infosec amongst other things

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • One thing I’d like to suggest is to include the episode number in the post title alongside the “[SPOILER]” warning.

    It may be obvious to us now that the spoiler is for the latest episode, but it becomes a bit of a problem for anyone watching in the future and is reading the sticky post and/or other posts related to that episode.

    While I used to routinely binge-read manga or binge-watch anime, I very often went to the stickied post which had discussions about a particular chapter/episode. I felt that I was missing out on some fan art/discussions that had the spoiler tag because I didn’t know which chapter/episode the spoiler was for.

    Something as simple as [SPOILER] [S8E1] in the post title makes search easier.






  • This was a problem on reddit too. Anyone could create accounts - heck, I had 8 accounts:

    one main, one alt, one “professional” (linked publicly on my website), and five for my bots (whose accounts were optimistically created, but were never properly run). I had all 8 accounts signed in on my third-party app and I could easily manipulate votes on the posts I posted.

    I feel like this is what happened when you’d see posts with hundreds / thousands of upvotes but had only 20-ish comments.

    There needs to be a better way to solve this, but I’m unsure if we truly can solve this. Botnets are a problem across all social media (my undergrad thesis many years ago was detecting botnets on Reddit using Graph Neural Networks).

    Fwiw, I have only one Lemmy account.


  • Finally. The other day while I was on a call with my girlfriend, she received an emergency alert on her phone (in the US) and wasn’t able to read it / find the message for some reason. Fearing the worst, I rushed to the city’s emergency Twitter account to see any updates, only for twitter to ask me to f-ing log in.

    What a terrible feeling to have while going to the password manager, hands trembling with fear trying to sign in to the bloody & now-bastardized platform. Thankfully, it was just something related to bad weather.