joshcodes

joined 2 years ago
[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So... The gas masks??? I know they love to cosplay but these guys are back in France, 1914.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Huh, my favourite part of using C and C++ was the ease of doing it all on Linux. Didn't even need to install a compiler, just write code, run compile and laugh my way through endless segfaults because I am very bad at those languages

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 34 points 1 month ago

I live in Australia and I'm following this dude since he seems to be the one politician with a spine right now. No reason to keep tuned other than curiosity but damn has it been fun

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah so targeting individuals or specific organisations is pretty hard. It sounds dumb but how do you get someone's phone number if they don't give it to you? Its hard unless you're determined tbh which most people aren't.

Most hackers setup watering hole style attacks, or use phishing which is roughly the same concept. Basically they cast a wide net and see what they can grab, like the browser credentials of Debra from accounting who knows everything about compound interest and nothing about opening an .exe file in an email. There are some big game hunting groups, and the LinkedIn breach made some waves (see the fappening), but your run of the mill discord-as-a-c2 style hacker isn't going after rich people.

Someone "hacking a phone" likely put a kitchen scale iPhone app on the app store, which when first opened asks for permissions for microphone, camera, text messages, contacts and file storage, and sends all that information to Argentina for a week or so until their app gets banned.

Also, the most likely person to hack your phone seems to be someone in your household, abusive parent or spouse sorta thing. Most common devices to get hacked are laptops, usually windows. Its just kinda hard to hack a phone. Unless you know a lot about compressed image formats and the iPhone messages app apparently because NSO made like 5 zero days in a row out of that.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Hi, I'm engaged to someone who studies chickpea and other legumes. Shitloads of money goes into agriculture every year and from my understanding, what you're describing is being done by some brilliant people (I'm a bit biased). However there's so many concerns around GMOs doing damage to the environment that it is tightly regulated. Doubly also, Americans don't have the same ready access to grocery stores that ~~other~~ first world countries have.

Plus the equivalent of flat earthers exist that believe that GMOs will kill us all and we need to go back to eating only what nature created (somewhat hyperbole, there are valid concerns but people have been irrational).

An example is that chickpea and other legumes reintroduce nitrogen into soil after the soil loses vitality, which makes chickpea a good intermediate crop that can be grown in between others. Its high in nutrients and has good yield. So yeah, stop eating corn and eat legumes/chickpea/hummus.

(I'm not the molecular biologist so if I got stuff wrong, sorry, I will pay more attention when my partner speaks)

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, you're also heading the right way for a ban... Not liking Linux on Lemmy smh

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

docker compose down --remove-orphans

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing. Super interesting read

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Epstein who pleaded guilty on prostitution charges in Florida, was facing trial on federal sex trafficking charges when he died in federal custody in 2019 in what numerous investigations deemed a suicide.

A suicide in the sense no one else used their body weight to hang him, sure. Do I believe he went willingly after the video tampering bullshit of a few months ago? No. No I don't.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Kind of a fond/humanised name for chat gpt me and some colleagues use. We've dubbed it our idiot friend, 'Gippers'. Its commonly wrong and there's a group of colleagues who trusts it and a group who doesn't. I think we anthropomorphised the machine a little, and also its maybe a little cringey.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Depending on definitions, I'm either a millennial or gen-z. Some of my team mates are awesome and know everything there is to know about computers. Others have knowledge gaps that make me question whether they went to uni. They're also the same people who commonly don't know how to find answers to things. They're also the people proclaiming the loudest about the greatness of Gippers

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by joshcodes@programming.dev to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
 

I have a B450 motherboard, 16gb DDR4 3200 RAM, 1660 Super gpu and a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU. I don't plan on updating the GPU this time, because I don't play a lot of games that require anything more, I'm playing a lot of older titles currently. The problem is this also makes me feel like I shouldn't update the pc at all.

I think I mostly just want to mess around with a decent home lab, but because I dont have an intended use case I'm struggling to justify. I also had parents who don't like to spend money on this sort of thing and I've got their disapproving voices in my head.

The plan is to upgrade to a 5900XT and 64 gb of ram and probably run a lot of virtual machines in a little lab environment but I'm not sure how often I'll have them all running so it could be overkill. The upgrade is about $700 all up too so not small but not too much. I know I'm extending the lifespan of a computer instead of e-wasting the entire thing but I'm still a little apprehensive.

Good idea or nah?

P.S. I run Linux Mint on all my machines if that somehow changes anyone's mind or is somewhat helpful? Can't let the arch users be the only ones to announce.

Edit: thanks for the replies. I went to bed so I'll try to reply to people as today goes. Thanks for the ideas and the one person who asked if I was a sex worker, you've made me laugh and think.

 

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On a side note: I can't delete this message as I get an error about dms not being available. I've blocked the bot already. Does programming.dev support dm's?

 

I'm about to start hosting an OpenCTI instance for work and was looking for advice on pretty much everything. I'm new to self hosting and was wondering if anyone had any advice or helpful guides (storage space, config tips, etc).

I'm looking to set up an OCTI server as a docker container behind nginx. I'd love to practice at home so this is sort of relevant to the community. Have you done this, what did you learn, do you have any things I should watch out for?

 

So I've been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor setup + kvm switch so its a little annoying to have to come home and run 3 cables just for some extra screen realestate).

I want them to run the same OS so I can use the same tools and workflow. I use Ubuntu 23.04 on my laptop, W11 on my PC. I have nvidia GPU's in both (1660 Super Desktop and 3050 Laptop), so installing and maintaining drivers would ideally be easy. I would use Ubuntu but I plan to move away from it since they're moving away from .debs. Any recommendations? I am looking for stability, but something I can game on. I've never had a linux gaming pc so I don't know how much that changes things. I don't want to do much tinkering, I am more of a set an forget type.

I generally prefer Gnome, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate in that order. I looked it up and a lot of the games I play are Proton DB Gold or up. The only game with an anticheat that I play is the MCC and I'll just disable the anticheat if its an issue.

 
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