pivot_root

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Oh ok, good. It's hard to tell when people are/aren't being serious, and it would have been awful if that scammer managed to take advantage when you're down on your luck and have this whole bedbug thing on your plate to deal with already.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Lucky! You have hot singles in your ~~area~~ spam folder, and all I get is blatant blackmail scams telling me they have my (wrong) phone number and that there's nation-state Spyware on my phone recording videos every time I dare to stroke some sausage.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Well as much as a printer can work.

Only after a ceremonial blood sacrifice on the Tuesday after a blood moon. Got it.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As far as them being applied, yes. The loaded microcode is volatile.

They can kind of persist across cold reboots, but it relies on them being applied again at some point. The motherboard vendor can apply microcode updates during platform initialization before POSTing. Or they can be applied from EFI (modern equivalent of BIOS) before handing control to the kernel. Or they can be applied very early in the boot process by the kernel.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 259 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

> FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
> Musk guts the FAA
> FAA no longer stopping rockets
> Musk decries nobody will stop other people's rockets

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Are you that cool Polish chick who talked with me in the "hell" room about that exciting investment opportunity?

"Nicole" spams people's DMs on Lemmy and Mastodon, making new accounts every time one of them gets banned. I would suggest not following through with that investment "opportunity" unless you're happy becoming a scam victim.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Don't give Musk a reason to ~~tell his orange bitch to sign an order making~~ lobby for the government to regulate and control internet traffic.

Using devices inside the country to DoS Twitter will give them an excuse to cry domestic cyber terrorism, and using devices from outside the country will give them an opportunity to justify creating an American equivalent of China's Great Firewall. The time it would keep Twitter down for is comparatively insignificant to the potential consequences of losing online freedom and anonymity.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Country led by Russian asset doesn't allow others to act against Russia. That sounds correct.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (4 children)

From what I have seen said about him, Pierre sounds like the Canadian equivalent of a Republican. If that's true, kneeling or bending over would be the more applicable description of what he would do when facing Trump.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's fine, he'll just ask Trump to start a non-trade war to save him /s

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There is no such thing as perfect security, but there's a big difference between trying to obscure something confidential between two parties (a password) and trying to obscure information that by design must be shared with other parties (an email address).

Outside of diligently using disposable alias addresses, obscuring an email is an exercise in futility. The biggest point of failure in security is the human, and all it takes is a single person to leak it. With all the people that need to communicate with Musk over email, the opportunity for that to happen is far higher than the chance of something like someone successfully cracking a hash.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

That's security through obscurity, and it doesn't work in the long run.

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