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As I understand it this shouldn’t concern me if my backups are full disk images via Clonezilla, as those should already include the LUKS header, correct?
Some of the things mentioned in the OP don’t actually happen in real life, though. Bitlocker is only automatically activated if you use a Microsoft account to log in, and why wouldn’t you know the account credentials if it’s what you use to log in?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here, but does this whole thing not mean that the moment you use your Microsoft account for logging in, you immediately tie the permanent accessibility of your local files to you retaining access to a cloud account?
TPM is optional (but recommended) for Bitlocker. Practically every computer released in the past 10 years has TPM support. Secure boot is needed to ensure that the boot is secure and thus it’s okay to load the encryption key. Without it, a rootkit could be injected that steals the encryption key. You generally want to use TPM and secure boot on Linux too, not just on Windows. You need secure boot to prevent an “evil maid attack”
You have different opinions on TPM and the prevalence of evil maids than me, fair. But please don’t disregard the central premise of my last comment: One is already using a different encryption solution. Say, Veracrypt is churning away in the background. Why would one leave Bitlocker activated?
Could you elaborate?
I know, I just meant why would someone willingly disable Bitlocker?
I mean… the premise of the thread seems like a good enough reason, doesn’t it?
And even if it doesn’t, if one is already using a different encryption solution that doesn’t rely on TPM and secureboot silliness, what possible reason could there be not to disable Bitlocker?
Not using Bitlocker is not the same as not encrypting your stuff.
So, uh, what’s wrong with that?
… with damaging infrastructure? Well, presumably the infrastructure will no longer be as good at serving its original purpose once it is damaged.
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available?English0·10 days agoWhy do people host LLMs at home when processing the same amount of data from the internet to train their LLM will never be even a little bit as efficient as sending a paid prompt to some high quality official model?
inb4 privacy concerns or a proof of concept this is out of discussion, I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one. I don’t care about anything else than quality of generated answersIf you ask other people for their reasoning and opinions, it doesn’t really make any sense to put something “out of the discussion”, does it? :P
But no, if you have no qualms about sharing your innermost feelings, sexual preference or illegal plans with those that have an explicit desire to exploit that information then there is little reason to attempt something as complicated and wasteful as self-hosting your own LLMs.
Nah a lot of people now think screen time is bad without evidence. Never would be allowed to get on a computer at 3-4.
You had your own computer before you could read…?
jesus I feel old, and I am only in my 30s. I remember not having apt. How young are linux users nowadays?
Well… how old were you when you got your first computer? That young.
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping botsEnglish0·1 month agoThey block VPN exit nodes. Why bother hosting a web site if you don’t want anyone to read your content?
Fuck that noise. My privacy is more important to me than your blog.
It’s a minimalist private blog that sets no 3rd party cookies and loads no 3rd party resources. I presume that alleviates your concerns? 😜
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak?English5·2 months agonah, it’s better for information integrity to reply in the language you understand imo, comments translated using translator services are very obvious anyway and some people are multilingual
Sure, I agree? Maybe there’s a misunderstanding here and I should add that it simply would never even occur to me to enter a conversation if I didn’t natively understand the language that’s being used.
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak?English513·2 months agoI often reply under Japanese posts, and I always assume users will use a translator as I do, but maybe in the context of a Japanese this may look rude?
Can’t speak for others (obviously, as this is about individual etiquette perceptions) but I would consider it to be polite to only enter conversations with unknown parties in languages that the parties have shown to be capable of speaking and understanding.
Using a new language entering a conversation would therefore signal either familiarity (“I know they understand me”) or rudeness (“I don’t care if they understand me”) to me, I suppose.
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.English1·2 months agoHow do you find out about it? Try to view the threads while logged out and not seeing your comments, I suppose?
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.English1·2 months agoWhat’s a bad upvote?
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadlyEnglish52·2 months agoIt is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.
Er… if you think Mozilla is sustained by its users then I have some bad news for you. Or am I misunderstanding you?
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” featureEnglish0·3 months agoFor music, offline play is already available via Finamp. For everything else I’m personally making due with the regular Download feature that just gives yout the raw files. But then again it doesn’t really come up often, since I don’t really consume anything but audiobooks when I’m on the go.
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Fediverse@lemmy.world•What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like?English1·3 months agoWe need to stop discussing server costs without including actual numbers.
Why? The premise is that the costs might be too expensive for someone. Whether someone finds paying 12€/a too expensive or 1200€/a too expensive doesn’t really make a difference. Either way it’s too expensive, isn’t it? 🤗
splendoruranium@infosec.pubto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!English0·3 months agoSorry, I misread. What is bad about the UX exactly? You don’t need to customize anything if you don’t want to; “it just works”. And I dont follow you on how having the option to customize things makes it a bad user experience. You’re assuming the native UI is bad for some reason.
Being given the tools to customize something by hand is not the same as being offered enough option to simply choose what you want. Having a good UX means that there was a UI designer who alread did the customzing for you and you simply have click a button to apply it.
Er… maybe I am misunderstanding your post but this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.