Terrible, of course. Especially since they are aiming the service to improve sign-up reliability in countries that block telegram, acting as a relay exposes yourself. Carriers in China (where I live) and other questionable countries are actively snooping around, and since SMS are generally unencrypted, the simplest heuristic would figure out what you’re involved in and start a very serious investigation.

On top of that, phone numbers in many countries are also unique logins to a number of services (again, here in China you need it for literally everything, it’s THE number one digital footprint), and attackers could use the information for bruteforce/wordlist attacks on known services, or use them for social engineering.

As much as I like the idea of helping others sign up who don’t have the means to acquire a foreign phone number, I would never willingly commit to that.

I’m in the medical device field, and user error is the most common patient killer. No matter how many treatment recommendations you put into the UI, Dr. Smartass overrides it all and then you have a casualty. Can’t wait for AI to fix stupid.

I had it running in a genuine small office environment with 8 employees, who all need to run Windows due to some software constraints.

Policy management and user account controls are great for security, and remote management via rdp is also neat.

What legislation? Piracy was never legal to begin with.

Briar has even fewer N/As than SimpleX and all greens otherwise. Second column in the table.

Banks require a physical address, that’s part of basic KYC (know your customer) requirements and part of anti money laundering / anti terrorism funding laws.

So they won’t accept P.O. boxes. While those mail forwarders can work, some will also blacklist them over time.

And really, ask yourself the question if you want your cards, PIN, and general correspondence about your finances mailed to a random third party where some underpaid person opens up and scans your letters all day…

Not quite sure what you mean with whitepages btw., your bank is not signing you up anywhere.

Yeah but you need to use a Tesla.

Jesus, for that amount I can buy a house in Sweden.

Yeah I don’t like automatic either, and have an aversion towards anything that needs a touchscreen to operate.

Honestly no, since it was talking about the SMS messenger. I’ll have a look then.

Wow, I never heard of that before. Is there any replacement for simple gallery, before they screw with it?

Lemmy often racks up hundreds of gigabytes in logs and other crap, chokes up the hard drive, and then force restarts the server. Not fun for something you use to stream media from. Takes quite some tuning to get it sorted.

If we are talking about two virtual machines on the same physical server with dedicated storage allocation, that shouldn’t matter.

The update without fail tells me it doesn’t work due to non-standard folders being present. So, I delete ‘temp’. After the upgrade is done, it tells me that ‘temp’ is missing and required.

Other than that it’s quite stable though… Unless you dare to have long file names or folder depths.

I sure hope it does, nobody needs that cesspool.

No.

Most of them were automatically defederated for not having adequate protection against bot signups, that got nothing to do with sketchy content.

Joseph McCarthy-esk

-esque

If you’re defederated you can’t post elsewhere, which sucks. A dedicated piracy account makes sense though.

Mali (where .ml comes from) claimed all of their domains back from a Dutch company that managed them for over a decade, and in the process, they shut down or took over quite a number of websites they didn’t agree with.

I’m quite liking infosec.pub so far.

Also wandered off from lemmy.world recently, though that was due to the consistent server outages.