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Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser


Tools programmer
Writer-wannabe
Did translations once upon a time
I contain multitudes


(TurfsterNTE off Twitter)


Trans rights
Black lives matter


Be excellent to each other


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apocryphalmess
@apocryphalmess

capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with actual infosec. it's great at faking it, at selling you a product that says it will solve all your security problems and which will just be another attack surface, but the core goal of increasing corporate profits will always be at odds with nearly every possible aspect of information security

run an adblocker for both personal security and ideological reasons. something like uBlock origin is going to be more effective at keeping horrible shit off your computer than actual malware scanners will, because tricking you into installing that shit yourself is the primary attack vector for it these days. it's just social engineering, but automated to use ad networks so it's much more efficient


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

google chrome eliminating ad blockers thanks to "manifest v3" is going to get so many old folks' identities stolen.


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in reply to @apocryphalmess's post:

It's like various kinds of scam advertisements are the only thing I see anymore. Even if it isn't trying to steal your passwords, it might be some pyramid scheme or some overpriced supplement pretending to cure covid. Feels like the whole of internet advertising is propped up by grifters.

edit: to be clear I wrote this before I noticed this was from a couple months ago. Still feels appropriate though.

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

youd think there would be some kind of antitrust noodling to do about the market-leading browser forcing you to consume the market-leading advertiser's ad serves & reporting back to the market-leading agregate data reseller, if for example those three were the same guy. Imagine if that guy was also the market-leader in mobile OSes too...