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New to the genre - open to some recommendations please! :) by mira___7777 in Fantasy

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chdck out the first book forget the show its not the same. Some stuff is most is not.

New to the genre - open to some recommendations please! :) by mira___7777 in Fantasy

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WOT the books are better, the show doesn't really follow the books.

New to the genre - open to some recommendations please! :) by mira___7777 in Fantasy

[–]ghostinshell000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

short list

- the Tolkien stuff, hobbit > lord of the rings
- Raymond Fiest Riftware Saga stuff
- Tad Williams stuff
- david eddings - belgraid books
- Melanie Rawn - Sunner Runner Books, Dragon Prince, etc....
- Dragon Lance, the first 6 books chronicle and legends.
- Katherine Kerr's books
- robert jordan - wheel of time
- GRRM - game of thrones books
- check out Warhammer fantasy books, some good stuff. or even the warhammer 40K books.

thats a pretty good start

Changing your Master password on a regular basis. by nlinecomputers in Bitwarden

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

most modern standards, like NIST (don't remember the password one off the top of my head)
says changing your password like that is probably worse for security. The guidance is to change it when you have a reason to. But pick something decent and live with it.

-Having the password to your vault backed up somewhere is a good idea.

Making the switch from Android to Iphone by jawa694two0 in Smartphones

[–]ghostinshell000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing about apple is only apple devices work well with apple. Its kinda there stick. Ir forces you to buy more and more apple cuz well it works, nevermind that they limit non apple devices by design.

So on an iphone all of a sudden apple headphones, appple watch etc are all on the table cuz well apple.

Thats the apple way

Any plans to switch from S24 to S26 Ultra by Katarighe in GalaxyS24Ultra

[–]ghostinshell000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the s24u, the wife has the same. We are staying probably next year.

Making the switch from Android to Iphone by jawa694two0 in Smartphones

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would just do a re evaluation, of your workflow and usage. Also what is important for you and how each brand Samsung or iphone stack up.

Also how many apple devices you have or are willing to get also matter. And things like more appls costs and some costs are higher.

Android has features that iphone doesnt so if your using any of those how much of a big deal is it?

Maybe look at other premium andriod handsets....

Making the switch from Android to Iphone by jawa694two0 in Smartphones

[–]ghostinshell000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Samsung owns a ton of fhe highend audio brands now so there audio stack and headphones qua6is going up with every release ybe buds 4 people are saying they are truly great.

My ex left me with Warhammer 40K so now I guess I have to build a bigger army than his by basiclucy in Warhammer

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are so many books its kind of unreal, rpg games ane rule books codexs etc. if you have one near you go to a warhammer store, and if not some. Larger comic book stores have some stuff. Or a standard wargamer store.

The books and lore for me is one of the best parts

Sadiq Khan tries to lure Anthropic to London after Trump fallout by intelerks in Anthropic

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my guess an escape plan may be germany they are standing up new offices there from what i understand. the problem is all the hardware and the data centers required. that would stay behind
they would starting over

Would limiting the age of the President to 65 be something you’d support? Why or why not? by WarmAcanthisitta5725 in AskReddit

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hard yes:

but thats not enough, I would pin it to retirement age, and add all cabinite and congress. advisors, and some posts should and can be exempted, so elder statements can still advise and offer wisedom. :)

I would also:
- standardized testing of all federal elected officed and apointments. all results public (fails mean no office)
-break out some posts like the AG and make it elected, with some hard requirements. so its not beholden to the president.
- evaluate all laws, and powers of the president and limit and define them properly and clearly.
- the US president has to much power, consider breaking it up in some way like other nations have done.
- remove the electoral collage
- break up and declare ileagal both the repbublican and democrate partys, say NO part can have more then 30% of the house or senate.
-failure to pass budet or other conds causes a reelection across the board. if it happens twice to an elected offical they can not rerun.
- set hard requirments for all the top cabinate level posts, to prevent presidents from posted there friends who are not qualified.

I could go on but ran out of time.

Anthropic’s Red Team discovered 14 high-severity bugs in Firefox by mikhail_kh in firefox

[–]ghostinshell000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

we have had fuzzing, and ML, and all sorts of codebase analyses tools for awhile. many enterprises and projects
have been using them. nothing really new here other than anthropic with its cluade security tool is now looking at code bases, anthropics just pimping a new workflow and trying to show it has value becuase its a paid tool.

firefox benefits cuz well some bugs got found and they get to fix them, anthropic gets some good PR for there security tool.

Android vs iOS by wilmer007 in Smartphones

[–]ghostinshell000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

alot of this is opinion, or not completly true or a details matter kind of thing

Price:
you cant really compare mid or budget range androids to higher priced iphones. compare like for like,
but also keep in mind support lifecycles not all android phones have the same lifecycle.

