henfredemars

@henfredemars@infosec.pub

This is a secondary account that sees the most usage. My first account is listed below. The main will have a list of all the accounts that I use.

henfredemars@lemmy.world

Personal website:

henfred.me

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henfredemars,

Hilarious as someone currently crammed into such seat waiting for departure.

henfredemars, (edited )

“Ugh… another one of them tourists driving down my property values.”

henfredemars,

So, you’re saying I know something.

henfredemars,

I use flatpak for virtually everything because sandboxing your applications from each other and from your private data is a great idea to improve your system security. This helps prevent one compromised app from taking actions that affect the rest of your system.

For example, I have the VLC flatpak and used flatseal to revoke internet access because I only use it to play files. If a file tries to exploit VLC, it will not be able to upload any data or communicate with the attacker’s servers. I revoke any permissions my apps don’t actually need.

There are a few exceptions though. I run development and administrative tools directly because I do actually want unrestricted access to the system for these apps.

Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)

I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...

henfredemars,

Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies. It asks much less of my instance admins if it’s understood that my information was never private to begin with.

henfredemars, (edited )

I prefer the complete lack of privacy settings because it is open and honest about the reality of what Lemmy is able to provide.

Even if you’re running your own instance, you are necessarily submitting your data to another party. I don’t have to trust the platform as much when my data isn’t private. It’s much easier to engineer a system around that assumption.

If we suppose that anything I submit to Lemmy is submitted to the public, I can’t be misled. My data cannot be leaked because I’m presenting it to the world already. Lemmy is a young social project with many problems to solve, still trying to gain traction and hold on to users and with an uncertain future. In brief: bigger fish to fry.

Maybe privacy controls could be on the list, but I don’t think it addresses the main problems or applications of the platform and creates its own set of issues. Keep it simple and stupid.

henfredemars,

Likewise. I downloaded what’s supposed to be every episode. I don’t know how I’m going to find the time to watch all this. Very intimidating.

henfredemars,

Heavy: killing you is full-time job now!

henfredemars, (edited )

As with all jobs: if you pay (enough), people will come.

How often do you back up?

I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales...

henfredemars,

I still have drawings I made in MS Paint on Windows 95 when it had just come out, my first text document, and the first report I ever typed in grade school.

Btrfs snapshots of the root volume in RAID1 configuration with 8 hourly, 7 daily, 3 weekly, and automated rsync backups to NAS, with primary and secondary offsite, physically disconnected backups stored in sealed, airtight, and waterproof containers at two different banks prepaid storage and with advanced directive in the event of my demise.

Bit of a hobby really. I acknowledge it’s completely unnecessary. I don’t like to lose data.

henfredemars,

Proprietary when flatpak exists, and it doesn’t properly address how apps should dynamically request access to things they need. Every time I’ve used either solution I’ve run into some permissions problem.

henfredemars,

Haha, well, I told my family that a person has to get to know her. She seems bitter at first but that’s just how she is. Besides, they don’t have to live with her. I do.

Not using her outward appearance, countenance, or facial expressions as indicative of her true feelings is part of the package. It takes getting used to, and it’s not right for everyone.

“Sufficient” is her elation.

henfredemars, (edited )

Met my partner who shares the same mental disorder, the only person I know who could teach me to cope and become a functional adult when I had almost lost all hope.

henfredemars,

I wonder if this is true for others but I’m just not close to my family. I think most people have smaller social circles today than they did 10 years ago.

Without close family, there’s a lot less to Christmas.

henfredemars,

I like the angle of “believing” because it’s fun but never really thinking he’s a real physical being.

henfredemars,

These regulations weren’t even intended for passenger vehicles. It was supposed to constrain actual work trucks.

henfredemars,

I’m an elder millennial but you guys are in the same boat. No idea how we’re going to afford housing down the line.

henfredemars, (edited )

Right. Of course I understand that.

I asked where people who don’t understand the reference come from. That was my question, so I can understand better what places haven’t heard the rhyme before.

I didn’t know that this one specifically was centered on the United States and Canada before looking it up.

henfredemars,

I have a feeling that the results of this question are going to be biased against those who don’t post answers.

henfredemars,

It happens to the best of us.

More accurately, it happens to all of us.

henfredemars,

Thank you for saving me the effort to do which I’m too lazy to do myself.

henfredemars,

This here’s an antique.

henfredemars,

This would make an awesome April fool’s joke.

henfredemars,

Problem is that shower temperature is one of those problems that is enough to be annoying but not enough to demand being solved.

Didn’t know about thermostatic mixers. Thanks.

henfredemars,

I would take this willingly if it was cheaper.

But it won’t be cheaper. Instead, it becomes the new basic plan at the price you’re paying today.

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