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[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You are correct, but I just want to mention that the guys operating botnets are not usually the smart ones — they're just the skids who are have the patience to actually do social engineering and phishing, or coming up with clever stuff to hide malware in.

A lot of the time, the operators of these large networks are caught simply because they didn't think they needed to hide the IP, MAC or Hostname of the orchestrating machine. Sometimes it is as easy as supoening the purchase records for an off-the-shelf VPS. One time, an operator was caught because a text file captured that it was encoded using a very specific country keyboard type.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 14 points 1 month ago

Isn't this basically the same sweetheart deal that Epstein got originally? If memory serves, he only had to sleep at the jail; he was free to leave during the day and do whatever.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess, but you will lead a lonely life if you can't find common struggle with people in different scenarios than our own. We can easily lose our soul with these endless purity tests — for some reason, Leftists, progressives, and liberals seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next Jesus Christ, who will just simply energize voters by consequence of, I dunno, magic or some shit.

Neil Young is still a working musician who needs to get his face and music in front of as wide and as general of an audience as possible — why wouldn't they be where people are? That's what makes this stand so important. Homie needs Facebook and Insta and still said no.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, it's not like Ted Nugent is writing any new music. He probably doesn't have anything better to do anyway.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I dunno who is even still stealing copper considering that a lot of yards are asking for proof of ownership before they accept it. Copper-nabbers are opportunistic, and won't take the time to forge an original invoice.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Square Root of the 3rd Amendment

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i just wanted to drop my personal favorite self-hosted git alternative, Gogs (gogs.io). i have very modest git needs (i just need a place to host code and interact with the git client), and i think it fits the bill well.

i am not associated with it at all, i just want folks to know that self-hosting your own git service has really never been easier or better; there are so many good options, like a similar project, gitea.

if you are uncomfortable with exposing your home network to the internet, you can use tools like tailscale funnel or a reverse proxy server like caddy and a $5 VPS from any cloud host of your choosing to obscure your home IP, while still keeping the storage and the brains somewhere closeby.

imo, the only way forward for all of us to stay safe is to keep repeating a simple mantra: “let’s go back to making websites.”

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The one I personally have experience with is telemarketing. I worked at an agency whose business it was to call businesses and gather information about what IT tech they use, and at what point they were likely at the highest propensity to buy new stuff. We'd sell those leads to tech companies like Dell or HP for their sales teams to reference.

There was another "agency" out there that did the same thing we did with American young adults, but with prison labor paid something like $1-$3/day. It basically put our agency out of business, which good riddance, but also, it was at least a living for hundreds of people. Now those jobs don't exist, pretty much.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

echo "echo "\Please don't hack me. I'm just a little guy. 👶"\" > ~/.bashrc

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Most InfoSec researchers are unaware that most hackers can be stopped by saying "please."

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Just a friendly reminder, slavery has been an active part of the Neoliberal agenda since the 60s. For-profit prisons use their prisoner population to do factory work (cus nobody cares about them or their wellbeing), and the products of which can then be sold on the open market, which undercuts and drives small businesses out of operation.

Prison labor has touched and destroyed countless American industries, and has genuinely done more damage to the idea of a "free market" than every Communist on the planet combined. How exactly does one compete against a business whose cost-basis is quite literally the cost of Nutriloaf?

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