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Especially when it comes to electrical components, the general paradigm shift from engineering superior hardware to engineering lackluster hardware and compensating for it using proprietary "AI" software seems to be pervasive in the tech sector, with the major tech companies banking on that as a...

I remember dialing into my local BBS using Procomm or Telex and downloading the shareware Doom package (around 2 MB if I remember correctly) on a 2400 baud modem. Took all day to d/l, after a couple failed attempts (i.e. someone picked up the phone). Those were the good old days :)

I'd wager that most movies will no longer be released to bluray within 5 years. Makes more business sense to lock you into a streaming service in perpetuity rather than pick what you want, a la carte. Not to mention locking you into their ecosystem, they can subject you to their ads, data...

Wonder if it can detect Tom Cruise 🤔

I'm specifically referring to websites in this argument, and not to a direct protocol such as SSL / SSH. If websites did any client-side decryption, it would be through javascript, with the data first (re)encrypted and passed through a backend API. The client would not know how to decrypt the...

This may well be the case, but the only way a client would be able to decrypt the data is if the server gave it a decryption key in the first place (it could be something as simple as a mutated combination of backend decryption string with a unique identifier/timestamp generated on the client...

I assume that using the MITM proxy as you do in your company, you'd be able to see the unencrypted TCP/IP data through the HTTPS connection, then, if desired, take the time to piece together the HTML/JSON/JS bits and retrieve the data sent to a client workstation (unless your firewall can give...

You are not wrong, if you were directly connecting to an uncompromised service/protocol from the client with your private key (maybe SSH as an example), but when you are going to a website, you login with a name and password that get verified via a company's API. An example could be this: A...

Actually, it can take the simplest bit of reprogramming, at a base level. I write webpages and backend APIs that use password hashes and AES-encrypted data algorithms. When you log into any company's webpage, all that is required is for them to modify or create a different API endpoint and...

For sure, although I referring to the service provider end. On the client end, you can torch everything, but your online presence, as exposed by the service providers you use (ISP, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, VPN, Protonmail, etc.), is only a warrant (or simple warrantless request from...

Exactly, so if government reach gets to any website operator, there is absolutely no way to hide data, even claiming "we cant access data, it's encrypted" is a lie. Better have no backups and that instant meltdown button available for your db if you want real security in the face of pending...

Question - if Proton does not log IPs unless required to to do so with a court order, what is stopping them from logging user's credentials / decryption keys, if a court order tells them to do so? Logging user's credentials and/or data through the decryption process can be done on the backend...

I may set up a squid SSL inspection proxy and play around with this - as my understanding is that a public key for encryption is not meant to be "secure", meaning you would be able to get the public key and the encrypted data, but not be able to decrypt it without the private key on the server...

Thank you for the explanation, but I am curious if you install a browser or application that does not use system certificates, I very much doubt it would allow the connection through your firewall proxy. For example, a secure application going to a direct endpoint would not be secure any more...

Some browsers will not use the local certificates trusted on a PC, so if you use a browser that only uses it's internal cert stores (I believe Chromium on Linux may be one of them), or even a VPN provider application to connect with its specific cert only, wouldn't these apps not be forced to...

That is interesting, as modern TLS/SSL certs along with HSTS are supposed to be able to prevent MITM attacks, and even if you spoofed a legitimate endpoint's public key, I don't understand how you would be able to decrypt the data without the endpoint's private key. Looking at the article, it...

Completely agree with the expectations, a 100% uptime 150Mb stable connection would be superior right now. I did read that Starlink will be enabling some kind of wider band to allow even faster speeds in the near future. I don't believe they advertise as a cable replacement, nor that they...

Looking at your downtime stats, 17 seconds of downtime over 12 hours seems like nothing, but you still get problematic netflix pausing/rebuffering? My starlink went down for about 15 minutes a couple nights ago as well, the longest I've ever had it go down - maybe it was for an update...

Ubuntu, so not forced? I don't see that as a valid reason for accepting more baseline bloat in a distro. It is the most popular linux desktop, along with other widely popular ones like Mint being derived from it. The general desktop user will not necessarily be privy to installing Debian...

