I host several services accessible via the open Web. They are isolated enough that a breach would most likely only compromise that service. They are also kept up to date, and logs are monitored.
There’s always a risk when exposing something, and I am limiting some services to access via VPN because either the data in them is too sensitive, or I don’t trust them to be secure enough.
You probably also aren’t a worthwhile target in most cases.
I refuse to use planes for inner European journeys. And from where I am right now, I have direct trains to Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Verona, Rome, Paris, Berlin etc.
A disproportionately high amount of lemmy users is older and in tech, so probably doing better than average.
For me, it’s living in Europe. I can get a train ticket to Paris and back plus a few night in a cheap hotel for 2 days wage. Less for Prague, Vienna, and a lot of other cities.
Or, as honourably mentioned, OpenSuSE, specifically tumbleweed.
Also, all of them (I’ve seen) have a new account, and all their text output seems LLM generated, with them claiming it’s cause english isn’t their native language and they need LLMs to translate - on that note, that’s suspect to me, cause translating a human written text, at least with dedicated translation services, tends to retain a human structure. This feels more like they’re generating the whole message.
Doesn’t apply here, but some also had a story about “working in X trade for Y years”. It all feels very disingenuous, very much like marketing. I’d be surprised if even half of these projects are still around in two years time.
Rant over, just something that grinds my gears.
Contactless payments technically work fine, just not via Google Wallet. Banks that have their own tap to pay app usually don’t have that problem.
Isn’t the group policy editor disabled for most non-Enterprise editions of Windows these days?