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My very basic account security advice for Lemmy Admins (rblind.com)
 

A little off topic for most of us here on RBlind but still worth posting for our instances Admins/Mods if no one else.

My very basic account security advice for Lemmy Admins

Have separate accounts for the things you do on an instance:

  1. Only use Admin accounts for things requiring no less than an Admin to do.
  2. Only use Mod accounts for things requiring no less than a Mod to to.
  3. Use standard user accounts for everything else.

Be sure to log off of an account and close all apps and browser tabs and windows open when you used that account before trying to log in with a different account.

While there are a lot more things that can and should be done, using separate accounts is a good minimal place to start. It should help mitigate against UI exploits targeting admins account for compromise like we have seen with a few other instances recently.

Things can and probably will still go wrong but diligently using accounts of least privilege can helping reduce the risk of Admins getting caught up in some of the more simple traps.

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Lemmy.world appears to have been hacked (rblind.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Would avoid anything on that server where possible until we hear an all clear

Adding mention for Admins/Mods

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JAWS Question: Anyone know how to get JAWS to handle contractions better? (rblind.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Resolved (see comments). Thank you very much!

Hearing it say we apostrophe L L for we'll, I apostrophe m for I'm, and so forth irritates me so much that I have largely stopped using contractions in my writing...and I really like using them. They best match how I speak in real life.

@[email protected] Hopefully this helps delay some of the real life shit for you.

(edited for format)

How do you relax/unwind? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Cold beer or glass of wine and music...sometimes listening or, when really stressed, playing piano or guitar while singing, all badly I must admit...and the singing usually requires more than one adult beverage.

Music is really a part of everything in my life really. I use it to:

  • Wake up
  • Get energized
  • Relax
  • Express my mood
  • Concentrate
  • Distract myself
  • Fall asleep

If I am not playing it I am listening to it. If I am not listening to it it's playing in my head

Is there a way to directly transfer files between laptops and PCs using regular USB cables? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You probably can

Do they both have Thunderbolt ports? Windows, Mac, or Linux? Wired or wireless networking?

If they both have thunderbolt 3/4 and you have a cable you can connect both to the cable and use Thunderbolt networking. MSI has a pretty good how to

Otherwise:

  • Transfer over network (buy usb ethernet adapter if necessary $10-15 on amazon)
  • Buy USB transfer cable and use it to transfer
  • Remove HD from old laptop, buy compatible external HD enclosure, put it in external HD enclosure and connect it to new laptop
  • Copy files from old laptop to existing external drive, then connect external drive to new laptop
Is it possible to create a computer processor whose bare metal/assembly language is closer to higher level languages? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Photonic tensor CPUs and analogue iterative machines show a lot of promise. However I think human assisted AI or even AI alone are more likely to take over Assembly level programming before photonic computing has that much of an impact

Is it possible to imagine a universe with a different set of laws of physics? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes.

We are all very likely doing it now with most of what we believe to be the laws of physics. While they may seem to reasonably explain the phenomena we have been able to observe that represents such an infinitesimal fraction of the universe that the margin for error is astronomical.

Reddit slowly became filled with hate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

we are not redditors anymore, we don’t belong there

This is something that became very clear to me when I made the mistake of going back for a visit yesterday and found a lot of that "fear, derision, doubt, apathy" in one of the last places I expected to find it. It was heartbreaking but did make it clear that we (or, at least, I) really do not belong there anymore.

It is time to help build something new.

Is 22 too old to start studying computer science? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Is 22 too old to start...

Nope.

Am a heck of a lot older...and have gone blind. I'm still learning things all the time. If it is firing your curiosity it is worth giving a shot. By all means go for it!

...and thank you for the post. You have convinced me to try something new myself. Enjoy!