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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Reddit is just like Digg to me now.

Game mod on Steam breached to push password-stealing malware in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Why does the game mod have this much access?

Let's take a industry-standard account security feature and... paywall it? in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

You’d have to pay me to look the other way and ignore security too.

Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I wish Elon would scare away Reddit’s advertisers instead of twitter’s.

Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

I’m not trained in anything useful but I had a similar experience. It was like upgrading from a 720 screen to a 4k screen.

Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about GLONASS, Galilleo, or BDS? Are they all being equally jammed? Why wouldn’t they sync with all of them and use a consensus to determine accuracy? Like having multiple ntp servers.

Chrome Root Store policy update looking to require an automated option for obtaining certificates in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google trough the Chrome Project are pushing certificate authorities to offer automated certificates services to customers to make their use more prolific. Certificate authorities only have value if they are included in the certificate store, so they will do whatever it takes to be in there. Certificate authorities are the organizations we trust to say if a website is secure enough to display the lock in the browser instead of an error.

Got an old Cisco enterprise modem/router. Anything fun I can use it for at home? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] astray@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything Cisco that says FE is 10/100mbit.

Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] astray@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Or the crack was an in-house job and they are just using the in-house patch to get around it.