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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Dropping Cellular for VoIP? Daily Phone use.
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    7 hours ago

    That is a completely separate issue from the above commenter.

    You absolutely cannot get 2FA authenticator codes from 90% of services

    A shockingly large amount of companies demand phone numbers and send verification texts before allowing you to do business with them, to create an account, to recover an account, to delete an account, to place an order, etc.

    They really shouldn’t, it’s a bad security practice but companies love it because with a phone number they can lower support costs by just allowing people to do a self-service where they get an automated text and can unlock their locked account.

    Also an issue, but indeed a separate issue from using unsecure SMS as TOTP.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoWorld News@lemmy.world•In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominenceEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I mean China definitely does it.

    Tibeten “re-education” anyone? They stole the playbook for Tibet right from america dealing with native Americans, but with a little less outright killing. Uyghurs is less language genocide and more actual genocide and concentration/slave camps.

    America did it and does it with native americans. Americans did it with literally every single group that came into the country with their whole “English isn’t our official language but you better speak English or be ostracized” through its history.

    Literally every nation has tried at one point.

    I am pretty sure language erasure is not “a form of genocide”, but “a component of recognizing genocide” or something that states thag commit genocide commonly do. I have looked at a bunch of definitions and genocide definition seems to always involve actually killing people:

    any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    (a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.[3]

    My point was that every nation does it simply because of nationalism and ease of administration. Governments already run bad enough without having to keep 25 running translations of every document.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How can I keep my forwarded port secure?English
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    11 days ago

    To be fair, if something is open by default or very easy to enable without informing about the risks, tons of people will have it exposed without thinking.

    It isn’t that “tons of people do it so it is normal and perfectly fine” but more “people don’t realize.” It also uses some nontrivial amount of resources to process and block those attempts, even if they never have a chance of getting in.

    There is yet a reason I can find to have it forwarded for home use. Need to ssh into a machine to fix it? VPN.

    There are plenty of secure web-based tools to manage your server without a VPN also.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is Linux (dumb)user friendly yet?
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    14 days ago

    Depends. If someone is gaming with new hardware, don’t use a distro that doesn’t update the kernel quickly and regularly.

    Almost every problem with hardware on mint is solved by going through the process of updating the kernel or switching to a distro with up to date libraries.

    It’s fine for a lot of people, but it doesn’t “just work” outside of the use case of only browsing the internet and word documents.

    This is coming from someone who used mint for 4 years. There was about a dozen times where the software on the software center was so out of date that it simply didn’t work and I had to resort often to using random ppa’s which often broke other things. Definitely not user friendly.

    That being said, Cinnamon is probably one of the most user friendly DEs for people switching from window. It is very nice.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoGames@lemmy.world•What's your favorite controller?English
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    15 days ago

    The steam controller is absolutely my favorite shape and feel for the controller.

    The one big flaw is the plastic bumper mechanism that has broken on 3 of my units, 1 I was able to send back, 1 replaced with PETG 3D printed part which is less clicky, but more durable, and 1 still intact.

    Still, I have exclusively used those for years when not playing on Switch

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml•DankPods just switched to Linux!!!
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    23 days ago

    True, meanwhile my HP printer had a hell of a time trying to work on windows much less finding an actual downlosd for the scanner tool on HP’s websitr for a printer ovrr 5 years old and on Linux I typed yay HP, 1, then I was ready to print and scan.

    Plus KDE discover is the convenience if the Microsoft store was actually good.

    Settings are ACTUALLY in setting instead of being split between settings, control panel, individual tool auto diagnoses, powershell, and registry edits.

    KDEconnect works seamlessly and I can also locate my phone if I lost it in the house.