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What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Related to gambling: being "pot committed"

Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 113 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I assume Facebook runs on Linux, as does the rest of the internet?

I wish Linux distros use a license that prevents this nonsense.

(I know including ethics in a license is a bad idea, but still...)

Men of the Harlem Hellfighters decorated with the Croix de guerre by France in WW1 for valor in battle, photo taken postwar, 1919 in c/historyporn@lemmy.world

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Harlem in New York or Harlem west of Amsterdam?

Anon hates smartphones in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think capitalism/communism is a binary thing. I think (hope at least) there are more options.

I also think that the problem with smartphones is that they are designed to get you "hooked". The companies doing that are hoping to influence your behaviour so you will buy more of your stuff. And because we live in a society where capitalism is seen as holy and just, we let them.

I think we don't really have a free choice anymore. Companies know how to always win, they are too good at influencing through advertisement and design choices. And without actual free choice capitalism does not work. Anyone telling you that we have a free choice to not buy a product or to not use a smartphone, lies. A choice is not free if companies can and do spend millions of dollars to influence my choice.

Also, capitalism requires a free market to function. But a true free market will always end in a monopoly, because the biggest company can always buy the other smaller companies, again breaking the free market. So there is a catch-22 problem in the system.

TL;DR - Capitalism is slavery, except if you are the CEO.

Has anyone successfully used a prepaid phone and number for app registration? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Chances are I live in a different country, sp probably not able to help you, sorry! I tried buying an anonymous sim card in Spain, but I don't think that's actually possible there for instance.

Has anyone successfully used a prepaid phone and number for app registration? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

For me it's more of an experiment, to avoid advertisement and just to be sure when some person takes power that does care about stupid things like my political views, sexuality, etc. That has happened before. And the technology is there to scrape this data in mass quantities, so someone is going to do it at some point.

All windows shatter in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 19 points 1 month ago

Keep your murder-machine out of my city. Please.

What do you need to get off your chest before the New Year? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just wanted to send some love your way. 2025 will be your year ❤️

Has anyone successfully used a prepaid phone and number for app registration? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yes, I created an entire fake identity with it that I'm now using here so I can say what I want without worrying about loosing my job.

One thing to keep in mind is that most prepaid providers require you to use the phone every once in a while, or you loose the number (don't ask me how I know and don't ask me what happens if I forgot my password)

Do you have a Christmas meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) with your friends and family? If so, how was your experience this year? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We hapily skipped all the over-hyped family diners with lots of drama and went for s pyjama party with cheese-fondeu with only one good friend coming over. Can recommend, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Please help resolve a disagreement in our home in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago

Aaaah, the "As seen on TV"+drawer! Yes we have that one.

Anon hates smartphones in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 45 points 2 months ago (10 children)

You don't hate smartphones; you hate capitalism.

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ThreatDown (Malwarebytes) misses important vulnerability (feddit.nl)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by angelmountain@feddit.nl to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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So my company is investigating whether it's worth it to use ThreatDown (the corporate version of Malwarebytes) for endpoint-protection.

However, recently (October 9th) a critical vulnerability in Firefox was reported by Mozilla: CVE-2024-9680.

The "strange" thing is that there was no mention of this vulnerability in ThreatDown when I checked after the weekend (October 14th):

(screenshot shows issues that ThreatDown did find, sorted from worst to least bad.

Even though the version of Firefox did contain the vulnerability:

And Locize did run several scans on this endpoint in the mean time:

We contacted ThreatDown about this and the next day the vulnerability suddenly shows up in ThreatDown:

To me it feels like we had to notify ThreatDown about the vulnerability, instead of them notifying us, which is the exact opposite of what we are paying them for, right?

Is this a strange conclusion? What is your experience with them? Any other comments/ideas/things we are missing?