“When he reached the New World, Cortezh burned hish ships. Ash a reshult hish men were well motivated.” —Capt. Ramius, played by Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October

This is all I’ve run across on reverse engineering, so far but it is quite interesting.

https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b

Some of the trust comes from eyes on the project thanks to it being open source. This thing got discovered, after all. Not right away, sure, but before it spread everywhere. Same question of trust applies to commercial software too.

Ideally, PR reviews help with this but smaller projects esp with few contributors may not do much of that. I doubt anyone has spent time understanding the software supply chain (SSC) attack surface of their product but that seems like a good next step. Someone needs to write a tool that scans the SSC repos and flags certain measures like the # of maintainers.

PS: I have the worst allergies I’ve had in ages today and my brain is in a histamine fog so maybe I shouldn’t be trying to think about this stuff right now lol cough uuugh blows nose

Well maybe they aren’t experienced info security professionals :)

I get where you’re coming from but is he managing his risk or not?

Does he understand the risk? If yes, good. No? Bad.

Is he ignoring the risk? If yes, bad. No? Good.

Is he weighing the risks against the benefits he receives of using these apps and taking appropriate steps to mitigate those risks? If yes, then good. No? Bad.

Cyber security isn’t “lock everything down at all costs”. Otherwise I would insist you throw your phone in an incinerator along with all your computers, live in a bunker reinforced against nuclear attack with a small army to guard you, never leave it, never talk to anyone… Etc.

It is enabling one to achieve their goals with a tolerable amount of risk. That level of tolerable risk is different for everyone.

Best I have ever had was this, but on cibatta with a spicy Cajun mayo type spread. From a local deli chain in Denver.

“Lobsters on snowbanks in cute little mittens” would fit the theme and the meter better… Just sayin’

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What are you trying to achieve?

It’s kind of horrifying nobody thought that through. What else did they fail to think about?

Totally agree. Have been there and done that quite a few times too.

That first one is where I feel I’ve seen myself and others get downvoted more than anything else listed here. Maybe it is recency bias from that one thread the other day lol.

Yes. Every single time. Even if it is just walking around the block at a swift pace a few times a week (light to medium exercise). Usually the depression reduces after the 3rd or 4th time, sometimes sooner: fewer negative thoughts, less anhedonia, more motivation, less negative attitude, etc. If I keep at it, usually I actually can find myself in a good mood. Why the hell do I stop exercising then? I’ll have to get back to you on that.

Hopefully people with more of a clue than me will chime in… Meanwhile, my best swag is the filesystem had issues and had to do an fsck? If that’s the case it would boot quickly next time assuming a clean shutdown.

Were there any errors during boot?

Fastboot enabled in BIOS or no? (Not sure if this has anything to do with anything I’m just trying to look useful)

PS: the weird active time could maybe somehow be related to the filesystem being borked needing fsck? I’m not sure.

This makes me want to rip my eyeballs just thinking about it. Jesus.

I’m imagining when they type, it is at a speed of approximately 100 words per week.

I get #1 from my family rather often. And I set them up with password managers. SIGH

That’s what I’ve started doing. Blu-ray and DVD are pretty cheap (for now) at the local thrift stores and eBay. Totally worth it for our favorite movies.

It would be technically illegal for me to burn those movies and put them up on a dedicated Jellyfin server running Linux on a 4th gen MicroFF PC where we could stream them from the local lan, kinda like rolling your own totally offline Netflix with slick UI and cross platform support (Mac, android, Linux, windows). It would be cool and I’m sure it would work brilliantly, not that I would know.

I’m not sure of the legality of putting all my CDs on there as well along with copies of e-reader compatible books.

I haven’t left the dock and hoisted the Jolly Roger but I totally understand why one would. Last time I sailed I was not an adult and couldn’t afford all those great C64 games. With the bullshit streaming companies are pulling they deserve what they get.

I have adblock too but definitely better at home. Very glad I installed it.

Don’t you see? Falling into depression and learned helplessness is doing something.

/s

Wow! Fantastic photo!!