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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • ObM@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do bad actors' sites/servers stay afloat when someone has to handle the hosting?
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it depends on what you mean.

    In many cases malware and phishing is hosted off other compromised sites. So, they build a list of Wordpress sites with vulnerabilities, and use the vulnerabilities to host their files on them. For example, imagine “legitimate-medical-site.net.com” is a real site. The attacker will use the exploit to upload malicious files in there somewhere like “legitimate-medical-site. net. com/qwertasdf/invoice.pdf”.

    If the site gets blocked or shutdown it’s no loss to them.

    Another technique, especially phishing wise, they will have a semi-plausible domain name (e.g. youbank-security-server .con). But they will register heaps of these. There are tonnes of top level domains that do next to no checking. These things cost a few bucks, so having it taken down is not a problem.

    The combination of burner sites and domains mean they have a window of opportunity to run their attacks and scams before other protections kick in.

  • ObM@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•what is the best way to drop out a threaded screw?English
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    1 year ago

    We’ve had many of these. We just leaver up the boards and tear them out.

    You could plunge cut with a circular saw along the edge. Then work a chisel under it and just tear out the floor boards any way you can.

    Then for the screws, I either tear them out with pincer pliers for the shallow ones (you can get decent leverage with pincer pliers). Or just cut them flush with the joists and leave them there (quick work with an angle grinder and cut-off disc).

    PS. Sorry been trying to reply to you for a few hours but my client wouldn’t connect.

  • ObM@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    I secretly moved a bank of high school lockers about 1ft per day, every school day, for a whole year.

    They were pretty light - those steel “backpack only” sized lockers in a about a 3x4 arrangement. Some days I’d just lean on the end of them to nudge them over, but skipping doorways and around corners meant extra planning and often meant I had to come in to school early.

    The janitor caught me one morning. He agreed it was a funny prank and offered to help when we got to the staircase.

    By the end of the year the lockers had migrated up one floor and over to a separate building.

    I kept the secret for decades and only recently started telling the story.

  • ObM@lemmy.worldtoScience Fiction@lemmy.world•Season 1 & 2 of Andromeda were alright.
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    1 year ago

    Lexx is wild. I watched it originally on a pay tv channel that had cut the episodes up into ~25 minute blocks.

    I first dropped into late season 2 and occasionally I’d miss an episode.

    So, combined with the weird cutting, the no context and the standard Lexx craziness, I had NO idea what was happening. The whole thing was a fever dream. Highly recommend!

    I actually think it’s was the best way to watch it first go round! Then, when I came back and do the whole series in order and it was almost as much of a surprise.

  • ObM@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.ml•How do I delete all my Reddit activities
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    1 year ago

    This worked well for me and it gave me a spreadsheet (.csv) of my posts and comments.

    You just go to the linked page, drag the “button” up to your bookmarks bar. Then navigate to your reddit profile and click the bookmark let, select your options and “go” - then wait.

    Mine took about 15 minute to scrub 10 years and about 2000 comments. It missed a few so I manually edited and then deleted those.

    Take note… I’ve heard (anecdotally), if you want your history backup, do not interrupt the process or close the window.