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r3muxd commented on Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me · Posted by u/DoreenMichele

I know because the messages on my NEW phone that I am trying to set up state "We sent this to (your old phone -- identified by type of phone, which is different from the model I am setting up).

r3muxd · 3 years ago

This is because Google has a disaster of a 2FA process where even if you have 2FA disabled, they will "send a prompt to the Google app on %s device" to verify it's you. What happens if that device doesn't have the Google app installed? You're screwed. The only fix for this is to, paradoxically, ENABLE 2FA, which then you can force to go ovet text.

r3muxd commented on The AI war and how to win it alexw.substack.com/p/war... · Posted by u/hardmaru

r3muxd · 3 years ago

With all due respect, has the author ever watched WarGames (1983)?

r3muxd commented on Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects newsnationnow.com/solutio... · Posted by u/dangerman

pshirshov · 4 years ago

> It really depends on the specific situation. Public space is for everyone’s enjoyment. Unfortunately, some people take advantage of their right to the space in a way that detracts from everyone. Take a park for example. Typically, a great place to take your kids. However, if someone $PROPERTY loiters in the park, it suddenly becomes a much worse place for everyone else. Technically, being $PROPERTY in a public place isn’t a crime. This person is well within their rights to use the public space. But in many cases, people like this form a small minority that ruins the public space for everyone. Discouraging this type of person is actually maximizing the utility of public space.

PROPERTY={high on heroin | fat | ugly | gay | disabled | autistic | ... }

r3muxd · 4 years ago

Can you really compare being strung out on heroin with being ugly, though?

r3muxd commented on The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03... · Posted by u/DiabloD3

stuu99 · 4 years ago

>I 100% support youtube-dl and I want YouTube to stop interfering with it

Well if you've bought any client-server app over the last 23 years its a bit too late for computing freedom. They are locking down IO with trusted computing, there's been a 23+ year initiative to move to encrypted computing to take input/output control away from the user, this required the co-operation of hardware manufacturers. Windows 10 and windows 11 are the beginning of you not being able to run or play files or exe's over the next 20 years as youtube, netflix, the game industry update their software to use TPM.

This was from 2001:

https://www.theregister.com/2001/12/13/the_microsoft_secure_...

Here is a paper explaining what the future of files/broadcasts will be like:

https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/cs/15349/dl/DRM-TC.pdf

Basically they are building a parallel mainframe inside our PC's that only youtube, netflix, the game industry and other software companies will control. They are removing ownership of our devices and they needed microsofts help to do that.

We've seen mirosoft trial bricking cracked exe's via update. Many UWP games only work on certain versions of windows.

See here (ctrf-f then select the UWP link)

https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/p9ak4n/crack_wa...

They are bringing console lockdown to the PC that is why windows 10 had forced updates. That is why windows 11 was also pushing forced internet connection hard for home users.

r3muxd · 4 years ago

I just wish something could be done about it all.

r3muxd commented on Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions cnx-software.com/2022/02/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

MrYellowP · 4 years ago

> But why did Google enable virtualization in Android?

They had no idea it was for locking things down. Sure, it allows running VMs, but that doesn't change anything about it.

"I'll force A on you, but you'll get B so don't be mad."

... but this only really applies on the surface. Locking things down is the road forward in the industry anyway. That's why the Desktop OS war is long over, too. Everything will, eventually, run on everything.

We're being sold digital lockdowns as features which supposedly provide us with more freedom. In the end we'll have downloadable programs we'll rent to use, which run in a cut-for-the-purpose container, without any ability to tinker, hack, or modify. Rent or die. Don't want any of this? Fine, but you're locked out of the eco-system. Have fun enjoying what's left for you to do/use.

I wish more people knew what's coming. I don't know why they don't. I'm sure the information is out there, but apparently nobody is talking about it, thus nobody knows about it. My guess is simply that it wouldn't actually be particularly popular if people actually understood that they're just being misled.

For those rolling their eyes, considering that nowadays it's the norm to sell safety/security as beneficial, because of reasons based on fear.

Benjamin Franklin would probably be really angry about how normalized it has become to give up liberties for some false sense of security.

The unintentionally worst people are the ones who think this is all a great idea. Because security. Fact of the matter is, though, that if people had to actually know and understand what they're using and doing, we'd not be in the mess we are today.

What I mean by that is that the world apparently has this deep issue with fear of pretty much everything and humanity tries hard to make the fears less worse instead of getting rid of them by using education and getting rid of the fearmongers.

This reminds me of my friend. He insists on having his AV and cookie blocker running. He thinks that's super important. Every new site he manually blocks everything. This same guy also insists on continuously installing all kinds of stuff, and after just two months his new notebook took 20 seconds to boot. When he got it, it were two.

The worst part about this is that he's so brainwashed into believing that he really needs this, despite me being living evidence that he doesn't, that there is actually no way of educating him. The fear machine has dug too hard into him and, unless they stop, there's actually no way of getting rid of it.

Not gonna lie, I actually think this is amazing. On one hand he's extremely cautious about security, which is not unreasonable per se, on the other hand he installs all kinds of shit because he's an idiot who doesn't actually know what he's doing.

He's just doing what he's being told to do.

Amazing.

r3muxd · 4 years ago

This is why Microsoft is pushing the TPM so hard as well. You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy.

r3muxd commented on “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) twitter.com/TechEmails/st... · Posted by u/5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV

3minus1 · 4 years ago

> Bill Gates was the richest person...the 90s Java hype must really have been otherworldly to make him panic this much

I kind of disagree with this line of reasoning. I think very successful people sometimes overestimate possible threats, and it may be one of the reasons for their success. I had this realization when watching the most dominant Age of Empires player stream once. I once struck by how paranoid he was about what the opponent might be doing, but it meant he was constantly prepared for worst-case scenarios. He seemed genuinely worried most of the game, rather than confident like I expected given his first-rank status.

r3muxd · 4 years ago

"He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear."

r3muxd commented on Valorant's anti-cheat system requires TPM 2.0 and secure boot on Windows 11 techspot.com/news/91138-v... · Posted by u/josephcsible

dane-pgp · 4 years ago

And once 90% of computers support this, governments will make "measured boot" a requirement in order for a computer to go online at all, enforced by ISPs.

Perhaps, for backwards compatibility, "insecure" computers that don't implement this will be allowed online, but they will have to either be registered or have something like the "evil bit" set on all their packets so that sites (like banks) can refuse connection to them.

r3muxd · 4 years ago

You can see how well that's working with SafetyNet right now. Rooted phones can't even use Snapchat.

r3muxd commented on Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse) bugs.chromium.org/p/chrom... · Posted by u/antoineaugusti

r3muxd · 4 years ago

doesn't work for me on kiwi 94 (a fork of chrome)

https://imgur.com/a/pBtuwRW

maybe you need to be not in incognito? i didn't want to test out of it in case it actually bricks my browser

r3muxd commented on India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption aelius.com/njh/google-ipv... · Posted by u/quaintdev

rollcat · 5 years ago

Also, creating/using P2P applications. I needed to look up UDP hole punching and now I wish I hadn't.

r3muxd · 5 years ago

out of curiosity, what did you end up going with? I had to host a UDP game server recently and couldn't find a good solution. If only ngrok supported UDP...

r3muxd commented on Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains zainamro.com/hacks/findin... · Posted by u/zainamro

Thorrez · 5 years ago

If you set login to require 3/10 then 3 of those ways would need a security flaw before your account is compromised.

r3muxd · 5 years ago

and then you'd need 3 factors just to log in, let alone any additional MFA those have