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  • New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

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  • If I'm understanding correctly, this is saying that isolation between different clients on the same VLAN is broken? But this attack doesn't break isolation between VLANs?

    So the major issue is if you've got a guest network on the same VLAN as your main network

  • The same rights

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  • I've been the car driver who nearly made jam out of the cyclist in the last panel. I've also been the cyclist hit by a car which was driving in the cycle lane.

    Bad road users are everywhere and they use all sorts of transportation. Let's stop with the division and generalisation.

  • Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

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  • I'm honestly surprised you've never had to do that, because it happens to me all the time.

    Like when I'm approaching a junction on the road and the satnav suddenly changes from saying 0.5 miles to like 500 yards, that's jarring and breaks my mental countdown. (In Britain, the roads are imperial, yes it's a pain.)

    Or if I'm cooking an old recipe and it needs 12oz of something, but I'm doubling the quantity, suddenly I need to know what that is in lb and oz because my scale doesn't just tell me 24oz.

    Or if someone says they're 5' 8" tall, I have to know how many " in a ' to conceptualise how close that is to 6'.

    Meanwhile, I know when I'm out hiking what my pacing is for 100m, and if I've got 2.5km to go, that's 25 lots of pacing.

    Or when I'm sewing, and fabric is sold by the metre but all the pattern pieces are measured in cm or mm.

    And not strictly related, but it's handy being able to measure out water in an unmarked container using a weighing scale and the fact that 1l=1kg.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • Everyone's got something to hide.

    For example, I like to keep my credit card number secret from criminals.

  • The power, the absolute power!

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  • That might help for the grip, but the blades would still be right handed

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  • Finances aside, it's still not selfish.

  • Missed, late, or lost deliveries — how often does this happen to you?

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  • I've had a mixed bag but nothing's gone missing yet. Lots left unattended on the doorstep, a few left with neighbours. Courier services generally send an email to say what's happened to it, while Royal Mail sometimes put a card through the door but sometimes they don't bother, so I've had a few left unattended with nothing to tell me it's there.

    A lot of drivers don't bother with the doorbell and just knock (or maybe just throw it at the door, I can't tell). Which isn't really helpful if I'm upstairs. I don't get why they insist on making this more difficult for both of us.

  • UK's 'Girl Scout' Group Has Banned Trans Girls From Joining In Cruel New Low

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  • The way I heard it, their legal advisors have said that (with the supreme court ruling), in allowing trans girls, they might open themselves up to challenges from cis boys trying to join. Which is mindboggling, but does feel like something our courts might say at the moment :(

  • Moderately ethical printer recommendation?

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  • I'm happy with my Brother laser. Can't comment on their recent models as it's 10-15 years old! It was about £200 up front and a replacement toner is about £60, but it lasts and lasts rather than inkjet which seemed to need new cartridges every month. No issues with needing internet, and it accepts third party toner fine (though I've had quality issues with some brands).

  • Small Hiking Camera

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  • I'm very pleased with my Canon PowerShot G5 X MkII. Originally bought for concerts etc. where big / changeable lens cameras aren't allowed, but I've been using it more and more because it's good enough and is less effort to lug around than my mirrorless. The main downsides for me are (1) it doesn't cope as well with low light and (2) it can't do proper telephoto (it's 24-120mm equivalent).

  • What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation?

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  • We (uk scout group) use g suite or whatever they call it these days. The Google connection isn't ideal, but we get it completely free, the t&cs and level of control over it are a lot better than consumer gmail/drive, the learning curve for techphobic users is about as shallow as possible, and we don't have to spend volunteer time on maintaining the platform. So definitely worth it for us but your situation may vary.

  • Studio backdrops; advice

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  • Personally I'd steer clear of the cheap polyester ones on Amazon. I've had some luck with the more expensive microfibre ones but the cost does start adding up.

    I'd second the point about upholstery fabric. I've made one from upholstery velvet which I'm happy with, it hangs well and I got the fabric pretty cheap but once up, the pile does need brushing in a consistent direction to make it catch the light consistently.

  • I'd ring that

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  • You're not wrong, though I was a musician before a developer, so it always kind of made sense to me.

  • My corporate anti-virus doesn't let me add scanning exclusions

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  • At our place it's the IT guys trying to tell us to exclude the entire Downloads folder. One of our devs had to put her foot down and say no, we'd do something more sensible/limited instead!

  • pics @lemmy.world
    paks @feddit.uk
    OC

    Oh no

  • Cutting ties with Adobe

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  • I use digikam, photos live on my NAS which is mounted locally at the OS level, and the db file is fully local but backed up to the NAS. Perhaps not exactly what you're after.

  • Asexual @lemmy.world
    paks @feddit.uk

    When the ship that's been giving everyone QPR vibes turns out to be just another romance