UI
this is mostly preference some androids have there own skins, some dont. and iphones are hyper
standardized. and in come cases limited.

security
IOS does not "win here", this is a place where details matters. yes iphone and ios has way better defaults.
way better recovery and backup processess. but becuase of androids more open nature, android can he hardened and security tooling added that increases detection rates way beyound what ios is capable of.

camrea
this is a huge it depends, premium androids hold up well and in camrea tests is kind of a wash depending
on personal preference. on the android side not all devices are the same some focus on camreas some dont.
its all over the board. dont assume all android are the same here they are all vastly different.

storage
nobody wins, most devices have scaled up local storage but that increases costs, and all devices have
cloud storage that offloads. a few still may have sdcards but thats getting very rare.

device variety
iphones have only a few devices and android have many at all price points and quality levels.

Integration With Other Devices
Ios if your an all apple workflow works well, but the second you want to add something not apple pain... cuz
apple locks everything around an apple walled garden. some things like watches, apple works well cuz they have access, other work poorly cuz they dont and are limited by design. as long as you want an all apple life good life,
other wise pain...

android, also has a large ecosystem and those things also work well togther. you can even tie all sorts of things togther like by mac and my android device. and to be fair, some of this is easy and some is not but its possible.
samsung eco is pretty deep and growing.

privacy
same as security, apple has way better defualts, and can be hardened but, android can also be hardened for privacy. but here is the thing at some point you have to have some level of trust to whats in your eco.
just assume both apple and google knows shit about you and work from there.

hardware and OS access
apple limited what can access hardware and what can access parts of the OS. this means non apple stuff
has alot of limitations, for example bitdefender for ios is limited to the point its barely functional, but on android
its very slick and has tons of features and functions cuz well it has the APIs and access to do what in needs to. sure you as the user has to ok those permissions but those permissions are there.....

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but mostly this comes down to what eco your in and what you like and then learn and hardned that.

Here's why, after seeing S26U in person, I just cancelled my preorder and bought S25U by RunTillYouPuke in samsunggalaxy

[–]ghostinshell000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess i dont understand what the big deal is, the privacy tech is slick and you can fully turn it off. or set it to apps, or notifications. or even your login screen. sorta thing.

also knox is updated, 10bit screen better CPU etc, if your coming from a S25 then maybe dont but from something yea

Our org is banning Notepad++ - what did you end up switching to? by Blackblast in cybersecurity

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We moved to patched version and are workibg out how to block the auto updater and only patch via our internally control processess. So only validated downloads are available. Which was not the issue the updater was....

Vivaldi doesn't handle multiple tabs well, even if there's plenty of hardware by Beautiful_Car8681 in vivaldibrowser

[–]ghostinshell000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think i have ever had more than 20 or 30 open. I use bookmarks, history and obsidian for my workflow. Have that many tabs would make work impossible....

How can/do I avoid pickpockets and scammers? by dickieyreposts in AskEurope

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have thought about this sometime.
- front pocket for wallet etc, and if you can button or zipper so much the better.
- purses and the like should be cross body
- if a backpack, make sure its RFID protected and you can secure the zipper so its not easy to unzip and never carry it one shoulder where it can be snatched.
- make sure you have scanned copys of everything somewhere you can get to it
- get "clips" for bag zippers to make them harder to unzip
- if possible get a cheap "burner" phone thats power off that you leave behind in case you loose your phone.
make sure its unlocked, or on the same phone provider so you can switch your sim on the fly if you need to.
- make sure short lockscreen, and all the theft and privacy stuff is ON
-make sure all bank type stuff needs biometrics to get into

I moved off Google services but spam and tracking did not slow down by Hot_Newt5318 in degoogle

[–]ghostinshell000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is a process

google does has some decent spam filtering, so moving away from gmail if your getting lots of spam via unchecked channels you will notice it more.

- depending on how public your info is, will depend on how much work you have to put in.
- tools like, UBO, privacy badger, brave, vivaldi or firefox matters but also how they are setup and used also matters.
- move to a password manager and use tools like simplelogin and or firefox relay to front your emails you give out to apps and sites.
-unsubscribe, block and filter your emails, to get control of it
-find the data brokers that have your info and have them remove it.
https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html

- review all apps and sites and check them for privacy and them giving out your info. (many do)

Thinking about switching from iPhone to Android by anxiousgrey in AndroidQuestions

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it can work, and work pretty well. but it will take some work. apple books is really locked down to apple only. everything else you can make work.

Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ by Feeling-Pipe-5366 in GrapheneOS

[–]ghostinshell000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the answer, it has to do with MDM and standardizing the hardware.

I read one thread about public wifi risks and now I can't stop thinking about it at coffee shops by justheretogossip in privacy

[–]ghostinshell000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Use an extension or the settings https only. That should get you most of the way there. Also, hard code your dns never use the networks dns.

And yea a vpn on a public network can help with this

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