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Robust, yet compact umbrella?
  • I live in an area with strong winds and I'm happy with Knirps, they can be found in both NA and EU.

    More expensive than "regular" umbrellas, but they are built to last and are compact to boot.

  • Yep, Apple’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU
  • "Tell me you don't understand web apps without telling me you don't understand web apps"

  • Changes to Infosec.pub
  • disabling image uploads and image serving

    I'm assuming this means death for image-based communities here on infosec (the hardware community comes to mind).

    Will this impact images originating from (served by) other instances?

  • Hand crafted bot accounts and community targeted ads, what's the story?
  • The SEO-angle is interesting, thank you for the insight!

  • Hand crafted bot accounts and community targeted ads, what's the story?

    During the last two days it seems we have been "bombarded" with advertisement bots.

    I found it curious, the advertisements are correctly targeted to sysadmins and security professionals. Meanwhile they have somewhat believable biographies (even if they are a little on the nose), suggesting hand crafted accounts.

    Something they all have in common is their instance (discuss.tchncs.de) and that they have a "bachelors degree in computer science".

    This is not the first time I've seen adbots on Lemmy, but it's the first time I've seen them on infosec.

    Does anyone have any insight into the world of adbots they could share? I find myself increasingly curious in what goes on behind the curtains.

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    Fan control (specially NVIDIA) on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51
  • Unless the BIOS locks down control of fan speed (as is the case with some Dell models), you should be able to use fancontrol to modify your fan curve.

    You can install it with sudo apt install fancontrol, then you would run sudo pwmconfig to run fan tests and create a config file. To reduce fan noise you would typically raise the minimum trigger temperature to engage the fans.

    If the tests came out alright, enable fancontrol with sudo systemctl enable fancontrol --now.

    For more information and suggestions, take a look at this ArchWiki entry.

  • What are You Working on Wednesday
  • Trying to catch up on documentation, I've been implementing a couple of services during the past few weeks and need to write it all down before I forget.

    I do this for every service I implement as part of my backup strategy, it tends to be easier to recover from a disaster when you have reproducible steps to follow.

  • Link to ISO and SHA256SUM
  • A reminder: if you care enough to validate the checksum of your recently downloaded ISO, don't follow links from a stranger. Navigate to the distributors website and find the checksum yourself.

  • X-post: Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates
    lemmy.ca Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates - Lemmy.ca

    Too many perfectly usable phones are put into a questionable security situation by lack of vendor support for keeping key software up to date. But what’s the actual risk of using an Android phone on a stock ROM without updates? What’s the attack surface? It seems like most things that’d contact pote...

    Crosspost of an ongoing thread over at !android@lemdro.id

    Some interesting discussions on the trade-off between security and being able to use your aging Android for a little while longer.

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    VirusTotal leak exposes data of 5,600 users including international intelligence agencies
    alternativeto.net VirusTotal leak exposes data of 5,600 users including international intelligence agencies

    Google-owned online service, [VirusTotal](/software/virustotal/about/), has experienced a data...

    VirusTotal leak exposes data of 5,600 users including international intelligence agencies

    Article published by AlternativeTo yesterday. Visiting the VirusTotal website I could not find an official sources or response, let's see how this develops.

    EDIT: Source appears to be the German news outlet Der Spiegel, here is a link (no paywall)

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    Blocking sh.itjust.works
  • I respect and understand your decision, I've personally had to block a few communities from that instance due to their problematic content.

    For the sake of transparency (which I feel have been the spirit of this instance so far), could you give us some examples that led up to this decision?

  • Your RSS feeds
  • Glad I could help!

  • Your RSS feeds
  • I think everyone that selfhost their RSS-feeds have at one point or another thought "now what?".

    I have 3 recommendations that might help get you started:

    • feedspot is a great place to start to just discover what's out there.

    • GitHub releases can be followed as RSS (atom) feeds. This is a great way to keep up with changelogs for services that you selfhost. For example, here is the RSS/Atom feed for Jellyfin: link

    • Do you listen to podcasts? These can usually be found as RSS-feeds and is a great way to get your daily dose of news on your morning commute.

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    Malicious actions originating from infosec.pub?
    infosec.pub Be careful. New platforms invite bad actors. - Infosec.Pub

    Found the error Not allowed to load local resource: file:///etc/passwd while looking at infosec.pub’s communities page. There’s a community called “ignore me” that adds a few image tags trying to steal your passwd file. You have to be extremely poorly configured for this to work, but the red flags y...

    Be careful. New platforms invite bad actors. - Infosec.Pub

    Hi, I saw this Beehaw post while browsing All. Anything we need to be concerned about?

    EDIT: False alarm, see himazawa's response.

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