blobjim

joined 5 years ago
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My password database has over 300 credentials. I think most people have more credentials for things (online accounts, also physical locks, device passwords, etc.) than they can remember.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You don't actually use your brain lmao. How many online accounts do you have?

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

KeePassXC just today released support for storing passkeys in your own keepass database file. And they're not just "glorified passwords". They're private keys that use challenge-response authentication so they're never actually sent over the network. Harder to compromise.

Using passkeys with some kind of personal database is ultimately an objective improvement over hodge podge username and password mechanisms, so they're only going to continue being adopted further.

The only case they don't really work for is when you want to log in to a computer that doesn't have access to your passkeys.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (16 children)

how are passkeys a scam

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Passkeys support (for desktop browsers)! And it's already in Flathub as of 3 hourss ago.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't even realize it was a thing but it seems obvious now. Would be a great way to fill out prolewiki or something like that for pages that don't exist. Could start off using machine translation for the English version and have the original for Russian and any other official languages.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

If you hear the name of a country in a news story, look it up on Google Maps

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Do these people know thry don't literally have to be formally married?

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Fighting things that a lot of "normal" people don't like is always the cover. Whether that's fighting racists, mass shooters, pedophiles, drug dealers, thieves, etc.

The subtext is always that 90% of it is to go after enemies of the ruling class i.e. left-wing activists who are doing effective action out in the world.

You can see how vague their use of "domestic exremists" is. And of course they never show their work and provide statistics on their monitoring activity.

The article has a section here detailing it:

since 2019 the U.S. government has employed five domestic terrorism threat categories. These are defined by the FBI and DHS as racial/ethnically motivated violent extremism, anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism, animal rights or environmental violent extremism, abortion-related violent extremism, and all other domestic terror threats.

  1. Ambiguous whether they're targeting ethnic minorities for hating whites/"Americans" vs. white spremacists (it's the former).
  2. Ambiguous whether it's left-wing activists or just sovereign citizen types (it's the former)
  3. left-wing activists
  4. Ambiguous whether it's pro-abortion activists or the people literally attacking abortion clinics (it's the former, even though the latter is implied)
  5. "all other domestic terror threats" (left-wing activists not covered under the former definitions)

Always gotta assume the worst.

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