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All countries starting in letter "I" are in a straight line in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
How much are you willing to inconvenience yourself to save money? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 3 days ago

I'll take a bus for 1h rather than pay a taxi to get someplace in 10 min to save $40.

To Lemmy people who came from reddit: Have you guys tried other fedi software like mastodon or sharkey? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago

No, I never liked Twitter, so I can't even begin to bother about mastodon. Never heard of the other one.

I tried the Instagram clone for a few days (forgot the name), but it was so empty I left it again.

Does anyone actually like... talk to extended family/relatives? Like an active effort to maintain relations and not just because of forced family gatherings? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

Cousins in my age group once every few months maybe, aunts and uncles hardly ever. Not even my own all that frequently, but we have a whatsapp group with those and my parents where we chat somewhat frequently.

"Flushable wipes"; "dishwasher-safe"; "odourless" - What are some other blatant lies that companies get away with? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago

If you live in a country that is not the US, these things are certified and taken seriously.

Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser" in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

It is, but sponsored by Mozilla, so some of their staff are probably still involved. And of course is open source, so they could just take the newest release and fork it back, if they'd wish.

The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hm ok. I never look at comments or usernames.

What are your best tips for looking busy at work, while actually doing something you enjoy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've downloaded books (novels) in pdf format, emailed them to myself or uploaded them in a public folder, and then printed them (double sided, two pages on one sheet, just like an actual book) in chunks of 20 pages (so 80 pages of the actual book). Stapled the whole thing in one corner, sat down at my desk, pen in hand, scribbling on the pages here and there.

The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Source?

Also (and this is a genuine question): Why would I care? They don't earn anything from me. Does their political affiliation matter when it comes to sourcing copyrighted material?

Does Lemmy have more freedom of speech than Reddit? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Freedom from censorship.

Which doesn't apply to Lemmy either, different instances just censor different trains of thought.

Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Any "article" starting with the words "in the ever evolving world of"... Lost its credibility before it was even published.

God what an awful, awful time to be alive.

Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] viking@infosec.pub 16 points 2 weeks ago

The military probably knew all along, but are not going to tweet out their intel.

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FF140: Disable DRM icon in browser bar? (infosec.pub)
 

Since FF 140 I'm getting an icon next to the url whenever I'm opening a website with DRM embedded content, such as discord if someone posted a link to some audio player.

Now normally I ignore those icons, but this particular one is shaking violently whenever you access the website - and not just the first time, but even when you navigate between tabs, which is super annoying.

So I was wondering if there is a way to deactivate it permanently?

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[Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? (infosec.pub)
 

How was Christmas, if you're celebrating? Any plans for New Year's Eve? Any major achievements this year that you want to share? Resolutions for 2025?

Have a good one folks!

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Reddit hat alle gelöschten Beiträge wiederhergestellt (infosec.pub)
 

Moin zusammen,

Als ich letztes Jahr reddit den Rücken zugekehrt hab, habe ich sämtliche Posts und Kommentare via shreddit überschrieben, und im Anschluss meinen Account "unwiederruflich" gelöscht.

Hin und wieder lande ich via google mal in diversen reddit-communities, gerade wenn es um Nischenthemen geht, wie jetzt als mich ein Kumpel nach meiner alten Espressomaschine gefragt hat und ich ihm einen Link zum Hersteller raussuchen wollte.

Bin dann also hier gelandet: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/4trskb/best_budget_espresso_machines_im_hooked_on_flat/d5jp1rr/ - definitiv mein Kommentar, besitze ebendiese Maschine, jetzt seit exakt 10 Jahren (2 Jahre vor dem 8 Jahre alten Kommentar, Preis passt, etc.). Ich erinnere mich auch noch, ihn verfasst zu haben.

Hab dann noch in ein paar anderen communities nachgeschaut wo ich aktiv war, und auch da gab's einiges von mir, allerdings nicht so eindeutig nachvollziehbar.

Habt ihr ne Idee, was ich DSGVO/GDPR-mäßig tun könnte?

