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  • VPN into your home lab isn’t about privacy, it’s more about reducing your exposed services to the public internet.

    If you have only the ports needed to VPN back into your network, then the rest is hidden behind your router. You only need to fully secure one thing, instead of having to ensure that everything is 100% patched.

    It’s not the only thing you should be doing, but it does help reduce the probability of a breach.





  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldblacklight lincoln hat watermark
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    2 months ago

    The drivers license number has information about gender and birthdate encoded into it. You can see enough of the number to know that this is someone who registered as female, and has a recorded birth date of 29 July '98. I assume this person isn’t 126 years old, so we’ll say they’re 26.

    You can tell it’s an Illinois license, because no other state is as obsessed with Lincoln. (Edit: you can also read the Illinois in the seal in the back left)




  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldClickbait asteroid
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    2 months ago

    It’s not a world ending strike. It’s 2.3% odds that a city ending strike lands somewhere on earth, most likely in the ocean.

    It’s a fraction of a fraction of a % that it’ll hit somewhere with any humans at all, much less a populated city.

    And on top of that, we have until 2032 to decide what to do about it, with enough time to potentially redirect it with technology we’ve already demonstrated that works. And if that isn’t enough, we just need one or two more data points to figure out almost exactly where it will hit, and can evacuate the area.

    Just like we do for hurricanes and other natural disasters.

    This is not an emergency, this is an easy mode try out for a real disaster.








  • While you did answer the question, it is better to clear a jam by pulling back on the charging handle, possibly while also mortoring the buttstock. Hitting the forward assist is just as likely to make the jam worse. (This also counts for AKs, this isn’t an AR only thing)

    Some newer ARs don’t come with forward assists anymore, sometimes to prevent people from making jams worse, but usually cause they’re for sport and if your rifle malfunctions in a way that needs a forward assist, you can just take the L and get off the range to solve the issue.

    Regardless, if you hit the forward assist, just make sure you’re in a position that this might be the last round you can fire without doing some maintenance.

    But you are correct, ARs are as popular as they are for a reason. They’re reliable, easy to get parts for, and ammo (while expensive) is just about everywhere.



  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksWhich one are you?
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    2 months ago

    In reality, each of those 15 people do a very specific, probably undefined, but valuable task.

    There’s always some random spreadsheet, or paperwork, or approval that only they know even exists. Or they know exactly how to get that one important system back online when it fails every 6 months.

    Management sees those 15 people walking around and think they can just fire them and only get the benefit of the 3, but in reality, it just pushes those tasks to the 3 folks and makes them even more overworked.

    Not everyone needs to be heads down at their desk for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week to be valuable.