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Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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Post by Dylan16807 »

techrat wrote: post #216
chris1993 wrote: post #153

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Essentially a Chromebook

Less so now that ChromeOS runs Android Apps and Linux in a VM. Both, unfortunately are heavily restricted to local storage so there's no real sense of being able to log into another Chromebook and have those ready and waiting for you. Android apps will reinstall but not always (read: almost never) with app data as before. Linux Apps is 100% manual still. ChromeOS was great for 'switch to a new machine and log in' use…

Even with just ChromeOS, as far as I can tell any files you download go to a local folder that's not backed up. If you want anything to be safe you have to manually copy it over to the google drive folder.

Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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Post by Dylan16807 »

tfsh wrote: post #163
chewbaxxa wrote: post #161

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Not sure why you couldn’t just resize the window here?

I can, however I don't think having to resize your browser window to comfortably view an article is a very good UX, especially when it could be rectified by positioning the content in the middle of the screen.

Right, but can you comfortably view anything over there? Why maximize the browser in the first place?

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Post by Dylan16807 »

bigiain wrote: post #204
ac29 wrote: post #202

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Thats a bit of a chore with a tiling window manager if you generally have the browser on its own workspace - you either need to spawn new windows around the browser window to push it into the geometry you want, or add borders to it.

It's not a great suggestion for, say, iPad users either...

An iPad isn't nearly big enough to have this problem.

This is what I get for iPad emulation: https://i.imgur.com/FriTf6X.png https://i.imgur.com/gLhqvFO.png

It looks just fine.

Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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Post by Dylan16807 »

hertzrat wrote: post #109
klodolph wrote: post #64

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On a reasonable-size setup, I would expect that the logs are exported to dedicated log storage (log-only machines) as part of an effort to preserve accurate log files even in the case of a successful attack on one of the hosts. It is not especially hard to ensure that, for example, a record of an SSH login attempt gets recorded to an external server before the request is authenticated. So if you have (for example) an…

The firewall is still helpful in case they hire a new person who opens a port and forgets to close it one day

A firewall doesn't stop that, it just means they have to run some of the commands on a different machine.

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Post by exikyut »

function_seven wrote: post #231
technion wrote: post #229

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I did a job where I was given access to a server in the form of a set of credentials for an HPE iLO, which was accessible over the Internet. From there, we could use the remote console to logon as root. HPE iLO doesn't support MFA or any form of public key authentication, and its security history is much worse than SSH. It requires several ports open and the old version they had required Java plugins on desktops and…

I don't know... I mean, maybe the security posture is to annoy the hackers into giving up? ("This thing requires a Java applet and is slow as hell. Screw it, let's just pwn the bank across the street") I'll call it Security by Inconvenience.

Such strategies are remarkably effective, and maybe arguably describes all security in a nutshell.

Every time I notice an obscure feature in a Google product or service and go "hm, I wonder if that could be exploited", I then always go "...meh, it'll take too long and require too much concentration to figure it out."

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Post by rovr138 »

tfsh wrote: post #159

Meta: I really dislike the style of console.dev, the article is shunted to the left and leaves the rest of the screen real estate to be taken up by an - albeit pretty - but unnecessary piece of digital artwork. This - https://ibb.co/nzbFxjW - is what the article looks like on my ultrawide which made for very uncomfortable viewing

On my phone it looks like the screen is cracked.

I was going over the lines with my finger to see if I could feel them. Thought it was internal. Wasn’t until it switched to another app that I saw them move.

Scared the shit out of me.

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Post by alanbernstein »

ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #83
Alupis wrote: post #57

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Fair criticisms. We're still waiting for the fabled "year of the linux desktop". Although, I feel the specific issues you raise are less of a problem on a desktop-focused distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Those distros really focus on a complete desktop experience, and really try to never require a user to drop into a shell to get anything done. So, perhaps it's a case of people using the "wrong" distro for their nee…

I'm afraid the issues I describe have been with Ubuntu. Here's the first line from my "linux sins" file as an example: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1151283/disable-nautilus-cac... If you copy a large file to a USB drive on either Ubuntu or Mint the progress bar goes to 100% instantly and closes and the actual transfer of the file is done in the background without the knowledge of the user. And the answer is "It's…

I have had gripes about usb drive writing in the past, but what you describe does not happen in my install of Ubuntu 20.04.
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