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[Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? (infosec.pub)
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[Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? (infosec.pub)
 

Happy Monday!

How was your weekend? Any plans, milestones, major dread or whatever else you want to share coming up in the week ahead?

And how are you generally?

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[Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? (infosec.pub)
 

Since it's been kind of weekly since 8+ weeks... Maybe start this thread again?

Not a moderator or anything (nor trying to be one), but I liked this community on reddit and would be sad to see it die.

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Broker-Diversifikation? (infosec.pub)
 

Hallo zusammen,

Ich hab mein Depot bei FlatEx und bin damit an sich sehr zufrieden, aber jetzt stelle ich mir die Frage, ob sich dahingehend eine Diversifikation anbietet?

Bei der DKB als Hausbank hab ich ebenfalls ein Depot, aber da sind nur noch Karteileichen von vor 15 Jahren drin; irgendwelche endfälligen Zertifikate bis 203x, bei denen die Verkaufsspesen höher wären als jegliche Rendite.

Jetzt möchte ich gerne meine Anlagestrategie ein bisschen diversifizieren und zu dem ETF-Portfolio gerne kurzläufige Staatsanleihen kaufen. DACH mit kleiner Rendite, max 1 Jahr ab Kaufdatum, nix wildes.

Hintergrund ist, dass ich ggfs. in den nächsten 6-24 Monaten Geld brauche um ein Haus anzuzahlen; gleichzeitig aber das Volumen die Einlagensicherung übersteigt, sonst hätte ich es einfach auf's Tagesgeld gepackt oder Festgelder regelmäßig verlängert, das geht nun leider nicht.

Jetzt die eigenltiche Frage: Bei Flatex würde ich für diese Order knapp 4 Euro zahlen, bei der DKB 32,50 Euro. Sollte ich früher verfügen müssen und entsprechend nochmal verkaufen, ergo das doppelte (Endfälligkeit ist kostenlos).

Eigentlich ja ein no-brainer, 28,50/57 Euro zu sparen; aber bietet es sich eurer Meinung nach an, hier denoch das Ausfallrisiko auch über 2 Broker zu verteilen?

Danke im Voraus!

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Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen (infosec.pub)
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14206569

Hi all,

First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.

With that out of the way, here's my problem:

Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen image.

Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).

I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.

Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.

So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...

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There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.

I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.

What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.

Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by viking@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
20 comments fedilink
 

Hi all,

First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.

With that out of the way, here's my problem:

Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen image.

Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).

I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.

Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.

So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...

Image

There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.

I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.

What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.

Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Announcement: Move to feddit.org (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by viking@infosec.pub to c/germany@feddit.de
5 comments fedilink
 

Dear all,

Since feddit.de has fallen into disrepair by its administrations, some of the fine folks over here have started feddit.org as a second home.

Like most (all?) feddit.de communities, we have now launched !germany@feddit.org (or alternatively https://feddit.org/c/germany, if your instance hasn't federated the community yet) to continue talking about all things Germany, in English.

Welcome to join us over there!

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[Solved] Whatsapp web broken after 124.0.1 update? (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by viking@infosec.pub to c/firefox@lemmy.world
2 comments fedilink
 

Hi all,

Just updated FF to 124.0.1 and now the whatsapp web view is broken. The text input field is somewhere in the upper third of the screen and in the background, overlayed by text boxes so that I can't actually select it. It's automatically selected when switching from one chat to another so I can type there, but only blind in most cases since any comment boxes overlap it.

Tried restarting, clearing cookies, re-authenticating, disabling all plugins, nothing worked.

Does anyone experience something similar and/or know a workaround?

Thanks!

Edit: Fixed by logging out of whatsapp web, clearing cookies, restarting the browser, and then logging back in. Neither of the steps had worked on its own previously, but the combination did the trick.

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Childfree Chatter (infosec.pub)
 

Hi all,

As our community is still small and not overly active, I thought instead of trying to have a weekly or monthly chatter thread up as a sticky, we could try a perpetual one and see what happens.

So anything you feel doesn't warrant a post of its own, just put it here.

Cheers and take care!

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