyone else's has caught up to the point it's not much of a difference anymore.

[–] IHawkMike 168 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Looks like they found someone.

[–] IHawkMike 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I disagree. You should not immediately go and replace the OS as soon as you get it.

Most modifications to the root filesystem persist through updates just fine. You simply need to add the relevant exclusions for your customizations. See the Development and Modding section here.

I have a significant amount of modifications to Steam OS, including an encrypted home partition (while excluding the steamapps subdirectory via bind mount) protected by TPM.

The only time an update breaks anything is if the kernel or initramfs updates, requiring me to re-enter the LUKS password and reenroll a new TPM protector. And this is only because they don't support Secure Boot, so my PCR selection is limited. And I was on the Beta update channel for a while updating almost weekly without issue.

[–] IHawkMike 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it's amazing. Especially on the Steam Deck.

[–] IHawkMike 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't sound like he can do that without giving up his ownership stake in his company. Or is that what you are suggesting?

[–] IHawkMike 20 points 2 weeks ago

This is like the epitome of the XY Problem.

https://xyproblem.info/

[–] IHawkMike 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're willing to wait 2 weeks for shipping (with an added shipping cost of $0.40) you can just order that stuff directly from Aliexpress and cut out the middle man.

[–] IHawkMike 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I agree with the first part but vehemently disagree with the third paragraph.

I suspect it varies wildly based on where you live, but in Chicago there absolutely ARE places with waitstaff worth getting a burger from.

[–] IHawkMike 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'd be careful about completely trusting any AV to give you any certainty that you aren't infected.

As I mentioned in another comment, Pegasus is comprised of many different exploits. So just because Bitdefender can detect some older Pegasus variants, doesn't mean it can detect all of them.

In fact it's quite unlikely they can detect the latest variants.

[–] IHawkMike 12 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know the full answer, but Pegasus isn't one single piece of spyware, but rather a toolkit of many, many zero-day exploits.

A lot of them (the majority maybe?) are non-persistent meaning that they don't survive a reboot.

That said, aside from keeping your phone up to date with security patches and rebooting frequently, I'm not sure there's much the average person can do if you're actively being targeted.

 

Berlin artist Simon Weckert used 99 phones and a handcart to create a "virtual traffic jam" on Google Maps

 

Sure it's almost worthless with blackout restrictions if you're in your team's market. But free is free and it sometimes comes in handy when traveling.

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