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  • hostops@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Privacy concerns with DHCP (DHCP fingerprinting)
    62·
    23 hours ago

    DHCP only acts in local networks which is in 90%:

    1. home network where you trust every device to not spy on you
    2. office network where in most cases your emloyer provided you with the hardware. And in 10%:
    3. Public WiFi

    The only thing leaked in DHCP is your MAC. Attacker can use this info to identify brand of our network adapter. Or if they have really huge database of laptop manufacturers attacker can identify your device. If you use VPN or TOR the only thing they know from now on is that you use VPN or TOR. And if they really have everything in that database they will be able to tell who bought that computer. So now attacker can only knows who is in their netwotk.

    Which is useless in scenario 1. and 2. Where you already know who is in your network and owner of that network has no database to identify you based on your MAC.

    In scenario 3. If we are talking about huge public networks like WiFi provided from your town. If infiltrated by 3 letter agencies which may have such database they could theoretically track your location based on which town network you connected to.

    But you can protect yourself from this:

    1. Do not connect to public networks
    2. Your OS/Network card driver allow you to use random MAC address. Just enable random MAC in your network settings. In Android: WiFi > Select specific network > Privacy > Use randomized MAC.

    Also take note some general location tracking can already be done through mobile networks.

  • hostops@sh.itjust.workstoUplifting News@lemmy.world•Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after years of woesEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    TLDR: Scouts are about nature AND religion. Not just nature. There are many organisations that are just about nature. Feel free to join them.

    Why should they not discriminate against atheists?

    For real. Just because you believe it is about nature? Scout organizations are clearly about nature AND religion.

    Join an organization that is just about nature.

    In my country we have two strong scout organisations. One religious and one not. Religious one focused more on a personal growth and the other one more on nature skills. (Well some of my friends in religious one were atheists they just had to practice the same activities)

    Churches do not accept atheists. Chess clubs discriminate against non chess players.

    But if they would include non chess players, chess clubs would have no meaning.

    One can see you do not hold religions in high regard, but please allow people with the same interests and believes to meet and express themselves together in a peaceful manner.

  • hostops@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How to deal with living in a world with no future without being high 24/7?
    114·
    3 months ago

    Well there is ALWAYS pessimistic and optimistic view on everything. But I do not mean naive or stupid. I mean optimistic.

    Pessimist: “It makes no sense to improve my situation, because I will fail! I will not even try.” Stupid: “Things are not bad. Nothing to change here.” Naive: “Things will fix themselves.” Optimist: “Well things may be bad, but we can, and we will fix them.”

    So to answer your concrete questions:

    • unhabitable planet: lets vote for green parties, lets push for green energy. Results will not be immediate, but we will get there. Yes it will get hotter a few degrees and will cause some weather problems. But we can fix it.
    • fascist government: Vote for better, join movement. Or if things are really extreme in your country. Move to a democracy.
    • money problems: you can change your job. Yes it can be very hard, but If you really try (improve your cv, reeducate yourself, change profession) you can get really good jobs. You can learn sales and be really good salesman with very high pay without ever going to college.
    • social issues: go out, meet new people, join some class, start a hobby.

    Yes I know mentioned things can be awfully hard to achieve. Buy you can achieve them. One by one. As to why bother? You do not have to. But that is the beauty of it. You can try to improve things as many times as you want. It will be hard, but things can be way better.

    If nothing else I would bother to fix my life (and the world) just for the sake of curiosity. To see how good can life actually get.

  • hostops@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Love FOSS and want to donate? Here's how we can do it
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    4 months ago

    1. It may not be only for web based stuff. The only things organization would need is the website and a bank account. Which is pretty standard these days.

    2. We could have both systems. There should still be the default setting. I proposed the default distribution should be based on views. But the default setting could also be set by the community. This default distribution would also be used by the people who decide to favorize one project and give them 50% of their donation and leave the rest with the default distribution.

    Also I believe it is crucial you can override the decision of this community. There will be bad decisions or decisions that you personally do not agree with. But because of that you should not give up on donations. You can simply pick your own, or blacklist one organization you do not agree with.

  • hostops@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Love FOSS and want to donate? Here's how we can do it
    8·
    4 months ago

    TLDR: We should make a browser extension where you assign points in what percentage projects get your predefined monthly donations.

    So this will be a long text…

    I have thought about this problem a lot. If we can have means to build necessary momentum I am all for that and would like to contribute.

    I thought about it in a broader way. As to how to monetize content on the internet without ads (open source projects, creators, journalists), in a way we maximize collective good. It may be worth noting I was thinking it in terms of the new internet - Web 4.0 together with tools like ipfs, veilid, and new wave of web browsers (web 1.0 - protocols, 2.0 - platforms, 3.0 - crypto scams, 4.0 - something better, p2p, private…)

    I placed highest focus on how to fairly monetize this web 4.0, since I believe the right monetization is the crucial point. If we put only donate our free time (max 2h a day) to projects things move slowly. But imagine what can be done if I am allowed to work 8 hours a day on eg. foss.

    I have concluded that few things must have hold true:

    1. Donator decides on who gets the money.
    2. It must be very very very very simple to donate and to decide who gets the money.

    I can propose one solution i am the most confident with. It would be a browser extension (or even better to be integrated in browsers by default).

    1. First you set how much you would like to donate. (I played in my mind also with option to make some minimal donation - eg 1% of minimal salary in your country - may even be necessary as a subscription to internet content)

    2. By default the sites (maybe preapproved sites good for community) get percentage of your donation proportional to your views.

    3. You can explicitly set some (or all) sites to have higher percentage directly in from address bar by single click. Eg. I visit Linux webpage and I can click a button and set it to 20% of my donations. All the other donations then move proportionally to remaining 80%.

    System based on (maybe even forced) donations changes whole behavior of monetization.

    You start paying for what you believe in, and not for what you need.

    And I believe this is the one of most important goals we can have. So people will have the highest incentive to work on stuff that makes the most good.

    Also another note on forced donations: In Slovenia you can decide to put 1% of our taxes to non profit organizations. And this works.

    If you read through that. Thank you! I believe my ideas have many flaws. So please comment and we can debate them.

  • hostops@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.world•History
    61·
    6 months ago

    It must have been “Do you mind?”. And absurdness of hunting alone. Also i see nothing interesting on choice of female protagonist. Contrary to popular myth, women hunted together with men (based on evidence of broken legs) and had no strongly separate roles (like women being gatherers and men hunters).