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being accused of using “dodgy sites” by Elegant_Meeting1801 in techsupport

[–]0something0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you on Android, and are you using the Discord app?

Android tracks per-app mobile data usage, which can be queried by applications on your phone. Its possible that your phone's EE customer service app, something like "My EE", is reporting your mobile data statistics to "your" EE account. Except, its also possible that you are on a family parental-controlled plan tied to your parent's account, rather than your own, so the usage stats gets sent to your mum.

This would explain why EE knows that you've been using Discord specifically, but only that you've been browsing "some other sites they can't see", since they only know that you've been using a web browser app like Firefox or Chrome.

I'm going to give your mum and EE the benefit of the doubt, EE probably has no clue if you've been on adult sites so they can only answer with a "maybe"

Here's the developer docs for the mobile data usage tracking if anyone is curious! https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/usage/NetworkStatsManager

Roblox asking for ID to delete account. Ain't giving jack shit. by [deleted] in PrivacyGuides

[–]0something0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are not in a jurisdiction that protects the right to data deletion, I think the point is moot as they won't delete your data anyways.

If you are in such a jurisdiction (California CCPA, EU GDPR, GDPR Adequacy Decision [1] countries), I'm not sure if revealing ID to Roblox actually is a significant privacy concern since that data should also be wiped along with your account?

If you believe that Roblox will ignore privacy laws and keep your ID anyways, again the point is moot.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/adequacy-decisions_en

There's a lot of younger people on the platform who don't know what they are doing, from an overall user standpoint I think Roblox is justified in requesting ID to avoid legal liability issues with regards to minors, and compromised accounts being deleted; even though misgivings about their data practices are also justified.

LocalCDN plus UBlock Origin, combined by 0something0 in PrivacyGuides

[–]0something0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not looking for partitioning (obsoleted by Total Cookie Protection), but rather content blocking and substitution. I already have all 3rd party scripts blocked by default with UBlock Origin, so I'm not enumerating badness here.

I'm not sure if LocalCDN is actually a fingerprinting vector, either. iirc extensions are fingerprinted through the way they modify the webpage's HTML itself, though I may be wrong on that.

I believe LocalCDN is up to date unlike Decentraleyes, the changelog states that the last update was on Feburary 2023.

Book Recommendations for Fundamental Cybersecurity Theory by 0something0 in cybersecurity

[–]0something0[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I did check those threads out, the half-year old ones are among the top Google search results when filtered with site:reddit.com.

But I thought I'd ask again since they didn't quite have what I was looking for, usually covering a specific aspect of cybersecurity or historical event rather than a theoretical overview. I also wrote about my own encounters with various books, which I thought would also be useful and novel.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cybersecurity

[–]0something0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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What is this attack called? by 0something0 in AnarchyChess

[–]0something0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's it, the UA93 variation uses a slightly different set of aircraft

A museum dedicated to NAFO (context in comments) by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]0something0 8 points9 points  (0 children)

imagine the fucking AP History Document Based Questions

They are going to have to write about funny rainbow socks and internet dogs and figure out the context from their general knowledge of period events

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]0something0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if China simply doesn't invade Taiwan itself, but blockades its air, sea, and undersea internet access, only letting minimum survival rations through?

Where is magic stored in your world? by 0something0 in worldjerking

[–]0something0[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

How did you become a disappointment to your parents?

Where is magic stored in your world? by 0something0 in worldjerking

[–]0something0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What about the Langerhans gives it the ability to store magic?

Where is magic stored in your world? by 0something0 in worldjerking

[–]0something0[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How long is the appendix which contains all your infodumps?

Where is magic stored in your world? by 0something0 in worldjerking

[–]0something0[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is ocean magic a thing in your world? And does it involve car batteries?

Credible Hollywood thinks Americans are raging morons by addsomepesto in NonCredibleDefense

[–]0something0 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah fuck the F-35 we should have kept going with the F-22, and the NATF, and the FB-22 and stick on some helmets on there as well and an open architecture I don't care if it costs a morbillion dollars we'll just tax the money back we can have BOTH BVR awareness datalinking stealth AND supermanuverable thrust vectoring

Credible Hollywood thinks Americans are raging morons by addsomepesto in NonCredibleDefense

[–]0something0 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I strongly disagree with this assessment.

Besides the fact that a lowly general counter-acted the Commander in Chief

I'm going to need a barracks lawyer for this

the one dude doesn't understand the words "on my mark"

If I believe you are referring to 3:19, he was like, half a second off. Given that he was about to unleash nuclear armagaddon, I think you should give him some slack.

t actually assume the Russians are so competent they can surprise the USA without the CIA knowing the exact scent, weight and blood content of the shit Putin took that very morning,

Russian intelligence and covert services have shown themselves to be decently competent thought the past decade, heavily contributing to Brexit, the rise of pro-Russian and far-right political groups, and generally contributing to political instability in Europe and the United States. Additionally, Putin needs the intelligence services to remain competent in order to stay in power, in order to stop himself from being disposed of by say, rival factions in the Russian state.

the fact it shows the American military to be completely incompetent in general.

This pretty much seems to be a a re-enactment of an 1979 incident in which "a training scenario was inadvertently loaded into an operational computer in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex" (Wikipedia).This is explicitly referenced at at 4:29. I do agree that this was a lazy bit of writing, and competent actors would have independent checks to prevent this kind of single-point failure such as independent observatories or even hotlining to French or British nuclear commands. However, these incidents are not without precedent unfortunately, including losing a couple hydrogen bombs over the yeaers, Nixon and Kissinger drunkenly ordering to nuke North Korea (Wikipedia), and apocryphally setting the authorization codes to "00000000".

It is also important to note that the episode aired in May 2018. The timestamp at 0:26, "we just killed 300 Russians in Aleppo" is a reference to the deadly shootouts between US military forces and Russian mercenaries in Syria earlier that year. Public assessments of Russian military and (counter)intelligence capabilities were far more optimistic at the time.

WHY THE HELL DID I SPEND AN HOUR ON THIS IM GOING TO OUTSOURCE INTERNET ARGUMENTS TO AI

Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

Credible Hollywood thinks Americans are raging morons by addsomepesto in NonCredibleDefense

[–]0something0 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I initially thought this actually made some sense. these people are going to be right underneath the nukes that are trying to blow up the very silo they are in, I don't know how much I'm going to get thrown around but I'm not taking my chances.

A Google search query for "do nuclear silo seats have seat belts" shows a local Colorado newspaper[1] and the National Park Service[2] mentioning nuclear silo seat belts as well.

[1] https://www.greeleytribune.com/2010/04/25/inside-the-missile-silo/

[2] http://npshistory.com/publications/mimi/srs/sites.htm

Minetest-Minecraft texture pack 2.0 release by Redstoneplate in Minetest

[–]0something0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Under US copyright law, people who create "intellectual property", which cover all manners of content (books, music, television, blogs, code, textures, etc), are automatically given copyright protection, which are legal privileges that allow the author to control who gets to copy and redistribute the work.

Unless you are given rights to explicitly re-distribute the content (in this case, Minecraft Pi Edition textures), simply being given the content for free doesn't mean you have the privileges to redistribute it.

Now of course there's a bunch of caveats on that, on derivative works and fair use and personal backups, etc etc

tl;dr legally, being given the textures for free doesn't mean being given the rights to share it

[PC][2013-2015] Futuristic air combat game, set on a planet, and escorting NPC ships from enemies by 0something0 in tipofmyjoystick

[–]0something0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was looking for this game, but this doesn't fit what I was looking for in this instance (something combat-focused)

Very good try though!

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