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- Comment on Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty 1 week ago:
Good, as it should for normal people as well
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 1 week ago:
Absolutely, I was just thinking about how to do it cheap and simple.
There was an old Defcon talk about something similar, how to make a system to physically destroy hard drives using a mechanism inside a server that could be triggered automatically or remotely.
They tried a bunch of things from thermite to acids, but didn’t get anywhere really.
It made me think however…
What about injecting sand into the drives and actuating the read/write head?
I have seen photos of a hard drive crash, where the head grinded off all of the magnetic layer from the platters.
My idea was to inject sand as a grinding agent and use the read/write head as a grinder to do the same thing.
Then I realized that if you are a huge customer, you can probably have custom hard drives on order, these drives could have a dedicated physical grinding arm, designed so that once deployed it would quickly grind the magnetic layer off of the platters.
Now SSD have made these concepts mostly redundant, but still a fun thought experiment.
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 1 week ago:
Ah, yeah, didn’t think of that, good point!
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 1 week ago:
I have seen devices that can allow an American power plug to be transfered from one powered outlet to another, specifically to allow police to capture running servers so the RAM isn’t cleared.
I have also heard of RAM being frozen with liquid nitrogen while powered on to allow later analysis.
The first part is less of a problem in this case as the outlets are different here, but to completely defeat this sort of power manipulation servers can easily be designed with internal switches that releases as the server is pulled from the rack, cutting the power internally.
That also reduces the effectiveness of the second attack, which is easy to reduce further by simply making the case take longer to open.
- Comment on Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices 1 week ago:
Sigh, as the global tensions increase, so will the need for computing power for governments.
Cyberdefence is critical for survival, and the threats are just increasing.
- Comment on Laser based charging system aims to keep drones airborne indefinitely 4 weeks ago:
Cool tech, but the issue with this in warfare is that you paint a shiny line through the air between your recharge point and your drone, giving away the position of both.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 month ago:
To be fair, it is a threat to everyone
- Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? 1 month ago:
You can get the following games for €50:
- Turbo Overkill
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- The Orange Box
- Bioshock
- Bioshock 2
- Exo One
- PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+
- Dishonored
- Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-tered
This list is a good mix of awesome games, currently the total price for this looks like €49,88 in Sweden, this is amazing value!
Turbo Overkill - A fun and fast paced arcade FPS in a dystopic 80s futuristic setting.
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy - one of the best platformers I know, amazing soundtrack, super frustrating at times, but soo much fun!
The Orange Box - Needs no introduction, one sale for €3.90, increadible value.
Bioshock snd Bioshock 2 - Absolute gaming classics, and that is for a very good reason.
Exo One - A bit weird sci-fi game, beautiful and very engaging.
PAC-MAN Championship Edition - Take Pacman, Neon colours, fast synth beat, challenges and an online leaderbord, when these combine you get this super fun game.
Dishonored - A great game, a stealth game with magic powers, a classic!
Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-Tered edition - Do you like destruction physics? Then this game is for you!
- Comment on Unreal Tournament 2004 is getting revived by OldUnreal with approval from Epic Games 2 months ago:
Oh yes, the original CD release had a Linux installer, I remember installing it on a Dell E5400 running Ubuntu before heading to a LAN party.
Worked great!
- Comment on Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos 2 months ago:
So how long untill digital photos are inadmissble in court?
- Comment on Unreal Tournament 2004 is getting revived by OldUnreal with approval from Epic Games 2 months ago:
YEEEES!
UT2K4 is my absolute favourite arcade shooter!
I have the original six CD release, the Steam release and the GOG release.
It is such an awesome game!
- Comment on Criminal court ditches American software giant– Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? 2 months ago:
Why would BBG move ditch Windows for their client?
Please ar least try to be realistic with your predictions.
- Comment on Criminal court ditches American software giant– Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? 2 months ago:
Correction:
There is an ocean of software alternatives, however there are few alternatives that offer a direct alternative to Microsoft when it comes to being able to put the blame on them.
With most open source systems, the buck stops with you.
Now, I know there are companies that offers to take that buck and accept the risk, though they are not plenty when it comes as a realistic competitor to Microsoft.
