serenissi

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[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Forget gpus. A framebuffer is all you need :)

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah ofcourse firewall is the good idea here. I personally have firewall on on every device so that I can manage what can connect and from where.

The point is though often people just disable firewalls (some distros do not install/enable by default too) to workarround certain issues quickly like kdeconnect not connecting, bridge not working and such. That's how I think the whole 'ipv4 NAT is the best (consumer) firewall' concept came popular.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Say I host a malicious server with ipv6 only. You visit the site without NAT. I get your ip and ip:631 is open (unless firewall and listen is restricted to prefix). Usual attack afterwards.

Edit: You need to have ipv6, for example many mobile networks.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

ipv6 doesn't give the NAT. A malicious website can mount the attack.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

We prefer the big display wall at work, that's the point of workplace. Anyone can watch anything on phone anywhere, why would I go to work for that?

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh I thought it has some hidden proxy feature to access porn in workspace.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

ai generated lol

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

the bad guys use bots or services and are done. regular users have to endure while no security is added

put in other words, common users can't easily become 'bad guy' ie cost of attack is higher hence lower number of script kiddies and automated attacks. You want to reduce number. These protections are nothing for bitnet owners or other high profile bad actors.

ps: recaptcha (or captcha in general) isn't a security feature. At most it can be a safety feature.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

stopping automated requests

yeah my bad. I meant too many automated requests. Both humans and bot generate spams and the issue is high influx of it. Legitimate users also use bots and by no means it's harmful. That way you do not encounter captcha everytime you visit any google page, nor a couple of scraping scripts gets a problem. Recaptcha (or hcaptcha, say) triggers when there is high volume of request coming from same ip. Instead of blocking everyone out to protect their servers, they might allow slower requests so legitimate users face mininimal hindrance.

Most google services nowadays require accounts with stronger (like cell phone) verification so automated spam isn't a big deal.

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