NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site 3 days ago:
Well, let me ask you a related question: do you think it is acceptable to ban books? Why or why not?
- Comment on France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site 3 days ago:
I have no objection to sites like Polymarket being made illegal. That is not the argument.
I don’t approve of people using Polymarket, but I would fight for their right to access the website without censorship.
The government can declare a business like Polymarket to be illegal, that’s fine. Take action against Polymarket directly. The government dictating which sites a citizen can or cannot access is not fine.
- Comment on France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site 4 days ago:
Control is never relinquished voluntarily, it only expands. If the government has the power to block access to one site they will do it with more, for increasingly less justifiable reasons, until they eventually don’t bother justifying it at all.
Government censorship is not permissible in a free society, period.
- Comment on France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site 4 days ago:
This isn’t blocking information or anything worthwhile
The government should neither know nor care what its citizens access on the internet, any more than they should have control over what books its citizens read.
Censorship is censorship regardless of what is being censored.
- Comment on France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site 4 days ago:
This is the wrong way to do things. The government should not be dictating what its citizens are allowed to access on the Internet. It seems like so many countries go after ISPs and DNS providers to solve their problems for them, and I think it’s mostly just laziness.
What France should be doing is making it illegal for Polymarket to operate in their country, and fining them for violations.
- Comment on Roblox announce plans to let people AI generate basic games using text prompts stuck into a mobile app, but claim that won't fill their homepage with AI slop 1 week ago:
Ooh… so Roblox uses Luau internally for user-developed game logic, which means that you could probably get the AI to write you a complete application and execute it within the Roblox environment. This seems ripe for exploitation.
- Comment on All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows 4 months ago:
But what will I do without Copilot in Notepad
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 6 months ago:
give us your data give us your data give us your data
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 6 months ago:
Anyone know if massgrave still works?
- Comment on US | NY Governor Hochul signs bill requiring warning labels on ‘addictive’ social media 6 months ago:
Oh, I don’t know, putting labels on things can be very effective for general public awareness. Plenty of people using Instagram never think about these kinds of things, it’s just not part of their normal concerns. The notifications might be an annoyance, but they will also start a lot of conversations between people that would not have happened otherwise, conversations that will turn into “wait, why do we let this company do this kind of thing at all?”
- Comment on Boing 7 months ago:
That’s boinking.
- Comment on Where Winds Meet: Why China's Wuxia RPG is Winning Over Global Gamers 7 months ago:
This is an ad.
- Comment on Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets 7 months ago:
…move fast and break things?
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 7 months ago:
To be fair, they’ve been doing mobile surveillance for a long time.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 8 months ago:
Right, OK, but Signal sustains itself on charity.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 8 months ago:
UBIOS’s unique features over UEFI include increased support for chiplets and other heterogeneous computing use-cases, such as multi-CPU motherboards with mismatching CPUs, something UEFI struggles with or does not support. It will also better support non-x86 CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch, the first major Chinese operating system.
Hmm, I haven’t read the full spec, but typically when you’re making mismatched components work together like this it means you can only support security features that are common for all of them - that is, any security can only be the lowest common standard. Does anybody know where to find more specific information on security features in UBIOS? Wider compatibility generally means more vulnerability.
One of the major design goals of UEFI was to add security to BIOS, which never had any real security in its design. If UBIOS is less secure than UEFI then it’s really not a good idea to use it for anything beyond personal devices.
Does UBIOS have feature parity with UEFI or is it just targeting a different use case altogether? UEFI’s security features are still not complete protection, but it would be a terrible idea to run a network server without them in the present cybersecurity environment.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 9 months ago:
You will use Copilot and you will
like ithave no recourse. - Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 11 months ago:
Certainly, but it doesn’t exist yet, and Microsoft has been developing their system for more than two decades. There is a lot of catching up to do to get to feature parity.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 11 months ago:
Maybe… almost universally, open source software requires more initial configuration work and more long-term oversight to keep operational, so if you’re making a statement like this you have account for additional labor costs. Proprietary software is usually sold as an out-of-the-box solution (it usually isn’t, but it’s usually a lot closer than open source equivalents).
The entry cost for an open source solution might be lower (no licensing fees) but the long-term cost might actually be higher, especially when you start trying to make various pieces of software work together. One of the areas where Microsoft does really well is system administration tools. Active Directory is a full suite of tools that all work together through a unified interface. To replicate AD you would have to patch many different open source projects together, some of which would overlap in functionality and some of which wouldn’t quite meet in the middle. As your environment increases in complexity and your sysadmin needs expand, these interoperation problems grow exponentially, which means more labor time and more expertise requirements, less stability and more security holes between the patched-together solutions.
Don’t get me wrong, I love open source software, but so far there are no good open source sysadmin solutions that scale well for organizations with thousands of users.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 11 months ago:
Well yeah, like the article I linked says:
It has now been nearly eight years since the “experimental” tag was removed, but many of btrfs’ age-old problems remain unaddressed and effectively unchanged. So, we’ll repeat this once more: as a single-disk filesystem, btrfs has been stable and for the most part performant for years. But the deeper you get into the new features btrfs offers, the shakier the ground you walk on—that’s what we’re focusing on today.
So if you’re just using it for your PC hard drive you’re probably fine. The problem is that BTRFS is intended to provide similar features to RAID and ZFS, but that’s where it starts failing.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 11 months ago:
free and open source operating system that never has issues like this
ever use BTRFS?
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 11 months ago:
yikes
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 11 months ago:
So check this out:
Lazard - Levelized Cost of Energy
This is an industry study that gets published every year by Lazard, for the past 18 years. It is focused on the US market. They put in a lot of effort to assess the whole cost of various forms of energy generation, including government subsidies.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 11 months ago:
Sure, but you don’t need an LLM for that. That’s like using a bazooka to kill a housefly.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 11 months ago:
There was trust?
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 11 months ago:
Great, a ridiculously expensive lorum ipsum generator.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 11 months ago:
If you are using ublock Origin you can just select the section of the page that shows the shorts and block it with the element picker.
- Comment on Romero Games have "completely" closed doors, but there's still hope for the Doom creator's new FPS 1 year ago:
- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 1 year ago:
