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Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English6·2 years agoWhen I forgot part of my my old password, I came up with a list of words that I possibly could have come up with and tried those. I eventually found it even if I was panicky the whole time. If I were you, I would list the words and try them in the order of probabilities.
Un/Fortunately, BW is implemented to rate-limit password brute-forcing. I feel you about your CAPTCHA hell, and I hate their surreal sunflower CAPTCHA (maybe to make it as repulsive as possible to the hackers?).
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do modern phones have device encryption on by default, but computers do not? Why doesn't computers also get encryption on by default?English22·2 years agoSpeaking about Windows PC.
- Not everybody thinks they need such security because it’s their home computer.
- Enabling device encryption necessitates the backup of the encryption key (and backup of the data files); otherwise, you may lose all the contents when things go wrong (like the key disappears after an update). People who don’t understand the tech may not know where their backup keys are.
- Windows Home encryption is a hassle since you don’t have finer-grain control over the encryption, unlike Bitlocker on Windows Pro. This is the lamest scheme for Windows. You only get practical basic security with Windows Pro.
- Enabling system drive encryption may make your system backup/recovery harder or impossible in some configurations. Figuring this out may require some technical expertise.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto Technology@beehaw.org•Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi contentEnglish50·2 years agoSpokespeople for NCTA and pharmaceutical company Gilead said that they immediately paused their ad spending on X after CNN flagged their ads on the pro-Nazi account.
Alt-speak: we only care if the media report that our ad placements were next to questionable contents.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What foods would be best to give to someone living on the streets in a very hot/humid country?English5·2 years ago-
Canned fish. Nutritious (protein). Lots of energy (fat).
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Bread. Don’t need to cook. Probably kept until it’s all eaten.
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7-11 sells ready-to-eat food packs. They maybe willing to heat it for the persons if it’s a 7-11 rebranded packet.
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Ramen noodle types. Assuming that they can get boiled water.
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Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auOPto Technology@beehaw.org•You can make top LLMs break their own rules with gibberishEnglish3·2 years agoYeah, some source say that the raised examples have been fixed by the different LLMs since exposure. The problem is algorithmic, so if you can follow the research, you may be able to come up with other strings that cause a problem.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auOPto Technology@beehaw.org•You can make top LLMs break their own rules with gibberishEnglish1·2 years agoThere did seem to be a controversy in March about whether or not the word should go.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auOPto Technology@beehaw.org•[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking chargeEnglish4·2 years agoHaha, if you quickly skipped the “and people” part. Happen all the time. Brain cycles are expensive.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auOPto Technology@beehaw.org•[Corp Blog] AnonAddy has rebranded as addy.ioEnglish7·2 years agoOK. Info added.
addy.io is a privacy-focused email service that allows you to create and manage email aliases…
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auOPto Technology@beehaw.org•[Corp Blog] Twitter Blue to X Phishing Breakout – Gridinsoft BlogsEnglish2·2 years agoYou’re right. Edited.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto Technology@beehaw.org•Early adopters in Mexico lend their eyes to global biometric projectEnglish27·2 years agoBiometrics data that can’t be changed in the control of questionable corporations? No way. It’s gonna be sort of like Reddit: your data is our property, and in this case, it looks like they actually give you minimally in exchange.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto Technology@beehaw.org•Researchers strengthen defenses against denial-of-service attackEnglish6·2 years agoSummary
- Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new way to detect denial-of-service attacks.
- The new technique is more accurate than current methods, correctly identifying 99% of attacks in testing.
- The technique works by tracking the evolution of entropy, a measure of disorder in a system.
- During a denial-of-service attack, two measures of entropy go in opposite directions. At the target address, many more clicks than usual are going to one place, a state of low entropy. But the sources of those clicks, whether people, zombies or bots, originate in many different places—high entropy. The mismatch could signify an attack.
- The new technique is automated and doesn’t require close oversight by a human to distinguish between legitimate traffic and an attack.
- The researchers say that their program is “lightweight”—it doesn’t need much computing power or network resources to do its job.
- The PNNL team is now looking at how the buildout of 5G networking and the booming internet of things landscape will have an impact on denial-of-service attacks.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How has Instagram largely avoided being associated with Facebook/Meta?English22·2 years agoHaha, all I know is the admins of my instances are most likely no Steve. Admins are as pseudonymous as I am, although we probably have similar hope of prospering in communities that are better than corporate-controlled ones.
From the native web interface, currently no to all your questions.
That’s a bird of prey, all right.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is it usually advised to power off your computer to have Bluetooth work again if it stopped working after a kernel update?English12·2 years agoNot saying this is the answer to your question, but generally, it’s the hardware/software unaccounted-for states that can’t easily be recovered from. So, rebooting would hopefully get it in a known “clean” state, and hopefully, not falling into that unaccounted-for state again.
Shitty, but works with some other things too. Angry, frustrated, hopeless? Sleep it off, maybe (not guaranteed) it will be better tomorrow.
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auto pics@lemmy.world•Best bathroom west of the MississippiEnglish2·2 years agoIt looks like, you shit, and then you dip.
Oh, the horror! I think I did the best I possibly could, given the circumstances.