Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan

I am also @Quill7513@slrpnk.net, but this is my primary and more active account. The slrpnk.net account is for ecology and lemmy.world stuff

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  • Yeah which if that’s the argument we’re having… I kinda don’t want to give people that dumb any influence. The fediverse symbol is not a pentagram and if the rainbow giving gay people visibility is somehow wrong, then… Fuck me I guess because I’d rather make gay people comfortable than a bunch of folks who’ve fallen down some manner of christofascist rabbit hole




  • So construction waste is a subcategory of industrial waste. Typical industrial waste includes toxic materials like excess cement, fiberglass, bits of plastic from wires and cables. But once the data center is in place, most likely the waste will be e-waste in nature. Think heavy metals, copper, and yet more plastic. And the thing is… This is why they’re putting this data center here. Disposing of this toxic waste will be cheaper because it’s less regulated. The long term cost of high tech industries like this to neo-colonialized communities like this is the communities themselves. It doesn’t matter to Microsoft they’re making the water undrinkable. They don’t have to live there.

    And realize, too. Bill Gates’ philanthropic missions aren’t accidents. He may not run the show at Microsoft anymore but he still benefits greatly from their business. His philanthropic efforts aren’t about making the lives of people who are exploited better. They’re about maintaining that cheap form of labor just a little bit longer. And that may not be Bill Gates’ actual intention, but the fact of the matter is he’s a billionaire. He could make much larger changes in the world by not being a billionaire. He has power and influence to do things the rest of us can’t, but instead of treating the illness he treats the symptoms. His actions sustain the system he benefits from


  • Sure yeah. I think corpos suck, too. That’s why I don’t prefer 1password. But Firefox puts their passwords into a file, too (two actually). Key3.db and Logins.json, both with known locations, and encrypted using AES-256-GCM which is… Decent but I prefer to go a little more hardened. The thing with keepass is the following:

    1. Its open source, no corpo
    2. The file encryption you select can be as hardened as you want
    3. No one but you need know the location of your file
    4. It offers 2fa which Firefox password manager doesn’t
    5. Firefox password manager is more susceptible to social engineering attacks is mainly what I was worried about but it seems like you’ve got a good handle on it.
    6. You don’t have to integrate keepass with the browser to use it

    But I want to make it abundantly clear. @Dyskolos@lemmy.zip has not recommended storing your passwords in a file. They have suggested storing your passwords in a mechanism that can be as secure as your hardware is capable of securing and keeping the location of that up to your own decision making.

    But also. Promise me this. If you’re going to keep using Firefox as your password manager:

    1. Don’t use sync. That’s run by Firefox’s corporate arm, Mozilla PBC
    2. Use a primary password of at least 32 characters
    3. Consider rotating your password on a regular interval, like on your birthday

  • And remember. When someone older than you says “aspergers” they’re probably misinformed and they think they’re using the gentler more correct term. Be gentle in correcting them that we don’t prefer or use that term anymore because it was coined by a doctor who sent anyone he diagnosed with it to death camps. It is rooted in a hateful label and autism spectrum disorder is the gentler preferred term.

    Trust me, its a way better way to get the point across and effect change. I speak from the personal experience of being 25 when I was told “oriental” is a racist and hateful term. I’d grown up all my life being told it was more respectful and kinder to call someone oriental than Asian. It was “common knowledge” throughout the northeast that entire time. But that wasn’t where I grew up

    I encounter a lot of people both in person and online who think because they know something and its common knowledge in their communities that it must be common knowledge everywhere, and that just simply isn’t true. Change and information reaches different communities and different times. Everyone lives in social bubbles and the internet has done more to reinforce this than it has to deconstruct our bubbles