Someone was DMing people pictures of a woman with a typical “Hi I’m Nicole, lets chat” type of message. At first people were sharing the dm’s to laugh at the obvious scam, and it was an achievement if you a) got a message at all and b) got a new photo. However we soon realized there were many too many different similar “webcam” style pictures to be some random lady a scammer/troll pulled of facebook or something.

Supposeldy, people started digging and found a live stream, and that led to other issues with a flood of random people asking her about Lemmy (not sure if that part is true).

Anyway, we started to suspect it was some disgruntled ex or crazy viewer sending the messages who was either screenshoting a live stream or a hacked webcam.

Admins decided clear out all posts about her to stop the attention so people would leave the actual lady alone and discourge anything similar.

Welcome to the club.

Remember the 3-2-1 backup rule. You are now directly responsible for the saftey of your database. You can’t blame big tech ai vibe coding.

For mobile android, I reccommend KeepassDX.

For ios I recommend Keepass Touch (one-time $2 for autofill & touch-id).

Most people, myslef included, use syncthing to keep the database syncronized between devices when they’re on the same wifi network.

Android is easy, the app is Syncthing Fork.

IOS is a tad harder due to the apple file management restrictions, but möbious sync works very well as a front end for syncthing (one-time $5 for unlimited sync jobs, not needed if only use it for keepass).

Both apps don’t always stay running the background (ios apps can’t even if they wanted too), so you do have to have to activly open the apps once in a while to sync.

Beacuse of that, it’s important you set syncthing (or whatever method you use) to resolve conflicts when both “sides” have been modified since the last sync have by making a new file instead of overwriting one. You can easily merge the two datbase files back into 1 on desktop through keepassXC, delete the copy and let syncthing propagate the updated folder.

Alternatively you could use a cloud provider of your choice to host the file. As long as the keepass app can access the cloud provider’s files. A “keep file offiline” feature is very helpful too. However, the same background process sync limitations will be in place. You will need to see how tge cloud provider handles conflicts, if it just picks and overwrites the loser, that could result in data lose.

Another note, automatically syncing between devices doesn’t count as a true backup. If the database file gets corrupted (or you accedeidenty delete somethingg and clear the recycle bin) and that file is synced everywhere else, what good are multiple copies of the same bad file? You should be able to go back a week or two (syncthing does do file history if enabled).

That was my first though too. The whole point is to stop sending them our data. But like someone else said, it doesn’t need to be real. Maybe we start reporting there’s a shit ton ram on Jupitor ripe for assimilation.

You could, but the cloud is just someone else’s computer. If mozilla messes up and deletes a bunch of people passwords, like google did a few years ago, or they have a data breach like lastpass you’re screwed.

If you choose to rely on any cloud password manager, I recommend maintaing a local database with at least any emails that will be needed for resetting passwords, 2fa recovery codes and anything else you consider essential to get through a failure of the cloud datbase.

The inverse is true for anyone running a local database. An encypted copy, of at least the essentials, should be somewhere remote they can access without needing to lookup a password from their local database.

If you’re worried about it you could also have a seperate file for 2fa, different passwords. The embedded file and notes features are great for storing the backup/recovery codes good 2fa implementations give you.

Meanwhile in windows;

“I found you some some bing searches, a sponserned appstore recommendation, 3 news-slop articles, ane the weather for Reading, Berkshire. Are you happy?”

It solves a few problems podcasters have,

1. ambiant noice; the typical “podcast/radio” microphones are designed to reject pretty much everything besides what is in front of them, and are very good at it (within limits you may not hear the hvac system but you’ll hear a door slam). The closer the microphone is the source(person), the less you have to turn up the volume. When you turn up a microphone’s volume, it’s going to turn up the volume of everything the microphone has captured; background noise, traffic, electrical interfernace, etc. The less you have turn up all the extra crap, the better the sound will be.

2. multiple people in close promiximity. People sound different, one person might be soft spoken and the other might be loud. In order to hear the quiet person you need to crank their microphone up. If the two people shared a microphone, you’d have to find a balance between loud enough and too loud; ultimately that would lead to a viewer constantly having to adjust their volume depending on who’s speaking or paying an editor to do that.