Then you need to consider what alternatives exist to all third party software you need to run a company, the vast majority only run on Windows.
I work in the IT department of a company in the finance sector, show me an open source alternative to the Bloomberg client that runs on Linux and is approved by Bloomberg with an add-in that is as integrated into Libre Office as the official client is with Excel.
I guarantee that it is the same in basically every company/sector, they all have workflows that are simply not possible without Windows/Office or Microsoft as a whole.
Ok, so you start a new company, with all computers running open source software, Windows/MacOS is banned, that will only last until you notice that you can earn more money, while wasting time and money, while hiring new staff easier by running Windows/Mac.
Would you rather shutdown you company than accept reality and use Microsoft software.
I want open source to win, but ignoring reality is dumb
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Wow, ok so that is how you deal with critics…
I knew is was going to be a sore point, my hope was that you was going to say something like:
Fair point, I guess I did come one a bit strong on that point…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Downvoted due to your annoying rant about about up/downvotes.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 4 months ago:
I buy individual songs on iTunes, I can back them up without DRM to my NAS.
I dislike the entire concept of renting my music.
Since I started using an iPhone back in 2016, I have bought 781 songs, songs that I don’t have to pay to access.
- Comment on Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space 4 months ago:
That is dumb, space is extremely expensive to get to, power is fairly limited, cooling is a nightmare, and micro meteorite impacts can not only dammage the data center, but possibly initiate Kessler syndrome.
Now a few years ago I read an old article about Microsoft experimenting with submerged data centers which is a way better idea, it is relatively cheap to get to, power is easy to deal with, cooling is trivial, and you don’t need to worry about micro meteorites or Kessler syndrome.
- Comment on There's no "spyware" in Borderlands 4, Take-Two insist, following upset over terms of service 5 months ago:
I loved B2, and have come to really like B1, BTPS is ok, perhaps a bit too annoying, B3 is just too much, the story is too crude, the UI and maps are too cluttered, and the gaming experience was way too chaotic.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 6 months ago:
Yeah?
This is what happens when system complexity grows unconstrained.
We may look at a piece of software and say, “right, this software is secure!”, but the clock has already started ticking toward the next vulnerability found.
This does not make the field of computing flawed, but rather the systems we run computing on is flawed.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 6 months ago:
That has not really anything to do with “computing”, which can be done regardless of what network is used or even without a network.
This also does not really affect weather or not cloud computing is flawed or not, since you can access the cloud without wireless connections.
This all being said, wireless networking is a big security problem, we have just collectively decided that the convenience is worth it.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 6 months ago:
What? Computing in general is not flawed.
Cloud computing from a data security standpoint has some huge and I would say, unacceptable, flaws though.
- Comment on Smart tires will report on the health of roads in new pilot program 8 months ago:
Why make the tires smart? That just creates more continous e-waste.
Add sensors to the car instead
- Comment on YouTube is expanding its ad-blocking powers — closes loopholes that allowed some users to bypass restrictions 8 months ago:
Once I get my NAS setup this year, I’ll start actively downloading and backing up the videos I like from yt.
- Comment on Linux user share hits a multi-year high on Steam for May 2025 8 months ago:
Sweet, I am looking to join them this year
- Comment on GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup - Aftermath 8 months ago:
I am a huge Geoguessr fan, this is a great protest, I will be taking down my maps was well.
- Comment on Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy 9 months ago:
I remember a few years ago when YT suddenly restricted my account since it was never age verified since I got it back in 2005/2006 or so, and for a few months I could not watch YT videos that was tagged as mature or similar.
Luckily, it seemed that sense prevailed and once the account was 18+ years old, the restrictions just went away…
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Yeah, this is my impression as well.
There is a clear link on the store page to go to the warranty info, if OP didn’t read it or understood it before buying, this is on them, not Valve.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Ok, but what was the cause they diagnosed?
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 9 months ago:
They could capitalize on that, and call it “Let us social!”
That would give it a friendly name and make her more approachable, which is why it won’t happen.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 9 months ago:
Yeah, they are the exception