Bro I was at the thrift store and I saw a PlayStation demo disc for $2 and I laughed because I didn’t even think it should be there. But I will literally go back, take a picture, buy it and send it to you if it makes your Christmas better lol
I get all my cleaning chems from the janitorial supply.
Super concentrated, and you get effectively 20 times for the same price.
You can buy a 4L jug for like $35, and a teaspoon is enough for an entire mop pail. Sounds like a lot of money until you realize that’s an entire lifetime supply.
The reason I suggest diectly going to janitorial supply is because you get the off-label stuff which is basically all the same chemicals for a good discount.
It’s not “zep brand pro industrial floor cleaner super duper wizbang” or anything, it will come in a blank jug with mixing ratios and the WHMIS info printed on it. Brands are for the public, janitorial supply is for frugal quality.
Same thing with oven cleaner, it will just come in a can that says “concentrated oven cleaner”.
At most you might see something vague like “Bottled by XYZ Chem co, Montreal”. Because that’s all that happens with industrial soaps, degreasers, lubricants, etc - some factory buys a bunch of 240 gallon drums, and squirts them into smaller bottles.
If you must search online, use Zep but seriously it’s so much better just to go in person.
Because I prefer to create. I like to make YouTube videos, downloadable audio clips of my journaling, etc.
This is going into a rant but it will come back to the point.
There is a visceral hatred for small creators for some reason and there almost always has been since 2000ish. It always comes with this sinister idea that you’re only doing it to make money. Meanwhile anybody that has made art/content realizes making it large is like getting into a professional sports team - we can all play for the love and impossible dream but we’re never going to make a penny, in fact it’s going to cost us far more to create the content than we will ever see returned.
If you are tiny and you post your own efforts, apparently you’re spamming your channel for that fat payday. My channel with 800 subscribers, daily videos, and a million views didn’t pay for my microphone.
But if you’re a big site that probably doesn’t need the exposure as much as the smaller would appreciate, that’s fine for people to post.
We’re living in the beginning of the post-social media world, I lived in the BBS days so I’ve seen a lot. I really think it’s time to intentionally go back to small forums, small content creators, hobbyists, and fuck the big boys already. They have carried their nonsense as far as they can go and it’s just not going to work anymore especially with the rise of AI trash content.
But to the answer the question, it’s disheartening, and a bit of a waste of time to try to post your own content and that’s all I’m really interested in posting. It’s too exhausting being beaten down continually and criticized just for wanting to add something to the world and share.
Please understandnim asking this question from a genuine place. I dont want the quora answer, i want the tech savvy, security expert minds of my fellow lemmings. If thats ok?...
Just a personal story to bring one example into focus.
I got sober 8 years ago and never talked about it online until I was about 4 years sober. Never saw a single promotion for anything related to alcohol…
Until the day I made a single comment on Reddit telling my story to help support another person who was just starting their own sobriety journey.
And like magic, all promoted communities to me were alcohol related. Even though I’m an ublock user, when I would selectively disable it every advertisement I saw online was related to booze.
So even though there are ethical applications for my data, I found that it was used in an attempt to target me based on human frailties.
I made two posts one on asshole design and one on dangerous design and they cumulatively got something like 7,000 up votes and then “magically” the problem was fixed on reddit!
Controversial opinion perhaps, but I think because in general humans aren’t funny and they don’t really have anything new to add to anything. Babies love to see the same joke a million times, it never stops being funny to them, but it’s something that only changes a little as we age and not as much as we would think to think about ourselves.
Oh shit, you just reminded me of the time that I had to PHONE Macromedia to manually activate software because of the firewalling. This was after waiting days to get administrative permission to install it in the first place.
“Thank you” for helping resurface those horrible memories!
The point is if they’re going to get access to your PC it’s not going to be to turn on a webcam to see a sticky note on your monitor bezel. They’re gonna do other nefarious shit or keylog, etc.
When they did this for the stated reason of preventing data theft via thumb drive, the mice & keyboards were still plugged into their respective USB ports, and if I really wanted I could just unplug my keyboard and pop in a thumb drive. Drag, drop, data theft, done.
Further to this madness, half of the staff had USB hubs attached to their machines within a week which they had purchased at dollar stores. Like…?
At any time, if I had wanted to steal data I could have just zipped it and uploaded it to a sharing site. Or transferred it to my home PC through a virtual machine and VPN. Or burned it using the optical drive. Or come up with 50 other ways to do it under their noses and not be caught.
Basically just a bunch of dingbat IT guys in a contest to see who could find a threat behind every bush. IT policy via SlashDot articles. And the assumption that the very employees that have physical access to the computers… are the enemy.
Okay I’ll concede that SOMEWHERE in the world there exists a condition where somebody has to prevent the insertion of an unauthorized thumb drive, they don’t have access to the BIOS, they don’t have the password, or that model does not allow the disabling of the ports. No other necessary devices are plugged in by USB. Policy isn’t or can’t be set to prevent new USB devices from being added to the system. And this whole enchilada is in a high-traffic area with no physical security and many with unknown actors.
I cannot remember the specifics because it’s going back almost 15 years now but at one point…crontab (edit and other various vital tools) was disabled by policy.
To get necessary processes/cleanup done at night, I used a scheduled task on a Windows PC to run a BAT that opened a macro program which opened a remote shell and “typed” the commands.
It seems that some people are having trouble following the conversation and a basic stream of topical logic.
The initial premise was that somebody could see your passwords by pwning your machine… And using that to… Turn on webcam so they could steal your password so they could… pwn your machine?
What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of? (kbin.social)
It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.
What is your favourite floor cleaner liquid and why?
Currently using vim
Have you read the Unabombers manifesto?
I remember reading it many years ago. He made some good points - which is disconcerting....
Why do most people not post? (kbin.run)
It seems like a lot of people don't post or at least don't post on smaller communities like obsidianmd@lemmy.world
How do you treat a cold? (kbin.social)
I have an actual cold for the first time in about four years. What are some of your favorite remedies?
What reasons are there for being concerned about companies like google and meta etc collecting data and tracking me?
Please understandnim asking this question from a genuine place. I dont want the quora answer, i want the tech savvy, security expert minds of my fellow lemmings. If thats ok?...
Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?
I’m glad people are active, but why are the most upvoted memes things from years ago? Bots? Users desperate for content?
Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?
One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:...