Microsoft is creeping ever-more into Linux territory, as shown in the latest Ubuntu release, with baked in support of AD and other Microsoft-based software: https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/22/ubuntu_21_04/ I'm not saying it's a bad thing that Microsoft adds Linux support, it is that they...

Thanks for the link - The temps here will be 113 today and were 112 yesterday, no thermal shutdown yet (*knock on wood*), the dish is on a pole that extends up a few feet from the roof, so it may not be getting as much heat from surroundings, as say, the low ground mount that comes with the kit...

The last week saw temperatures in my area between 103-108F, have not had any issues so far. Dropouts have decreased (as well as length of dropouts) compared to a few months ago. We recently cancelled our cable satellite and went with streaming sevices, haven't had a single issue with...

In my location, summer temps generally hover around 105-115 degrees. Currently the temps are between 85-90 degrees during the day. I've not had problems yet due to heat, but will report if I experience a heat related issue.

Couch setup matters as well, having one that reclines at the proper distance and angle to the TV, along with a good gaming wireless KB/M setup can make all the difference. The setup is important (and can be cost prohibitive), but the slower and less accurate movements when playing FPSes and...

Received my Starlink a week ago, retrofitted an old Hughesnet mount on my roof to work with it. So far it has been great in nearly all aspects - pings ~ 30ms, average d/l is around 80Mbps, with speeds periodically getting up to 130Mbps, upload speeds ~ 15-20Mbps. Night and day better over...

My ISP charged me $500 for the install/lease of my equipment (simple roof mounting with an ethernet run), and I'm being charged $140/mo to get 3mb-6mb on a good day. Based on the article: “Expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms over the next several...

After the latest launch, it looks like the public beta is coming soon: https://www.zdnet.com/article/elon-musk-spacexs-starlink-broadband-public-beta-ready-to-go-after-latest-launch/

I was skeptical, hence my question about actual specs - I am lucky to get 3mb/s at my location. My ISP provided me with a cell tower service that initially gave me ~15mb/s the first couple months (great, right?), until they oversold in my area and the speeds went to crap. And then COVID tanked...

500mbps seems terribly low. At any speed, like you said, when they choose to oversaturate/oversell the service in a particular region, speeds can suffer greatly there. Has Starlink publicly released any actual specs on the bandwidth capabilities per satellite? I don't know why they would...

Why not just go to the core model rather than changing what a CPU actually means?

Works well, much like Chrome, and seems to have better GPU acceleration than Chrome on Windows, based on my experience. Will be glad when W10 incorporates this into the base OS, so I don't have to deploy Chrome any more in my organization. Having a single browser will be nice. As long as...

Regardless of the privacy concerns, if a computer program can aid in detection of ailments from medical scans to supplement a doctor, it can only be a good thing. I've had 2 family members misdiagnosed from separate PCPs who failed to identify obvious ailments on xrays that were blatantly...

This is the most obvious answer, keep selling cheap crap, but require a lot of it to make shipping worthwhile. More inventory moving, less shipping costs for Amazon, problem solved for them.

The point is - if Microsoft redesigns the UI (Edge is ugly IMO) and sprinkles in some GPU optimizations for Windows-based machines, while keeping the exact same chromium rendering engine underneath (and especially if they incorporate similar debugging tools that are built into chrome), there...

I can only see this as a great thing - Microsoft wins in not needing to compete on the web front, while at the same time implementing their own frontend and tweaks to optimize the experience on Windows / MS Cloud Services. Web developers win, not having to re-write HTML/JavaScript to...

translation: We want to get into the datamining game by "providing" our customers with a useless gimmick.

This is good news, Edge had only a couple things going for it - mainly better video acceleration and quicker data loading (in some scenarios) vs. Chrome. Overall though, Chrome wins on compatibility and javascript execution speed. If Microsoft can incorporate their pluses into a...

Sure, once the model stops being profitable, companies will stop using it... So never.

Question - only works for Steam games, correct? I could not use this to stream non-steam games or apps?

My result set of a quick Novabench test on an i5-Skylake PC running Windows 7 before/after patching shows a slight boost in CPU score (2%) but my SSD write speeds are lowered 17% and reads are lowered 9%.