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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Still doesn't make a VPN the "magic all in one solution" it claims to be. And SNI is encrypted on newer servers using encrypted client hello (ECH).

In terms of privacy, you're switching around which entity gets to see a ton of details. Do you trust random public wifi enough, given modern security standards? Or do you trust a VPN company more, despite false advertising?

Use HTTPS and DoH (Becoming a default on some Android versions), and the average person will be just fine without a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

No, this is Patrick!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Goblin' deez nuts

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The actual cheaters completely bypassed the new anti-cheat in about 6 hours. They had to update their cheats a bit, but are otherwise essentially unaffected. Linux users, Steam Deck users, and people who don't want to give a single game full hardware access, are all affected. None of those can play GTA:Online anymore, unless they mod the game to bypass the anti-cheat, which can be seen as cheating in itself, and could result in a ban.

The ddos attacks are likely being orchestrated by a small group of people or even an individual, it probably does not represent the vast majority of affected users.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Linux, it fits my needs better on desktop, and is much less painful to troubleshoot than Windows, with more freedom and control than macOS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I took a shortcut when typing that, quoting the OP instead of further explaining. It is definitely possible to visualize 4 datapoints, but not 4 spatial dimensions. The only way to do so is to project to lower dimensions or take a lower dimension slice and display that. That works for 2D slices/projections of 3D objects because we already have a full understanding of 3D. It does not work for 2D projections of 4D objects, similar to how "flatlanders" couldn't make sense of a 2D or 1D projection of a 3D object.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wasted my time watching this. 23 minute video that repeats itself so often there's only ~30 seconds of information. It feels very AI-generated. And it is not possible to "visualize 4D", the video does not prove otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Correct, Vector does not receive this information unless you willingly share it with them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Element is able to use features called "Integration Manager" and "Identity Server". When using an Identity Server, you can choose to link name, email, and phone number to your Matrix account. When using an Integration Manager, there's a feature to share your location with others in chat.

As such, Vector discloses that they "collect this information", although (except some diagnostics), this is completely optional.

(I am not associated with Vector, just interested in Matrix)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

"clean driver install", which heavily suggests you installed nvidia drivers, probably from the website. That issue is entirely on you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Although "custom Windows ISOs" are a big security risk, AtlasOS isn't a "custom ISO" and running a random binary off some guy on YouTube is arguably just as bad. He has next to no knowledge of Linux, neither do any other "Linux YouTubers". Trusting someone like that with your Linux machine is risky at best.

 

And it's the reason why proxying media through your Lemmy instance is important. It is not yet implemented though:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2947 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1036 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/54

If you consider your IP address private info, use Lemmy with a VPN, until this issue is resolved.

I personally don't do anything with data received from requests to that image endpoint, except make an image and send it as a response. I will take that endpoint down when the issue is resolved (or after some time).

If post images are proxied, there's still inline images that potentially make arbitrary requests: Image showing IP Address

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