Mastodawn

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

Russell Devine

Dec 24

Scarlet Dec 21

Damn, I was browsing around GitHub and this project really just has a “skill issue” label for issues.

Russell Devine

Jan 23, 2025

Obsidian Jan 21, 2025

2024 #Obsidian Gems of the Year results are in!

Explore the 33 winning projects across seven categories:

– Best new plugins
– Best new themes
– Best existing plugins
– Best tools
– Best content
– Best templates
– Best integrations

https://obsidian.md/blog/2024-goty-winners/

2024 Gems of the year winners

Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards! After our panel narrowed down the selection and the community voted on...

Russell Devine

Nov 11, 2024

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Kevin Beaumont Nov 11, 2024

E-crime groups have realised at scale three things in the past year:

A) orgs aren’t very good at applying patches for defective SSL VPN products

B) security vendors are negligently and knowingly shipping defective SSL VPN products

C) many orgs aren’t mandating MFA for VPN 100% of the time

It’s driving a lot of the incidents going on in the past year.

Wow, the latest update to Synology is an amazingly shitty tradeoff. Accept zero click pwnage, or turn of video conversion "to reduce unnecessary resource usage" (on the device that's plugged in) while pushing it to mobile devices where it can chew up battery!

At least they tell you.

Russell Devine

Oct 20, 2024

Excellent deep-dive into Bitwarden password manager on-prem deployments. Examines data immediately vulnerable if the server/db is compromised and logs for responders.

https://www.synacktiv.com/forensic-analysis-of-bitwarden-self-hosted-server

Forensic analysis of bitwarden self-hosted server

Synacktiv

Russell Devine

Sep 25, 2024

BleepingComputer Sep 25, 2024

European digital rights group NOYB (None Of Your Business) has filed a privacy complaint with the Austrian data protection watchdog (DSB) against Mozilla, alleging the company uses a Firefox privacy feature (enabled without consent) to track users' online behavior.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/mozilla-accused-of-tracking-users-in-firefox-without-consent/

Mozilla accused of tracking users in Firefox without consent

BleepingComputer

Russell Devine

Sep 18, 2024

Kevin Beaumont Sep 18, 2024

PSA: LinkedIn are training AI models and selling data for training AI models from your posts, and the setting is enabled by default. I suggest you disable it unless Microsoft pay you.

With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.

Open about:config in your browser.

Accept the Warning it gives.

Search browser.ml and blank all values and set false where necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as 0 .

Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.

Russell Devine

Aug 13, 2024

Ars Technica Aug 13, 2024

Classic PC game emulation is back on the iPhone with iDOS 3 release

Apple amended its App Store rules to allow PC emulators, not just console ones.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/classic-pc-game-emulation-is-back-on-the-iphone-with-idos-3-release/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Classic PC game emulation is back on the iPhone with iDOS 3 release

Apple amended its App Store rules to allow PC emulators, not just console ones.

Ars Technica