WhatAmLemmy

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WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

Oh he’s guilty as sin. The problem is that the entire “free world” is actually just corporatocracies ruled by the top < 0.1% of wealthy individuals, their corporations, and lobby groups — each masquerading as “democracies” but 90-99% of their policy, legislation, and regulation is auctioned off to the highest bidder(s).

Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak (arstechnica.com)

A 2020 Cochrane review that assessed the two clinical trials concluded that “whether adults see their dentist for a check‐up every six months or at personalized intervals based on their dentist’s assessment of their risk of dental disease does not affect tooth decay, gum disease, or quality of life. Longer intervals (up to...

WhatAmLemmy,

Further evidence that the privatization of healthcare is incentivized to produce worse outcomes and waste.

WhatAmLemmy,

We live in corporatocracies masquerading as “democracies”

WhatAmLemmy,

They’ve committed the worst crime imaginable — threatening the future profits of the corporatocracy!

Why every TOTP app default uses SHA-1 hash encryption?

I use Aegis as my 2fa. Today on new token creation I observed that there’s hash function set to SHA-1, later checked all my tokens and the result is same type of encryption used for all. So I have edited all my tokens to SHA-256 as a result my totp doesn’t authenticate. Do I have to rescan my tokens for updating to SHA-256...

WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

I think this question might be missing the point of TOTP and protection it provides. The reason 256/512 is used to encrypt data and passwords is to prevent the possibility of brute force and other attacks (e.g. using other data breaches). This doesn’t really matter with TOTP. They can’t reverse engineer a TOTP password out of you. They can’t use your info from prior breaches to gleen what your TOTP might be anywhere else. It’s not something where “cracking” the hash is likely to be attempted, as an attacker would still have to capture the generated codes and time of input in some way, then brute force hashes until they generate one that produces the correct codes at x time. Why would they ever do that when it would be a thousand times easier to compromise a device or TOTP app, and scrape the hashes directly from it; negating any need to brute force?

Note: I am not a cryptographer and have not implemented a TOTP server, so I could be completely wrong.

TL;DR 256/512 wouldn’t necessarily increase the security of TOTP at all.

WhatAmLemmy,

It’s in the article ffs. The recovery email was managed by Apple, so they made a request to Apple and obtained the users real identitiy. Once they arrest the user they can gain access to all the users accounts — unless the user had specifically guarded themselves against that possibility.

WhatAmLemmy,

This is fossil fuel industry propaganda.

NO carbon capture tech exists, or is on the foreseeable horizon, that is economically feasible.

WhatAmLemmy,

Now they’re getting paid, so fuck you!

WhatAmLemmy,

Most of modern civilization wasn’t built by the current S&P500 — most of them didn’t exist 50 years ago, let alone 100 — it was built by humanity, collectively, over thousands of years.

That fact won’t stop any individual or corporation from trying to claim absolute dominion over the entire human population, all derivative works and resources, or the rest of our descendants futures, for all eternity.

EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants (zeteo.com)

A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....

WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

Note that the American domestic fascist party also supports a (foreign) jewish nationalist ethnostate (zionism), despite being the main group promoting antisemitism domestically.

It’s almost like authoritarians and fascists are defined by their authoritarianism and fascism — authoritarians of a feather, genocide together — instead of their religion, race, or ethnicity…

WhatAmLemmy,

It all makes sense when you realize that when they said “democracy” and “justice system”, what they really meant was “corporate dictatorship”.

“It’s a big club, and YOU ain’t in it!”

WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

Only the bestest and freedomist democracies ban journalisms!

WhatAmLemmy,

It turns out America doesn’t just negotiate with terrorists; it in fact completely abandons any illusion of democracy, or a justice system, under the threat of terrorism — as long as it’s an oligarch from the private elite boys club.

LOL

WhatAmLemmy,

If you keep doing the shit we’ve supported you doing for the last 7 months, that could in fact ruffle some metaphorical feathers.

“Not really though, fellow corporatocracy. Fuck the proles. Pay me and I’ll help you genocide coz I’m a career sociopath. Whoop whoop!!”

WhatAmLemmy,

Yeah, the smiling seems more like desensitization. He doesn’t seem to promote, excuse or justify the crimes. He knows they were horrific.

War is hell. None are moral. The difference is that some are completely unjustifiable (e.g. aggression or imperialism vs self-defence). Human rights abuses, rape, murdering civilians, torture, and psychopathy are present in every single warzone in history, and committed by both sides; though the volume of crimes can be extremely lopsided.

WhatAmLemmy,

“Just trust me bro” is always bullshit with capitalism. On a long emough time line for-profit orgs will always expand to double/triple/quadruple/etc dip into their customer base. It might as well be a fundamental law of economics at this point.

WhatAmLemmy,

Only the best democracies ban journalists. Ask anybody!

WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

If we didn’t live in corporatocracies masquerading as “democracies” the execs and managers who pulled that shit would be serving life in prison.

Edit: Note that Nestle did this so the mothers would stop producing milk and their babies survival would become dependent on Nestle — pure unadulterated psychopathy!

WhatAmLemmy,

Democracy IS best. We arguably don’t have it because capitalism is pay to play and money equals speech = the orgs and individuals with the most money have the most influence over politics and government; so much so that wealth essentially controls policy — note that despite the USA being one of the most obvious and egregious examples, the problem is not isolated in any way shape or form.

If there were hard limits on individual wealth, every business was a co-op owned by the workers, and their influence on society was properly regulated, maybe we would have much more egalitarian democracies, but individuals and orgs will always strive to corrupt the system for their own power/wealth advantage (incl under any other system e.g. socialism).

Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo (www.theguardian.com)

Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details. However, many analysts remain pessimistic after five months of stop-start...

WhatAmLemmy,

Whoever represents a country is whoever has military control over the land and population inhabiting that country. Very rarely is there any other option (e.g. exiled leader).

Also, the UN is mostly a tool of the 5 veto-wielding members of the security council, who’ve done nothing to prevent Israel’s genocide — They are incapable of representing, and don’t deserve to represent, the Palestinian people.

WhatAmLemmy,

Unpopular opinion: if you require disenfranchised voters to stave off a fascist dictatorship then you’re already a failed state and are only kicking the can down the road.

WhatAmLemmy,

They don’t think that far ahead

“Everyone I disagree with is stupid and wrong”

I considered America a failed state 25 years ago, based on nothing but the last century of modern history, from textbooks — before 9/11, 20 years and trillions of dollars bombing the middle east to ((surrender)), the GFC, surveillance capitalism, citizens united, the rise of Trump and unadulterated fascism, etc, etc.

Guess what the last 25 years has taught me? A majority of humanity are entirely incapable of seeing beyond what’s directly and immediately in front of them! But sure… The people who saw this happening in slow motion, decades ago, are the problem! Whatever helps you sleep at night is all that matters.

WhatAmLemmy,

Oops. I dropped my monster condom that I use for my magnum dong.

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