3. if the microphones are farther away, the loud person’s voice will get picked up by other people’s mic and will cause strange sounding effects from that person getting picked up by multiple microphones.

4. consider the primary purpose of a podcast; people talking for a long period of time. Sound quality has to take priority. A news interview gets away with reduced sound quality because it’s for a short period of time, often less than a minute. But if they had us listening to that bad audio for an hour, most people would tune out.

5. a lot of the problems I mentioned above could be fixed, or at least mitigated, with some audio editing before the episode is published. However, that doesn’t help a live podcast. It also takes a long time, a 1 hour podcast with bad audio could take a day to go through it all; you have to reduce the background noice, balance everyone’s audio, figure out how to make the softspoken person sound good without altering voice too while removing the background noise that’s sometimes just as loud as them. It’s even harder if eveyone is using 1 shared microphone, you end having to make edits everytime the speaker changes or accepting an infeiror product to save time. It’s a hell of alot easier(and cheaper) to just get sound quality right from the start. With that, you might only have spend a little time to make some minor adjustments.

Was it archived by flashpoint? I know their focus was games, but they did have some videos too.

If it makes you feel better, they were off my list a long time before the ceo crap.

It was the fact they make you pay to use a 3rd party calandar app. Even microslop allows that. (At the time, I didn’t see email service was locked down too. I hadn’t gotten that far lol.)

The ceo just made sure I never consider buying their service.

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Lol great buisness plan, force schools to find alternatives and act suprised when students continue to use those alternatives into their adult life.

Don’t forget to have a speaker playing a loud constant noise that can be heard across the neighbor hood.

Well there were conversations that AI should be public… Publicly bailed out by taxpayers with a negative return on investment.

“Great another generic empty comment…why don’t they ever say anything new, like what about my hands?” - block.

I find it more practical to seperate by things you uses frequently vs things you use occasionally. Frequently used things get a place on the home page where it’s easy to get to, everything else is dumped into a few broad catagories.

I have 4 folders, “stores(&bank stuff)” “games(&entertainment)” “utilities(&misc)” and “work”.

It’s all sorted alphabetical.

Speculation to your question, for monitoring and control.

For monitoring, log temperatures and send error message if it gets too high. Data could be used if any legal question come up about food spoilage.

For control, I’m guessing there’s times you want to shut it off or enable/disable defrost. Easier to do that at a computer than have controls that are either a pain inthe ass to get to, or too easy for some moron to mess with.

That being said, it should be on a local network and have no access to the internet. However a chain store would probably want the data sent to HQ, so the computer would need to be on the network.

I’d rather see open source software get the rescources they need to “catch up” to the monopolies.

The stuff ai is spitting out won’t be easy to maintain and any securrity vunerabilites will go unpatched. Attempting to maintain this software with ai will just result in making more dataceneters and more communities will be fucked over.

However, if adobe and microsoft sucesfully claim ai has stolen their code, than they might set the legal president that AI has to follow copyright laws. Which could help artists (wishfull thinking, I know).

I still use my copy of photoshop from time to time.

Photopea has been my go to alternative for opening actual psd docs for a while.

Paint.net was my go to for quick stuff back in windows. I’ve been learning Kirta on linux now.

But for certain work, the 10 year old copy of photoshop is still better at certain things. Specifically for editing actual photos (go figure).

Enough of the clickbait titles please. We’re here to escape the mainstream bullshit. If an article is intresting enough, at least come with up a short synopsis so we know what the topic is. “I got Targeted - frankwiles.com (software dev almost gets phished by fake project offer)”

That being said, thank you for sharing it. This is an intresting read, the lengths hackers/scammers go to trick people. It wasn’t some “hollywood” crack the code bullshit, they came up with a plossible story and tried to get the guy to run malicious code. It reinforceses that the user is the weakest link, no matter how smart or careful we are. Security isn’t just about preventing yourself from getting hacked, minmizing damage and having a recovery options for when you fuckup is important too.

Netflix must think black people have more soul.