FWIW I think there’s still some merit in maglev vactrains that aren’t tied to someone who was only pushing it to get public infrastructure projects cancelled with the goal of selling more cars.

At least there are seemingly serious academics and engineers still researching and developing the concept anyway.

Well I’d lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we’ve got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

That allows you to also do the “screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know” kind of angle.

Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that’s basically just Facebook.

In order to get them to move you’d need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you’ll need to get their friends to also move. It’s called the network effect and it’s why it’s incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they’re watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol’ “oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago…” And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say “yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I’ve been using friendica instead for a bit now” or something like that

Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.

By asking if it’s political, you’ve made it political

Well done

Honestly I’ve never wrapped my head around these “food is only fuel” people

Like, the point of life is to enjoy it, why would you actively avoid one of life’s simplest pleasures if it’s not actually harmful? Season your food idiot

Isn’t this meme the wrong way round?

Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character is the charlatan in the film

I was gonna say it was whisky in my house

My Scottish father being completely unrelated to the matter

PIF same as everything else

The quality of US media is so utterly cooked, I don’t even know if this is a real or faked subtitle now

Bound check all data input, folks.

Ideally during input and on the API request.

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The conspiracy theories are still just that

The real issue has been the same since the 80s

The ultra rich are getting richer and that makes everyone else poorer.

Once they have accumulated enough wealth to price normal people out of being able to buy anything, society will be forced to reconfigure to serve only the ultra wealthy.

Then we’re all in slums with relatively few options to ever fix the situation.

We need to tax the billionaires out of existence before their simple existence breaks everything.

Everything else is a distraction.

I know what I did

It’s probably an intentional or unintentional reference to this

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DagwoodSandwich

I saw an article about a cleaning robot that can climb stairs that’s just come out, it’s a quadruped thing.

Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

Sea horse, …pommel… Horse…?

I vaguely remember getting into a WPA network (that I owned!) using kismet about 15 years ago with relative ease, but I’m struggling to remember details about that process.

I also remember reading that WPA2 non-enterprise was broken a while ago, however I just looked into it and both of the main exploits I can find were patchable (and have been patched) at client OS level (They were the KRACK and FragAttacks). Seems like there has already been something found wrong with WPA3 too that’s also been addressed.

So yeah as you say back to brute forcing for the most part. Forcing reconnects was a pretty easy way to get more handshakes to record back when I last tried, so I assume still have decent levels of success, given the prevalence of mesh networks. Looking further it seems people use a tool called hashcat today to get pretty rapid results doing the actual brute forcing using a modern GPU.

But yes very good advice all in all, long passwords and the highest WPA version you can get away with are going to make an attackers job harder.

Thanks for the reply, you got me to go back down an interesting rabbit hole I’ve not looked at in a while

Worth highlighting WiFi blasts all your data in all directions, and unless you’re using enterprise/WPA3 encryption with a strong password, someone determined enough can break in.

If someone wanted to they could park near your house and run aircrack (or whatever the modern suite is called) without you ever knowing. FWIW this is why it’s good to set up a way of getting notified about new devices on your network (most modern non-ISP routers support a way of doing this)

Conversely, I believe most ethernet NICs discard any packet not intended for it at hardware level, they’re super optimised for speed, it would be much slower to leave that for software. I’m not 100% if that’s universal however, so I’d try and double check that

Honestly

I remember reading on Reddit or something ages ago there was someone who hated showers because they started cold

Mate, just wait?