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Algent commented on SmartTube Compromised   aftvnews.com/smarttubes-o... · Posted by u/akersten
nubinetwork · 3 months ago
In an article about not downloading malware: "You can use my downloader! It's totally safe, bro!"

Yeah, I'll pass.

Algent · 3 months ago
The internal auto updater of the app directly use github as source, was this also compromised ? If malware was only on some random apkmirror upload then it should probably be fine for most users.
Algent commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education   moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint
TheFreim · 8 months ago
My bank uses a fraud detection system that calls you if suspicious activity is detected on your account. It then asks you to call back a number to verify the account activity. Every time they call, they provide a different callback number. Searching for the callback number online yields only one result, which is the fraud detection systems web page telling you to NOT trust phone calls of any kind (their advice is solid, but it tells you to not respond to their own legitimate calls)!
Algent · 8 months ago
The only time I ever triggered fraud detection system on my card I got a text message from bank that was "Your card is blocked due to suspicious usage, please call 'number'". And the number was also some random unlisted one. Only reason I didn't just ignore the thing is I did make a purchase on new website a half an hour before.

Called my local bank and they confirmed this was legit, I almost went off on a full rant about how bad their protocol is for this.

Algent commented on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025   blog.cloudflare.com/cloud... · Posted by u/nomaxx117
radicaldreamer · 8 months ago
What would be a good reason to switch back from Google DNS?
Algent · 8 months ago
After trying both several time I since stayed with google due to cloudflare always returning really bad IPs for anything involving CDN. Having users complain stuff take age to load because you got matched to an IP on opposite side of planet is a bit problematic especially when it rarely happen on other dns providers. Maybe there is a way to fix this but I admit I went for the easier option of going back to good old 8.8.8.8
Algent commented on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025   blog.cloudflare.com/cloud... · Posted by u/nomaxx117
Gieron · 8 months ago
I think normally you pair 1.1.1.1 with 1.0.0.1 and, if I understand this correctly, both were down.
Algent · 8 months ago
Yeah pretty much. In a perfect world you would pair it with another service I guess but usually you use the official backup IP because it's not supposed to break at same time.
Algent commented on Ground control to Major Trial   virtualize.sh/blog/ground... · Posted by u/plam503711
Algent · 10 months ago
This behavior suck.

Time to disable the free trial for a month halfway into their trial and see how it goes. This is probably why most trials now request you to reach sales first (well, on top of obviously ensuring they have a way to send an offer).

Algent commented on Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution   emilygorcenski.com/post/o... · Posted by u/ColinWright
johnnyAghands · a year ago
Ok unrelated, but I'm looking for a tool for making diagrams like that, anyone know what was used on this post? ty
Algent · a year ago
draw.io probably . It's pretty good for a free tool. If you lost the xml I think it even work to import directly an exported picture (I guess they append the data into it too).
Algent commented on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting   theverge.com/news/609207/... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
whywhywhywhy · a year ago
People are letting their hatred of Nvidia blind them to what happened here, a customer upgraded from a 4090FE to 5090FE, they were using a 3rd party ASUS 12VHPWR cable and didn't realize the 5090FE actually uses 12V-2x6 not 12VHPWR, while the port is the same the pins are different lengths.

End of the day PC power cabling is such a shambles with things that look standard but are not so you should only ever really use the cables that came with the product if you don't want to risk issues, especially with this specific ports poor history with 3rd party cables.

Algent · a year ago
Another video today from Der8auer showed him reproduce the issue on his model. He showed a 22A load and 150°C point on a single wire. The problem seem to be much worse somehow, clearly no balancing between the wire on the founder edition.
Algent commented on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon   twitter.com/Free_Ross/sta... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
kerkeslager · a year ago
It didn't happen.

Ctrl-F for "Products" on this page[1] and stop making shit up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)

Algent · a year ago
Interesting and surprising they really had rules, thanks for the clarification. I'm ashamed to say I opened this page and read it wrong the first time by skipping the first sentence.
Algent commented on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon   twitter.com/Free_Ross/sta... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
OscarTheGrinch · a year ago
Actual murderers get out in the time that Ross served.

The concept of justice must include an element of proportionality, I would argue that Ross's sentence, for a first time non-violent criminal, was over the top. Without proportionality justice becomes arbitrary, based more on luck and your connections to power.

We punish those we can punish: the little guy. Whilst those running governments, corporations and networks that facilitate repression, hatred and genocide go scot free.

Algent · a year ago
Wasn't silk road selling way more than just drugs ? Like, pornography and gun, worldwide. When you facilitate both sex trafficking, organized crime and potentially terrorism you can't exactly be surprised you get hit with everything.
Algent commented on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko   bsky.app/profile/itch.io/... · Posted by u/spiralganglion
conradfr · a year ago
The same thing happened to Gandi.
Algent · a year ago
It's crazy how downhill Gandi went in 2 years. Went from decently priced French registar to basically asking for 70€ a year for a mailbox and lately asked me for over 40€ to renew a dot dev domain. I ended up transferring all my domains due to this.

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